The Shamshuipo School continues to run both a kindergarten and a complete primary school, with a present enrolment of 1,100 pupils in a total of 29 classes, Only the primary school is at present ac- commodated in the new building with the kindergarten still in the old premises.
The site of the new Shamshuipo School is located at the junction of Boundary Street and Kowloon Tsai Road, opposite the Army Recreation Ground.
The three-storeyed building lies in the northern half of the site which is solid ground; the rest of the area, which is mostly made ground is occupied by a large playground. On the ground floor are a teachers' room, an office, the headmistress' room and four classrooms. The first and second floors are similar in their planning and together contain a library, a handi- craft room, a music room, a medical in- spection room and a total of eight class-
rooms. Adequate lavatory facilities for boys and girls are provided on each floor. The twelve classrooms will together ac- commodate 540 pupils.
Around most of the site is a coursed rubble fence wall, with an entrance from Kowloon Tsai Road through three sets of double wrought iron gates separated by stone piers supporting a concrete canopy.
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The building has been constructed with centre one is composed of a chequered de a reinforced concrete frame and brick sign of large terracotta and white coloured panel walls. In order to economise, no squares, while the two outer panels are expensive materials were used in the con- of grey stone. struction. The architect has resorted to a bright colour scheme to make the school attractive; this caused a lot of controversy when the school was first completed, but latterly public opinion seems to have con- firmed the architect's faith in the use of colour in a school of this nature for young children. The colour, however, is mostly confined to the use of Snowcem externally.
Features of the internal decoration are relief fixed to the coloured rubble stone of three interesting panels in gypsum plaster
the stair balls; these panels are each four feet square, one to each floor, and repre- sent Art, Sport and Music.
Floors art of coloured cement in the classrooms; corridor walkways are of green cement tiles; the main stairs have treads The main staircase walls at the west end and risers of coloured mosaic tiles, as has of the building near the entrance, are the ground floor lobby, while the second- treated externally with dark red square ary staircase is cement rendered and the tiles, on which surface are superimposed upper lobbies have asphalt tiles. the name of the school in Chinese charac-
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ters on five dressed granite stone panels, The total cost of this first part of the and the school crest painted on teak and programme was in the region of $300,000.- bolted
The second and third stages of the to the wall. Additional lighting for this staircase is provided by a row of clerestory windows immediately under the roof slab. The adjacent projecting block over the main entrance has walls finished in artificial stone.
In the classroom block on the ground Hoor, the round columns form a colonnade or cloister facing the playground. On the upper floors the corridor bays have rail- ings, alternately of open wrought iron work and solidl stuccoed concrete. The outside walls of the classroom block are finished with white stucco.
A classroom wing will be added at n later date at the east end of the building. facing Boundary Street; in order to hide the otherwise unsightly facade of unfinish- ed concrete and steel rod projections, the architect designed a temporary facing wail divided into three vertical sections
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programme will provide for nine additional classrooms in a three-storeyed wing near the cast boundary of the site, and an as- sembly hall to seat 1,000 persons with a covered playground and a kindergarten attached near the west boundary of the site.
When these extensions are completed. the new school will have a total of 30 classrooms and over ten special-purpose rooms to cater for over 1.200 pupils. The finished buildings will extend around three sides of a basket-ball court, so that the open corridors of the classrooms overlook- ing this court will serve as stands for spectators.
Architect: W. Szeto, A.M.L.C.E. General Contractors: Yick Lee & Co. Plumbing: Kwong Hing & Co. Steel Windows:
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General view of the school from the south, (Photographs by courtesy of Messrs. Yick Lo os
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