Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Pui Ching Middle School

Pui Ching Middle School is the name of a system of Baptist secondary school that first founded in Guangzhou, Guangdong and later to Hong Kong and Macau.

History


The original Guangzhou school was founded in 1889 by local , and is the first Christian school in China founded by local Christians . The Guangzhou school was disbanded and students moved to Macau in January 1938 due to the spread of World War II to Southern China. The Guangzhou school was subsequently reopened after the war.

Macau School


The Guangzhou school was moved to Macau in 1938. It is now an integated grammar school with more than 3,000 students in its kindergarten, primary school, junior high and senior high sections.

''For detail see Pui Ching Middle School .''

Hong Kong School


''See Pui Ching Middle School .''

Guangzhou School


''See Pui Ching Middle School .''

Pui Ching Middle School (Hong Kong)

Pui Ching Middle School is a Baptist secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Founded in 1889, it currently has sister schools in Macau and Guangzhou.

History


The Hong Kong branch was established in 1933 in Ho Man Tin. Initially, only primary school education was offered; a junior high school division using as medium of instruction was established in 1938, a senior high division was established in 1940. The school was suspended during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Students and staff went to Macau and mainland China. In 1945, the school move back to a temporary site in Kowloon Tong and in 1946, the school move back to Ho Man Tin. In 1950, the school was renamed from a Hong Kong branch of the Canton school to the present name. In 1952, a new extension on the land donated by was built and complete in September, 1953. The premises is located at Pui Ching Road which was named after the school.

Notable alumni


* , 崔琦, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 1998.
* Shing-Tung Yau, 丘成桐, mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. Calabi-Yau manifold was named after him.
* Alfred Y. Cho, 卓以和, father of molecular beam epitaxy.
* Yum-Tong Siu, 蕭蔭堂, mathematician, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University.
* Shiu-Yuen Cheng, 鄭紹遠, Dean of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
* Sun Kwok, 郭新, founder of Interactive Wind Model in Planetary Nebula, Dean of Science of University of Hong Kong
* Chia-Wei Woo, 吳家瑋, founding President of the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* Daniel Tse Chi Wai, 謝志偉, former president of Hong Kong Baptist University
* Ng Ching-fai, 吳清渾, president of Hong Kong Baptist University
* Wong Jing, 王晶
* Gigi Lai, 黎姿
* Samuel Chan, 陳鍵鋒
* Cindy Au, 歐倩怡
* Wong Yuk Long, 黃玉郎
* Wu Wai Hong 胡謂康

Po Leung Kuk Tsing Yi Secondary School (Skill Opportunity)

Po Leung Kuk Tsing Yi Secondary School was a skill opportunity secondary school on the Tsing Yi Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It was the skill opportunity school founded by Po Leung Kuk in 1998. At its opening ceremony, Anson Chan, the then-Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, gave an opening speech on 5th March, 1999.

The school was closed in 2004 when the Hong Kong Government decided to close all skill opportunity schools and the building was transferred to Tung Wah Group of Hospitals for a new primary school, TWGHs Chow Yin Sum Primary School, in 2005.

Po Leung Kuk Ngan Po Ling College

Po Leung Kuk Ngan Po Ling College is a secondary school whose medium of instruction is English, located at Sung On Street,To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is founded in 2003 by Po Leung Kuk, it was named after Po Leung Kuk director Madam Ngan Po Ling for her sponsorship.

Facilities

The school is a Y2K school campus of 7,000 square meters. There are multi-purpose rooms, computer rooms, multi-media language center, lecture rooms, conference room, parent-teacher association room, school hall with balcony, gymnasium, and student activities rooms. Spacious school environment and modern facilities enhance all round, diversified education and effective learning.

With the school-wide optical fiber network, all classrooms are connected with the Internet and equipped with multi-media projectors to facilitate teaching and learning with information technology.

It is the first Po Leung Kuk secondary school under the Direct Subsidy Scheme .

Po Leung Kuk Mrs. Ma Kam Ming-Cheung Fook Sien College

Po Leung Kuk Mrs. Ma Kam Ming-Cheung Fook Sien College is a full-time Grammar School situated in Tung Chung, Lantau, Hong Kong, beside Fu Tung Estate. Dr. Ma Kam Ming, a Po Leung Kuk consultant, donated 5 million to finance the establishment of the school in 1997.

Students of the school have consistently outperformed their counterparts from schools in nearby Tung Chung, both in terms of public examinations results and contributions made in extra-curricula activities. Besides, statistics show that the competition for places in the school is becoming more and more fierce.

Its New Wing was inaugurated officially in February, 2007 during the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of founding. Together with the old wing, the 7-storey complex comprises a total of 26 standard classrooms, 3 remedial teaching rooms, 4 multimedia rooms and various special rooms. This would allow more spaces for teaching when the '3+3+4' schooling system is implemented in 2009.

Po Leung Kuk 1983 Board of Directors' College

Po Leung Kuk 1983 Board of Directors' College is a secondary school on the Tsing Yi Island in Hong Kong. Situated in Cheung Hong Estate, the school was founded by Po Leung Kuk in 1984. It is the first school on the island.

Features


The school is featured of her intensive and comprehensive co-cirricular activities. Annual big school events include inter-class dance festival, inter-house music festival, inter-class English Drama Festival, inter-class Chinese Cultural Week, Inter-house swimming gala, inter-house sports days and the discipline military camp.

Project-learning is prestigious and historied. Her project learning dated back to 10 years ago which was the vanguard of Hong Kong. Every year, students in groups of four or five shall finish one big project in their summer vacations. Also, small projects for each subject are compulsory. Stuedents are trained to be very representative and talkative.

The school aims at being back to an English-medium school. As a result, her headmaster has set large-scale English projects, for example, one third of the academic year is conducted in English, English morning aseemblies.

Accident


A rare accident happened during the school's sports day in Kwai Chung Sports Ground. A student volunteer, also a Scout, measured the results of the contests. A javelin from the far end struck the student, entering into his head. Although he was hurt seriously, he survived and recovered from the injury. The accident raised public concerns regarding safety in sports events sponsored by schools. Consequently, the Hong Kong Government provided more safety guidelines for such events.

Pentecostal School

Pentecostal School is an Anglo-Chinese secondary school founded by Kowloon Pentecostal Church in Hong Kong in 1973. The school first started off as a non-profit making private school and then became fully subsidized in 1982. Pentecostal School logo is represented by a flying pigeon which means spirit, and with three fundamental principles, love, faith and hope.


Location



Pentecostal School locates at 14 Perth Street in Ho Man Tin in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is mainly consists of two main buildings, one hall, one sheltered sport area which is underneath the hall, two basketball courts and also a badminton court.

Education



Pentecostal School is divided into seven form, from form one to seven, with official age from 13 to 18. Form one to three are minimum compulsory free education level set by the rule of Hong Kong government. Structure and subject of different form are different. In form one to three, students are conducted free lessons including Chinese, English, Mathematics and general science. As student finished form three, he/she process to form four and form five with non-free education, which is the preparation for Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination. If student is qualified for the entry of study, student would have another two years of study with a few chosen desired field/subjects with a more focus and insightful teaching material.

Junior



''Form one to three''
:
Classes A-E. Classes are arranged in a way which gives the most capable students in class A and decreases with capablility until class E. Five classes in each form and approximately 40 students in one class.

Subjects: Chinese, English, Maths and general science

Senior



''Form four to five''
:
Students are grouped into three main catergory, science, art or commerence. Classes E and D are science based group with higher and lower academic result respectively. Classes C and B are art based group with higher and lower academic result respectively too. However, there is only one class for the commerence group.

Subjects: Chinese, English and Mathematic are compulsory

a)Science based
Additional Mathematic, Physics, Chemistry, Bioglogy and Computer


b)Art based

Chinese Literature etc


c)Commerence based

Account, Economic etc


''Form six to seven''


Extracurricular Activities


Many different activity groups are formed by students, including basketball, astronomy, English, Chinese etc...