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Clementi Secondary School

Clementi Secondary School
Location
Map
30 Fortress Hill Road
North Point,

Hong Kong
Coordinates22°17′15″N 114°11′41″E / 22.2874°N 114.1947°E / 22.2874; 114.1947
Information
TypePublic (Chinese: 官立)
MottoLetters, ethics, the devotion of soul, and truthfulness.
Established1 March 1926
PrincipalMrs. Fung Lai Miu-yee
Number of studentsApprox. 1,000 students
Medium of instructionChinese
Campus Size2.74 acre
School MagazineThe Voice (鐸聲)
Websiteclementi.edu.hk
Clementi Secondary School
Traditional Chinese金文泰中學
Simplified Chinese金文泰中学
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJīnwéntài zhōngxué
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggam1 man4 taai3 zung1 hok6

Clementi Secondary School (Chinese: 金文泰中學) is a secondary institution in Fortress Hill, North Point, Hong Kong. Founded by the 17th British governor of Hong Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi, the school was the first to use Chinese as the primary medium of instruction in Hong Kong.

History

Hong Kong governor Cecil Clementi had a profound interest in the Chinese language and decided to establish a school using Chinese as the main medium of instruction. In 1926, Government Vernacular Middle School (官立漢文中學) was founded.[1] Government Vernacular Middle School was the first government school to use Chinese as the principal language of instruction.[2] Li King Hong, the then-Chinese language inspector of schools, was appointed as the first principal of the school.

During World War II, the school suspended its operations under the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. After the war, the school was renamed Government Vernacular Senior Middle School (官立漢文高級中學). It was renamed again in 1951 to Clementi Middle School (金文泰中學)[2] and in 1988 to Clementi Secondary School, after the governor.

The school has been relocated several times:

  • 1926–1927 26–28 Hospital Road (now site of Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College)
  • 1927–1941 Pok Fu Lam Road
  • 1945–1946 Bridge Street (now Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong Bridge Centre)
  • 1946–1948 Wood Road (formerly Government Trade School Building c. 1937)
  • 1948–1961 28 Kennedy Road

It has been at the current site of 30 Fortress Hill Road since September 23, 1961.

The school principal is currently Mrs. Fung Lai Miu-yee, who succeeded Ms. Li Sui-wah in 2013.

Notable alumni

Politicians, government officials, and legislators

Academics

Business

  • Peggy Cherng, Chinese-American billionaire businesswoman and electrical engineer

References

  1. ^ "Sir Cecil Clementi and family | History, Monuments and Memorials of Holy Trinity, Penn Street". 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2024. Clementi championed Chinese education in Hong Kong, where the Clementi Secondary School, founded in 1926, is named after him
  2. ^ a b Shaoyang, Lin (February 2018). "Hong Kong in the Midst of Colonialism, Collaborative and Critical Nationalism from 1925 to 1930: The Perspective of Lu Xun and the Confucius Revering Movement". China Report. 54 (1): 44. doi:10.1177/0009445517744409. Retrieved 20 October 2024. ... establish the Government Vernacular School. It was later renamed as the Clementi Secondary School in 1951 and is also known by its Chinese name (Hanwen zhongxue), the first government secondary school in Hong Kong that used Chinese as a medium of instruction and that offered a specialisation in literary Chinese.

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