C. M. S.
Primary School
STANLEY
VILLAGE
Architects: Mesors. Chau & Lee
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In the last annual report of the Director of Education, there was said to be a total of 152.131 primary pupils in the Colony. Many of these children are being educated in schools run by private organisations such as the Church Missionary Society; this Society, which has made a very valuable contribution to the educa- tional facilities of Hong Kong, open- ed a new primary school in Stanley Village early in the year.
The new school was erected in commemoration of the jubilee of St. Stephen's College, the students, staff and Old Boys of which gave con- siderable financial assistance towards its completion. The C.M.S. has now been able to proceed to give the rudiments of education to well over one hundred Stanley children who had not before received any school- ing. The aims and objects of the Society are to provide lower and higher primary education for the children of Stanley, and also to direct them to a practical approach to life by means of syllabi adapted to their needs in a semi-rural area.
(above) View of the main entrance and the east elevation.
(Below) Plan of the ground floor.
In pre-war days, the staff and students of St. Stephen's College to open a night school in the district found various ways of helping the and were overwhelmed by some 400 younger children of Stanley Village. applications. A careful investigation At the end of 1949, after the comple- showed that more than 300 children tion of the rehabilitation of the in the area were receiving no school- College, the staff and boys planned ing whatever.
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The boys of St. Stephens began to make regular contributions towards a fund for a new school and with the help of their parents had raised about $6,000 by mid-1950. A Chinese theatrical performance held at the Ko Shing Theatre early in 1951, which was sponsored by the College and its Old Boys, raised an additional sum of $58,000.
By the summer of 1951, the Coun- cil of the C.M.S. Day Schools had $65,000 in hand and a promise of a site and $44.000 from Government, and it then appeared that the com- pletion of the new day school would be but a matter of a few months. Unfortunately, work was delayed for a number of reasons, and it was not until November 1953 that the laying of the foundation stone took place.
The new school is a two-storeyed building having a simple and straightforward plan.
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