Queen's College (Hong Kong)
| Queen's College | |
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| founding | 1862 |
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| place | Hong Kong |
| Special Administrative Region | Hong Kong |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Coordinates | 22 ° 16 '51 " N , 114 ° 11' 30" E |
| student | around 1200 |
| management | Leung Yvetta Ruth |
| Website | www.qc.edu.hk |
Queen's College (皇 仁 書院), first founded in 1862 as The Government Central School (中央 書院) and renamed Victoria College (域 多 利 書院) in 1889 , is a sixth form college for boys with an attached middle school. It was the first public secondary school in Hong Kong by the British Colonial Government. Queen's College was given its current name in 1894 and is located on Causeway Bay , Hong Kong.
history
The Central School was established on Gough Street , Central in 1862 . Frederick Stewart was the first principal of the Central School and also inspector of other schools in the colony .
The headmaster of the Central School was for all schools in Hong Kong until March 1879 , when the government opened a separate office for school inspectors, the predecessor of the Department of Education , which was later merged with the Education Bureau .
During the early years, the school consisted of a variety of nationalities. Whereas the Chinese students enrolled in the English classes, the foreigners were expected to study classical Chinese.
Secular schooling sparked much controversy between the Hong Kong governor and religious leaders. On many occasions the governor personally examined and stepped between the activities of the school. The governor later developed a support program where religious schools had the same funding as the Central School. On April 26, 1884, Sir George Bowen administered the cornerstone of the ceremony for the new school building on Aberdeen Street . As a student, Sun Yat-sen attended the ceremony. At the governor's suggestion, the school became known as Victoria College after it moved to the other side.
The school moved to Aberdeen Street in 1889. At that time the school was one of the largest and most expensive buildings in all of Hong Kong. In 1894 the school was renamed Queen's College again. The government planned to expand the college into an imperial university in the late 19th century, but the idea was shut down when the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904. So it was crucial to build a university with the purpose of educating graduates in war-related subjects such as engineering and medicine. This led to the establishment of Hong Kong University in 1910 while Queen's College remained a middle school.
The Japanese invasion forced the school to close in 1941. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong , the school site was used as the headquarters of the army. As a result, the Allied bombings destroyed the Aberdeen Street campus. The two remarkable cannons at the current main entrance to the school were discovered in the rubble of Aberdeen Street.
After World War II , the school opened at a temporary location on Kennedy Road in 1947 , where it shared a campus with Clementi Secondary School . Queen's College then moved to its current location on September 22, 1950, across from Victoria Park .
School song
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School song Lyrics by: William Kay (1920) Verse 1
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The tune of the Queen's College school song was adapted from the school song of England's Harrow School , filling it with the lyrics of Mr. William Kay, who was a long-serving vice principal. Heep Yunn School , a girls' school in Kowloon , also shared the same tune for their school song.
School motto
The school's motto is “ Labor omnia vincit ”. It was later translated into Chinese as “勤 有功”, which literally means “hard work brings merit”. Many of the QC students live by this maxim and have contributed much to Hong Kong and Chinese society. Sun Yat-sen and Henry Fok Ying Tung are two examples. The school also attaches great importance to its five core values: diligence, integrity, brotherhood, responsibility and the pursuit of excellence.
Registration and language of instruction
There are approximately 33 classes and 1,200 students. The language of instruction is English (except for the subjects Chinese, Chinese history, Putonghua and cultural aspects).
Activities and Achievements
Each student is divided into one of the eight school houses: Stewart, Wright, Dealy, Tanner, Crook, de Rome, Kay and Williamson. The school houses compete in athletics, swimming and other competitions within the houses.
There are also 49 clubs that fall under Sports, Relaxation, Religious, Social Service and Academic (Science & Art). Most clubs have events and functions for all students to participate and some of them organize "joint events" with sister schools throughout each academic year.
Queen's College students are known for their outstanding grades on the HKCEE . Historically, more students at the school have received 10 A grades at HKCEE (which is the highest possible grade) than any other school in Hong Kong. Of all 572 middle schools in Hong Kong, only fewer than 30 have achieved the so-called "10A". Between 1990 and 2006, 50 Queen's College students received 10 A's at HKCEE.
Publications
First published in June 1899, Queen's College school magazine, The Yellow Dragon (《黃龍 報》) is now the oldest Anglo-Chinese school newspaper in existence. The Yellow Dragon is a free historical witness from the Hong Kong Ministry of Education. The hundredth edition was published in 2005.
Gwenneth Stokes, the first woman to partner with the Chief Justice of South Australia , and her husband, John, the headmaster of Queens College from 1965 to 1970, spent two years at Queen's College, in archives and libraries in Hong Kong and the United States Kingdom to create the school's 494 page history. The limited-edition book, titled Queen's College Its History 1862–1987 , was published by the Queen's College Old Boys' Association for Queen's College's 125th birthday in 1987.
