Last updated: 21 July 2026
Primary schools are fully eligible for the EDB's AI funding programme — the EDB held its primary-school briefing on 13 January 2026. The harder question is what AI should look like for younger learners. Our answer: calm tools, Cantonese-aware design, and teachers firmly in the loop.
Young learners gain most when AI supports what learning science already says works: focused attention, active production, fast feedback and spaced review. In practice that means AI that helps children look, draw, speak and connect words; feedback tied to criteria the teacher approved; and calm screens with one decision at a time — not another attention-hungry app. Whole-class, teacher-projected use often achieves more in Primary 1–3 than individual student accounts.
The programme requires at least three subjects, each across two year levels. For primary schools the natural starting set is Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics and General Studies: bilingual vocabulary books children build themselves, sentence-level writing feedback against simple criteria, number-talk prompts, and guided question-asking in topic work. Our Lakko app was built exactly for early bilingual vocabulary, and Classroom Companion keeps class culture calm while new tools arrive.
Primary procurement lives or dies on three checks: where student data goes and under what policy, whether Cantonese and Traditional Chinese are genuinely supported rather than an afterthought, and whether the tool works without giving every child an account. The EDB's own clarification reminds schools to judge packaged solutions carefully — a fit test against your school, not a brochure test.
We compare the market with evidence before you spend; design the six-plus resources across lower and upper primary levels; run practical teacher workshops around the exact lessons planned; support the open classes and sharing sessions the programme requires; and organise the evidence for the 2027 mid-term and 2028 final reports.
Yes. Government, aided (including special), caput and DSS primary schools are all eligible for the one-off HK$500,000, on the same commitments as secondary schools. The EDB ran its primary-school briefing on 13 January 2026.
Often no, especially in junior years. Teacher-led projection, printed artefacts and shared class activities can meet the programme's teaching and student-activity requirements while keeping data exposure minimal. Student-facing tools can come later, where school policy allows.
We will help you turn it into a practical scope for tools, lessons, teacher preparation and evidence.