Cheung Chau Government Secondary School 長洲官立中學 | |
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Coordinates | 22°12′23.74″N114°1′48.99″E / 22.2065944°N 114.0302750°E |
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School type | Government-operated, Secondary school |
Motto | Through learning and temperance to virtue |
Established | c. July 1908 |
School district | Islands District |
Supervisor | Gloria Li Ho Suk-wa |
Principal | WONG Kwok-keung |
Staff | 32 |
Grades | Secondary 1 to 6 |
Gender | Co-educational |
Classes | 12 |
Language | Chinese |
Area | 8,000 m2 (86,000 sq ft) |
Website | www |
Cheung Chau Government Secondary School (Chinese :長洲官立中學) is a government-operated secondary school located on the outlying island of Cheung Chau, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1908 [1] by Chinese-American Wu Songyiu.[ citation needed ] It uses Chinese as the medium of instruction for all subjects except English language. [2]
In the early days of the school's founding, the training hall at Daxin Street was used as the school building. It was not until 1928 that the red-brick school building was completed and opened at its current location. The opening ceremony was presided over by the then-Secretary for Education, Woody Woods. [3]
The school was originally a primary school, until 1961 when it was converted into a secondary school and renamed to its current name. [4]
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II, the red-brick school building served as the Japanese military headquarters. It has been listed as a Grade II historic building since 18 December 2009 and is one of six existing pre-war government school buildings in Hong Kong. [1] [5]
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