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name = St. Paul's Co-educational College 聖保羅男女中學 |
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| image = SPCC_badge.jpg |
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| imagesize = 150px |
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| caption = St. Paul's Co-ed. |
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| motto = ''Faith, Hope, Love'' |
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| established = [[1915]] (as St. Paul's Girls' College) |
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| type = [[Grant school|Grant]], [[Direct Subsidy Scheme|DSS]], [[Secondary school|secondary]], [[coeducation|co-educational]]. |
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| faculty = ''Not applicable'' |
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| enrollment = approx. 1,400 |
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| principal = Dr. Anissa Chan |
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| free_label = Forms<br /> Alumni |
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| free_text = [[Education in Hong Kong|Form 1 to Upper 6]]<br /> [http://www.spccaa.org Hong Kong Alumni Website] <br /> [http://www.spccaa-bc.org BC, Canada Alumni Website] <br /> [http://home.ica.net/~spccon ON, Canada Alumni Website] |
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| location = 33 Macdonnell Road<br />[[Mid-levels]]<br />[[Hong Kong]] |
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| information = (852) 2523 0910<br />[mailto:info@spcc.edu.hk info@spcc.edu.hk] |
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| website = http://www.spcc.edu.hk/ |
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}} |
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'''St. Paul's Co-educational College''' ([[Traditional Chinese]]: 聖保羅男女中學), (often abbreviated as St. Paul's Co-ed., St. Paul's or SPCC) is located at 33 Macdonnell Road, [[Mid-levels]], [[Hong Kong]]. It is operated under the [[Direct Subsidy Scheme|Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS)]], and was the first subsidized school to join the scheme. It was founded in [[1915]] as St. Paul's Girls' College by the [[Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui|Anglican church]]. The motto of the School is 'Faith, Hope and Love'. |
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Students perform very well academically and in inter-school competitions, making one of the renowned schools in Hong Kong. The school has a strong emphasis towards music. Famous for its [[choir]]s, [[orchestra]] and [[harmonica]] orchestra, it was the first school in Hong Kong to have compulsory uniforms (1918). |
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The college has an affiliated primary school: St. Paul's Co-educational College Primary School, which was for a time made into two half-day schools, St. Paul's Co-educational (Kennedy Road) Primary School (St. Paul's Co-educational P.M. Primary School) and St. Paul's Co-educational (Macdonnell Road) Primary School (St. Paul's Co-educational A.M. Primary School) to cope with the demand for places, but have now resumed full-day education. |
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The secondary school lessons are taught in English, except Chinese Language, Mandarin and Chinese History. On the other hand, the affiliated primary school teaches predominantly in Cantonese, apart from English, as it is harder for young children to learn in a language other than their mother tongue. |
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The chairman of the School Council is Professor [[Sheung-Wai Tam]]. The school currently has plans to make itself a world class institution, famous abroad while still holding on the unique Hong Kong characteristics. |
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Once the new campus in Wong Chuk Hang is completed, the secondary school itself will expand into the existing Macdonell Road primary school campus. |
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==Access== |
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The school is currently on the route of [[Citibus]] route 12A from the [[Admiralty]] (Tamar Street) Bus Terminal and the Green Minibus route 1A from the Central City Hall. There are bus routes 3B, 12, 23, 23B, 40, 40M, 103 ,minibuses 9, 22, 22S, 28 at Kennedy Road, just below the school. The school is also accessible by taxi, or even on foot if the gradient is not too taxing for the individual. The school is not too far away from Hong Kong Park, and can be reached by exiting from Pacific Place and taking a short walk through the Park. Schoolbus services are provided to students. |
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[[Image:SPCC.JPG|thumb|right|250px|St. Paul's Co-educational College, Macdonnell Road entrance on fourth floor]] |
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==Campus== |
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Situated on the mid-levels, the school campus is naturally deprived of space. The school comprises currently of twelve floors, including the roof structure, and two "underground" floors, which are only partially underground. Flooring system is based on the American style, which counts floors similarly to the Chinese style, to avoid confusion. |
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The lowest floor contains an outdoor irregular patch of ground affectionately named the triangular football pitch due to the roughly triangular shape, the gymnasium, a table tennis room, and a boys' changing room. |
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One floor up and there is the girls' changing room as well as the Design and Technology Workshop. |
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On the first floor, there is a staff room (Staff Room (D)), two music rooms, six Form One classrooms and a boys' lavatory. There is also an outdoor tiny playground for badminton. A [[Michelia|White Champaca]] (or White Sandalwood, ''Michelia alba'') tree grows from this playground through the open air, passing all the corridors to a point higher than the school's current highest point. The lower exit on this floor enters the Tramway Path between Macdonnell Road and Kennedy Road. The trail overlooks the aforementioned football pitch. |
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On the second floor, there are the six Form Two classrooms, the Lower Sixth Science C classroom, an interview room, a Supporting Service Office (SSO) (formerly named as stationery office/sick room), the Art room, the Home Economics Room, the Special Room A (also known as the Needle Work Room, and has a door that leads to the basketball court of the primary school), the Integrated Science Laboratory, two girls' lavatories, and three new extra classrooms (1G, the seventh Form One classroom, CP1, and CP2) which has recently been renovated from the old covered playground that used to contain table tennis tables, and overlooked the tiny ground floor playground and the slope, now steps with plants, between them. This playground used to hold game stalls on games days and club activity days before the transformation. A staircase links the covered playground to the tiny playground on the first floor, right outside the windows of Music Room A. There is also a Student Union Room beside the staircase. The backstage of the Hall on the third floor is also accessible from stairs between 2F and 1G classroom. |
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On the third floor, there are two staff rooms (Staff Rooms (B) and (C)), six Form Three classrooms, a boys' and a girls' lavatories, The Sir Robert Kotewall Hall (aka "The Hall" or "School Hall"), the Biology and Advanced Biology Laboratories, the "red brick football playground" (yet another small playground, rectangular, that overlooks the primary school premises), and the canteen which is inside the primary school campus, but are for secondary school use only. Before arriving at the canteen, there are stairs which connect to the primary school building. |
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On the fourth floor of the Old Wing (the red brick portion), there is a staffroom (Staff Room (A)), the New Audio Vision Room, classrooms of Form Four and Five, A and B. Form Four Classrooms C to E, girls' lavatory and the IT-Learning Centre (ITLC) (which is also known as the computer room) are situated on the lower fourth floor of the New Wing while Form Five C to E, boys' lavatory and Multimedia Learning centre (MMLC) are on the upper fourth floor of the New Wing. A set of wooden stairs lead down to the third floor outside the Hall, and a concrete one up towards the roof of the Hall, where there is an outdoor basketball court. The gallery at the back of the Hall is accessed here. The Macdonnell Road entrance is also situated on this floor, near Staff Room (A). The core part of the school can be found on the fourth floor of the school as well, consisting of The Student Affairs Office (SAO), the Administration office and the principal's office. |
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On the Fifth floor, are the three Upper Sixth Science classrooms (A, B, C) and two Lower Sixth ones (A, B), one of which (Upper Six Science B) is isolated by the Chemistry and Advanced Chemistry Laboratories that take up a portion of the corridor. The classroom is isolated because safety regulations disallows students to enter or walk through the labs. Also on this floor are the Physics and Advanced Physics Laboratories, the girls' lavatory, and the basketball court on top of the Hall. The Principal's Conference Room can be found next to the Advanced Physics Laboratory, and can alternatively be reached from a staircase on the fourth floor next the Macdonnell Road exit. Hence, students are disallowed from going up that staircase. |
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The Sixth Floor houses the English Corner and the Conference Room, reachable by staircases in the New Wing. Staircases in the Old Wing leads up to the roof, which is theoretically out of bounds for students. However, it is a tradition for Upper Sixth graduated to go up to the roof to celebrate their last day in school, and janitors would be tolerant of this rule-breaking on that particular day. |
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The Sixth floor in the Primary School building houses Form Five F, Lower and Upper Sixth Arts classrooms, two staff rooms (Staff Rooms (G) and (E)), with Staff Room G formerly known as the Old AV Room, and the Geography Room. On the Seventh floor in the Primary School building, there is Form Four F, the school library, a staff room (Staff Room (F)), the Accounts and Finance Office, the Development Office and the Project Office. This portion in the primary school section is relatively remote from the main campus, and is nicknamed "Siberia" by students. |
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1 Calder Path also hosts the schools' (both Primary and Secondary) swimming pools, and the Alumni Association offices. |
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The School Improvement Programme (SIP) Annex has been completed and has been in use since September 2006. This annex is a small block behind the Hall which raises the building from ten up to twelve floors, including a few new classrooms, a computer room, a staff room (Staff Room (H)), and a multi-use room. It is also quite remote from the main campus due to the height of the buildings, so it is nicknamed 'High Mountain' by students. |
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After the completion of the Primary School's new campus in Wong Chuk Hang, the current Macdonell Road campus will be assimilated into the secondary school and most likely to undergo rebuilding. |
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==Uniform== |
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St. Paul's Co-educational College is renowned as the first secondary school that requires students to wear school uniforms in Hong Kong, thus beginning the culture. |
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The uniforms of St. Paul's today are one of the typical styles of Hong Kong student uniforms. The idea behind the uniform is often cited as to be as simple and plain as possible. This implies no make-up and only a pair of simple ear studs (no earrings) for girls, and boys should not have hair that is long enough to touch the shirt's collar. Flamboyant hairstyles are not permitted. |
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The male summer uniform is a white short-sleeved shirt, a metal school badge above the sole chest pocket on the left, with deep blue trousers, black shoes and white socks with no logos; The winter uniform is a long-sleeved white shirt with grey trousers, with a red school tie with tiny blue school badges on them (these are worn with the summer uniform for ceremonial purposes as well, and probably with a long-sleeved shirt if called for). The deep blue suit-jacket style blazer with a large silver-brimmed school badge sewn onto the chest pocket is optional. |
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The female summer uniform is based on the traditional cheung sam, plain blue with darker blue rims, with white socks and black shoes. The school badge is positioned below the collar in the middle. The winter uniform is similar, except that the dress is long-sleeved, of a thick material, without different coloured brims and is navy blue. Again, the blazer is optional. The dress must be long enough to conceal the knees when standing up. At below 12 degrees Celsius or for specific health conditions, girls are allowed to wear a white long-sleeved shirt and long blue trousers. |
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Wool jumpers are optional for both the summer and winter. These must be dark blue. They can either be customised ones with the SPCC logo on it that are sold at school, or completely dark blue, where if the metal school badge is concealed, it must be replaced onto the jumper. The jumpers can be sleeveless, long sleeved, buttoned or unbuttoned. |
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Sports wear is common for boys and girls: a white, short-sleeved top with a modernized school badge and 'SPCC' on the left side of the chest, with a pair of dark blue shorts, white socks and sports shoes that should be mostly white. However, the shorts for boys and girls are slightly different. Those for boys are looser (similar to basketball shorts) while those for girls are more tight-fitting (similar to volleyball shorts). |
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Swimming gear: swimming trunks for boys and swimsuits for girls. They are of the same colour, the same red and white stripes running vertically, and the words 'SPCC' sewn onto them near the left hip. |
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==Future Developments== |
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===International Baccalaureate Diploma=== |
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On 15th November, 2006, a press release was published. It introduced plans for an IB Diploma programme from the academic year of 2010. This will be accompanied by upgrading the campus to accommodate foreign exchange students and non-local staff/ students, giving students more exposure to the broader world, in a bid to make St. Paul's a world-class institution. |
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==Alumni== |
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===Alumni Choir=== |
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The school excels in music, and many alumni wish to continue with singing after leaving the school. Therefore, there existed a need for an alumni choir for the school. |
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The St. Paul's Co-educational College Alumni Choir was founded by the late Dr B M Kotewall in 1980, and the founding conductors were John Lowe and Barnabas Chung. Other conductors include Jimmy Chan, Carmen Koon, Geoffrey Ko, Gilbert Sak, Apollo Wong, and Erica Lowe. |
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The choir has recently performed [[The Messiah]] of [[George Frideric Handel]] in the [[Hong Kong Cultural Centre]] in December 2005. It has performed in other notable venues such as [[St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong]] and [[Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre]]. The choir is one of the most active [[choruses in Hong Kong]]. |
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===Notable Alumni=== |
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'''Academics''' |
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* [[Lawrence J. Lau]] - [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[The Chinese University of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Arthur Li]] - Secretary for Education and Manpower of Hong Kong; former [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[The Chinese University of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Chung-Kwong Poon]] - President of the [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] |
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* [[Vivienne Poy]] - [[Senator]] of [[Canada]]; former [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of the [[University of Toronto]] |
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'''Public services / professionals''' |
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* [[Audrey Eu]] - member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Moses Cheng]] - former member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Selina Chow|Selina S Y Chow Liang]] - member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong]] and [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Eric Li|Eric Ka-Cheung Li]] - former member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Andrew Li|Andrew Kwok-Nang Li]] - Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong; Also Vice Chairman of the School Council |
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* [[Maria Tam|Maria Wai-Chu Tam]] - former member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong]] and [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] |
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* [[Herbert Tsoi|Herbert H K Tsoi]] - former president of the [[Law Society of Hong Kong]] |
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'''Business''' |
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* [[Richard Li]] - Founder and chairman of [[PCCW Limited]]; younger son of [[Li Ka-Shing]] |
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* [[Victor Li]] - Managing Director of [[Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited]]; elder son of [[Li Ka-Shing]] |
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'''Artistes''' |
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* [[Kenneth Chan|Kai-Tai Chan]] - Hong Kong actor |
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* [[Danny Chan|Danny Pak-Keung Chan]] - the late popular Hong Kong singer |
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* [[Michael Kwan|Michael Ching-Kit Kwan]] - Hong Kong singer |
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* [[Mark Lui|Mark Chung-Tak Lui]] - Hong Kong pop song composer and producer |
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* [[Justin Lo]] - Hong Kong pop song composer and singer |
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* [[Man Chung Lam]] - Hong Kong actor and comedy star |
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* [[Eugene Pao]] - Famous Hong Kong Jazz Musician and Guitarist |
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==International liaison== |
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* [[High School attached to Tsinghua University]], Beijing, China - sister school |
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* Shanghai High School , Shanghai, China - sister school |
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* Nankai High School, Tianjin, China - sister school |
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* [[Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney]], New South Wales, Australia - sister school |
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* [[St Andrew's Cathedral School]], Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - sister school |
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* [[St Joseph's Institution, Singapore]], - sister school |
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* [[CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh)]] [Convent of Holy Infant Jesus (Toa Payoh)], Singapore - sister school |
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* [[St. George's School (Vancouver)]], Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - sister school |
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* [[Deerfield Academy]], Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA - sister school |
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* One of the five member schools for the Student Science Conference Platform, including [[Hwa Chong Institution]], Singapore; Nankai High School, Tianjin, China, Stella Matutina Girls’High School Taichung, Taiwan; [[The Hutchins School]], Tasmania, Australia; St. Paul's Co-educational College, Hong Kong, China |
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==See also== |
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* [[Education in Hong Kong]] |
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* [[St. Paul's Co-educational (Kennedy Road) Primary School]] |
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* [[St. Paul's Co-educational (Macdonnell Road) Primary School]] |
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* [[List of Principals of St. Paul's Co-educational College|Principals of SPCC]] |
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* [[List of schools in Hong Kong]] |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.spcc.edu.hk/sec/index.php SPCC website] |
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*[http://www.spccaa.org/index.html SPCC Alumni Association] |
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*[http://www.spccaa-bc.org/index.html SPCC Alumni Association (BC Chapter)] |
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*[http://home.ica.net/~spccon SPCC Alumni Association (Ontario Chapter)] |
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*[http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Monument/en/trails_central2.php?tid=b15 Entry on the Heritage Trail description] |
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* Pictures: [http://www.spcc.edu.hk/sec/Photos/actual/4/entrance.jpg Entrance], [http://www.hk-place.com/bpic/b234011.jpg Primary School], [http://www.spcc.edu.hk/sec/SchoolLife/School1.jpg Inside the Campus] |
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[[zh-yue:聖保羅男女中學]] |
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[[zh:聖保羅男女中學]] |
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