Hong Kong Vernacular Normal Schools Alumni Association Primary School
Architect: S. K. Loong, B. Sc.
Photograph from the model of the main elevation.
consisting of seven members who have power to pay for the costs and expenses of, and incidental to, the promotion, formation, registration and establishment of the School. among other things necessary for the effici- ent running of such an organisation.
There is in course of construction The new building will also be used being vested in a Board of Trustees at Sai Yee Street, Kowloon, a primary as a centre for the delivering of school with a most interesting his- public lectures, exhibitions, meetings, tory. It is being built by the Hong adult evening classes and confer- Kong Vernacular Normal Schools ences calculated, directly or indirect Alumni Association, and is the result ly, to advance the cause of education of a concerted effort on the part of whether general, professional or the Association to replace the existing technical. five free schools (three Day and two Night) run by the Association at
rented or borrowed premises at No. 39 Jordan Road. No. 2 Nga Tsin Wai Village. No. 32 Tung Choi Street, Night School at Belllios Public School, Hospital Road and Night School at Yaumat! Government School, Nathan Road.
The object of the School is to en- able boys and girls of humble origin to have a sound modern classical, mathematical and general education.
On this basis, Government gener-
ously agreed to make a grant of a 13,000 sq. ft. in area, right in the valuable piece of Crown Land, some heart of the crowded Mongkok dis- trict.
The area of the site is large enough not only to accommodate the school playground and a basket hall court. building itself, but a large open There are two covered playgrounds included in the design of the build- The registered number of members ing, one with a stage which can be of the Association is at present fifty. used as assembly hall and for school all being graduates of the Vernacular social and scholastic functions. Normal Schools, the forerunners of addition, there is also a roof play- Northcote Training and Grantham ground. The classrooms will be 25'0" Colleges, as they are known today. x 22'0", with accommodation for 45 The management of the School is pupils each.
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Two other views from the model.
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