HK North Point City Garden Road Henrietta Secondary School 3

Henrietta Secondary School () is a secondary school in

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 i ...

. The school celebrated its 70th anniversary in October 2015. The current principal is Ma Yuen Fat and the school's supervisor is Rev. Lau Siu Hong.

History

The school was founded as ''Henrietta School'' in 1924 and was known by that name until 1941 when was closed down due to the

Japanese occupation of Hong Kong The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941. The surrender occurred after 18 days of fierce ...

. The name of the school commemorates the first American female missionary,

Henrietta Hall Shuck Henrietta Hall Shuck (28 October 1817 – 27 November 1844) was the first American female missionary to China and the first Western woman to live in Hong Kong. Early and family life Henrietta was born in Kilmarnock, Virginia to Colonel Addiso ...

, to China. The secondary school campus was on Park Road for decades till 1995. It was then moved to the Eastern District on Hong Kong Island.

Location

The school is currently located at 2 City Garden Road,

North Point North Point is a mixed-use urban area in the Eastern District of Hong Kong. Located in the northeastern part of Hong Kong Island, the area is named after a cape between Causeway Bay and Tsat Tsz Mui that projects toward Kowloon Bay. Locat ...

, Hong Kong. It is the only secondary school in Hong Kong located next to

Victoria Harbour Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north. The harbour's deep, sheltered waters and strategic location on South China Sea were instrumental in ...

References

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