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FLAT ROOF

UPPER

PART OF GYMNASIUM

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BASEMENT PLAN

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TABLE

TENNIS

BALCONY

NEEDLEWORK ROOM

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0000000 LEN

COOKERY

ROOM

BALCONY

LABORATORY BIOLOGY

GRD. FL. PLAN

PIANO ROOMS

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On school tory with a lecture room between.

will also be a this floor there

science library where text and reference books can obtained. A large store and preparatory room is also situated between the two la- boratories, whilst a dark room which will be used in connection with the physics courses is situated off the physics labora-

Two floor plans which illustrate the size and distribution of the floor space.

ters for the residential staff, five extra practical subjects and a proper classrooms, a chemistry laboratory and a gymnasium. that this new building is be covered playground. Until then "Fairlea", ing erected. another branch of the C.M.S. education, and St. Stephen's Hall, which provided accommodation for a few girl students at the University, shared the premises with the St. Stephen's Girls College. This Uni versity Women's Hostel was moved to its own premises in Babington Path, and "Fairlea" was moved to Kowloon to form a new school "Heep Yunn" in 1937, thus leaving the whole building for the de- velopment of St. Stephen's College.

The ground floor of this structure will entirely devoted to the gymnasium which will be 41'-0" by 76'-0" in size with a store for sports equipment off the hall- way leading to the gymnasium. Directly attached to it will be changing rooms, in- tory. cluding showers, lockers and lavatories.

room,

The second floor plan discloses a соп- tinuation of the educational facilities On part of the floor in that an art room and a commercial room are provided, but there is also

and

Owing to the contour of the ground in relation to the rest of the building, this gymnasium which will be two storeys in

a teachers' comnionroom on this The College was re-opened after the re- height will actually form the lower base

ment and basement of the building, and floor. The other half of the floor is de- occupation with approximately 350 pu- pils, but it was not long before the school off the staircase of the basement floor there voted to a well laid out apartment con-

will be a table tennis room and a music sisting of an L-shaped living room was besieged with new applicants. In 1949 a Junior School was opened and with

dining room, two bedrooms and a study. the appointment of Miss K. D. Cherry The ground floor will be divided into The kitchen-pantry combination is direct- in that year, the school entered its modern three sections, a cookery room, needlework ly off the dining room and two fully phase. New subjects were added to the room and a biology Jaboratory. The equipped bathrooms have also been pro- curriculum, Practical Domestic Science in cookery room will be equipped with elec- vided. A large servants' room with se- 1949, Arts and Crafts in 1950 and now tric ranges, gas ranges and Chinese stoves parate showers and lavatory facilities, and the teaching of Science subjects such as so that the girls can become familiar with a large boxroom complete the amenities. Chemistry, Physics and Biology is visu- all three media.

There is a playground provided for as to provide larger and better accom- On the next floor will be situated a the roof of the building, which will modation for the teaching of the other chemistry laboratory and a physics labora- entirely surrounded by chain-link fencing.

alized. It is for this latter purpose as well

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