Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong
| Queen Elizabeth School Chinese: 伊利沙伯中學 | |
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| Location | |
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Hong Kong | |
| Information | |
| Type | Government secondary school |
| Established | 1954 |
| School district | Mong Kok |
| Principal | Mr Tong Kwok Keung |
| Number of students | about 1,000 |
| Website | qes.edu.hk |
Queen Elizabeth School (Chinese: 伊利沙伯中學), or QES and QE (伊中 or 伊利沙伯) for short, is the first EMI (Anglo-Chinese) co-education secondary school founded by the Government of Hong Kong. It is located on a mound at the boundary of Sai Yee Street and Prince Edward Road West in Mong Kok, Kowloon and adjacent to Grand Century Place, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (中華基督教會協和小學) and HK Weaving Mills Association Primary School (香港布廠商會公學).
The school was conceived in 1953 when Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was crowned. Later it was run in September 1954 but operated as an after school on the premises in King's College, until October 1955 when it moved to the present location in Mong Kok.
The QES school camp in Cham Chuk Wan, Sai Kung District, the New Territories was opened in 1962. With the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997, the original school badge with a crown was changed to a new one with the logo of the Education Department. Later, the Education Department was replaced by the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) (now Education Bureau, EDB), and the school badge was changed again.
The school's new annex was opened in September 2004.
School camp
Founded a campsite in Cham Chuk Wan, Sai Kung District, the New Territories in 1962, Queen Elizabeth School is the only school in Hong Kong which owns a school camp. Every year the school offers training course (TC) for S.3 students who are called Wardens in Training (Wits). After a whole year of training, the qualified students then become Camp Wardens (CW).
Publications
- School magazines：published per year since 1954 when the school was founded. Issue 54 will be issued this year.
- 《未學集》: edited and issued by Chinese & Chinese History Society of the school per two years, formerly 《新苗集》. The last version is 《未學集三編》.
- Magazine for the golden jubilee: will be issued this year.
- Other special magazines
Achievements
As of 2010, QES counts 5 winners of the prestigious Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards,[1] ranking 16th (tied with La Salle College, Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and Madam Lau Kam Lung Secondary School of MFBM) among all secondary schools in Hong Kong.
Principals
- Cheong Wai-fung (張維豐, 1954–1959)
- Arthur Hinton (韓敦 or 韓頓, 1959–1967)
- T. McC. Chamberlain (張伯倫, 1967–1970)
- H.N. McNeil (麥尼路, 1970–1975)
- Tan Peng-kian (陳炳乾, 1975–1980)
- Su Chung-jen (蘇宗仁, 1980–1992)
- Chan Ping-tat (陳秉達, 1992–1996)
- Yeung Chi-hung (楊志雄, 1996–1997)
- Sin Chow Dick-yee (冼周的兒, 1997–1998)
- Yeung Chi-hung (楊志雄, 1998–2001)
- Pang Cheung Yee-fan (彭張怡芬, 2001–2008)
- Tong Kwok-keung (唐國強, 2008–present)
Notable Alumni
Science, culture and art
- Fuk Kwok Li (李復國) Director of Mars Projects, awarded NASA highest honours of Outstanding Leadership Medal and Distinguished Service Medal[2]
- Benjamin Wah (華雲生), world-class computer scientist, appointed to be Provost of CUHK[3][4]
- Hon-Yim Ko (高漢棪), Glenn L. Murphy Professor and Chair of Engineering,University of Colorado; Outstanding Educator of America, honored by the American Society of Engineering Education[5]
- Peter T Poon (潘天佑), Telecommunications manager and space technologist on NASA projects to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and Outer Solar System. [6]
- Edward W Ng (伍煒國), mathematical scientist, California Institute of Technology, and NASA[7]
- Ken P. Chong (張建平), Professor and researcher at the George Washington University and the National Institute of Science and Technology[8]
Politics, economics and law
- Li Kwan Ha (李君夏)：Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force[9]
- Pansy Wong (黃徐毓芳)：New Zealand's first Asian Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister[10]
Others
- Simon Chau (周兆祥)：environmentalist
References
- ^ Past Winners of the Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Li in the graduating class of 1970" (PDF). 1971. p. 20.
- ^ "World-renowned Computer Scientist Professor Benjamin Wah Appointed CUHK Provost". cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Wah in graduating class of FA 1969" (PDF). 1970. p. 17.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Ko in the graduating class of 1957" (PDF). 1958. p. 16.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Poon in the graduating class of 1960" (PDF). 1961. p. 18.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Ng in the graduating class of 1957" (PDF). 1958. p. 17.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Chong (aka Cheung in HK phonetics) in the graduating class of 1960" (PDF). 1961. p. 17.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Li in graduating class of FA 1957" (PDF). 1958. p. 14.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth School report: Wong (nee Xu) in the graduating class of 1972" (PDF). 1973. p. 18.
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