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Beacon Hill School, Hong Kong
The English Schools Foundation (ESF) manages 22 schools in Hong Kong: five secondary schools, nine primary schools, two "all through" schools, five kindergartens and one school for children with special needs. Kindergartens *Abacus International Kindergarten *Hillside International Kindergarten *Tsing Yi Kindergarten *Tung Chung Kindergarten *Wu Kai Sha Kindergarten Primary schools * Bauhinia School - closed in July 2007, taken over by Discovery College * Beacon Hill School * Bradbury School * Clearwater Bay School * Glenealy School * Kennedy School * Kowloon Junior School * Peak School * Quarry Bay School * Sha Tin Junior School Secondary schools *Island School * King George V School *Sha Tin College *South Island School *West Island School All through schools ''Note: these schools are run as private independent schools with no subvention from the Hong Kong Government.'' *Discovery College * Renaissance College Special needs schools *Jockey Club Sarah Roe School References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenealy School, Hong Kong
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Quarry Bay School
Quarry Bay School is the oldest English Schools Foundation primary school in Hong Kong. There are around 720 students. The principal is currently Sue Yee who started her role in August 2021. Mina Dunstan was principal from 2012 until June 2021. The previous principal was Debra Gardiner who, before he retired, had been at Quarry Bay School for 4 years. History The juvenile hall was opened in 1926 to educate the children of expatriate dockyard workers. It remained in Quarry Bay until the 1970s, briefly interrupted by World War II when it was forced to operate in the Stanley Internment Camp. In 1980 it relocated to temporary premises in Victoria Barracks, and then in 1984 to its current location on Braemar Hill. A time capsule filled with children's work, messages and other items was buried in its gardens during the academic year of 1996-97 and still remains under the ground near the terrapin pond to be exhumed in 2027 to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Handover of Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Schools In Hong Kong
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Renaissance College, Hong Kong
Renaissance College ( ; , abbreviated: RCHK) is a private independent international school run by English Schools Foundation (ESF) in Hong Kong. Located in Ma On Shan near Heng On station, Renaissance College serves primary and secondary students. The school was founded in 2006 to replace the Phoenix International School, another school run by ESF. Since its inception, the school has offered the IB Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and Diploma Programme. Renaissance College began to offer the IB Career-Related Programme in 2014. As of September 2018, Renaissance College enrolls 2,094 students. Under the Private Independent School Scheme, at least 70% of the students of Renaissance College must be Hong Kong permanent residents when at full capacity. History Plans to establish Renaissance College as ESF's first private school began in 1999. Unlike other schools operated by ESF at the time, Renaissance College would not receive recurrent government subsidy. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery College
Discovery College () is a private independent school operated by the ESF in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong. It offers both primary and secondary education on one campus. The school first opened in August 2008 after replacing another ESF school, Bauhinia School, which first opened in January 2002. Discovery College has five houses, and provides education from year 1 to year 13. Discovery College was established by the English Schools Foundation to serve the needs of the local and expatriate communities in Hong Kong. It is a full Years 1 to 13 school offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP) for Years 1-6, Middle Years Programme (MYP) for Years 7-11, and Diploma Programme (DP) for Years 12-13. Under the Private Independent School Scheme, 70% of the students of Discovery College must be Hong Kong permanent residents. History Plans to set up Discovery College as one of ESF's first private schools began in 1999. As a private ESF school, Discovery College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Island School
West Island School (WIS; ) is a co-educational, private, international secondary school in Hong Kong which provides an English-language education to students of all abilities from age eleven to eighteen with a "modern liberal education" based on British-influenced international curricula. The campus is a purpose-built development located at 250 Victoria Road, on the slopes of Mount Davis on Hong Kong Island. Students from Years Seven to Nine study the West Island School Middle Years Diploma; students in Years Ten to Eleven follow either the IGCSE, or the MYP IB Middle Years Programme; and students in Years Twelve to Thirteen follow the IB Diploma curricula. The school is a member of the English Schools Foundation, and as such still receives a small but symbolic subvention from the Government that has been frozen since the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong. History West Island School, began when the English Schools Foundation recognised a need for a new school on Hong Kong Island in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Island School
South Island School is a private international school founded by the English Schools Foundation of Hong Kong, located at 50 Nam Fung Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, with about 1,400 students enrolled and 107 teachers. Students come from diverse backgrounds, with over 38 nationalities represented. The school offers the GCSE/IGCSE syllabus, IB Diploma Programme, IB Career-related Programme and the BTEC qualification. The school is one of three ESF secondary schools on Hong Kong Island, the others being West Island School and Island School. According to an inspection report from 2019 by the Council of International Schools (CoIS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), South Island School 'passionately promotes the development of global citizenship and intercultural learning, and the school climate is such that there is a very strong sense of mutual trust amongst all the school's stakeholders.' History In 1977, South Island School was founded as an annex of Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha Tin College
Sha Tin College (STC) is a co-educational international secondary school in Hong Kong and a member of the English Schools Foundation. Established in 1982 as the Shatin Annexe based in the campus of KGV School in Kowloon Tong, the school relocated to 3 Lai Wo Lane, Fo Tan in 1985, adopting its present name. Students For the 2020-21 school year, the school had 1389 students. In 2020, 65.8 percent of students were Chinese, a total of 894 students. The next largest group was Eurasians, then Caucasians. Curriculum Sha Tin College currently follows the IBDP curriculum. Year 12-13 students have the option to choose between the IBDP and the IBCP (IB Career-related Programme). Academics Sha Tin College's IBDP program achieved a so-called 40-40 status (where over 40% of students achieve 40 points or above). One student at the college achieved the world's highest IGCSE maths score. In the college's history programme, a team won first place in the Hong Kong Bowl in MS category, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King George V School (Hong Kong)
King George V School (KGV, pronounced "K-G-Five") is a coeducational international secondary independent school of the English Schools Foundation (ESF), located in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong. The school has more than 1,900 students and is one of the oldest schools in Hong Kong. Students take IGCSEs/GCSEs followed by the International Baccalaureate Diploma or the British BTEC programme. There is a Learning Enhancement Centre (LEC) for students with learning difficulties. The campus has an area of . The school is one of three ESF secondary schools in Kowloon and the New Territories, the others being Sha Tin College and Renaissance College. History Pre-WWII period KGV is the oldest of all schools in the English Schools Foundation. It first opened in 1894 on Nathan Road, and originally catered for the children of British people living in Kowloon. At the time, the school occupied just one small building. It was destroyed in a typhoon in 1896, and Kowloon College opened in its place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island School
Island School ( Chinese: 港島中學) is a co-educational international school located in Hong Kong. It is the founding school of the English Schools Foundation, and is still a member. The school has been accredited by international organisations such as the Council of International Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The school currently houses over 1,200 students across 33 nationalities. The school has relocated itself twice since its establishment. Using the site of a former British military hospital from 1967 to 1972, the school permanently settled in 20 Borrett Road, Mid-Levels from 1972 to 2017. However, due to redevelopment work, the school has moved to two campuses in Sha Tin District since December 2017. Island School Sha Tin Wai is located in Pok Hong Estate, Sha Tin Wai and Island School Tai Wai is located in Sun Chui Estate, Tai Wai. The school has since returned to Borrett Road in August 2022 after 4 years of redevelopment work. Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha Tin Junior School
Sha Tin Junior School () is a primary school run by the English Schools Foundation in Fo Tan, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. The school opened in 1988, and the founding principal Gordon Lewis remained in this post until his retirement in 2004. He was subsequently awarded an OBE in recognition of his services to education in Hong Kong. After the Retirement of Mr Lewis, the new assigned principal was Dr Allan Weston who later resigned at the end of the 2008–09 school year to take over the CEO position at Taipei European School in Taiwan. Since June 2009 the principal has been Mr Perry Tunesi. Mr Tunesi retired August 2019 and he is replaced by Mrs Rehana Shanks. The school now has a 5-class entry for each year group with a total of around 900 students. The sports facilities include a swimming pool, a multi-purpose sports hall (with badminton, basketball, volleyball, and climbing facilities), and an Astro-turf pitch, all shared with Sha Tin College. It provides for chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peak School
Peak School () is a coeducational preparatory school, located on Plunkett's Road on Victoria Peak, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The school is one of around twenty institutions in Hong Kong operated by the English Schools Foundation (ESF). The school opened in 1911, on the site of what is now the Victoria Peak Fire Station. In 1954, the school moved to its current premises located on Plunkett's Road.A brief history of Peak School , Peak School. Peak School teaches students from Year One to , and offers the |
