Lee Kau Yan Memorial School
School Type
- District: Wong Tai Sin
- School Type: Subsidized
- Student Sex: Co-educational
- School Banding: Band 2
- Medium of Instruction: Mainly Chinese
- School religion: Christianity
School History
- Year of foundation: 1964
- Sponsor: Sheng Kung Tsung Tsung (Hong Kong) Secondary School
- Committee Limited
- Our mission is to nurture students to be confident, committed, proficient in both Chinese and English, technologically literate, able to think and learn independently, and capable of visionary development.
- School motto: "Cultivate the mind and cultivate the body".
- Management structure: Emphasis is placed on communication between management and staff, with the establishment of a Teacher's Advisory Council for School Managers and two elected teacher representatives in the School Administration and Improvement Team to enhance the transparency of school administration and to implement school-based management. There are also a Teaching Committee, a Self-evaluation Committee, a Student Support Committee and a Student Affairs Committee to co-ordinate school management.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of School Management Committee: Chau Siu Ngok
- Existing Principal: Lam Siu-kuen
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 66
- Percentage of Teachers holding Diploma in Education: 91%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Masters/Doctoral Degrees: 39%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 30%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 27%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 14%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 59%
Teaching and Learning
Language of Instruction:
The medium of instruction is mainly Chinese.
The subject of Chinese Language Teaching and Learning from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language, Mathematics*, Computer and STEAM Education, Integrated Science* (S1-S2), Life and Society* (S1-S2), Chinese History, Religion*, Putonghua (S1-S2), Music, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Business and Economic Development* (S3), Physics* (S3), Chemistry* (S3), Biology* (S3), History*, Geography*.
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Chinese Language, Mathematics, Civic and Social Development, Chinese History, History, Geography, Economics, Tourism and Hospitality, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, ICT, Visual Arts, Ethics and Religion, Other Learning Experiences, PE
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English
School-wide language policy:
The school emphasizes the development of students' English proficiency and has a cross-curricular language policy that provides students with ample opportunities to use English. The school employs a number of expatriate English teachers to enhance students' ability to communicate in English through classroom and co-curricular activities. In addition, the school also allocates a lot of resources to provide additional courses according to the English proficiency of students, to take care of students' learning diversity, and to set up small group teaching. This year, eight small groups have been set up in S1 and S5 to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning; in addition, the school also offers various English courses, including IELTS, TOEIC, and Language Arts, to take care of students with different learning needs. The school is committed to fostering students' biliteracy and trilingualism by providing additional specialist advisors to assist in the implementation of using Putonghua as the language of expression, setting up more than 30 after-school enrichment classes in both Chinese and English, and holding morning assemblies in both Putonghua and English on a regular basis in order to create an environment of both Putonghua and English; incorporating English extension activities into some subjects, and teaching some subjects in English with full English assessment to increase students' opportunities to use English; hiring external professional tutors to teach short-term academic courses at junior high schools; and providing a variety of English courses including IELTS, TOEIC, language arts, etc. to cater for different learning needs of students. Short-term academic programs are offered at the junior high school.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
In addition to two standardized tests and two examinations each year, students will be assessed on a continuous and multi-dimensional basis on a wide range of competencies, including classroom performance, class discussions, group presentations, project work, modeling, reading reports, and so on.
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 participation in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places System.
S1 Self-assigned Places Admission Criteria and Weighting:
1. Elementary school performance: Academic 50%, Conduct 20%, Extracurricular 10%;
2. Interview performance: 20% (including: verbal ability, knowledge of current affairs, and manners).
How is Li Kau Yan Memorial Secondary School?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 2C
School Wind:
The school has a simple school ethos, strict discipline, rigorous teaching, integration of discipline and counseling, a leadership training program, development of student development space, in order to enable students to actively integrate into campus life, the implementation of the dual class teacher system, and co-organized with CUHK the Internship Social Worker Program to support the work of student guidance, the school set up a "Leadership Student Unit", the Junior High School "Stay at School Lunch Program", and the "Rainbow Program", to cultivate student leadership and the school's positive culture, and the school has been able to provide a wide range of services to students. The school has set up a "Leadership Team", a "Stay at School Lunch Program" and a "Rainbow Program" in the junior high school to cultivate students' leadership skills and positive school culture.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
We implement student-centered and diversified teaching, emphasize teacher-student interaction, and use strengths and weaknesses as a grouping strategy in the classroom to take care of learning diversity, as well as small group teaching to take care of the learning needs of students with different abilities and to provide top-notch remedial support for students; we also develop gifted education to nurture top-notch talents; we cultivate students' reading habits and promote a reading culture; we flexibly utilize the learning modes of IT teaching and project-based learning; we actively develop professional connections, and use distance learning, outbound travel, and teacher exchanges to broaden the horizons of teachers and students to achieve the goal of all-around learning. The school also actively develops professional connections and utilizes distance learning, overseas study tours, and teacher exchanges to broaden the horizons of teachers and students and achieve the goal of all-round learning. Teachers of the school attach great importance to the professional development of teachers. In addition to sharing different teaching strategies during the Teachers' Professional Development Day, there are also joint lesson planning and classroom research, which allow teachers to pool their wisdom and work together in designing the classroom, so that teaching can be mutually reinforcing.
Teacher professional training and development:
- To implement professional training for teachers in the light of the senior secondary curriculum reform;
- Each year, relevant seminars and workshops are organized for teachers according to the overall development and needs of the school;
- Establishment of a school-based teacher training policy.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The school has set up a "Counseling and Learning Support Section" to cater for students with special learning needs in line with integrated education. In this school year, the school has utilized the Learning Support Grant to employ additional teachers, teaching assistants and counselors to strengthen the support for students with special educational needs (SEN). This includes the employment of teaching assistants to provide learning support for SEN students, and at the same time, outsourcing of occupational therapy services, reading and writing training courses, and concentration training, etc. The school also employs a Learning Support Grant to support the learning of SEN students.
The "Counseling and Learning Support Section" provides various support measures and services for students with SEN, including writing individual learning plans, providing examination adaptation, arranging teaching assistants to provide after-school learning support for SEN students, etc. The school-based social workers and counselors also provide social skills training, emotional groups, etc. to enhance the care for students with SEN, while the educational psychologists provide assessment and counseling services for students with SEN. In addition, the school-based social workers and counselors of the school also provide social skills training and emotional groups for SEN students to enhance their care. Educational psychologists also provide assessment, referral and case consultation for students with special needs, and help students learn through multi-disciplinary collaboration.
School facilities:
Library, Student Activity Center, 5 laboratories, Language Resource Center, Science and Arts Education and Research Center, Science and Arts Education Workshop, Active Science Education and Music Room, Student Fitness Center and Micro-teaching and Research Center, Multimedia Reading Resource Center, Multimedia Learning Center, Cooking Room, Cheng Yen Spirituality Retreat Room, 2 Computer Rooms, 5 Special Rooms, 2 Basketball Courts, Koi Eco-ponds and Aquatic Discovery Center
School contact information:
- Tel: 23834815
- Fax: 27185334
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.lkyms.edu.hk
- Address: 596 Prince Edward Road East, San Po Kong, Kln.
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
