Creative Secondary School
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3 Pung Loi Road, Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, N.T., Hong Kong | |
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| Type | International School, DSS Secondary school |
| Motto | "Through this place we thrive, we serve and find our place in the world." [1] "Be Positive, Act Positively.[2] |
| Headmaster | Mr Cheung Siu Ming |
| Years offered | F1-F6 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Enrolment | 800 (for the academic year 2015-16) |
| Campus size | 165,000 sqm |
| Information | (+852) 2336 0233 (+852) 2377 1608 |
| Website | http://www.css.edu.hk |
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| Traditional Chinese | 啟思中學 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 启思中学 | ||
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Creative Secondary School (CSS; simplified Chinese: 启思中学; traditional Chinese: 啟思中學; pinyin: Qǐsī Zhōngxué) is a private school in Hong Kong under the DSS scheme, opened in September 2006. CSS offers both the IB Programme (which consists of the IB Middle Years Program and the IB Diploma) and Hong Kong's standard educational curriculum (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education).
The school encourages students to live in harmony and respect with people from different cultural backgrounds, as the school has a diverse representation of teachers and students of different nationalities. [citation needed]
Curriculum
CSS offers both the IB Programme (which consists of the IB Middle Years Program and the IB Diploma.) and the standard Hong Kong DSE Diploma. The Creative Secondary School was one of the first in Hong Kong to offer a dual curriculum.[3] In 2009, the school won the Hong Kong Odyssey of the Mind competition and represented Hong Kong at an international level.[4] The Creative Secondary School mottos are "Through this place we thrive, we serve and find our place in the world." [1] and "Be Positive, Act Positively.[2] '
School life
CSS offers extracurricular activities. Sports include rugby, badminton, football (soccer), archery and athletics. CSS also have a bunch of academics CCA Co-curricular Activities like debate, mathematics helping class, and also other arts subjects like Visual Arts, Drama, Music.
House System
CSS employs a house system in which all of its students and the majority of staff are assigned to one. The six houses are named after trees, namely Bauhinia, Bombax, Cassia, Delonix, Jacaranda and Juniper. Each house has its own colours, and houses compete against each other at various school events, such as the CSS Sports Day.
Staff
Cheung Siu Ming is the founding Principal. He attended St. Joseph's College in Hong Kong, received his degree and teaching qualification at the University of Bristol, and an MA in Education from the Open University (UK.) He taught in UK secondary schools and served as an adviser in Lambeth Education Department in London. He returned to Hong Kong in 1994 to join the English Schools Foundation as Deputy Principal of West Island School. This is the only International School to achieve the EMB's QEF Outstanding School Award. In 2001 the ESF appointed Ming Principal of Phoenix International School. He has been a tutor for the OUHK's MED program.[citation needed]
CSS has 90 teaching staff. The staff are 34% native English speakers, 35% overseas returnees/bilinguals, 18% Fluent Putonghua speakers, 69% educated overseas, 14 nationalities, 10 languages and 5 continents.[citation needed]
External links
- Official website
- Creative Secondary School International Baccalaureate Program School page
References
- ^ a b "School Motto & Core Values". www.css.edu.hk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Creative Secondary School Official Site". www.css.edu.hk. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
- ^ Yau, Elaine. "DSS Schools Find Middle Way on Curriculum" (PDF). South China Morning Post. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- ^ Ong-Wood, Ivy (14 April 2009). "Creative Tradition". The Standard. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.