Cheung Chau Government Secondary School Explained

Native Name:長洲官立中學
Motto:Through learning and temperance to virtue
Established:c.
Oversight Label:Supervisor
Oversight:Gloria Li Ho Suk-wa
Principal:WONG Kwok-keung
Assistant Principals:CHIU Sin-chi, LEUNG Hiu-muk
Staff:32
Grades:Secondary 1 to 6
Classes:12
Language:Chinese
Area:8000m2

Cheung Chau Government Secondary School 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. It uses Chinese as the medium of instruction for all subjects except English language.[2]

History

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]

Historical conservation

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.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: 陳國豪 . 線下導賞:屢見仍鮮的香港古蹟 . 陳國豪, 黃柔柔 . 明窗出版社 . 2019 . 9789888526284 . Hong Kong . 194 . Chinese.
  2. Web site: 2023-12-05 . School Information . 2024-05-18 . Committee on Home-School Co-operation.
  3. Book: 廖書蘭 . 被忽略的主角:新界鄉議局發展及其中華民族文化承傳 . 商務印書館(香港)有限公司 . 2018 . 9789620772726 . Hong Kong . 245 . Chinese.
  4. Web site: 2024-05-18 . School History . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230618190340/http://ccgss.edu.hk/sites/default/files/ccghis.pdf . 2023-06-18 . 2024-05-18 . Cheung Chau Government Secondary School . 2,11.
  5. Web site: 2024-03-07 . List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results (as of 7 March 2024) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240428070131/https://www.aab.gov.hk/filemanager/aab/common/204meeting/List%20of%20the%201444%20Historic%20Buildings%20with%20Assessment%20Results%20(as%20of%207%20March%202024).pdf . 2024-04-28 . 2024-05-18 . . 20.