TWGHs Sun Hoi Directors' College
School Type
- District: Tuen Mun
- School Type: Subsidized
- Student Sex: Co-educational
- School Banding: Band 2
- Medium of Instruction: Chinese and English
- School Religion: Not Applicable
School History
- Year of Establishment: 1981
- Sponsoring Body: Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
- Objective: The school emphasizes "whole-person education" and provides a good learning environment for young people to develop their potential. The school adopts "To create peaks in learning and behavior, to be happy for the family" as the goal of learning and teaching for all teachers and students, and uses the school motto "Diligence, Frugality, Loyalty and Faithfulness" as the basis for furthering morality and cultivation, and encourages them to develop a fruitful and meaningful life.
- School motto: Diligence, Frugality, Loyalty, Faithfulness.
- Management structure: The school has a School Management Committee, a School Development Committee, a Senate and a Student Affairs Committee led by the Chancellor, the Principal and the Deputy Principal respectively. In addition, there are a number of administrative teams, Key Learning Area Coordinators (KLA Co-ordinators) and Heads of Subjects (HoSs) who are responsible for school administration and subject development. The Principal convenes annual meetings of the administrative, teaching and student affairs committees to discuss overall school policies, plans and reviews. Each committee meets four to six times during the school year. Each subject team is under the leadership of the Head Teacher to carry out school work. Each committee meets five times a year. In addition, there are seven school council meetings and two grade-level council meetings each year, which all teachers are required to attend, to provide advice on the decision-making, implementation and review of school affairs.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Wong Ka Lung
- Existing Principal: Lee Chi-man
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 55
- Percentage of teachers holding Diploma in Education: 98%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 57%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 55%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 15%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 20%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 65%
Teaching and Learning
Language of Instruction:
The medium of instruction is both English and Chinese.
The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
S1: Chinese Language, Chinese History, Life and Society, Putonghua, Music, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Design and Technology, STEM, General Computing, Geography, Science*.
S2: Chinese Language, Chinese History, Life and Society, Putonghua, Music, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Design and Technology, STEM, General Computing, Geography, Science*.
S3: Chinese Language, Chinese History, Life and Society, Putonghua, Music, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Design and Technology, STEM, General Computer, Basic Business
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Mathematics
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language, Civic and Social Development (S4-6), Chinese History, History, Economics, Geography, Information and Communication Technology, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Other Learning Experiences (OLE)
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Mathematics (Core Curriculum), Extended Module 2 of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
School-wide language policy:
The school is committed to biliteracy and trilingualism, with a particular emphasis on improving students' English language proficiency. The school has a class-based medium of instruction for all levels of the junior high school, with some classes using English as the MOI for major subjects such as Mathematics, History, Geography, and Science, and some classes using their mother tongue as the MOI. In the middle school, some subjects taught in the mother tongue have "English Extended Learning Activities" to complement the elective subjects taught in English at the senior secondary level.
In order to provide students with an excellent English learning environment, the school has the following measures in English learning:
- All English classes from S1 to S6 are conducted in small groups to minimize the teacher-student ratio and enhance the effectiveness of teaching. Foreign English teachers teach junior high school speaking, Language Arts and English activities to enhance students' listening and speaking skills.
- There are a number of English tutorial classes throughout the year, including the "Walk with Me to Secondary School" English tutorial class, "English Post-test Tutorial Class", "Summer Achievement Class", "Junior High School English Tutorial Class", and "English Bridging Program" for senior secondary school students.
- An orientation class with the theme of "Language Across the Curriculum" was organized for new Secondary 1 students, and a booklet on "Cross-curricular English Vocabulary and Sentences" was designed for Secondary 1 students to enable them to master the vocabulary of various subjects more easily.
- English Week, speech contests, cross-curricular English activities such as "Speak up-Act out! Improvised Drama Competition", English movie appreciation, English book sharing, and lunchtime music activities and school-based English publications are organized to create a musical environment for students to further utilize English.
- Every Tuesday, there are English "Morning Reading Class" and "English Morning Assembly" for students to read English books and have more opportunities to use English.
- The SHDC English World website has been set up to make it easier for students to find out information about English-related activities.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
There are two semesters throughout the year, with one standardized test and one examination in each semester to assess students' knowledge, skills and generic abilities. The school makes active use of the test data.
Class Establishment:
- Number of S1 classes in this school year: 4
- Number of S2 classes in this school year: 4
- No. of S.3 classes in this school year: 4
- Number of S4 classes in this school year: 4
- Number of S5 classes in this school year: 4
- Number of S6 classes in this school year: 4
School fees:
School fees for Secondary 1 (S1) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for S2(S2) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for Secondary 3 (S3) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for S4 (S4) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
Tuition fees for S5 in the 2022-2023 school year:-
School fees for Secondary 6 (S6) in the 2022-2023 school year:-
Application for S1 admission:
The school accepts applications for S1 Discretionary Places and participates in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places (CASPA). Admission to S1 Discretionary Places: EDB Secondary 50%; P.5 and P.6 Conduct 15%; Extra-curricular Activities and Awards 15%; Interview Performance 20% (Note: The school may admit individual students with outstanding performance in sports and arts who are not selected under the above admission criteria, provided that the number of such students does not exceed 10% of the Discretionary Places).
How is Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Xinhai Premier Secondary School?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 2C
School Wind:
In terms of counseling, the school's support team for care services includes social workers, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Educational Psychologists, Police District School Liaison Ambassadors, Caritas Youth Integrated Service Team, leaders, civic education leaders, student union, and social and club officers. The "Walk with Me" helps Secondary 1 students to adapt to school; the "Growth Plan" and "Team Training" provide academic and behavioral support for Secondary 1 students; group activities (including adventure training and volunteer service) are conducted to help students' whole-person development; the "Encouragement Column" gives recognition to academic performance; the "Final Examination Tutorial Class" and "Summer Tutorial Class" provide tutorials for junior secondary students. In addition, the school emphasizes the role of the classroom teacher, who is responsible for counseling, disciplining, and monitoring the needs of each student.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
With "Lifelong Learning and Whole Person Development" as the main direction, the school will work on the four aspects of "Whole Person Education", "Learning to Learn", "Biliteracy, Trilingualism", and "Shared Competency". In order to focus on the diversified development of students, to cater for learning diversity and to broaden their horizons, the activities organized by the subject teams and clubs focus on the school's concerns, enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching, and promote the academic atmosphere. The school designs its school-based curriculum in accordance with educational trends and social expectations of students. At the junior secondary level, the school aims to enhance students' interest in learning. In addition to the major subjects of Grammar School, STEM, General Computer Studies and Putonghua are offered to S1-S2 students; at the senior secondary level, S4-S6 students are offered the subjects of Business, Accounting and Financial Theory, Visual Arts and Information and Communication Technology, in addition to the general arts and sciences subjects. In order to enhance their competitiveness for further studies, the school allows students to take two to three elective subjects. The school emphasizes the articulation of the junior and senior secondary curricula. The school also flexibly utilizes school resources to provide students with more after-school learning to cater for learning diversity. For students with better learning ability, the school will arrange gifted and talented programs and international examinations to explore and develop their potential.
Teacher professional training and development:
The school actively encourages teachers to participate in in-service training to acquire new knowledge and improve their teaching quality. Three Teacher Development Days are organized in the school every year. In line with the implementation of the New Senior Secondary Academic Structure, teachers are encouraged to participate in seminars and workshops. The school expects every teacher to complete 150 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in three consecutive school years.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The School has set up a Student Support Team comprising the Principal, Deputy Principal, subject panel chairpersons, SEN co-ordinators and teachers, educational psychologists, speech therapists and social workers to co-ordinate the school-based inclusion policy and to create an inclusive culture and measures to achieve the broad principles of early identification, referral and support.
Schools make flexible use of the Learning Support Grant to support students' learning and development activities, including speech therapy, occupational therapy and counseling psychologists on-site, after-school study skills groups, social skills training, potential development programs, career exploration and inclusive activities.
Through multi-disciplinary conferences, individual learning plans are formulated for students in need and external professional services are coordinated to support the learning and teaching of students and teachers. Through regular class meetings, subject meetings and student case conferences, the school reviews the learning and development of students, adjusts the support strategies and provides different examination adaptations, such as special examination rooms, extended examination time and enlarged examination papers. The school emphasizes home-school co-operation and has established a regular communication mechanism with parents through the "Student Support Digest".
Educational support for non-Chinese speaking students:
The School provides additional support to its admitted NCS students to help them learn Chinese: providing after-school Chinese learning support; employing additional teachers/teaching assistants to support NCS students' Chinese language learning; organizing cultural integration activities; and employing additional staff and/or procuring additional translation/interpretation services to facilitate communication with parents.
School facilities:
All classrooms and auditoriums are air-conditioned, and special facilities such as the STEM Creative Center and Campus TV (sponsored by the Quality Education Fund), language laboratories, multi-media teaching rooms, gymnasiums, activity rooms, and a rock-climbing wall provide additional space for students to expand their areas of learning and activities. Building a "Smart Campus": The "Green Campus 2.0: Electricity Adoption House" (installed with solar power system), schoolbook vending machine, aquaponics machine, hydroponic machine, etc.
School contact information:
- Tel: 24645220
- Fax: 24614724
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.shd.edu.hk
- Address: Wu King Estate, Tuen Mun, N.T.
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
