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Bishop Hall Jubilee School
Bishop Hall Jubilee School () is located at 2C Oxford Road in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Bishop Hall Jubilee School was founded by the Sheng Kung Hui in 1961 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the consecration of Ronald Hall as the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong, Macao and South China. It is a co-educational government-subsidized EMI secondary school. History Bishop Hall Jubilee School, a band one EMI school, was established in 1961 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Ronald Hall, who was Anglican Bishop of Victoria from 1932 to 1951 and Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao from 1951 to 1966. The school first used the campus of Heep Yunn School, relocating in 1962 to its present address in Oxford Road, Kowloon Tong. The school has had six principals: {, class="wikitable" , - !Year!!Chinese Name!!English Name , - , 1961–1973, , 黃徐仲霞女士, , Helen Wong , - , 1973–2001, , 陳志欽先生, , Chan Chee Yum , - , 2001–2010, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary School
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. In the United States, US, the secondary education system has separate Middle school#United States, middle schools and High school in the United States, high schools. In the United Kingdom, UK, most state schools and Independent school, privately-funded schools accommodate pupils between the ages of 11–16 or 11–18; some UK Independent school, private schools, i.e. Public school (United Kingdom), public schools, admit pupils between the ages of 13 and 18. Secondary schools follow on from primary school, primary schools and prepare for voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Rose School
Mary Rose Academy (formerly Mary Rose School) is a 2-19 special school with academy status, located in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It opened in February 2007 and educates 110 pupils. The opening of Mary Rose School, due for September 2006, was delayed by design and construction issues. The school takes children with a wide range of severe and complex learning needs. Mary Rose School was awarded specialist Sports College status in 2008 and converted to academy status in November 2013. The school was then renamed Mary Rose Academy. Wheelchair basketball player and Paralympic broadcaster Ade Adepitan formally opened the school in 2007 and officially opened its specialist sports college status in October 2008. Many of the school's pupils have physical disabilities and health issues. Headteacher Alison Beane has stated that "Sport, wellbeing and fitness all go together to help move upils with disabilities or health issuesforward, to develop their physical skills" and noted spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SKH Holy Trinity Church Secondary School
SKH, or skh, may refer to: * Savez komunista Hrvatske, the League of Communists of Croatia, Yugoslavia, 1932-1990 * Sheng Kung Hui, the Anglican Church in Hong Kong, China * SKH, the abbreviation for Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore * SKH, the IATA code for Surkhet Airport, Nepal * skh, the ISO 639-3 code for the Sikule language, spoken on Simeulue Island, Indonesia * SKH, the National Rail code for St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station ( kw, Gorta Fenten Geyn) is an intermediate station on the scenic Looe Valley Line in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It serves the village of St Keyne and is adjacent to the "Magnificent Music Machines" mus ..., Cornwall, UK See also * * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heep Yunn School
Heep Yunn School (Chinese 協恩中學) is an Anglican girls' secondary school founded in 1936, commonly known simply as HYS. It is located in Ma Tau Wai, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The School commenced operation in the DSS (Direct Subsidy Scheme) mode starting from junior forms in September 2012. It is governed by the Council of Heep Yunn School, also the sponsoring body of the primary and kindergarten sections. History Heep Yunn School used to be a Sheng Kung Hui grant-in-aid school for boys before it turned to the DSS mode in September 2012. It was established when two schools founded by the Church Missionary Society - the Fairlea School (1886) and the Victoria Home and Orphanage (1887) were merged in 1936 at the present site in Farm Road. This accounts for the name "Heep Yunn" - meaning the union of the two schools through the grace of God. Two buildings of the campus of Heep Yunn School are listed as Grade III historic buildings by Hong Kong's Antiquities and Monuments Office: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Hong Kong And Macao
The Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao was an extra-provincial diocese in the Anglican Communion serving Hong Kong and Macau. It existed from 1951 until 1998, when it was reorganized as an autonomous Anglican church, the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. History The diocese was a remnant of the older Anglican Diocese of Victoria, part of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, China's autonomous Anglican church. The Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui was effectively abolished in 1949 during the Chinese Revolution due to the formation of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement. Anglicans in Hong Kong and Macau reorganized the diocese, which was essentially extra-provincial under the Archbishop of Canterbury. The diocese was abolished in 1998 upon the formation of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui as a province of the Anglican Communion in its own right. It was split into four new dioceses: three in Hong Kong and a missionary area covering Macao. Bishops * Ronald Hall ** Andrew Tsu Andrew Yu-Yue Tsu ( zh, t=朱友漁, s= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Victoria
The Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong was (from 1849 to 1951) the Ordinary of a corporation sole including Hong Kong and South China that ministered to 20,000 Anglicans. Bishops *18491865 (ret.): George SmithHandbook to the Diocese of Victoria (Hong Kong and South China) 1924. ''Chapter III. The Story of the Past.'pp. 10–/ref> *18671872 (res.): Charles Alford (later a Vicar in England) *18741897 (ret.): John Burdon (returned to missionary service) *18981906 (d.): Joseph Hoare *19071920 (res.): Gerard Lander (later Assistant Bishop of St Albans) *19201932 (res.): Ridley Duppuy (later Assistant Bishop of Worcester) *19321951: Ronald Hall (became the first Bishop of Hong Kong and Macao) Assistant bishops Among the assistant bishop of the diocese, there were: *Bishops of Guangzhou: Mok Sau Tsang (former Archdeacon of Canton) from 1935 (consecrated 25 January at the cathedral by Hall), Victor Halward from 1946, and Mo-Yung In from 1950; *Bishops of Yunnan-Guizhou: An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band One EMI School
Band or BAND may refer to: Places * Bánd, a village in Hungary * Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania *Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran People * Band (surname), various people with the surname Arts, entertainment, and media Music *Musical ensemble, a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music ** Band (rock and pop), a small ensemble that plays rock or pop **Concert band, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments ** Dansband, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience **Jazz band, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music ** Marching band, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors ** School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music * The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group ** ''The Band'' (album), The Band's eponymous 1969 album * "Bands" (song), by Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Hall
Ronald Owen Hall (; Cantonese: ''Ho Ming Wah''; 22 July 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne – 22 April 1975 in Lewknor, Oxfordshire) was an Anglican missionary bishop in Hong Kong and China in the mid 20th century. As an emergency measure during the Second World War, with China under Japanese occupation, he ordained Li Tim-Oi as the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion. Hall had just finished his schooling when the First World War broke out, during which he served as an infantry and staff officer. He was decorated with the Military Cross and Bar, and rose to the rank of major. After the war he took a shortened degree course at the University of Oxford, and made his first visit to China for a student Christian conference in 1922. After a period as a parish priest in his native Newcastle, he became Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong in 1932, remaining in Hong Kong until his retirement in 1966. He and his wife then settled in Oxfordshire. Early life Hall was born on 22 July 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (abbreviated SKH), also known as the Hong Kong Anglican Church (Episcopal), is the Anglican church in Hong Kong and Macao. It is the 38th Province of the Anglican Communion. It is also one of the major denominations in Hong Kong and the first in the Anglican Communion to ordain a female priest. The Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui is divided into three dioceses in Hong Kong and one missionary area in Macau. Each diocese is led by a bishop and the missionary area is directly led by the Archbishop. The primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui holds the title of Archbishop of Hong Kong, and is elected from the diocesan bishops of the province. Andrew Chan is the current Archbishop and Primate and Bishop of Western Kowloon. Timothy Kwok is Bishop of Eastern Kowloon and Matthias Der is Bishop of Hong Kong Island. The church has approximately 29,000 members. Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is a global family and a fellowship of churches whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kowloon Tong
Kowloon Tong () is an area of Hong Kong located in Kowloon. The majority of the area is in the Kowloon City District. Its exaclocationis south of the Lion Rock, north of Boundary Street, east of the East Rail line and west of Grampian Road. It is one of the most expensive residential districts in Hong Kong. It is popular among Hong Kong's wealthy residents because of its schools and low-density private housing. Most of the buildings there do not exceed 10 floors. In addition, this area is noted for its love hotels and nursing homes. Within Kowloon West, it is administratively divided between Kowloon City District and Sham Shui Po District, bisected by the Kowloon–Canton Railway. History Kowloon Tong was originally a small village located in present-day Police Sport Association near Boundary Street, south of Woh Chai Hill. The area allowed cultivation based on rivers running down from Beacon Hill. At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Kowloon Tong was 185. In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
