Diocesan women's College

The diocesan girls' college was founded by the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui in 1860. The school is an international oriented women's grammar secondary school in Hong Kong. Since its establishment, the school has been run by the government subsidy mode. After September 2005, it has been run by the direct subsidy mode. The school cultivates students who have lofty ideals, can inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture and democratic belief, and make contributions to the society. Its school running philosophy is "pursuit of excellence", trying to make students learn efficiently, give full play to their potential, and be willing to learn for life.

Diocesan women's College

The diocesan girls' college was founded by the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui in 1860. The school is an international oriented women's grammar secondary school in Hong Kong. Since its establishment, the school has been run by the government subsidy mode. After September 2005, it has been run by the direct subsidy mode. The school cultivates students who have lofty ideals, can inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture and democratic belief, and make contributions to the society. Its school running philosophy is "pursuit of excellence", trying to make students learn efficiently, give full play to their potential, and be willing to learn for life.

School profile

Diocesan girls' school

school

Diocesan Girls College is a grammar school with international vision in Hong Kong, China. Founded by the Anglican Church of Hong Kong in 1860, it has become a women's secondary school providing high-quality holistic education in Hong Kong. It is located at 1 Jordan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It operates in a subsidized school mode with English as the teaching language. The school is regarded as one of the top schools in Hong Kong, with students' achievements in academic, music and sports. School is one of the G20 schools. The diocesan girls' college is a through-train secondary school of diocesan girls' primary school. In addition, the diocesan girls' college is managed by the school's board of directors, which includes a lot of talented administrators to make the school operate well and adhere to its mission. Since its establishment, the school has been running on a government subsidized basis. From September 2005, starting from the first grade of secondary school, it has been running on a direct subsidy basis.

history

pre-war

Located on Bonham road and east side street on Hong Kong Island, it was founded in 1860 by Mrs. Smith. As the first vicar of Victoria Parish, she was sent to Hong Kong by the society for the promotion of female education in the Far East, an organization of the London church. At first, the school only accepted girls. In 1866, it was renamed "diocesan female school". In 1869, due to financial difficulties, the school was changed into a Chinese girls' shelter. In the same year, it was changed to "diocesan home and orphanage" with both men and women.

In 1913, the school finally moved to its current location in Kowloon, which was a paddy field. In the 1920s, the school adopted the motto of daily giving service. During the Second World War, the school was occupied by the Japanese army and changed into a military police headquarters. In September 1945, the school reopened, and MS. Gibbins was the first post-war principal (she was held in Stanley Prison during the Japanese occupation). As soon as Gibbins was released, he crossed the sea and returned to the school building, which escaped being looted.

After the war

In the 1950s, with the closure of the gas station near the school, the school was able to expand its buildings. The Edwardian buildings were demolished and three new school buildings were built to accommodate more students. In 1993, the school launched a major expansion project. Two new school buildings were completed in 1993 and 1996 respectively. Since then, a new phase of the expansion project has been completed and officially unveiled on January 12, 2007.

In 2005, the school celebrated its 145th anniversary. The music work "the DGS girl" about its history was also performed in Sha Tin City Hall.

In memory of Dr. Joyce Symons, the former headmaster, the school motto is "daily giving joyful service". This is a variation of "daily giving service".

In 2006, the school participated in the direct subsidy scheme. In 2009, the school was temporarily relocated to 101 Castle Peak Road, Sham Shui Po due to the site project. In September 2011, due to the completion of the project, the school moved back to its original site. In the same month, the primary school affiliated to the school, the diocesan girls' primary school, moved back to the site of 1 Jordan Road.

Donation dispute

In 1976, the school submitted an application form to the government for its primary school and a "voluntary fund-raising" of HK $1000 to build a new primary school. This move has attracted a lot of public criticism, which has exacerbated the controversy over admission to famous universities. Joyce Symons, then principal, responded that the ICAC had investigated the fund-raising and that it had been submitted "unintentionally".

The controversy has also led to the establishment of the Legislative Council, which calls for the expansion of the seats in the education sector of the Legislative Council (Joyce Symons is the only member in the education sector of the Legislative Council).

Successive Presidents

School history

Founded in 1860, the diocesan women's college was originally named "diocesan women's training school". It was founded by the wife of the first Victorian bishop Smith from various European organizations. The school is located near Bonham road and east side street. Six years later, it was renamed "elite girls' school". In 1869, due to financial difficulties, the school limited its scope of service and only provided education for orphans and poor Chinese women. It was not until 1878 that it received government funding. In 1913, he officially moved to the site of Jordan Road (1 Jordan Road), and in 1920, he made "daily giving service" as the school motto.

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the school became the headquarters of the Japanese gendarmerie until September 1945. In the 1950s, three buildings were built to accommodate the growing number of students.

In view of the need to upgrade the facilities of primary and secondary schools, the school board decided to make a large-scale expansion plan. Two new wing school buildings were completed in 1993 and 1996 respectively to improve the school facilities.

In 2008, the school implemented the campus redevelopment plan and temporarily moved to the temporary school building at 101 Castle Peak Road, Sham Shui Po. In September 2011, the new school building will be completed.

Society Hall

At present, there are five social halls in the diocesan girls' College, named after the presidents.

The system was introduced in 1946 by the then president Ms. Hurrell. At that time, there were four social churches, namely, Skipton, Sawyer, Gibbins and Smith (Lydia Smith, the wife of the Council governor of Ji nianshi).

In 1951, Mr. Hurrell resigned and returned to the UK. Smith house soon changed its name to Hurrell house.

In 1985, after the president, Mrs. Simmons, retired, the school set up a fifth social hall as a memorial.

Since 1899, only Ms. Ferguson has not had a named church among British and mixed race principals. Ms. Ferguson set the school motto during his four years in office and died in 1925.

reconstruction

In 2007, the school decided to rebuild the Jordan campus to provide more classrooms, activity rooms and teaching facilities to accommodate the increased classes after the completion of primary and secondary schools.

The whole reconstruction project finally started in April 2009, after the school Easter holiday. After two years, it was opened on September 1, 2011 as one of the celebration activities of the 150th anniversary of the school. During the reconstruction period, teachers and students of the diocesan girls' College and the diocesan girls' primary school moved to temporary school buildings in Sham Shui Po and Tseung Kwan O respectively. The school has named the whole reconstruction project of nearly HK $600 million as "excellence Jinge". The cost of the middle school is $380 million, the government subsidy is $200 million, the cost of the primary school is $210 million, and the government subsidy is $160 million. In response to the huge cost of the whole reconstruction project, the school launched a fund-raising program called "DGS mission", which organized various activities such as lottery sales, school celebration dinner and walking fund-raising to raise funds to support the cost of reconstruction.

However, when the school put forward the redevelopment plan, it was opposed by a large number of old students, who thought that the long history of the school had been destroyed, and that the old building was well-equipped enough to accommodate all the classrooms. As a result, the old students set up various groups at the beginning of the reconstruction plan and protested on social networking sites such as Facebook.

Due to the lack of land, the school's architects decided to move a large number of facilities that do not need sunlight to the 14 meter high base of the campus to make room for the construction of a teaching building on the base. In addition, the teaching buildings of primary and secondary schools adopt the cross layout, which on the one hand strives for more space for the construction of ancillary facilities, and on the other hand makes the classroom landscape of the teaching building more open,

Chinese PinYin : Ba Cui Nv Shu Yuan