Wa Ying College
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Wa Ying College |
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| Motto | We work together. We care. We serve. (official) A Wa Ying member for a day and you remain a Wa Ying member for life (一日華英人，一生華英人。) (unofficial) |
| Established | 1913 |
| Type | Mixed (Boys and Girls) |
| Principal | Mr. Kai Man TSANG |
| Location | Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Website | http://www.waying.edu.hk |
Wa Ying College (華英中學) is a secondary school in Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is managed by the Chinese Methodist Church.
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[edit] History
It was founded as Wa Ying Middle School (Chinese name 華英中學) by the Methodist Church in 1913 in Foshan of Guangdong in China. During World War II the school relocated to Hong Kong in Tung Chung Fort of Tung Chung on Lantau Island and later moved to Shatin. It returned to Foshan after the war. In 1951, after the Communist Party of China came into power in mainland China, the Foshan-based Wa Ying Middle School was confiscated by the state as the People's Republic of China's atheist Communist ideology does not allow religious organizations-run schools to operate. The First Secondary School of the Municipality of Foshan (廣東省佛山市第一中學; pinyin Guangdong sheng Foshan shi Diyi Zhongxue, abbrev 佛山一中; pinyin Foshan Yizhong), was formed after the authorities merged the former Wa Ying Middle School with the public run Foshan Middle School (佛山中學; pinyin Foshan Zhongxue) and sited at the former Wa Ying Middle School.
In 1969, alumni of Wa Ying Middle School based in Hong Kong handed a proposal to the Chinese Methodist Church to re-establish the school in Hong Kong, then outside the People's Republic of China's control. The alumni pledged to raise funds to start the building project and entrusted the school to the church as in the past. With less than 400 alumni, nearly $300,000 was raised. In addition to a loan of $250,000 and a subsidy of two million dollars granted from the Hong Kong Government, the dream to resume the school came true. Construction work began at its present site in 1970.
In September 1971, the new school, now named Wa Ying College in English while keeping the Chinese name of its Foshan predecessor, started with 18 teachers and 12 classes. The school gradually expanded up to 31 classes by the 1983-84 academic year. The school campus has undergone a number of renovations over the years, with the most recent being at the late 2005.
[edit] Reputations and Achievements
In the wider Hong Kong society Wa Ying College is considered a school with an excellent reputation, albeit low key and currently yet to achieve the fame of older schools such as Queen's College, Diocesan Boys' School, St. Stephen's Girls' College, La Salle College, or Belilios Public School. Each and every one of its Form 1 student intakes comes from the mid-range of band 1 primary school graduates and a vast majority (regularly 85%+) of its Form 7 graduates gained Hong Kong university entrance admissions after sitting HKALE. For the 2007-08 academic year's Form 1 admission, 14 Primary 6 pupils compete for one Form 1 place at Wa Ying.
The school's philosophy is also more progressive than most of its peers in Hong Kong. From its refounding in Hong Kong in 1971, all teachers have been involved in the school's administrative work and the making school policies through the system of functional committees. The school also pioneered school counseling practices in Hong Kong by introducing social workers into the school and setting up the peer counseling schemes [1] . Most of student welfare affairs have been managed by the democratically-elected Student Union since 1992. Hong Kong Local History and Liberal Studies were also introduced into the school curriculum long before they became fashionable in the Hong Kong education scenes. In the upcoming introduction of new Senior Secondary Curriculum, Wa Ying College is one of the small number of schools that plan to offer Design and Applied Technology as a technology-based elective from day one, while most other schools offer more established electives such as Finance and Information Technology related subjects at the initial stage[2].
The school's teachers and students enjoy a very close-knit relationship together and there is a well known unofficial motto of "A Wa Ying member for a day and you remain a Wa Ying member for life" (一日華英人，一生華英人。) among Wa Ying's students and alumni.
Most of Wa Ying's students and alumni can be characterized as well behaved and act with good manners, although they are also regularly admonished by their own teachers and in the case of alumni, teachers at other schools or employers, as being sheltered and rather naive socially and passive in participating in group discussions at school or workplace.
[edit] List of principals (Excluding Foshan Years)
- Mr Fong Wing Cheong (1971-1989)
- Miss Ho Seck Fun (1989-1995)
- Mr Mak Chiu (1995-2004)
- Mr Tsang Kai Man (Acting 2004-2005; 2005-present)
[edit] See also
- Education in Hong Kong
- Ying Wa College, a secondary school with similar name founded by London Missionary Society
[edit] External link
- Wa Ying College, the official webpage of Wa Ying College now based in Hong Kong
- Foshan Yizhong, the publicly-run secondary school in Foshan founded on the confiscated site of the former Foshan-based Wa Ying Middle School (in simplified Chinese)
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