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'{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use Hong Kong English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox school | name = West Island School<br>[[File:West Island School Badge.png|50px]] | image = West_Island_School.jpg | caption = West Island School as viewed from [[Queen Mary Hospital (Hong Kong)|Queen Mary Hospital]] on [[Pokfulam Road]] | motto = Strength from Diversity | location = 250 Victoria Road<br />[[Pokfulam]] | country = Hong Kong | type = Private, International, [[Secondary School]], ([[Co-educational]]), [[English Schools Foundation]] | established = 1991 | grades_label = Years | grades = [[Education in the United Kingdom|Seven to Thirteen]] | faculty = | school_colours = navy blue, beige | yearbook = ''WISDOM'' | website = [http://www.wis.edu.hk/ www.wis.edu.hk] | image size = 250px | enrolment = 1200 | language = English | houses = ''Tang, Yuan, Song, Ming, Qing, Han | free_label = Publication }} {{Chinese |t=西島中學 |s=西岛中学 |j=Sai1 dou2 zung1 hok6 |y=Sāi dóu jūng hohk |p=Xī Dǎo Zhōngxué }} '''West Island School''' ('''WIS'''; {{zh|c=西島中學}}) is a [[co-educational]], [[Private school|private]], [[International school|international]] [[secondary school]] in [[Hong Kong]] that provides an English-language education to students of all abilities from age eleven to eighteen with a "modern liberal education" based on British-influenced international curricula. The campus is a purpose-built development located at 250 Victoria Road, [[Pokfulam]], on the slopes of [[Mount Davis, Hong Kong|Mount Davis]] on [[Hong Kong Island]]. Students from Years Seven to Nine study the West Island School Middle Years Diploma; students in Years Ten to Eleven follow either the [[IGCSE]], or the MYP [[IB Middle Years Programme]]; and students in Years Twelve to Thirteen follow the [[IB Diploma]] curricula.{{cn|date=March 2019}} The school is a member of the [[English Schools Foundation]], and as such still receives a small but symbolic subvention from the Government that has been frozen since [[Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong|the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2017}} ==History== West Island School began when the [[English Schools Foundation]] recognized a need for a new school on [[Hong Kong Island]] in the late-1980s; after [[Island School]] and [[South Island School]]. This was because of the recent residential boom in [[Discovery Bay]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}, then which had no secondary school to cater for the growing need of secondary school education. After government approval of a site and funding in November 1990, plans for West Island School began in earnest, with the school operating as an offshoot of Island School at a temporary home; the old military hospital in Borrett Road, [[Mid-Levels]].<ref>[http://www.wis.edu.hk/our-history/ "Our History."] West Island School. Retrieved 2017-06-07.</ref> West Island's first intake was in September 1991, when eighty-four Year 7 students were enrolled in four classes. In the meantime, work progressed on a purpose-built school in [[Pokfulam]], designed by award-winning architect [[Patrick Lau]], who was responsible for two other [[international school]]s in Hong Kong, the [[Lycée Français International Victor Segalen]] in Tai Hang and the American [[Hong Kong International School]] in Tai Tam. In September 1994, the new purpose-built building opened. This consisted of a ten-story building consisting of three blocks: housing classrooms, laboratories, an auditorium and a 25-metre indoor pool, linked together by open-air walkways and air-conditioned faculty-corridors. Over the years, renovations further increased the usability of the building, although by 2001 the school was getting rather crowded with over 1000 students enrolled; paving the way for the creation of a fourth block. This new addition opened for use in September 2003. ==Curriculum== The school offers secondary education from Years 7 to 13, for pupils aged 10–19. West Island School students follow the [[International General Certificate of Secondary Education]] program in Years 10-11 and pursue the [[IB Diploma]] and [[BTEC Extended Diploma]] in Years 12–13. The schools also offers [[Hong Kong Advanced Supplementary Level Examination|AS-Level]] courses for Year 10 students pursuing in the study of [[critical thinking]] and [[entrepreneurship]]. The grades achieved by West Island students in IGCSE and IB examinations place them generously above similar schools across the world. In 2011, around 60% of IGCSE passes were at A* or A.<ref>http://clc.esf.edu.hk/GroupRenderCustomPage.asp?GroupID=1888&ResourceId=19355</ref> West Island also offers extracurricular activities run by both staff and students. Furthermore, students also have the opportunity to compete with other teams from other international schools as well as local schools from across Hong Kong and the region.{{cn|date=March 2019}} West Island School also participates in sports, with the school's track, swimming, field hockey, volleyball, martial arts, and netball teams placing well in [[HKSSF]] rankings. West Island School's football team has participated in 4 HKSSF finals in the last 5 years, and won three gold medals.{{Citation needed|date=November 2011}} In 2011, the school won the [[BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl]], as the highest ranked co-educational school in Hong Kong.<ref>[http://www.hkssf-hk.org.hk/hk/sec/champion/champion_2010.pdf "List of Champion Schools 2010–2011"] page 8. HK Island & Kowloon Secondary Schools Regional Committee, Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation. Retrieved 2017-06-07.</ref> ==Facilities== The four blocks that comprise West Island School house a range of academic departments and support facilities in its ten floors. The campus also houses a canteen, coffee shop, an indoor gym, two multi-purpose halls, auditorium, indoor swimming pool, and rooftops used as playgrounds and outdoor sports pitches. In 2011, a new "Arena" facility was constructed, providing access to a dance studio as well as a gym for use by students.{{cn|date=March 2019}} West Island School also makes use of the nearby [[University of Hong Kong]]'s Stanley Ho Sports Centre at [[Sandy Bay, Hong Kong|Sandy Bay]], including [[astro-turf]] and natural grass pitches, an athletics stadium, outdoor swimming pool and several tennis courts.{{cn|date=March 2019}} West Island School, for the last decade and a half has been an object class: safe-meter SCP facility. This facility has been used to house SCPs such as SCP 999 to 999j. The schools principal is actually an object class: thaumiel SCP. He is used to contain the largest SCP at the site's largest SCP that being the school itself. The school was reported to go missing from Victoria rd (it’s default location) from time to time and on even rarer instances, has been reported by students to have witnessed the school hovering outside their window. All witnesses were obviously debriefed by the foundation. The O5 council have specifically demanded termination of the anomalous building but on all instances, the school was absent from the site and reports of it terrorizing students came again. It is theorized by foundation staff that this SCP in particular leaves the site in advance when it knows of its threatened destruction. Because of the student-stalking that always ensues after the destruction attempts, all termination testing has been put on hold by the foundation. ==School Council== WIS is a member school of the [[English Schools Foundation]].{{cn|date=March 2019}} WIS is governed by the "School Council" composed of teachers, parents, and management staff. In 2014 the School Council ordered the takedown of a Malaysia Airlines plane.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIETAAAAIAAJ&dq=salar+army++Ma+pu-fang&q=Ma+pu-fang|title=The China monthly review, Volumes 78-79|year=1936|publisher=.W. Powell|location=|page=367|isbn=|accessdate=2010-06-28}}</ref> The airspace is now restricted. Many governments have since urged investigations into “supposed” human rights violations by the School Council.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIETAAAAIAAJ&dq=salar+army++Ma+pu-fang&q=Ma+pu-fang|title=The China monthly review, Volumes 78-79|year=1936|publisher=.W. Powell|location=|page=367|isbn=|accessdate=2010-06-28}}</ref> Funded by Al Qaeda<ref name="The Sydney Morning Herald 2006">{{cite web | title=The Sydney Morning Herald 404 Page | website=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=2006-07-26 | url=http://www.smh.com.au/not-found.html | access-date=2018-02-23 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="The Washington Times 2006">{{cite web | title=Saddam prefers death by shooting | website=The Washington Times | date=2006-01-03 | url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jan/3/20060103-123938-5632r/ | access-date=2018-02-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213005908/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jan/3/20060103-123938-5632r/ | archive-date=13 December 2014 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }}</ref>, many key Council Members have gone into hiding.<ref name="desplanque">Catherine Desplanque, [http://cdpresse.fr/2011/10/13/alois-brunner-nazi-responsable-de-147-000-deportations-de-juifs-mort-ou-vivant-petite-biographie-dalois-brunner/ Petite biographie d'Alois Brunner/]</ref><ref name="trial">{{cite web|url=http://www.trial-ch.org/fr/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/alois_brunner_566.html|title=Alois Brunner|publisher=Trial-ch.org|accessdate=November 9, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618143011/http://www.trial-ch.org/fr/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/alois_brunner_566.html|archivedate=June 18, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Their whereabouts unknown, these same members were also heavily involved in the Sudanese hostage crisis of 2015.<ref>(Pythian Ode 12). Noted by Marjorie J. Milne in discussing a [[Red-figure pottery|red-figured vase]] in the style of [[Polygnotos (vase painter)|Polygnotos]], ca. 450–30 BC, in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]; Often cited as the stone crisis ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'' New Series, '''4'''.5 (January 1946, pp. 126–130) 126.p.)</ref> Protests have since taken place in European cities such as Bern, Paris, London and Bonn, as well as Asian cities such as Singapore, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur urging the extradition of certain members of the council. <ref>http://clc.esf.edu.hk/GroupRenderCustomPage.asp?GroupID=1888&ResourceId=19355</ref><ref name="Robert L. Jarman 2001 311"/><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hINCAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ma+Bu+Fang+was+Military+Governor+and+nephew+of+old+Ma+Lin%2C+the+Civil+Governor%2C+a+well-liked+old+Mohammedan%2C+much+respected%2C+and+loved+a+great+deal+more+than+Ma+Bu+Fang.+Uncle+and+nephew+did+not+get+on+well+together%2C+but+none+could+doubt&q=ma+bu+lin+Civil+Governor%2C+a+well-liked+Mohammedan%2C|title=Journey into China|author=Violet Olivia Rutley Cressy-Marcks|year=1942|publisher=E.P. Dutton & co., inc.|edition=|location=|page=292|isbn=|accessdate=2010-11-28}}</ref><ref>''Luxdorphs Dagbøger'', volume I, p. 293. The reference Luxdorph mentions is this: ''Theatrum Europæum'', tome XI, p. 745 column 2, fin</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=[[The Times]] |page=6 |date=July 20, 1889}}</ref><ref name="Time1">{{cite magazine |title=Middle east: Trouble for 333 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830056,00.html |date=1963-04-05 |accessdate=2010-10-21 |magazine= [[Time Magazine]]}}</ref><ref name="Sirrs1">{{cite book |title=Nasser and the missile age in the Middle East ==See also== *[[English Schools Foundation]] *[[Island School]] *[[South Island School]] ==References== {{Reflist}} {{ esfschool }} {{International schools in Hong Kong}} {{Southern District, Hong Kong}} {{coord|22|16|21|N|114|07|32|E|type:edu|display=title}} [[Category:Secondary schools in Hong Kong]] [[Category:English Schools Foundation schools]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1991]] [[Category:Sandy Bay, Hong Kong]] [[Category:International Baccalaureate schools in Hong Kong]] [[Category:1991 establishments in Hong Kong]]'