TWGHs Li Ka Shing College
Application for S1 admission:
The school accepts applications for S1 Discretionary Places and participation in the Central Allocation of Secondary School Places System.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 170 | 51 | 11 | 98 | 10 |
Admission requirements, criteria and weighting:
- 40% Academic Grades, Interscholastic Grades, and a list of grade level subgrades provided by the Board of Education for students applying for the program;
- 20% Extracurricular Activities and Services;
- 40% Interview Performance.
School Type
- Area：North District
- School Type: Subsidized
- 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: 1982
- Sponsoring Body: Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
- Objective: To promote whole-person education, train students in self-discipline and self-love, and encourage students to realize their full potential. To encourage teachers to enhance their professionalism and competence, to provide quality education, and to nurture outstanding talents for our country and society.
- School motto: Diligence, Frugality, Loyalty, Faithfulness.
- Management Structure: An Executive Committee, an Academic Development Committee and a Student Care Committee are set up to manage various school affairs. At the same time, we have set up the Academic Affairs, Discipline and Guidance, Extra-curricular Activities, Further Education and Career Counseling, Moral and Civic Education, Arts Education and Information Technology Sections for the implementation of balanced education.
- Existing Supervisor/Chairman of SMC: Mr. Ting-Yu Leung
- Existing Principal: Au Man So
Teacher Information
- Total number of teachers in the school: 68
- Percentage of Teachers holding Diploma in Education: 91%
- Percentage of Teachers Holding Bachelor's Degrees: 100%
- Percentage of Teachers with Master's/Doctoral Degrees: 44%
- Percentage of Teachers with Special Education Training: 31%
Teacher seniority:
- Percentage of teachers with 0 to 4 years of experience: 37%
- Percentage of teachers with 5 to 9 years of experience: 7%
- Percentage of teachers with 10 or more years of experience: 56%
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, History, Life and Society, Music, Physical Education, Visual Arts, Moral and Civic Education, Putonghua.
English Language Teaching (ELT) subjects from S1 to S3 in the 2023-2024 school year:
English Language, Cross-curricular Language (S1, S2) English Literature (S3), Mathematics, Geography, Integrated Science (S1, S2), Biology (S3), Chemistry (S3), Physics (S3), Computer Literacy, Home Economics, Design and Technology.
Secondary 4 to Secondary 6 Literature and Literature subjects in the 2023-2024 school year:
Compulsory Subjects: Chinese Language, Civics and Social Development
Elective subjects: Chinese History, History, Tourism and Hospitality, Visual Arts
Others: Arts Education (S4, S5), Physical Education, Moral and Civic Education
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) subjects from S4 to S6 in the 2023-2024 school year:
Compulsory subjects: English Language, Mathematics
Electives: Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Economics, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Information and Communication Technology, Extended Maths Module 1 (Calculus and Statistics), Extended Maths Module 2 (Algebra and Calculus), Music
Others: STEM (S4, S5)
School-wide language policy:
Over the years, the school has made the enhancement of students' trilingual and biliteracy skills a key concern and has therefore implemented various measures and programs. These include:
- School-based English courses, such as Cross-curricular Language Learning and English Literature, have been introduced in junior secondary schools to increase students' exposure to and learning opportunities in English.
- In recent years, the school has participated in the Education Bureau's Chinese Language Seed Project, and eight teachers have been seconded to the Education Bureau to assist in the implementation of curriculum reforms, thus enabling the school's teachers to keep abreast of the trend of curriculum development.
- To enhance students' ability to listen and speak Putonghua through the Putonghua subject and diversified learning activities.
Tests and study adaptation measures:
Students at all levels are required to fulfill the specified requirements for promotion, which are listed in the handbook for parents' reference. In order to cope with the development of the New Senior Secondary School and the overall assessment of students' performance, a Continuous Assessment System has been set up from S1 to S5, i.e., students will be awarded Continuous Assessment Marks according to their performance in class, the quality of homework, the record of unpaid homework and the assessment of assigned homework, etc. The marks will be included in the annual total, thus changing from a purely test-based assessment system.
Class Establishment:
- Number of S1 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of S2 classes in this school year: 5
- No. of S.3 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of S4 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of Form 5 classes in this school year: 5
- Number of S6 classes in this school year: 4
School fees:
No Tuition Fee Payment
How is Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Li Ka Shing Secondary School?
The school group Band is a few:
Ranking Estimate Band 1C
School Wind:
The school has a simple school ethos and strict discipline. Teachers are proactive and caring towards their students, enabling them to integrate into the school life within a short period of time. In addition to social workers and educational psychologists, the school also implements policies such as the integration of discipline and counseling, the establishment of four social clubs, the "Big Brothers Big Sisters Homework Help Program" and the "Dual Class Teacher System" to help students grow up healthily.
Learning and Teaching Strategies :
The school attaches great importance to the use of English as the language of learning, and creates a rich English environment through activities such as English Day, English Week, and the Overseas Exchange Program. The school strictly implements formal curriculum education to ensure that students achieve satisfactory results in personal knowledge and public examinations, and actively participates in various new curriculum pilot programs, such as Chinese, English, Mathematics, and Information Technology Education. In recent years, the school has arranged for its outstanding teachers to be seconded to the Education Bureau to help promote the curriculum development of various subjects in Hong Kong. Teachers of the school have also been actively involved in designing school-based programs such as Integrated Arts Education, which is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. The school is committed to encouraging teachers to pursue further studies and exchange ideas with schools in other districts and Hong Kong. At the same time, the school has introduced new teaching methods, such as collaborative teaching and cross-curricular thematic studies, and has arranged for teachers to work together in lesson planning and participate in peer lesson observation to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning. In recent years, we have strengthened students' thinking and self-learning skills to meet the needs of the times.
Teacher professional training and development:
Apart from encouraging teachers to learn from each other through peer lesson observation and collaborative lesson planning to enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching, a Teacher Development Unit has been set up to co-ordinate teacher training activities to meet the needs of teachers and schools.
Whole School Participation Model Integrated Education:
The School has set up a Student Support Team for students with SEN, comprising the Principal, Deputy Principal, Head of Discipline and Guidance Team, SEN Co-ordinator, Educational Psychologist, Speech Therapist, Social Worker, Class Teacher and Teaching Assistants, etc., to implement the Whole School Approach (WSA) to Integrated Education (IE), catering for the needs of students with different needs and catering for their individual differences, including the optimization of learning and teaching strategies in the classroom and the provision of assessment, referrals, counselling and training.
In terms of resource utilization, the Learning Support Grant and other school-based resources are used to provide needy students with training groups on social, emotional, executive skills, and verbal expression, after-school remedial classes, homework, test accommodations, and career planning counseling; and to communicate closely with parents of students with special educational needs (SEN students) and encourage them to attend seminars so as to understand the learning characteristics of SEN students in order to complement the school's measures. Parents were encouraged to attend seminars to understand the learning characteristics of students with SEN so as to complement the school's measures. To enhance the professional capacity of teachers in schools in catering for students with SEN, teachers are also encouraged to attend training courses organized by the EDB.
School facilities:
The school has set up Wifi900 to strengthen the wireless network infrastructure. All classrooms and auditoriums are air-conditioned and equipped with computers, projectors and physical projectors to fully develop IT teaching. In addition, there are computer rooms, lecture rooms, student self-learning center, student activity rooms and curtain greenhouses.
School contact information:
- Tel: 26697455
- Fax: 26699631
- Email: [email protected]
- Web site:http://www.twghlkss.edu.hk
- Address: Cheung Wah Estate, Fanling, N.T.
- Webpage update: January 4, 2024
