| HKUGA Primary School
港大同學會小學
| |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||||
 | |||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||
 | |||||||||||
| Information | |||||||||||
| School type | DSS, Primary school | ||||||||||
| Motto | Strive for Virtue, Quest for Truth (明德惟志 格物惟勤) | ||||||||||
| Established | September 2002; 21 years ago (2002-09) | ||||||||||
| Founder | HKUGA Education Foundation | ||||||||||
| School district | Eastern District | ||||||||||
| Principal | 黃桂鈴 | ||||||||||
| Grades | Grade 1 - Grade 6 | ||||||||||
| Enrollment | About 800 | ||||||||||
| Classes | 24 | ||||||||||
| Language | Chinese | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 港大同學會小學 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 港大同学会小学 | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
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 [zh] 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]
22°15′56″N 114°14′22″E / 22.2656°N 114.2395°E / 22.2656; 114.2395
