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St. Paul's Co-educational College

聖保羅男女中學
St. Paul's Co-ed.
Faith, Hope, Love
Location
33 MacDonnell Road
Mid-levels
Hong Kong
Information
Type Grant, DSS, secondary, co-educational.
Established 1915 (as St. Paul's Girls' College)
Principal Dr. Anissa Chan
Enrollment approx. 1,200
Forms
Alumni		 Form 1 to Upper 6
Hong Kong Alumni Website
Website http://www.spcc.edu.hk

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. The School was founded in 1915. It became the first school in Hong Kong to enforce uniform dress code. Until after World War II, it was a girls-only college.

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Background information

The school was founded in 1915 as St. Paul's Girls' College by the Anglican church. It was the first school in Hong Kong to require students to wear uniforms (1918). In 1942, St. Paul's Girls' College was closed down due to Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. In 1945, the school re-opened after Japan surrendered, merging with St. Paul's College to become the first co-educational college in Hong Kong.

The school is operated under the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS), and was the first subsidized school to join the scheme. The school fee had been set at HK$48,000 per annum in 2002. It was increased to HK$52,000 starting from 2009–10. For students opting for the International Baccalaureate course, the fee will be no more than HK$80,000 per annum.[1] The school's motto is Faith, Hope and Love, derived from verse 13 of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13.

Campuses

Situated in the Mid-levels, the school campus is naturally deprived of space. The school split into two sections after the moving of the affiliated primary school, taking up the space of the ex-Kennedy Road campus of the primary school. The original school building is called MacDonnell Road Campus (MR Campus), while the one at 26 Kennedy Road is named the Kennedy Road Campus (KR Campus).

MacDonnell Road Campus

The MR Campus consists of the main building and the Li Chong Yuet Ming Building (LCYM Building, or the east wing). The main building consists of Dr Catherine Woo Wing (also known as the red brick building), Dr BM Kotewall Wing, Annex building and School Improvement Programme (SIP) Building. It comprises currently 12 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. There has been a whole new classroom arrangements in the school year 2008–09.

Dr Catherine Woo Wing was completed in 1927 and accorded Grade 2 historic building by Antiquity Advisory Board (AAB) in 2010. It is socially, historically and architecturally significant. The building is a seven-storey red brick building of a C-shaped plan. Its design expresses features of Neo-Georgian style with adaptations to local climate. The LCYM building is a new wing which has been built at the original primary school site. It was completed in 2011. It comprises currently 12 floors. It includes the indoor games hall, the cafeteria, the lecture theatre, the residence hall, the laboratories, and other facilities.

Kennedy Road Campus

The KR Campus is a temporary campus that comprises currently of 4 floors, including the roof structure. Flooring system as MR Campus. All F1 classes are housed there. It will be returned to the Government in the school year 2013/2014.

Calder Path Annex

The Calder Path Annex is located in between the MR Campus and KR Campus. The school's swimming pool and music rehearsal rooms are located there. It is also where the former main library (Calder Path library) was situated, until the school year 2012/2013 when it was moved to the MR building.

Uniform

St. Paul's Co-educational College was the first secondary school in Hong Kong to require school uniforms. Boys wear white shirts and girls wear blue Cheongsam.

Primary school

The college had an affiliated primary school: St. Paul's Co-educational College Primary School, once divided into two half-day schools: St. Paul's Co-educational (Kennedy Road) Primary School and St. Paul's Co-educational (Macdonnell Road) Primary School to cope with the demand for places, they resumed full-day education in 1999. In 2006, the two schools merged again, then the Primary School moved to the new campus in Wong Chuk Hang in 2008.

The secondary school curriculum is taught in English, except for Chinese Language, Chinese History and Putonghua. Most of the curriculum of primary school is taught in Cantonese or English, with some lessons being taught by native English teachers. In Primary 6, English, Mathematics, General Studies (including Science), Religious Studies, etc. are taught in English; and Chinese is mainly taught in Putonghua.

Notable alumni

Academics

Public services / professionals

Business

Artists

International liaison

Annual Summer Music Event

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of SPCC, the school held the Extravaganza in the Asia World Arena in 2006. This act sets a record of being the first school holding an event that involves all students and the first school to use the Asia World Arena.

The School Choirs took part in the 5th and 6th World Choir Games in Graz, Austria and Shaoxing, China in 2008 & 2010 respectively. The Senior Mixed Voice Choir was the Winner of the Open Class in the Youth Mixed Voice category in Shaoxing, 2010.

Clubs and societies

The club and society promotion which is the most intriguing during assembly yearly in Mr. Henry Poon's era no longer exist under Dr Anissa Chan's regime. The promotion provided opportunities for student to have a chance to act, give presentation and promote the clubs during the assembly and it was part of the collective memories of the past SPCC. Still is the reminiscence of the alumni and some senior form students, the club and society promotion now survives only as the performances by the Music Society, including the choir, school orchestra, harmonica orchestra, wind band and pianist chamber.

See also

References

  1. ^ According to the school website

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