Our Lady of the Rosary College
Application for S1 admission:
The school accepts applications for S1 Discretionary Places and participation in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places System.
Application form for S1 discretionary places for 2024:Click here to download
Interview Date:
- March 9 or 16, 2023
Self-allocation and central allocation (Part A and Part B) places in 2024
| Form 1 | Secondary One places | Self-supporting places | Part A places | Part B places | Knock-in Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 132 | 40 | 8 | 76 | 8 |
Admission requirements, criteria and weighting:
- 251 TP3T Interview Performance;
- 50% Bureau of Education Performance Subdivision;
- 10% Extracurricular activities, services, and awards;
- 10% Conduct;
- 5% Catholic Laity.
School Type
- District: Sham Shui Po
- School Type: Subsidized
- Student Sex: Girls' School
- School Banding: Band 1
- Medium of Instruction: English as the main language
- School religion: Catholic
School History
- Year of establishment: 1971
- Sponsoring organization: Epiphany Sisters Trustees Inc.
- Mission: The school upholds the five core values of Catholic education - Truth, Justice, Love, Life and Family - and adopts St. Bosco's Preventive Pedagogy to teach students with reason, religion and charity; to nurture students to be pure, fraternal, responsible and independent thinkers; and to enable them to become good citizens who are knowledgeable, active, just and caring. Through classroom learning, diversified activities and other learning experiences, students will become knowledgeable, active, righteous and caring citizens.
- School Motto: Purity, Universal Love
- Management structure: The school practises school-based management. It has a multi-layered administrative structure responsible for coordinating the curriculum, moral education development, information technology, implementation of life-wide learning and close liaison with parents.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Chan Wai Fun
- Current Principal: Chan Wai Chiu
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 54
- Percentage of teachers holding Diploma in Education : 96%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 98%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 50%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 28%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 11%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 22%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 67%
Teaching and Learning
Language of Instruction:
The medium of instruction is mainly English.
The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua, Ethics and Religion
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Mathematics, Science (S1 and S2), Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (S2), Life and Society, Biology (S3), Physics (S3), Chemistry (S3), History, Geography, Home Economics (S1 and S2), Music, Visual Arts, Computer Literacy, Physical Education
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language, Chinese History, Ethics and Religion (Diploma of Secondary Education Examination), Ethics and Religion
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Mathematics, Extended Mathematics Module 1, Citizenship and Social Development, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Information and Communication Technology, Economics, History, Geography, Business, Introduction to Accounting and Finance, Tourism and Hospitality, Visual Arts, Music, Physical Education, Applied Learning Programmes.
School-wide language policy:
The school adopts English as the medium of instruction for all subjects except Religious Ethics and Liberal Studies (please refer to the information on the subjects offered in the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years for more details), except for Religious Ethics and Liberal Studies which are taught in the mother tongue in order to enhance the cultivation of character and the development of multi-faceted thinking.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
There is one test and one examination in each of the first and second semesters. In addition to tests and examinations, the school also emphasizes on continuous assessment, with tests and continuous assessment taking up about 30%-40% and examinations taking up about 60%-70%.
S.1 to S.3: Passes in Chinese Language, English Language and Mathematics are required for promotion to a higher class. Arrangements for promotion and retention will be discussed by the Principal, Vice-Principals, class teachers, teachers and representatives of the relevant committees at the Promotion and Retention Meeting.
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:
No Tuition Fee Payment
How is Our Lady of the Rosary College?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 1B-1A
School Wind:
The school culture is simple and honest, and the relationship between teachers and students is cordial.
The Counseling Section is organized by the Head Counselor, who is responsible for helping new students to adapt to secondary school life. For Forms 1 to 4, there is a system of dual class teachers who meet with students and liaise with parents on a regular basis, in order to enhance students' learning and cultivate students' moral development.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
- In order to develop students' ability for lifelong learning, life-wide learning has been implemented in all subjects by introducing different types of activities, such as joint debate competitions, field trips, participation in public lectures, etc., so as to enable students to step out of the classroom and broaden their horizons.
- Learning strategy training courses are organized at all levels and cooperative learning is implemented at all levels.
- In addition, in order to cultivate students' active learning attitude, a three-year progressive thinking and learning skills training is implemented in junior secondary schools to enhance students' learning effectiveness through organizing relevant workshops and feedback sessions.
Teacher professional training and development:
- It is the common goal of the teaching staff to optimize the classroom and lead students to face challenges.
- Apart from participating in the School-based Support Programmes organized by the Education Bureau to introduce different teaching methods, the subject teams also actively promote collaborative teaching and encourage lesson observation and exchange, so as to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The School is committed to building an inclusive culture and adopting a Whole School Approach in supporting students with special educational needs (SEN). Through the use of the Learning Support Grant and community resources, students are provided with appropriate and diversified support services to enhance their learning effectiveness and facilitate their integration into school life.
The school's Special Learning Team consists of counselors, teachers, teaching assistants, social workers and educational psychologists.
The school provides appropriate support for students with SEN, such as arranging teaching assistants, with the assistance of teachers, to provide after-school homework guidance for students in need; organizing learning and social training groups, with school-based educational psychologists to provide curricular and pedagogical support; and providing learning, homework and test accommodations for students in need, as well as organizing Individual Learning Plan (ILP) meetings to help students design specific and practicable support plans through cross-group collaboration meetings. Individual Learning Plan (ILP) meetings are also organized to help students design specific and feasible support plans through cross-group collaboration meetings.
The school emphasizes home-school cooperation and has established a regular communication mechanism to discuss with parents on strategies to support students through different channels.
Educational support for non-Chinese speaking students:
The School provides additional support to the admitted NCS students to help them learn Chinese: employing additional teachers/teaching assistants to support NCS students' Chinese language learning; arranging intensive Chinese language teaching modes (e.g. pull-out learning, small group learning, etc.); developing school-based Chinese Language curriculum and/or adapting teaching materials; and organizing cultural integration activities.
School facilities:
All classrooms, special rooms and auditoriums are air-conditioned, and the entire school is covered by a network system. The school has a small sanctuary, STEM Inno Zones, a visual arts room, an English corner, a student activity room, a home economics room, a computerized library, and classrooms equipped with a variety of multimedia devices.
School contact information:
- Tel: 23806468
- Fax: 23812639
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.olr.edu.hk
- Address: 22 Rose Street, Yau Yat Chuen, Kowloon
- Our Lady of the Rosary College Wikipedia
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
