Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School (SGSS, ) is a co-educational

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operated by the

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in Hong Kong. Located in

Shau Kei Wan Shau Kei Wan or Shaukiwan is a neighborhood in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island. The area is bordered by Chai Wan to the east, Mount Parker to the south, Sai Wan Ho to the west, and Victoria Harbour to the north. Shau Kei Wan is consi ...

, the school was founded in 1961 and its

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History

It was established in 1961. It temporarily shared the building of

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. The current school campus on

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opened in the autumn of 1964. The school building was designed by the Architectural Office of the former Public Works Department, and cost HK$2,707,200. During the 2019–20 protests, students of three neighbouring schools in Shau Kei Wan – namely SGSS,

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, and

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– organised a joint protest in support of a citywide strike in November 2019. They walked silently to school with protest banners, before chanting protest slogans such as " five demands, not one less!" () and "Hong Kongers, revenge!" (), the latter a reference to the recent

death of Chow Tsz-lok In the early hours of 4 November 2019, Chow Tsz-lok, a 22-year-old student of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology fell from the third floor inside a car park in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, in the context of anti-government prote ...

. In February 2021, during the

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, around 130 sixth form students and 10 staff members of Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School were sent to quarantine after spending time in an examination hall with two students who were later found to be infected. The incident prompted some Hong Kong educators to question whether schools should aim to fully reopen.

Notable alumni

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– politician *

Frederick Fung Frederick Fung Kin-kee, SBS, JP (; born 17 March 1953) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2016 and the former chairman of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and Pe ...

– politician *

Lee Chik-yuet Lee Chik-yuet (; born 20 May 1954) is a Hong Kong social worker, lawyer, politician and businessman. He is the former member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong and member of the Sham Shui Po District Board. Lee was born on 20 May 1954 in Shantou, ...

– politician * Joseph Lee Kok Long () –

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of the Health Services functional constituency; assistant professor in the Department of Nursing at the

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* Alan Tam Wing Lun () –

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singer

References

External links

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SGSS Alumni Association
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