Southern
Pui Ying Secondary School
Address: 55 Wah Fu Road, Wah Fu Estate, Pokfulam , HK
Tel: 25503632
Email: info@puiying.edu.hk
Fax: 28758633
URL: http://www.puiying.edu.hk
How to travel to Pui Ying Secondary School
Buses: 4, 4X, 40, 40M, 41A, 42, 43M, 48, 73, 94A, 170, 970.
Mini-buses: 23, 31, 63, 63A.
About
Pui Ying Secondary School is a Aided Co-ed secondary school located in Hong KongThe school was founded in 1879. The school is located in Southern, and covers an area of approximately 4000 square meters. The supervisor/chairman of the school management committee is So Shing Yit, Eric Rev.,And the principal is Chan Chun Yin Mr undefined. The sponsoring body of Pui Ying Secondary School is The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China and is a Protestantism / Christianity school. The mission of the school: "Our school practises Faith, Hope and Love in Christ to achieve students’ full potential. In order to enable students to strive for excellence, we are committed to promoting students’ moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual development through whole-person education."School has Parent-Teacher Association,has student union,doesn't has IMC,has old students/alumni associations, the existence of these organizations promotes the cohesion and cooperation of the school community. The motto of Pui Ying Secondary School Adhering to the school motto of Faith, Hope, Love, encourages students to strive for excellence in academic, moral and personal growth.
Admission Information
Class Structure
Form 1: 2 classes. Form 2: 2 classes.
Form 3: 2 classes. Form 4: 3 classes.
Form 5: 2 classes. Form 6: 3 classes.
^It is important to note that these class numbers may change over time, so students and parents should check with the school for the most up-to-date class structure when applying for admission.
2022-2023
Secondary One Entrance
Our school will accept discretionary places. Our school will participate in the Secondary School Places Allocation System through central allocation stage (Applicable for admission to S.1 in September 2023 ).Academic performance (30%), Conduct (25%), Extra-curricular activities (15%), Interview performance (30%).
2022-2023
Orientation Activities and Healthy Living
‘New Secondary One Student and Parent Orientation Day' is arranged to foster parents' and students' understanding of the school. ‘Promotion to Secondary One Oriented Curriculum’ comprises a diversified learning bridging programme for new Secondary One students. These orientation weeks not only aim to help new students understand and adapt to secondary-school life, but also give them an opportunity to refresh and consolidate their learning. As well as to prepare them for new challenges. The School organizes large scale activities, expert talks, diversified group activities and curriculum restructuring and class-based management strategies to cultivate students' positive values and attitudes. In addition, the School can provide boarding services to needy students.
2022-2023 Annual Fees
The tuition structure for Pui Ying Secondary School is as follows:
∎ Form 1: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $0.
∎ Form 2: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $0.
∎ Form 3: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $0.
∎ Form 4: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $100".
∎ Form 5: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $100".
∎ Form 6: Tuition is $0/year, lecture fee is $100".
The PTA dues are $50 Admission Fee, Annual Fee $30 per year.
Student union fee: $15".
The approved charge for non-standard items is Non-standard facilities and improvised teaching facilities $300 per year.
Other charges/fees: $0.
^Please note that the above prices and charges are for reference only and may change over time. Students and parents should check with the school for the latest tuition and related fee details when applying for admission.
2022-2023 Faculty Profile (Including Principal)
Based on 2022/2023 data, Pui Ying Secondary School has a total of 40 teachers and 37 approved teacher positions. The qualifications and professional training of teachers are as follows:
∎ Diploma of Education: 78% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Bachelor's degree: 100% of the school's faculty.
∎ Master's degree, doctoral degree or above: accounting for 22% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Special education training: 38% of the total number of teachers in the school.
In terms of seniority of teachers, the data are as follows:
∎ Teachers with 0-4 years of experience account for 60% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Teachers with 5-9 years of experience account for 3% of the total number of teachers in the school.
∎ Teachers with 10 or more years of experience account for 37% of the total number of teachers in the school.
These data show that Pui Ying Secondary School has an experienced team of teachers with diverse academic and professional training. Also, there are there are many of teachers trained in special education, which shows that the school cares about and is committed to students with special educational needs. Their PGCE and BA guarantee they have a good foundation in teaching. These teacher profiles reflect that Pui Ying Secondary School has a team of strong and experienced teachers who provide a high quality education to their students.
Subjects offered in the 2022-2023 school year
Form 1 to Form 3:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Putonghua, Life Education, Life & Society, Science, Mathematics, Chinese History, Information & Communication Technology, Visual Arts, Physical Education, Music, Creativity Education & Technology
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
Form 4 to Form 6:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Mathematics, Mathematics Extended Module, Citizenship and Social Development (S.4, S.5), Liberal Studies (S.6), Chinese History, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Tourism and Hospitality Studies, Geography, Economics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Visual Arts, Life Education, Physical Education, Other Learning Experiences
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
Subjects proposed for the 2023-2024 school year
Form 1 to Form 3:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Putonghua, Life Education, Life and Society, Science, Mathematics, Chinese History, Information & Communication Technology, Visual Arts, Physical Education, Music, Creativity Education & Technology.
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
Form 4 to Form 6:
Chinese as the medium of instruction:Chinese Language, Mathematics, Mathematics Extended Module, Citizenship and Social Development, Chinese History, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Tourism and Hospitality Studies, Geography, Economics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Visual Arts, Life Education, Physical Education, Other Learning Experiences
English as the medium of instruction:English Language
School Facilities (for Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs)
Besides the basic facilities, the school has a multi-media learning center, a digital studio, a photography studio, an English learning center, a multi-media theater, Campus TV, a student activity room, a gymnasium, a heated indoor swimming pool, a fitness room, a Career Planning room, a MAKER studio, a games room and a PY Café. All classrooms are installed with projectors and visualizers and connected to the network for iPad digital learning.
Accessible lift and Accessible toilet.
School Characteristics
School Management
School's Major Concerns:
1. Focus on students' whole person development, foster proactive and positive attitudes.
2. Raise learning and teaching effectiveness, foster students' active learning.
3. Build a caring school culture, develop optimism in students.
4. Cater for students' learners' diversity to help them realise their life plan as early as possible to give back to the society.
School Management Organisation:
The School Sponsoring Body manages the School professionally. It has a clear educational vision and is dedicated to student growth. It advocates communication at all levels for the sake of student learning. It also supports a comprehensive appraisal system to ensure the professional quality of the teaching team.
Incorporated Management Committee / School Management Committee / Management Committee:
The SMC, comprising church ministers, retired and current school principals, university professors, university management board members and alumni; supervises the planning and management of the educational policy, finance and human resources of the School.
School Green Policy:
We emphasise Environmental education. Activities are organized systematically to arouse environmental awareness of students. Waste recycling is actively implemented. The classrooms and playgrounds have recycling bins. Recycled paper is used for printing and air conditioning is used with discretion.
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Learning and Teaching Plan
Whole-school Language Policy:
The School primarily adopts mother-tongue teaching and focuses on enhancing our students' English. The English department strives to promote an English learning environment, such as organizing English Immersion Programmes in Vancouver and UK, English Summer Camps to provide more opportunities for students to be exposed to English. Putonghua lessons are offered in junior forms to nurture students’ Putonghua fluency and raise their confidence in communicating with others.
Learning and Teaching Strategies:
A Student-centred approach is adapted according to students' abilities and interests with the aim of raising their academic standards. S1-S3 curriculum caters for learners' differences and explores their potential. Different kinds of subjects such as Applied Learning are provided in senior forms to meet students' needs. To encourage students' learning through reading, the school implements Extensive Reading schemes and Afternoon Reading programmes to raise students' language abilities, acquire different kinds of knowledge, broaden their horizons and let them enjoy the pleasure of reading. Besides, students can use the reading reward coupons in school book fairs so that they can collect the books they love. Chinese, English and Mathematics offers small group teaching to foster students' learning. Maker Education is implemented to nurture students' innovative spirit, improve their generic skills and learners' confidence through experiential learning, STEM application and product presentation.
School-based curriculum:
1. Electives: 2X. (Art, Science and Commerce subjects are provided for students to choose from)
2. Curriculum highlights:
(1) Junior form curriculum is diversified and enhancement lessons are provided to cater for students' learning diversity.
(2) Senior form curriculum not only offers core subjects and electives, but also OLE and Applied Learning.
Development of the Four Key Tasks:
1. Moral, Civic and National Education: Our school's value education team is in place. The ten priority values and attitudes: "Perseverance", "Respect for Others", "Responsibility", "National Identity", "Commitment", "Integrity", "Care for Others", "Law-abidingness", "Empathy" and "Diligence", are integrated into all subject lessons and other related learning experiences. This nurtures students' positive values and attitudes to face challenges in the future society.
2. Reading to Learn: In order to strengthen students' language competency and enrich their knowledge, our school arranges afternoon reading sessions to foster students' daily reading habit. Reading strategies and skills are taught in language classes to boost students' learning ability. Moreover, our school invites guest speakers from different sectors regularly to hold reading clubs. Not only can this cultivate students' interests in various disciplines, but also extends their reflections on living and understanding of life.
3. Project Learning: To exert students' self-learning spirit and develop their generic skills, our school has annual subject-based or cross-subject project learning. This can engage students in constructing knowledge actively and broadening their horizons.
4. Information Technology for Interactive Learning: Various digital teaching applications or software are introduced to teachers regularly. Teachers are encouraged to upload and share teaching materials to facilitate students' interactive and self-learning skills to share of learning outcomes.
Life Planning Education:
In order to cater for students' diverse needs at different learning stages, the school provides appropriate, holistic life planning education and career guidance. This includes life planning seminars, career guidance strategies, advice for selecting subjects, sharing with experts and the business sector as well as different types of services. Teachers in charge of Career and Life planning Education also continue to study to raise their professional counseling quality.
Details: http://www.puiying.edu.hk/intro/intro.htm
Student Support
Whole School Approach to Catering for Learner Diversity:
Support for S1-S3 students: Consolidate the foundation of language and mathematics (English and Maths group tutoring and after-school support programs) to help students who need more polish to improve. Also, our school provides iPads to students for e-learning.
Support for S4-S6 students: Various scholarships and grants are provided. Students are subsidized to participate in academic exchange tours; Enhancement courses are set up after school and on weekends for students to strive for academic excellence and further studies.
Medium-class and Small-class teaching have been adopted in senior forms to cater for learner diversity. Taking into account students' learning differences, students choose senior secondary subjects according to their interests and abilities to achieve the best learning effectiveness. A Speech Therapy Team has been set up to care for students with language difficulties. Also, a Social Skills Group to strengthen students' ability to get along with others; many school-based social workers guide students and, implement counselling activities; facilitate induction programs and English courses for newly-arrived students.
Whole School Approach to Integrated Education:
A wide range of support and services are provided to facilitate an inclusive school culture and create a harmonious campus. External services such as speech therapy and social training groups are deployed to meet various student needs. Ample support is given to foster healthy growth for tier two students. Our Student Support Team contains a Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO), a counselling supervisor, teachers with SEN training, an educational psychologist, social workers and teaching assistants. With their expertise in different sectors, they coordinate with front-line teachers to exchange professional advice for improving teaching standards. With flexible resource allocations, we adopt a school-based approach to support students with special educational needs. Core subject teachers improvise curriculum from junior form, select main teaching points and make flexible use of teaching strategies to support tier one students and consolidate their foundations. Our school places utmost importance on Home-School Co-operation. Counselling teachers maintain close communication with parents to understand students' special educational needs. We run a two-week adaptation course for new students to adapt to their campus lives. Parent workshops are held to exchange educational ideas and listen to parents' opinions. Parents are invited to attend meetings to formulate individual study plans and evaluate the effectiveness. This enables both parents and school share the same vision and use the same methods to cultivate our students' learning habits and life routines more effectively.
Educational Support for Non-Chinese Speaking Students:
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Measures to provide adaptation for Learning and Assessment:
Various types of assessments are implemented. Other than regular tests, assignments, oral reports, experiment activities and project learning are for teachers to assess students’ academic performances and let students track their progress clearly. To consolidate students’ knowledge, there are 2 uniform tests and 2 examinations per year. Post examination evaluation days are arranged to provide feedback for students, review learning and teaching effectiveness and adjust teaching strategies. Our school adopts competence-based class grouping policy to reduce learner diversity within classes. This policy is also an effective way for teachers to execute the adapted curriculum, design appropriate assignments and consolidate students’ learning and teaching effectiveness.
Details: http://www.puiying.edu.hk/intro/intro.htm
Home-School Co-operation and School Ethos
Home-School Co-operation:
The school has developed a partnership of trust and openness with parents. In order to let parents understand more about the learning situations of children, they are encouraged to participate in the School's administration. The Association organizes various kinds of forums, including S.1 new students and parents' orientation day, PTA Annual General Meeting, regular form parents' meetings, and breakfast meetings with the principal. To coordinate with the development of Other Learning Experiences (OLE), a number of diversified activities are organized for parents and students. For example, family day trips, Christmas gathering, educational talks, and different types of interest courses and workshops. Apart from giving out scholarships and financing students' extra-curricular activities, the PTA also prepares cards and gifts for teachers during Teachers' Week. Furthermore, a volunteer team is set up by the PTA to organize charity events and assist other school functions.
School Ethos:
The school fully implements a disciplined, yet caring school campus culture with a harmonious relationship between teachers and students. With the student-centred mission in mind, all teachers, social workers and an educational psychologist cooperate together to provide the most suitable support for students.
Details: http://www.puiying.edu.hk/parents/parents.htm
Future Development
School Development Plan:
1. Promote academic and Diversity Learning Development (such as aviation and drone technology education, Metaverse education, entrepreneurship education, Chinese medicine garden) to create successful experiences.
2. Promote positive education to enhance self-confidence and resilience.
Teacher Professional Training and Development:
The teacher professional development committee aims to enhance teachers' continuing professional development. To fit in with the curriculum reform, all teachers actively participate in seminars and workshops held by EDB, Sponsoring Body and other education organizations. In addition, each year the school has a number of professional development days for various training activities, and invites education experts and EDB staff to give talks and workshops to enhance teachers' professional knowledge and skills. The school also emphasizes collaborative teaching. The subject panel heads will hold meetings to co-design lesson plans and share teaching materials. The Teachers' Professional Development committee encourages intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary peer lesson observation, and to facilitate teachers' exchange of experiences in teaching, so as to increase teaching effectiveness.
Life-wide Learning (including Five Essential Learning Experiences to be provided through Key Learning Areas, extra-curricular activities, co-curricular activities, etc.):
The School is committed to promoting different activities to cater to students with learning diversity. We hope to broaden students' horizons and inspire potential. Yet, let students try more to build self-confidence and hope for success. Activities are divided into religious, academic, service, sports, art, fun, and growth, such as Metaverse Media Creation, Golf, Commercial Photography, Joint Interact Council.
The School has included there diversity learning activities in the regular timetable, and students need to participate in at least one activity in the diversity learning period. In addition, we actively promote life-wide learning days, with different themes at different levels, involving Chinese, Mathematics, humanities, life planning and volunteer services. This enable students to explore their potential, plan their lives as early as possible, and cultivate their dreams.
Details: http://www.puiying.edu.hk/intro/intro.htm
Others
The Chinese Percussion Team, which belongs to Pui Ying Chinese Music Orchestra, won the gold award of The Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows with its “Light of Pui Ying” song. The Symphonic Band, which was established in the 1950s, was a Silver Band before. The Band won the champion award of The Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows Symphonic Band organized by the Music Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department for three consecutive years.
The harmonica team won numerous awards in different inter-school music competitions. Our alumnus Gordon Lee Chun Lok won the championship of chromatic harmonica solo at the 8th World Harmonica Festival among 65 contestants in the world and bought honour to Hong Kong. Our volleyball team is honourably named 'Volleyball Shaolin' in Hong Kong. The Volleyball team has won many volleyball group championships. Our alumnus Sau Mei Yeung even created history in Hong Kong Volleyball Games. She joined the Rangsit University Volleyball Club in Thailand and became the first professional woman's player in Hong Kong. The Photography Club won numerous awards. It held photography exhibitions, Southern District Cultural visit and Compassion Photography competition. The club also sponsors students to publish individual photograph books. Our Track and Field Team, Swimming Team, Rope Skipping Team, Frisbee Team, Drama Team have been awarded for their efforts and won numerous prizes in school sports competitions.