The Springboard Project is a registered charity which provides education for special needs children and young adults, from 5-21 years of age. The project was founded in 1994 by a group of parents in response to a critical shortage of placements is in special education using English as the medium of instruction. Springboard caters to children and young adults with a variety of mild to moderate learning disabilities, including Down Syndrome, autism and global developmental delays.

Children in the Springboard class at KIS integrate with the mainstream children when appropriate, whilst being provided their own individualised educational programme in the nurturing environment of the Springboard classroom. Currently, there is space for 10 children in a class with one qualified special needs teacher and two teaching assistants.

In January 2000, the Springboard Project opened its first middle school class, again KIS, with one qualified special needs teacher and one teaching assistant. This class caters to special needs students of the middle school age group (11-15 years) and provides for up to six students.

In April 2005 the Springboard Project started a new life-skills programme for students age 16-21. This is a full-time programme based at "The Springboard Centre" with nine students. It is a classroom and community-based programme concentrating on preparing young people for adult life.

The Springboard Project also runs "The Springboard Centre" in Pokfulam. The facility is kindly provided by the Government Property Agency at a nominal rent. The Centre is currently used two days a week by the Springboard students at KIS as a venue for practicing their life skills and is also used by visiting professionals for speech therapy, occupational therapy, art and music therapy. The Springboard Youth Club operating from the Centre caters to the Springboard Horizons Programme and other invited students from ESF schools. The Youth Club is unique in that it allows the young teens with special needs to meet in a supervised social setting, where they can interact with each other in the same way regular teenagers do. From April 2005 the Springboard Centre is the home of the new Horizons Programme. The Springboard office is based in the Centre. KIS does offer a daily school bus service. Quite a few of our Springboard kids take the school bus to and from school. Even on days when they visit the Springboard Centre, we arrange transport for them after school assembly and return them back to KIS so they can catch their regular school bus home.