HO TUNG GIRLS' SCHOOL
Photograph of the north elevation looking towards the covered playground.
In the first year, of the approach road was levelled
HIS new dual-purpose girls' Department.
T school was opened by H.E. there will be a common curricu- off for use as a sports ground.
sections Domestic,
a
The Governor, Sir Alexander lum for all; the second year will
The main school building is two Grantham, G.C.M.G., on the 9th have three March, 1953. Sir Robert Ho Tung, Commercial and Industrial. The storeys high with a single storey
covered playground forming after whom the school is named, third year will have five sections covered generously contributed $200,000.00 Domestic, Nursing, Commercial, wing on the west side. On the towards the cost of this school Art and Industrial. In the begin- ground floor, the main block con- which will, however, be run by ning only the first and second year tains an entrance hall, an office, Government as a Government classes have been opened, but the staff rooms, four classrooms, and
school will be expanded to the three handiwork rooms. full course in September 1953. first floor there are eight class- Ordinary academic subjects, such rooms, one handiwork room and a
library. as English, Chinese, social studies, arithmetic, art and physical educa- tion, will also be taught at the veniently close to the entrance Technical School.
School.
In the mornings the school will operate as a primary school for Classes I to VI inclusive, and will have accommodation for 480 pu- pils; this part of the school is known as the Ho Tung Primary School.
On the
The staff rooms are located con-
hall and consist of an office with a counter, two headmistresses' The building is located on the
rooms, male and female staff site of the old Belilios Reforma-
rooms and staff lavatories. Each In the afternoons, there will be tory at Causeway Bay, which was of the classrooms is 21'6" by 21'0′′ a three-year vocational school for completed early in 1900. Shortly and will seat 40 pupils. One of girls who have completed their before the Pacific War, the Re- the handiwork rooms is fitted out primary education. This course formatory became the Juvenile
as a model flat, consisting of two will include dressmaking, cookery, Remand Home. was badly
rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen; laundrywork, simple commercial damaged and looted during the this will be used for practical in- subjects, applied art and house- hostilities, and only the shell of craft; this section of the school is the building remained to be de- called the Ho Tung Technical molished to make way for the School for Girls.
new School.
It
The Technical School represents The site is on high ground at a new venture in vocational and Tai Hang
Hang Road, close to the technical education for girls, but French Hospital; the ground is the course is of secondary school irregular in shape and covers an standard and will lead to a certi- area of approximately 1.4 acres. ficate issued by the Education A vacant lot on the opposite side
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struction in housecraft.
The single storey wing includes a combined covered playground and assembly hall, which may be opened to the outside play area by folding doors extending almost the entire length of the east wall. At one end of the hall is a large stage, raised 2'6" above the hall floor level; this stage may be used