Wah Yan F.A.Q. for members of the two PSAs

- 1st Edition: March 26, 2008 ; 2nd Edition: Sep 08

Important Message: Although no secrets are revealed in this article, the information are personal to all the students and the two schools themselves in nature just as information regarding your own family would be to you. Please therefore treat this with respect and only use for a bona fide purpose. The Supervisor has kindly made this effort wholly for the benefit of the old boys fraternity and not meant as a performance pledge nor to be taken as any kind of warranty in structure policy planning future or otherwise. These information also do not in anyway or to any extent bind the school management teams whatsoever.

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Q 01. Who are the sponsoring bodies of WYHK, WYK and PUWY?

Q 02. What is SMC and who are the members?

Q 03. How are students admitted to Wah Yans?

Q 04. Why are the two Wah Yans producing fewer 9-A students in recent years?

Q 05. How are the two schools performing at public exams in '07-'08? Sep 08

Q 06. Are the Schools in danger of becoming CMI (Chinese as the Medium of Instruction)?

Q 07. What are our students' achievements in music & speech in '07-'08? Sep 08

Q 08. What are our students' achievements in sports in '07-'08? Sep 08

Q 09. What are our students' achievements in social services in '07-'08? Sep 08

Q 10. How are our Scouts & Red Cross doing in recent years? Sep 08

Q 11. What are our students' achievements in cultural, academic & other areas in '07-'08? Sep 08

Q 12. What are the funds to which I can donate directly to WY and her sponsoring body?

Q 13. What are the funds to which I can donate to WY through the PSA?

Q 14. What are the funds to which I can donate to WY through other parties?

Q 15. What is the Schools' position on DSS (Direct Subsidy Scheme)?

Q 16. Can WY implement small class education without going DSS?

Q 17. Can WY implement teachers enhancement programmes without going DSS?

Q 18. What is the vision of Jesuit education in HK?

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Q 01. Who are the sponsoring bodies of WYHK, WYK and PUWY?

The sponsoring body of Wah Yan College Hong Kong is The Society of Jesus while the sponsoring body of Pun U Association Wah Yan Primary School (PUWY) is Pun U Association but administrated by Wah Yan College, Hong Kong.

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Q 02. What is SMC and who are the members?

SMC is the School Management Committee, which is established under the Education Ordinance to manage the school. The SMC is the highest decision making body of the school after the sponsoring body. The School Supervisor is the chairman of the SMC appointed by the Society of Jesus and members of the SMC are called School Managers. Members include nominated members from the sponsoring body, the principal, assistant principal/s, representatives from the teachers, past students and parents and an independent school manager.

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Q 03. How are students admitted to Wah Yans?

For WYHK, 30% of Form One students are enrolled by the school through Discretionary Stage and the other 70% Form One students are allocated by the EDB through Central Allocation. Altogether about 75% of Form One students come from PUWY. For Form 2-4, students have to sit for the Entrance Examination which is usually held in early July and they will be enrolled only when there are vacancies made available by departing students. Students from other schools will not be enrolled to Form 5 & 7 usually.

For WYK, 130 students in Form One are centrally allocated by the Education Bureau from primary schools in the Yau-Tsim-Mong District and 60 are admitted at the discretion of WYK.

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Q 04. Why are the two Wah Yans producing fewer 9-A students in recent years?

In WYHK, we seek to nurture our students whose acquisition of knowledge and skills is joined to Christian values, who will also become reflective learners. We also target at excellence, which is one of our characteristic of Jesuit education. However, we do not strive to produce students with 9 or 10 A. Even then, we still have at least one student achieving 9 or 10 distinctions every year since 1992, with the exception in 2003 and 2004.

As for WYK, it is our aim to provide an environment for natural, happy and healthy growth of our students.  It is not our policy or our sole aim to train 9-A or 10-A students and very few students in WYK enter for more than 8 subjects.

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Q 05. How are the two schools performing at public exams in '07-'08?

Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE)

WYHK:
149 students sat for the HKCEE examination, obtaining 88 Distinctions (6.8%), 610 Credits (47.1%) and an 88.8% overall passing rate. 99 (66.4%) of the candidates scored 14 points or above from their best 6 subjects. 6 boys scored 6 or more ‘A’ grades and are qualified for the Early Admission Scheme (EAS) including Chung Man Ting with 10As and Wong Wai Tsun with 8As.

WYK:
201 sat for the HKCEE examination, obtaining 112 Distinctions, 597 Credits and an 87% overall passing rate.  60% of the candidates scored 14 or more points in their best six subjects. 4 students qualified for the Early Admission Scheme (EAS).  Tse Ming Hon scored 8 distinctions (including two 5*s in Chinese and English) and one B Credit in the nine subjects for which he entered. 

Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (HKAL)

WYHK:
67 students sat for the HKAL Examination, scoring an 85.7% passing rate. 57 candidates have been enrolled in local tertiary education institutions, 5 are attending overseas universities, 2 are repeating in F7 and 3 students' situations are pending at the time of publication.

WYK:
86 sat for the examination, scoring 15 distinctions and 122 credits.  69 (80%) candidates have been offered places in local universities for degree and sub-degree courses (58 in degree course), the majority (43) of them in HKU, CUHK and HKUST.  It is estimated that about 11 went overseas for their tertiary education.

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Q 06. Are the Schools in danger of becoming CMI (Chinese as the Medium of Instruction)?

The relevance of the following information is subjected to the changing MOI (Medium of Instruction) policy proposed by the Education Department Bureau (EDB).

No. Our EMI (English as the Medium of Instruction) status to a certain extent depends on the performance of PUWY. In the recent 3 years, we have enrolled over 90% of students capable to receive instruction in English, i.e., EMI schools, which is higher than the minimum requirement of 85%.

Since we have to enroll at least 85% of our Form One students allocated through the Central Allocation from PUWY, we depend largely on the performance of their students. Gratefully we are not in any immediate danger of losing our EMI status.

For WYK, the percentage has been around 96-97 and it does not show signs of dropping.

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Q 07. What are our students' achievements in music & speech in '07-'08?

WYHK:

WYK:

About a hundred students and groups took part in the 60th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival (2007-08).  They scored 8 First Places (2 won by School Choirs), 16 Second Places (2 won by School Choirs), 8 Third Places and 43 Merits (not less than 80 marks out of 100).

Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival 2008
Six First Places, eight Second Places, four Third Places, 81 Merits

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Q 08. What are our students' achievements in sports in '07-'08?

WYHK:

Inter-school Sports Results (summary)

WYK:

Inter-school Sports Competition Results 07-08

Inter-school Athletics Championships (Division 1)

Swimming
Inter-school Swimming Championships (Division 1) (2007-08)

External Sports Competition Results

Chung Man Kin of 2K broke the Hong Kong Age-Group athletic C-Grade 1500m record with a time of 4 min 34.12 sec. (2007-08)

Cheung Yiu Man of 4J is a Hong Kong School Hockey Team member. (2007-08)

Lui Long Yin of 3J came third of cha-cha-cha in the 6th inter-school dancing competition on 22 December 2007. He was also the champion in Samba, Rumba, cha-cha-cha, cowboy, bullfight in the 2007 Hong Kong International Standard and Latin Dance Competition.

Wong Tsz Hin Billy of 1J represented the KSC Golf Club in the 10th Dr. George Choa Cup Junior Golf Team championship; he also represented the Hong Kong team in the US Kids Golf World championship and the US Kids Golf European Championship. (2007-08)

Kong Man Ho of 6S won the Gold Medal in Senior Boxing (64 kg) at the 1st All Hong Kong School Boxing and Kickboxing Tournament organized by the Hong Kong Boxing Association (香港拳擊總會) . (2007-08)

香港高爾夫球總會（Hong Kong Golf Association）主辦：
“HK Schools Team Championship 2008”（25/1/2008） —

* 個人淨杆冠軍（Individual Net Champion）—
* Boys 15 & Above（Nett）— Overall Position 2 —
* Boys 15 & Above（Gross）— Overall Position 7 —

       Fung Philip Garland 馮嘉倫（6B）

賽馬會滘西洲高爾夫球會主辦：
「賽馬會滘西洲訓練中心少年隊選拔賽（第13期）」（11/2/08-12/2/08）—

* 第一名：Fung Philip Garland 馮嘉倫（6B）
* 第四名：Wong Tze Hin Billy（1J）

以上同學獲選為「少年隊隊員」及「精英隊隊員」

Clearwater Bay Executive Nine Junior Winter Open 2007
（7/12/07）：

 * Wong Tze Hin Billy（1J）— Overall Position 3 （Boys 11-12）

JCKSC Junior Medal Challenge（31/12/2007）：
Wong Tze Hin Billy（1J）— Champion

Hong Kong Schools Holiday Competition（Jan 2,08）：
Wong Tze Hin Billy（1J）— Overall Position 5（Boys 11-12）

The 10th Dr. George Choa Cup Junior Golf Team Championship 2008 Jan 4-5,08）：
Wong Tze Hin Billy（1J）represented KSC golf club to play in the event.

Golf Tournament organized by the Wah Yan One Family Foundation
Overall Position 5 — Team Members: Fung Philip Garland (6B), Wong Tze Hin Billy (1J), Mr. Wong Wai Leung (Teacher).

Orienteering

Two teams of students took part in the Hong Kong Inter-School Orienteering Championships (Kowloon District).  They came first and third respectively.  The school was overall second. (2007-08)

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Q 09. What are our students' achievements in social services in '07-'08?

WYHK:
In the afternoon of May 12, 2008, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in western China. By the next day, the death toll stood at 12,000, with another 18,000 missing. Over 15 million people lived in the affected area, including almost 4 million in the city of Chengdu. Nearly 2,000 of the dead were students and teachers caught in the collapsed schools. On May 17, we sent appeals to students, parents, and staff to help the victims of the Earthquake in a donation campaign. Thanks to their enthusiastic response, the grand total collected within the timeframe was HK$430,000.

WYK:
2007至2008年度香港明愛籌款運動，本校參與人數愈三百餘人，籌得善款共壹拾叁萬壹仟貳佰陸拾肆圓正(＄131,264)，較去年上升百分之五點八六（5.86％），並奪得攤位設計亞軍 (Stall Decoration 2nd Prize) 及遊戲設計亞軍 (Game Stall Design 2nd Prize).

悼念四川八級大地震罹難者，小組於2008年5月19日至21日，一連三天，舉行國旗下半旗儀式。又嚮應香港明愛及紅十字會哹籲，籌得賑災善款港幣12萬餘元.

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Q 10. How are our Scouts & Red Cross doing in recent years?

Scouts

WYHK:

The Wah Yan 15th HK Scout Group continues to prosper. Our scouts from the HKXV unit represented Hong Kong at the World Jamboree held in the United Kingdom August 2007. In diverse Scouting competitions they repeatedly receive awards including Championship in the Commissioner’s Shield, and Scout Raffle Ticket Selling Competition for the Pun U Cubs in the recent years.  More notably in the Carlton Competition 2008 for secondary school Scouts in HK, they took the overall HK Championship and they have done so for more than 6 times before. In the past 3 years, we have altogether 14 scouts presented with Chief Scout Awards and 46 scouts presented with Golden Bauhinia Awards, the highest awards for scouts in Hong Kong. 

WYK:

Red Cross

WYHK:

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Q 11. What are our students' achievements in cultural, academic & other areas in '07-'08?

WYHK:

Exchange Program

16 students and 4 teachers from Beijing October First Middle School visited Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. They studied and lived with our students for 14 days from 17 January 2008 to 1 February 2008. In return, we have 24 students and 3 teachers visited and stayed in the Beijing October First Middle School for 9 days from 15 March to 23 March 2008. During the academic year from April and June, students and teachers from other schools in Mainland China also visited us. Between 16th to 22nd July, another group of our students and teachers served a primary school in Guizhou. 

WYK:

香港聯校象棋協會、香島教育基金有限公司合辦：
「香島盃：第21屆全港中學校際中國象棋賽」(2007-08) —
九龍華仁書院A隊：優異獎
九龍華仁書院B隊：優異獎

香港象棋總會主辦、康樂及文化事務署贊助：
「2007年度全港中學生中國象棋個人賽」初中組團體冠軍 及 中學團體總亞軍

荃灣葵青坊眾會主辦、荃灣象棋會協辦：「回歸盃象棋賽」－ 中學團體季軍 (2007-08)

香港中華電力有限公司主辦：「親親大自然樹木攝影比賽」(2007-08)

Ho Kong Po of 4K won the Gold Award of the Black & White Section of the 28th Hong Kong Schools Photography Competition organized by the Hong Kong Baptist University Photographic Association. (2007-08)

香港教育專業人員協會、香港硬筆書法家協會合辦：「第十二屆全港中小學中英文硬筆書法比賽」，初賽參加人數共87人，初賽優異同學代表本校於2007年12月15日參加決賽，結果如下：「中學中文硬筆初級組」— 季軍（梁健麟），「中學英文硬筆初級組」— 優良獎（梁健麟）, 「中學中文硬筆高級組」— 優良獎（侯駿銘）(2007-08)

Ng Cheuk Hei of 3W won the Champion of the Road Safety Poster Competition (Secondary Section) organized by the Yaumatei-Tsimshatsui-Mongkok District Council. (2007-08)

International Geography Poster Competition held in Glasgow, UK organized by the International Geographical Union – 3rd Place (International) – 4 Form 2 students (2004)

Landslide Animation Competition organized by the Civil Engineering Department HKSAR – 3rd Place – 2 Form Four boys (2004)

Land Use Design Competition organized by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth and the Planning Department HKSAR – 1st Place – 2 Form Six boys (2002)

Debating

語文教育及研究常務委員會主辦：「2007/08年度語常會初中辯論計劃」之「2007/08年度語常會初中辯論比賽」
比賽成績如下：兩戰兩勝，晉入十六強，第一場：鄒冠東為「最佳辯論員」，第二場：陳國杰為「最佳辯論員」

The School English Debating Team came third in the English Section of the The 23rd Sing Tao Inter-School Debating Competition (2007-2008) organized by the Sing Tao Daily, The Standard, and the Education Bureau.

Leadership

Hong Kong Outstanding Students’ Association（香港傑出學生協會）：
   “International Convergence 2008”
     - Hong Kong Secondary School Representatives：
       Kwok Tsun Yiu (F.4), Liu Chi Hei (F.4)
       Kuk Chun Kei (F.4), Ho Kwong Hei (F.4)

香港民安隊少年團、香港青年聯會、中山市青年聯合會合辦：
   「中港友情迎奧運—攜手共創新紀錄」
   - 油尖旺區校長會選出本區學生代表— 何廣熙 (4W)
     何廣熙同學於2008年3月22日至24日，代表香港前往中山，進行學術文化交流，並認識奧運精神。

香港青年協會主辦：「2008《香港200》領袖計劃」—
   - 獲提名學生：何沙龍 (6SS)、黃永樑  (6S) 、潘崇晃 (6B)
     潘崇禮(6B)、李肇培(6S) 、陳德安 (6B)
     成功獲選為《香港200》領袖：黃永樑（6S）、陳德安 (6B)

國民教育中心（National Education Centre）主辦：
   「奧運精神‧國民素質‧齊發揚」系列活動 -
    「同心迎奧運」中文作文比賽 --     
    * 中學初中組：(中三) 林沛熙、楊朗廷、孔慶邦、蕭卓然
      共四位同學榮獲〈嘉許狀〉(2007-08)

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Q 12. What are the funds to which I can donate directly to WY and her sponsoring body?

In WYHK, we have established different funds for different purposes. We welcome donation from our past students, parents and friends of Wah Yan. You can send cheques made payable to “Wah Yan College Hong Kong” to Wah Yan College Hong Kong, 281 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong. Please specify your desired fund/s, your name and contact information. Tax exemption receipts will be issued to donations of HK$100 or above.

(i) Jesuit Education Fund – to support the running and development of Wah Yan College Hong Kong by providing additional teaching facilities and resources to enhance the quality of education for our Wahyanites in addition to the government grants.

(ii) Nursing Fund– to support the regular medical checkup of all Jesuits connected to the Wah Yans in Hong Kong. The Fund supports partially the cost of their medication when necessary.

(ii) Scholarship Fund – to provide grants for education of students with financial need as well as scholarships for the outstanding students of WYHK.

(iii) Relief Fund– to provide limited financial assistance to students with sudden change in family or suffering from serious sickness that would need long and expensive treatment.

(iv) School Development Project (SDP) Fund– to support the additional development in the School Improvement Project (SIP) which was subsidized by the EDB, and to redevelop the School Hall into an indoor gymnasium complex with additional rooms and other facilities.

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Q 13. What are the funds to which I can donate to WY through the PSA?

You can also donate to WYHK through the PSA for the General Fund, which is used by the school to support students’ activities, Let’s Fly Higher projects, and to acquire additional facilities for the students. There is also the Jesuit Nursing Fund held by the School. But as donations solely come from old boys, it is the PSA which regularly see to it that the Fund remains at a sufficient level to meet medical needs and daily nursing care of the Jesuit fathers.

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Q 14. What are the funds to which I can donate to WY through other parties?

You can also donate to the Wah Yan Trust Fund which was established by Fr. Barrette, S.J. in 1982. It is to provide financial assistance to students from both WYHK & WYK to complete their tertiary education either locally or in the overseas.

You can also donate to Wah Yan One Family Foundation (often referred dearly to as the “OFF”) which was established with the purpose to provide financial assistance to implement the “Small Class” teaching in our two schools. 

For WYK, it is the Fr. Kelly Educational Fund Limited. Its function is to donate money to the school for educational expenses that are not covered by the EDB.

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Q 15. What is the Schools' position on DSS (Direct Subsidy Scheme)?

The two Wah Yans have no intention to adopt the DSS system in the near future. Fr. A.J. Deignan, S.J. has put his letter concerning our stance and the reasons on   the respective PSA homepages. Please kindly refer to the letter for further information.

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Q 16. Can WY implement small class education without going DSS?

We believe we can. We have implemented small class teaching for a few years by using Government funds provided through the Additional Capacity Enhancement Grant (known as the ACEG) to employ more teachers without converting to DSS. With the support of many enthusiastic alumni and parents, the Wah Yan One Family Foundation (WYOFF) was set up to provide funding for small class education into the future.

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Q 17. Can WY implement teachers enhancement programmes without going DSS?

Yes, we can.  In fact many teacher enhancement programmes are organized or supported by Government Funds. Besides, the WYOFF is to sponsor meaningful educational programmes proposed by our teachers for the students, and also for our teachers’ professional development.

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Q 18. What is the vision of Jesuit education in HK?

The Jesuit Education Board in Hong Kong is the guiding organization for the College, other than the statutory Management Committee.  Its vision statement is

“We offer a holistic, liberating and transforming Catholic education within a learning   community for students and staff to become progressively competent, committed, compassionate, spiritual, and ethically discerning persons with a universal heart contributing to the welfare and happiness of all, in particular the poor and the neglected.”

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