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Question No. 3

Reply by the Hon. Michael Leung, JP, Director of Education, to a Legislative Council Question

by the Hon. CHEUNG Yan-lung, OBE, SBStJ, JP,

on 24 July 1985

Question

sir

Will Government make a statement on the planning and progress of English Schools Foundation schools in Sai Kung and other parts of the territory?

Having reviewed the current provision and the projected

demand for English-speaking school places in the territory, the

il

Government has recently arrived at the following decisions

regarding the planning and programming of the English Schools

Foundation schools:-

(a)

(b)

To build a new 18-classroom primary school

in the Sai Kung area to reprovision the

existing Boundary Junior School in Kowloon.

To reduce the size of the planned Shatin

Junior School from 24 to 18 classrooms.

(c) To reprovision Glenealy Junior School as a

12-classroom school instead of an 18-classroom

school.

The English Schools Foundation has been officially

informed of the above decisions, and action is now being taken

by all parties concerned

(a)

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to identify a suitable site for the proposed

Sai Kung Junior School to ensure that it is

within reasonable travelling distance of the

main centres of expatriate population in the

Sai Kung area;

/(b)