GT (Ellen Yeung) College
YOUNG YAN YAU TAI SCHOOL is a DSS school located in Sai Kung District. It accepts both male and female students and is a Band 1 school. The medium of instruction is mainly English. The school was founded in 2005 and the organizer is Yau Choi Chi Kit School Limited.
Application for S1 admission:
Not to participate in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places (CASPA) System.
Admission requirements, criteria and weighting:
- Academic Achievement;
- Fuck the line;
- Interview performance;
- Extracurricular activities.
School Type
- District: Sai Kung
- School Type: DSS
- Student Sex: Co-educational
- School Banding: Band 1
- Medium of Instruction: English as the main language
- School Religion: Not Applicable
School History
- Year of establishment: 2005
- School Sponsor: Yau Tsai Chi Kit School Limited
- Mission: Our mission is to cultivate outstanding technological and leadership talents for the community. We emphasize character development, joy and excellence. Our educational goals are love, creativity, and hard work.
- School motto: Love, Creativity, Diligence.
- (a) Management structure: The School Policy Planning Committee (SPC) is formed by the core members of the School Council. There are Secondary and Primary Schools Committees under the SSPC. The Secondary Schools Committee, comprising the Director of Curriculum, the Principal, the Vice-Principals and the Heads of Key Functional Groups, meets frequently to assess performance in a timely manner.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Eugene Lee
- Existing Principal: Mr. Tam Kwok Wai
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 65
- Percentage of teachers holding Diploma in Education : 72%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 60%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 6%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 47%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 11%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 42%
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, Physical Education
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, School-based English Program (S1-S3), Cambridge English Program, Integrated Science (S1-S2), Mathematics, Geography, Biology, Visual Arts, Music (S1-S3), Economics, Chemistry, Physics (S3).
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language, Chinese History, Chinese Literature (S4), Civic and Social Development, PE
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, School-based English Program, Mathematics, Economics, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Music, Visual Art
School-wide language policy:
The Medium of Instruction (MOI) matches the needs of the students in the school. In order to enhance students' proficiency in Putonghua and Chinese language, Putonghua is adopted in the Chinese Language Section of Secondary One. The Secondary Section uses English as the main medium of instruction, except for the subjects of Chinese Language, Chinese History and Chinese Literature which are taught in Chinese, while the other subjects are taught in English.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
There is a comprehensive learning assessment policy. The whole year is divided into three segments, with each segment assessed once, and students' classroom performance (including learning performance and attitude), homework and quiz scores are all classified as equal time points. There is a school-wide homework policy that emphasizes the quality of homework rather than the quantity. Students are required to spend no more than 10 hours per week on homework.
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:
- S1 (S1) Tuition Fee for School Year 2022-2023: $38280
- S2(S2) Tuition Fee for School Year 2022-2023: $40480
- Tuition fee for Secondary 3 (S3) in the 2022-2023 school year: $40480
- S4 (S4) Tuition Fee for the 2022-2023 school year: $42680
- S5 (S5) Tuition Fee for School Year 2022-2023: $42680
- S6 (S6) Tuition Fee for the 2022-2023 school year: $42680
Fee remission: Depends on family income and financial situation (please refer to the school website). Needy students (including students from CSSA families and students receiving financial assistance from the Student Financial Assistance Agency of the Working Families and Student Financial Assistance Agency) may apply for fee remission.
New students can submit their applications for fee remission within 2 months before the commencement of the school year, and the result of their applications will be announced 2 months after the submission of their applications.
How is the Quality (Yin Yau Ti) College?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 1B
School Wind:
The educational policy is to emphasize both moral and intellectual values, enjoyable learning, excellence in academic performance, and a simple campus life. We emphasize moral education and cultivate students to establish correct values. Excellent students are creative, diligent, caring and tolerant; they cultivate themselves and build up moral character, and strive for self-improvement.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
Most teachers are lively and interesting, and frequently ask students questions to keep track of their progress. Some teachers' questions are structured and can elicit higher-order thinking from students. Most teachers are able to organize interactive learning activities in class, including group discussions, student presentations, debate competitions, whole-class discussions, role-plays, and so on. The program is characterized by five key features: development of English language strengths, the first of its kind in gifted education, internationalized small class teaching, development of multiple intelligences, and emphasis on creative teaching and enjoyable learning.
In addition, the learning and teaching of the Pre-International Baccalaureate (IB) program has been strengthened with student-centered, project-based learning and a more international outlook.
Teacher professional training and development:
Teacher professional development activities are organized four times a year. The school has a Director of Curriculum who oversees and designs the school's curriculum. The school has four departments (Language, Mathematics and Science, Humanities and Liberal Studies, and Arts and Sport), which meet frequently to share ideas and review progress. New teachers are required to undergo a five-day training program.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The school has set up a Student Support Team, comprising the Principal, the Academic Affairs Officer, the Guidance Counselor, the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator and the Social Worker, to co-ordinate and plan the learning strategies to cater for the needs of students with different educational needs, and to provide students with special educational needs with examination adaptation and homework guidance, and to assist them in solving their learning difficulties.
School facilities:
Classroom, visual arts room, music room, lab, activity room, multimedia learning classroom, computer room, ball field, gym, library, art performance room, study room, auditorium, lecture hall.
School contact information:
- Tel: 25356867
- Fax: 26236550
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.gtcollege.edu.hk
- Address: 10 Ling Kwong Street, Tiu Keng Leng, Tseung Kwan O, N.T.
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- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
