Island School
| Island School (港島中學) | |
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Island School
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| Location | |
| 20 Borrett Road Mid-Levels Hong Kong |
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| Type | Private, secondary, co-educational |
| Established | 1967 |
| Principal | Christopher Binge |
| Faculty | approx. 100 |
| Enrollment | approx. 1,200 |
| Colour(s) | Red, white and blue |
| Years | Year 7-13 |
| Alumni | Old Islanders |
| Website | http://www.island.edu.hk/ |
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| Traditional Chinese | 港島中學 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 港岛中学 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | gǎng dǎo zhōng xué |
Island School is a co-educational non-profit school located on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is the founding school of the English Schools Foundation, and remains a member to this date. The school has been accredited by international organisations such as the Council of International Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Originally located on 10 Borrett Road of the Hong Kong Mid-Levels district (the site of a former British military hospital), the school moved to its current and only campus on 20 Borrett Road in 1973. It currently houses around 1200 students across 33 nationalities and around 100 members of teaching staff.
Island School is a registered IB World School, and offers the IB diploma program along with an alternative BTEC program in the senior years, in the middle school students study IGCSEs and the Island Futures curriculum, in the junior years students study specific subject lessons plus they have Island Time lessons that teach then transferable skills such as team work and researching.
The school opened in 1967 to meet increasing demand for schooling for the children of expatriates living in Hong Kong. As there were no secondary schools for English speaking children on Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong government established the English Schools Foundation (ESF) in 1965.
The first Principal of Island School was the Reverend Geoffrey Speak who was appointed from St. Paul's College in 1967. Speak, a graduate of Selwyn College, Cambridge introduced the "House System" as the basis of pastoral care, a system which is still in place today.
In 1971 C. Ronald Rivers-Moore was appointed to succeed Speak as principal. Rivers-Moore, a Cambridge graduate, continued Speak's vision both in academic policy and through the continuation of the extracurricular program including the introduction of the Nepal Trek, the school camp, a school zoo and the student union. Chris Forse, former deputy head and Island School historian, referred to Rivers-Moore as a man who combined his "integrity with liberal benevolence in roughly equal proportions".
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