Campus style for new secondary school
THE St. Catherine's School for Girls, Kwun Tong embodies a new and less traditional approach to secondary education in Hong Kong - aimed at leading the pupils to some form of tertiary education while at the same time preparing them in a practical way to cope with commercial and domestic life.
The school has five streams which are divided at Form III level into science, commerce, arts, vocational and technical according to interest and ability: but all streams study English and Chinese literature, scripture, phy. sical education and music. Eventually there will be three lower sixth and two upper sixth classes with instruction in science and arts subjects.
In keeping with with this new edu- cational venture, the architects have
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developed a campus type disposition, breaking the low rise two to four- storey school building into smaller blocks, intimate in scale and compa- tible with the rugged terrain of the
site.
The site is a preformed 11⁄2-acre flat area on a 3-acre lot on top of a hill which commands panoramic views over Kwun Tong, Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong harbour. Adjoining sites are to be developed as public recreation space, further schools and Government housing blocks. The entire area is served by a ring road at
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the foot of the hill, from which a slightly winding approach road leads up to the school.
The layout of the school places the classroom block on the northern edge of the preformed flat area and an octagonal-shaped auditorium to the south, defining the entrance and a par- king space to the east as well as the outdoor playing field to the west.
In a total floor area of approxi- mately 56,700 sq. ft., the school pro- vides 30 classrooms for Forms 1 to 6 students, and also houses in the central tall block five science laboratories, two
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