Cheung Chuk Shan College

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Cheung Chuk Shan College (CCSC)

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Motto Competent, Conscientious, Studious, Creative
Year Founded 1969
School type Whole Day grammar secondary school
Sponsoring body Five Districts Business Welfare Association
Principal Mr. T.L. Yuen (MScIT, B.Sc.(Hon.), Cert. Ed.)
Address 11 Cloud View Road, North Point

Hong Kong

Campus Area 4,640 square metres
Students 1,120 total
Medium of instruction English (since establishment)
Homepage http://www.ccsc.edu.hk
Email address emails@ccsc.edu.hk

Cheung Chuk Shan College (Traditional Chinese: 張祝珊英文中學) is a Hong Kong aided co-educational secondary school founded in 1969 by a group of philanthropists of the Five Districts Business Welfare Association (五邑工商總會). The school is named after Mr. Cheung Chuk Shan.

The school is located at 11 Cloud View Road, North Point of the Eastern District of Hong Kong.

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[edit] Vision and Mission

Cheung Chuk Shan College aspires to be a self-enhancing school striving for eminence in proactively nurturing Hong Kong's leaders of tomorrow. It aims to provide the best quality education to nurture its students to become literate, competent, conscientious and caring youths by instilling in them logical and creative thinking, fostering proper moral and aesthetic values, fortifying them physically and mentally to overcome challenges, cultivating a sense of civic and social awareness, encouraging them to show love and concern for others and kindling in them the desire for a life-long pursuit of knowledge for their personal growth towards transcendence.

[edit] School Motto

Competent (敏行), Conscientious (正心), Studious (博學), Creative (日新). [1]

[edit] History

Cheung Chuk Shan College was founded in 1969 as an aided and co-educational school by a group of philanthropists of the Five Districts Business Welfare Association to provide education for the less privileged children in Hong Kong in memory of the father of Messrs. Cheung Yok Luen and Yuk Leung.

The School commenced its operation on 10 September, 1969. Its inauguration ceremony was officiated by Sir David Trench, the then Governor of Hong Kong, on 6 October 1970. At the beginning, only twelve classes from Form 1 to Form 3 were run, a total of 445 students. In September 1971, there were 22 classes, including two Form 5 Arts and Science classes, which first sat for the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) (English) in May 1972. Subsequently, two Form 6 Arts and Science classes were opened with its first batch of students participating in the University of Hong Kong Matriculation Examination in April 1974. The School then became a secondary school with 29 classes and an enrolment of approximately 1,100 students.

Up to the late 1990s, more emphasis was put on academic performance over extracurricular activities. Several different teams responsible for the activities were set up to promote social awareness, cultivate positive behaviour and advocate whole person development(全人教育). For example, funded by the Quality Education Fund, the Sunflower Scheme was initiated by the school in 1996 to encourage students to join more activities and strike a balance among the five aspects of whole-person education, i.e. moral 德, intellectual 智, physical 體, social 群 and aesthetic 美.

After the return of Hong Kong to China, the school was formally approved by the then Education Department on 1 December 1997 to continue using English as the medium of instruction in September 1998 and beyond, along with some other 100 secondary schools. Currently, under the 3-banding secondary education system, the school is one of the first band secondary school, and is famous for good performance in Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination.

[edit] Class Structure

Currently, the school is co-educational and has five classes from Form 1 to Form 3, each form consisting of 200 students; five classes in Form 4 to 5, each form consisting 200 students having 2 science classes and 3 arts classes; two classes in Form 6 and 7, each form consisting 60 students having 1 science class and 1 arts class.

[edit] Curriculum

Since establishment, the school has been a English as Medium of Instruction School. Currently, except Chinese-related subjects, all other subjects are taught in English.

Currently, the school offers the following academic subjects: English language (AS Use of English for F6 and F7 students), Chinese language (AS Chinese Language and Culture for F6 and F7 students), Mathematics subjects (Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics and Statisitics), Putonghua, Computer Literacy, Computer and Information technology, Integrated Science (For F1 & 2 students), Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Chinese literature, Chinese history, Commerce, Geography, History, Economics and Public Affairs (EPA) and Principle of Accounts.

In addition, the college also provides Design Fundamentals, Home Economics, Music, Physical Education and Life Education (生命教育) for lower form students.

[edit] Facilities

The campus is a 7-floor building, with a library, four laboratories for natural science subjects, classrooms for Music, Geography, Visual Art and Home Economics, a canteen with a covered playground nearby, and a basketball court. In 2000, the activity rooms at the ground floor were founded for holding internal extracurricular activities. In the same year, funded by the Quality Education Fund of the Hong Kong government, the language laboratory was transformed into a multimedia learning centre. Further changes are to be made for the school's hall, like the installation of an air-conditioning system.

[edit] School Management Committee

Honorary Supervisor:
Mrs. Irene Y.L. Cheung, MBE, JP

Supervisor:
Mr. K.T. Chan

School Managers:
Mr. Y.L. Cheung
Dr. W. Cheung
Mr. Michael H.C. Tang
Mr. S.L. Chu
Mr. S.C. Leung, JP
Mr. Y.Y. Chow
Mr. W. Au Yeung
Mr. H.K. Chan, JP

[edit] Teaching Staff

Among the 57 teaching staff members, 55 are graduates of whom 16 are holders of a Master’s degree and 2 are graduates of Colleges of Education. 96.5% of the teachers have already received professional training. The IT competencies of our teachers were 100% BIT, 80.7% IIT, 29.8% UIT and 3.5% AIT.

[edit] School Organization

[edit] Achievements

[edit] School Song

Music and lyrics by NG Pong-wai, Brenda, a former student of the school:

The treasure of knowledge we gain,

in laughter and tears we grow.

We're here to fight for our future.

We have faith in our beliefs.

Be honest, be brave and strong.

Our future is in our hands.

The guidance from our teachers,

would lead us onto the path of sunshine.


So we're here proud to sing, we're from CHEUNG CHUK SHAN COLLEGE.

Our roots are here, we'll never forget.

We vow to do our best.


All we're here proud to sing,

we're from CHEUNG CHUK SHAN COLLEGE.

Eternally, our friendship would last,

We're children of CHEUNG CHUK SHAN COLLEGE.

We vow to strive for the best!

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Further explanation given by present principal, Mr. Yuen

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