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Cheung Chau Government Secondary School

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Cheung Chau Government Secondary School
長洲官立中學
File:Cheung Chau Government Secondary School.JPG
Location
5B School Road
Cheung Chau
Hong Kong
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Information
School typeGovernment-operated, Secondary school
MottoThrough learning and temperance to virtue
Establishedc. July 1908; 117 years ago (July 1908)
School districtIslands District
SupervisorGloria Li Ho Suk-wa
PrincipalWONG Kwok-keung
Staff32
GradesSecondary 1 to 6
GenderCo-educational
Classes12
LanguageChinese
Area8,000 m2 (86,000 sq ft)
Websitewww.ccgss.edu.hk

Cheung Chau Government Secondary School (Chinese: 長洲官立中學) 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.[citation needed] It uses Chinese as the medium of instruction for all subjects except English language.[2]

History

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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

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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.[1][5]

References

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