HKUGA Primary School 港大同學會小學 | |||||||||||
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School type | DSS, Primary school | ||||||||||
Motto | Strive for Virtue, Quest for Truth (明德惟志 格物惟勤) | ||||||||||
Established | September 2002 | ||||||||||
Founder | HKUGA Education Foundation | ||||||||||
School district | Eastern District | ||||||||||
Principal | 黃桂鈴 | ||||||||||
Grades | Grade 1 - Grade 6 | ||||||||||
Enrollment | About 800 | ||||||||||
Classes | 24 | ||||||||||
Language | Chinese | ||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 港大同學會小學 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 港大同学会小学 | ||||||||||
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HKUGA Primary School (also called Hong Kong University Graduates Associate Primary School; Chinese: 港大同學會小學) is a private co-educational primary school located at No. 9 Yee Shing Street in Chai Wan, Hong Kong.
It was founded by the Hong Kong University Graduates Association in 2002. [1] According to the Hong Kong Economic Times, the HKUGA Primary School is "one of the most sought-after DSS schools". [2] Every year, the school receives roughly 6,000 admittance applications for 120 spots. [3] Applicants go through three rounds of interviews. [3] The interviews test group activities, reading, logical questions, conversations, and how familiar parents are with the school. [1]
It is a Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) school. [3] It is a through-train school ( Chinese: 一條龍學校) in which the primary school students proceed directly to the linked secondary school Hong Kong University Graduate Association College without going through the central allocation process. [3] Author Ian Tsang cautioned parents to consider the considerable distance between the two schools: the primary school was in the Eastern District, while the secondary school was in the Southern District. [1] The school emphasises reading and independent learning. [4] Unlike the typical school which would have teachers teach different subjects, HKUGA Primary School follows the approach of having teachers each teach a single subject. The aim is to have the teachers specialise and become experts in their subject. [1] It follows the biliteracy and trilingualism pedagogical approach in which students are taught how to read in English and Chinese and how to speak in Cantonese, English, and Mandarin. [1] To reduce student stress, the school does not hold exams for students in the first and second grades. [1]