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]
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.[5]