Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School

Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School
Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School
Traditional Chinese	天主教母佑會蕭明中學
Simplified Chinese	天主教母佑会萧明中学
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tiānzhǔjiào Mǔyòuhuì Xiāo Míng Zhōngxué
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	tin1 zyu2 gaau3 mou5 jau6

Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary
Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary
Location
	No.6 Kwai Yip Street, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Purity and Charity (Integrity and Honesty; Love and Concern); 純潔仁愛 ( 純樸廉潔律己、仁厚關愛待人 )
Founded	1973
Principal	Sr. Anita Kwok Ming Ying
Language	English

Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School (天主教母佑會蕭明中學), founded in 1973, is a girls' secondary school in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. It is administered under the Grant Code and using English as a medium of instruction, or being an "EMI school".

Religion

Catholicism

Brief history

Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School is a subsidized girls' grammar school run by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Founded in 1973, the school has incorporated the educational philosophy of St. Mary Mazzarello and St. John Bosco, that is educating young people with love and putting equal stress on the importance of virtue, wisdom, physique, sociability, aesthetic appreciation and spirituality in providing quality education to the community.

A view from footbridge of the playground of two volleyball and one basketball courts.

Teachers

The total number of teaching staff members is 61 with 66% of them holding master's degrees as their highest education level, 33% holding bachelor's degrees as their highest education level and 100% holding professional qualifications.

Medium of instruction

English is the medium of instruction. Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua, Chinese Literature, Liberal Studies, Ethics & Religious Education, Civic Education, Life & Society, Visual Arts are conducted in Chinese.^[1]

Class organization

There are 24 classes, 4 classes each from S.1 to S.6. There are 16 elective modules of 13 different subjects offered to the 4 classes in each level of S.4 to S.6.^[2]

References

^ "Medium of Instruction." DMHCSM. http://dmhcsm.edu.hk/02_profile/05/emedium.php.
^ "Class Organization." DMHCSM. http://dmhcsm.edu.hk/02_profile/04/eclass.php

External links

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