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CUI CHOI

SCHOOL

Architect: N. H. Fok, Esq.

Architect's perspective drawing of the completed project.

Work will soon start on the con- noon and struction of a new vernacular prim- ary school which has been sponsored by a group of public spirited citizens known as the Hong Kong & Kowloon Chui Chow Residents' Public Asso-

ciation.

This Association already has three free schools in operation, at Tsim- shatsui, Shumshuipo and Kowloon City. It is now eight years since this

Association started its endeavours to provide schooling at little or no cost to the poorer sections of the com- munity, and their new school will be a crowning achievement.

The Association's Building Com- mittee comprises twenty well-known business and professional men who have felt that the furtherance of education amongst the poorer classes was well worth the time and effort

evening sessions, thus ces, main commonrooms and covered making it possible to utilise the playgrounds on the ground floor with facilities for the education of 3.000 as many classrooms as the balance pupils daily.

of the area will permit, and the up- per floors containing all classrooms with, usually, a large teachers' com- monroom for each floor.

Government has been very appre- ciative of the efforts of the Associa- tion, and has donated the land free of charge for the purpose.

This is the plan that is adhered to in the case of the Chiu Chow School; the ground floor containing three classrooms in addition to the adminis-

to the teachers'

The Hong Kong & Kowloon Chui Chow Residents' Public Association School is an L-shaped structure with the main shaft of the building tration areas already mentioned, the running north and south along Sai first floor containing eleven class- Yee Street, and

a wing extending rooms in addition eastwards along the north end of the commonroom, and two store rooms. main building. It is proposed only one for stationery and one for gene- ral stores. The second floor will to proceed with the main portion of the building for the time being, and contain ten classrooms and two large hope that financial resources will practical handicraft rooms, each with permit the erection of the extension a built-in storage space and an addi- at a later date.

tional store room.

The building has been exceptionally

This accommodation, of course, re- involved. The Chairman of the Board well designed with emphasized verti- fers to the main portion which is is the Hon. Ngan Shing-Kwan. cal fins framing the windows, giving being erected immediately, and does Managing Director of the China Motor Bus Co., Ltd., who is ably the main front elevation.

a rather classical column effect to not include the future wing exten- The main sion. The ground floor under this assisted by Mr. Iu Yau Po.

entrance and staircase hall and the wing will contain a covered play- The enrolment in the school is extended canopy above the entrance ground convertible into a theatre/ open to everyone, and is not confined doorway provides the architectural assembly room with the raised stage to members of the Association or focal point of the main elevation, at the eastern end flanked on either people of the Chui Chow District, whilst its location in the planning side by changing rooms and a roomy Fees are kept at a very low level, and centralises the circulation not only is entirely free to bona fide poor for the main part of the building. people who cannot afford to pay any but for the wing extension to be fees for the education of their erected later on. children.

The new school, which is expected to be completed in July and of which a full description is given below, will accommodate over 1,000 pupils, but it is intended to run morning, after-

The planning, as in the case of most schools being erected in Hong Kong at the present time, is based upon a standard sized classroom unit accommodating between forty and forty-five pupils each, with the off-

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caretaker's quarters. The first floor of this section will contain six stan- dard sized classrooms, two large additional staff rooms and a medical room each with individual washroom lavatories.

The building will be on Vibro piles and the exterior and interior finishes will make this an outstanding schoo building.