St. Paul's Secondary School

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St. Paul's Secondary School
聖保祿中學
Location
St. Paul's Secondary School
18A Ventris Road, Happy Valley

Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°16′21″N114°11′05″E / 22.2724°N 114.1848°E / 22.2724; 114.1848
Information
Type Private Roman Catholic Grant, Girls' secondary education institution
MottoOmnia Omnibus(Latin)
All things to all men
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
(Sisters of Charity of St. Paul)
Established1960;63 years ago (1960)
School district Happy Valley (Wan Chai)
PrincipalTracy Cheung
GradesF.1 - F.6
Colour(s)Sapphire, black, white
 
 
 
SupervisorFung Choi Wa
Website http://www.spss.edu.hk
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St. Paul's Secondary School (SPSS, Chinese :聖保祿中學) is a Catholic girls' secondary school situated on Ventris Road in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. It is a Catholic grant-in-aid Anglo-Chinese Secondary Grammar School for girls.

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History

St. Paul's Secondary School is a Catholic grant-in-aid Anglo-Chinese secondary grammar school for girls. It was one of the first girls' schools in Hong Kong to offer science subjects and computer studies in the upper forms and computer literacy in the lower forms. It introduced integrated science in the late 60s, computer studies in the late 70s, computer literacy and family life education in the early 80s and implemented IT in education in the 90s. It was selected as one of the 10 pilot secondary schools in the IT in Education Pilot Scheme in 1998. [1]

To date, it has widened its curriculum and developed itself into a fully integrated educational institute with arts, sciences, commercial and social sciences at all levels.

First foundation

St. Paul's Secondary School owes its parentage to the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres who arrived in Hong Kong from France in 1848. They became involved in local education soon after their arrival. They sponsored and ran St. Paul's Convent School in 1854 and their work of educational excellence became well known in Hong Kong.

Second foundation

St. Paul's Secondary School was founded in 1960 by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres as an extension of St. Paul's Convent School to meet the growing needs of science education of girls in Hong Kong at secondary and matriculation levels.

Its former principal, Damian Lai, retired in 2006.

Academics

There are five classes in each of form 1 to form 6, constituting a total of 30 classes. Most of the form 1 students come from St. Paul's Primary Catholic School and the rest come from other primary schools.

School clubs and teams

Aesthetic development

Physical development

Moral & civic education

Community service

School hymn

Refrain:
Hark! Daughters of the great St. Paul,
Come, listen to his call:
"O children of this loved school,
The loving nurse of all,
Rejoice in God, do work and pray;
Be true from day to day."

Beloved school of mine,
My pains and joys are thine,
My childhood's early dreams
Are closely linked with thee.
The hope that heaven brings
Thou dost unfold to me,
Thou dost unfold to me.

Sweet are the days of girlhood,
When friends we love and care,
Those golden links of childhood,
Whose sympathy we share.
Do stay and while the hours away,
With us in work and play.
And when we leave
Our dear old school
These mem'ries we'll recall,
These mem'ries we'll recall.
(Repeat Refrain)

Extra-curricular activities

Music
SPSS possesses a wide range of musical groups, including the Junior and Intermediate Choirs, a Full Orchestra, as well as a String Orchestra and a Wind Band. The School Intermediate Choir came first with 92 marks in this year's Schools Music Festival: Intermediate Girls Choir Competition Singing in Foreign Language Second Division. The School Junior Choir, out of 27 competitors, came second with 87 marks in this year's Schools Music Festival: Girls Choir Competition Singing in Foreign Language Second Division.

Sports
The School organizes a wide variety of sports teams, including Athletics, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis, National Dance, Fencing, Rope Skipping. The School is also actively participate in invitation competition organised by various school.

Basketball team

St. Paul's Secondary School is renowned for its outstanding basketball team. In the year of 2002, a group of devoted basketball players have joined the basketball team and changed the prospect of the team. After spending years of effort, the team won the Overall Champion in the Inter-School Basketball Competition 2006/07 which established the greatest success in the school's sports history.

Since then, the basketball team has achieved the followings in the Division One (HK) Inter-School Basketball Competition:

2008/09 A Grade - 2nd runner-up [2]

2010/12 B Grade - 2nd runner-up [3]

Notable Alumnae

Political and Legal Industry:

Professional Sports Industry:

Culture, Entertainment and Journalism Industry:

Associated schools

Other sister schools:

See also

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References

  1. ↑ St. Paul's Secondary School 聖保祿中學 – About SPSS – School History
  2. ↑ "HKSSF.ORG.HK - HKSSRC - Basketball". www.hkssf-hk.org.hk. Archived from the original on 9 September 2008.
  3. ↑ "HKSSF.ORG.HK - HKSSRC - Basketball". www.hkssf-hk.org.hk. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011.
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