T.W.G.Hs Li Ka Shing College | |
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Location | |
Cheung Wah Estate, Fanling, New Territories | |
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Type | Subsidized (Co-ed) |
Motto | Diligence, Frugality, Loyalty and Trustworthiness |
Established | 1982 |
Principal | LEUNG Hok Po |
Affiliation | Tung Wah Group of Hospitals |
Phone | (+852) 26697455 |
Website | http://www.twghlkss.edu.hk/ |
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Li Ka Shing College (Chinese: 東華三院李嘉誠中學)is a whole-day co-educational aided secondary school subsidised by the Hong Kong Government. Located in Cheung Wah Estate, a public housing estate in Fanling in New Territories of Hong Kong, it was the twelfth secondary school set up by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, a charity organisation in 1982.
Li Ka Shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, made a huge donation to build the campus and improved the facilities of this school. For example, he made a donation for installing the air-conditioning systems of the hall and finished in 1997. In addition, he made a donation for the new annex and new equipment and finished in 2006.
Here is the list of the principals from 1982 to now:
Mr WU Kwok Yin (胡國賢)(1982–1993)
Mr CHUNG Chiang Hon (叢蔣漢)(1993–2005)
Mr LEUNG Hok Po (梁學圃)(2005 - )
There are 8 houses in Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Li Ka Shing College. It is very different from other Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Colleges because they only have 4 houses. The houses are red house(勤社), yellow house(儉社), blue house(忠社), purple house(信社), orange house(仁社), brown house(義社), green house(禮社) and grey house(智社).
The former principal, Mr CHUNG Chiang Hon, has started to offer English Literature and English Enrichment Programme and provide Media English in 2004 in order to put emphasis on English. Due to the Fine-tuning of Medium of Instruction for Secondary Schools starting from 2010, the medium of instruction in F.1 has been changed to English.
There were 5 classes each form in form 4 and form 5,namely, 1 Art stream class, 2 Commerce stream classes and 2 Science stream classes. Generally, students from A and E took 8 HKCEE subjects and those from B,C,D take 7. The last class of F.5 taking HKCEE ended in 2010.
There are 2 classes in each form in forms 6 and 7, namely, Art and Commerce class and Science class. Students can select 3AL, 2AL+2AS, 2AL+1AS as their HKALE subjects apart from Chinese Language and Culture and Use of English.
*Advance Supplementary Level(AS)Subject
#Both Advance Supplementary Level(ASL)and Advance Level(AL)options offered
Note:Starting from 2007,students from Art and Commerce stream can take computer Application;those from Science stream can take 1 commerce subject.