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The Harbour School integrates social and emotional learning through structured wellbeing activities and counselling initiatives featured in its “World of Wellness” program. These activities promote emotional awareness, resilience, and positive relationships among students across primary and middle levels. Guidance and counselling staff lead sessions addressing coping strategies, values, and community awareness. The school also observes awareness events such as Anti-Bullying Week and Wellbeing Month. These initiatives are designed to help students understand empathy, cooperation, and self-management in an age-appropriate way.
The Harbour School provides a structured Learning Support program coordinated by Learning Support Specialists. The program creates accommodation plans in collaboration with classroom teachers and parents to support students with diverse learning needs. The school offers interventions for language, literacy, numeracy, and executive functioning challenges, and also provides extension programs for advanced and twice-exceptional learners. While the school supports a range of mild to moderate learning differences, it is not a specialist SEN institution. The model emphasizes inclusion within mainstream classrooms with tailored assistance as needed.
THS offers a formal English as an Additional Language (EAL) program to support students whose first language is not English. The program focuses on academic writing, reading comprehension, summarisation, and subject-specific vocabulary. EAL teachers collaborate with classroom staff to integrate language development within core subjects. Students are grouped based on proficiency levels, with progress monitored throughout the year.
The Harbour School promotes student wellbeing through its guidance and counselling services, along with its “World of Wellness” initiative. Counsellors facilitate workshops and discussions focused on stress management, empathy, and personal growth. Primary and secondary students take part in activities encouraging reflection, peer connection, and emotional regulation. The school also participates in community wellbeing campaigns and themed awareness days throughout the year.
The Harbour School outlines a child protection framework overseen by senior leadership and the school board. Staff members receive regular training to identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, and a designated safeguarding officer monitors compliance with local Education Bureau guidelines. The policy emphasizes prevention, staff awareness, and confidential reporting procedures. While the full text of the safeguarding policy is not published, its existence and oversight are referenced on the governance and policy pages of the school’s website.
The Harbour School’s Grove Campus in Ap Lei Chau is THS’s primary hub, serving Junior Grade 1 through Grade 6. The school follows an adapted American curriculum, referencing Common Core for literacy and math, Next Generation Science Standards, and U.S. social studies frameworks. Students learn in English, with French, Mandarin, and EAL offered as part of the language program. Facilities highlighted across THS include a makerspace (the Foundry), a Black Box Theatre, and access to the “Black Dolphin,” a 50-foot ketch used as an outdoor classroom for marine science. After-school S.E.A. courses add options in sports, photography, and art, while the Black Dolphin Sports program fields teams in multiple disciplines. Families can review transparent tuition (with Admissions Rights or annual levy options) and note that primary applicants may be invited for trial days and MAP screening in certain grades.
