Po Kok Secondary School is a full-time subsidized secondary school located at Tiu Keng Ling, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, adjacent to Choi Ming Court. The school has 4 classes in each level from Form 1 to Form 6. The class schedule follows a five-day cycle.
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| Type | Subsidized secondary school |
| Motto | 慈悲博愛 (Compassion and fraternity) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Buddhism |
| Established | 1951 |
| School district | Sai Kung District |
| President | 陳淑雯 |
| Faculty | 74 |
| Enrollment | 660(2020-21) |
| Language | Chinese |
| Area | 6,690sqm |
| Website | http://www.pokok.edu.hk/ |
The current school building was opened in 2001, and students were moved into the new school building in phases up to 2003.
History edit
In 1931, Robert Ho Tung and Zhang Lin-kuo, founded the Po Kok Free School at Percival Street, Causeway Bay, to provide education for underprivileged girls. Four years later, it moved to Tung Lin-kok Court at Happy Valley.[1]
After World War II, the volunteer school received government funding. In 1951, the campus was expanded and a three-year vocational secondary school added, which became the school's predecessor. A five-year HKCEE course was added from 1963 to 1965. In 1986, the secondary school was renamed as Po Kok Girls' Secondary School and was converted from a technical secondary school to a grammar secondary school.[2]
In 2000, the school participated in the allocation of school buildings, and in August of the same year, was approved by the Hong Kong government to relocate to a millennium-type school building in Choi Ming Court in Tiu Keng Ling.
In September 2000, the school borrowed the Wong Wah Siang Secondary School of Yan Chai Hospital in Tseung Kwan O to start classes and admitted the first batch of mixed boys and girls to Form One in preparation for moving into the Choi Ming Court campus.[3]
In 2001, the school officially moved into the campus and became a new secondary school for both boys and girls. On June 22, 2003, the school held an unveiling ceremony for the new school building, and the school relocation plan was completed in September of the same year.
Campus edit
This campus is an early-design millennium secondary school building, covering an area of 6,698 square meters and equipped with 30 classrooms, various special rooms and auditoriums.
This school is part of the third phase of the Choi Ming Court project. Together with the Choi Yiu Court and the Hong Kong and Macau Lutheran Ming Dao Primary School in the same phase, it was built by Gammon Construction. Construction started in November 1999 and ended in March 2001.[4]
Extracurricular Activities edit
The school has won numerous awards for its sports programs,[5][6] many of which are in basketball tournaments.[7][8]
References edit
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- ^ "假如沒有寶覺學校，沒有今日的我——寶覺校友談東蓮覺苑辦學九十周年". 拾方藝廊. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ 二零零零年校舍分配工作結果 (PDF) (in Chinese). Education Bureau.
- ^ "Gammon to build housing block and schools at Tseung Kwan O". Gammon Hong Kong. Archived from the original on June 26, 2001. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ^ 體路 (2017-10-28). "【學界籃球】摘下強隊光環 「平凡」寶覺誓重返榮耀". 體路 Sportsroad. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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- ^ 張倩儀 (2022-07-16). "學界三人籃球｜寶覺女籃易帥改風格 羅倩寧領軍望入馬拉松4強". 香港01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ "【學界籃球馬拉松】寶覺掃走張振興桂華山晉決賽 偕男拔重演D1決賽「翻版」". Yahoo Sports (in Chinese). 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2023-12-03.