Wah Yan College, Kowloon (WYK; Traditional Chinese: 九龍華仁書院; Jyutping: gau2 lung4 wa4 jan2 syu1 jyun2, Pinyin: Jǐulóng Huárén Shūyuàn; demonym: Wahyanite, pl.: Wahyanites) is a Latin Rite Catholic secondary school for boys, located in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is administered by the Society of Jesus. Detail from The Vision of the Cross by assistants of Raphael, depicting the vision of the cross and the Greek writing εν τούτω νίκα in the sky, before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For the rap album, see 1924 (album). ... A grant-in-aid is funding granted by government, the use of which is subject to parliamentary oversight, to finance all or some part of the costs of another organization. ... This article is about the Atlas Supervisor computer program. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Waterloo Road is a major road running north–south in Kowloon, Hong Kong. ... Yau Ma Tei (Traditional Chinese: or 油蔴地) , also spelled as Yaumatei, Yau Ma Ti, Yaumati or Yau-ma-Tee, is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong district, in the south of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong, China. ... In modern day Hong Kong, Kowloon refers to the urban area made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tates Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and... The Latin Rite is one of the 23 sui iuris particular Churches within the Catholic Church. ... This article is about the Wah Yan College on Hong Kong Island. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Jyutping (sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... The Latin Rite is one of the 23 sui iuris particular Churches within the Catholic Church. ... Yau Ma Tei (Traditional Chinese: or 油蔴地) , also spelled as Yaumatei, Yau Ma Ti, Yaumati or Yau-ma-Tee, is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong district, in the south of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong, China. ... In modern day Hong Kong, Kowloon refers to the urban area made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tates Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and... Seal of the Society of Jesus. ...

Aims and characteristics

According to the school website^[1], the school is aimed to give students opportunity to know Christ, to build a school community in which everybody may respect and co-operate with each other, to encourage students to work for a just society, and to serve the needed, etc..

In October 2007, the college officially endorsed the following Jesuit Vision Statement for their vision in education: “We offer a holistic, liberating and transforming Catholic education within a learning community for students and staff to become progressively competent, committed, compassionate, spiritual, and ethically discerning persons with a universal heart contributing to the welfare and happiness of all, in particular the poor and the neglected.”

It is widely agreed among Wahyanites that, compared with other secondary schools in Hong Kong, WYK offers more freedom to students, and values independent learning highly. Student organizations (clubs, societies and associations) are given much autonomy to organize activities, and they are partly supervised by students themselves. Secondary school is a term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ...

Class structure and curricula

At present, each form from F.1 to F.5 has 5 classes, called W, Y, K, S, J (standing for Wah, Yan, Kowloon, Society of Jesus). For F.6 and F.7, there are 3 classes in each form, namely S, B, and SS (standing for Science, Biology and Social Science).^[2]

Moreover, Catholic students have a faith formation lesson every week.

History

Formative years

Established in 1924 by Mr. Peter Tsui Yan Sau (徐仁夀, formerly a teacher at St. Joseph's College), WYK is one of the oldest and most prestigious secondary schools in Hong Kong, and was the first English-speaking college to be administered by local Chinese. During the 1930s, Mr. Tsui, himself a devout Catholic, saw the need of the pupils for greater spiritual guidance, decided to gradually hand over the administration to the incoming Jesuits, while the latter was actively seeking to serve in some local education establishments. Besides the two Wah Yan Colleges in Hong Kong and Kowloon, the Jesuits also sought to form a Catholic University in Hong Kong. Yet with the University of Hong Kong already established in 1911, the Jesuit fathers turned to organise a Catholic male hostel for its students, which hostel was to become Ricci Hall of the University. Mr. Tsui left Hong Kong and became a successful rubber planter and hotelier in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah of the British Malaya. He died in Hong Kong on 19 February 1981, age ninety three. Established in 1875, St. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... This article is about the Wah Yan College on Hong Kong Island. ... The University of Hong Kong (commonly abbreviated as HKU, pronounced as Hong Kong U) is the oldest and most prestigious tertiary institution in Hong Kong. ... Nickname: Location in Malaysia and Sabah Country State Settled by BNBC 1882 Declared capital of North Borneo 1946 Granted city status February 2, 2000 Government  - Mayor Datuk Illiyas Ibrahim Area  - City 351 km²  (136 sq mi) Population (2007)  - City 532 129 [2]  - Density 1,516/km² (3,913/sq mi... Map of Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia (Malay: Semenanjung Malaysia) is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula, and shares a land border with Thailand in the north. ... [[Media:Italic text]]{| style=float:right; |- | |- | |} is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...

Pre-war developments

Before the Second World War, the school was located on Portland Street and later moved to Nelson Street in 1928. Under the auspice of A. E. Wood, then Secretary for Education, the School was added to the Grant List, and was hence under Government subsidies. A branch was also opened on Austin Road to cater for students in senior years, the premises becomes the Tak Sun Primary School after the war. A South China Morning Post article in 1928 reported the WYK to be the biggest school in Hong Kong with a student population of 500. Despite new facilities, however, senior students were still required to cross the Victoria Harbour for laboratory lessons at the Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Portland Street (砵蘭街) is arguably the most famous red light district in Hong Kong. ... The South China Morning Post, together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is the dominant English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, with a circulation of 104,000. ... Victoria Harbour The night view of the Victoria Harbour with the skyscrapers in Central behind, viewed from Tsim Sha Tsui Victoria Harbour (Traditional Chinese: 維多利亞港; Simplified Chinese: 维多利亚港; Cantonese Jyutping: wai4 do1 lei6 aa3 gong2; Mandarin Pinyin: Wéiduōlìyà GÇŽng) is the harbour between the Kowloon Peninsula and the... This article is about the Wah Yan College on Hong Kong Island. ...

In 1941, Hong Kong was attacked by the Japanese forces, the Jesuit priests of the College helped organise the evacuation of the Kowloon civilians to the Island as they closed down the school. During the occupation, the Japanese prohibited its resumption on political grounds. The Nelson Street campus was so thoroughly looted that, Mr. Chow Ching-nam (周淸霖), then Headmaster, could only salvage nothing but a small portion of school registers and documentations, and the students had to bring in their own stools when the College reopened after the war. Anthem Kimi ga Yo Imperial Reign Capital Tokyo Government Constitutional monarchy Emperor  - 1868–1912 Emperor Meiji  - 1912–1926 Emperor Taishō  - 1926–1989 Emperor Shōwa Prime Minister  - 1885-1888, 1892-1896, 1898, 1900-1901 Itō Hirobumi  - 1888-1889 Kuroda Kiyotaka  - 1889-1891 Yamagata Aritomo  - 1906-1908, 1911-1912 Saionji Kinmochi... Belligerent military occupation, occurs when one nations military garrisons occupy all or part of a foreign nation during an invasion (during or after a war). ... Looting (which derives via the Hindi lut from Sanskrit lung, to rob), sacking, plundering, or pillaging is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe or riot, such as during war,[1] natural disaster,[2] or rioting. ...

Expansion and maturity

Around 1947, the School Authorities began the search for a new campus as its size further increased. A proposed acquisition of a site on Ho Man Tin Hill Road was turned down and after negotiations with the Government of Hong Kong, a piece of former paddy field was granted, and it hence moved to the current premise on Waterloo Road in 1952, where the school is to remain until now. This provision of land was quite vast by Hong Kong standards, making WYK one of the largest campus in the urban Hong Kong area. This precedent was soon followed in the case of land provision for Wah Yan College (Hong Kong), where the plot granted by the Government was also of significant size. The present campus was officially opened by the then Governor Sir Alexander Grantham, in 1953. In 2005, a new annex of WYK was officially opened providing new science labs, music room, a Computer Assisted Learning Room (commonly called CAL Room) and a student activity room. Sir Alexander Grantham Sir Alexander William George Herder Grantham (葛亮洪 1899–1978) was a British colonial governor who governed Hong Kong. ...

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WYK is known as the cradle of new Chinese ink painting in recognition of an experimental teaching method pioneered by former Arts teacher Mr. Laurence Tam (譚志成)in the late 1960's. Mr. Tam left WYK in 1971 to become a curator of the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Famous alumni

• LEE, Martin Chu-ming, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency; former chairman of Hong Kong Democratic Party.
• LEONG, Alan Kah-kit, former chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association and candidate of Hong Kong Chief Executive Election 2007
• MAK, Tak Wah (class of 1962), scientist (discoverer of T cell receptors, a key component of the human immune system) [1],[2],[3]
• TO, James Kun-sun, member of the Legislative Council (Kowloon West)
• TSANG, Kenneth, experienced actor who had starred in Hollywood production such as Die Another Day
• TSO, Wung-Wai, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, also an active politician in Hong Kong
• YING, Michael Lee-Yuen, Former chairman of Esprit Holdings Limited.
• Stephen Ng Tin-hoi(Chinese:吳天海), Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Wharf Holdings Limited(九龍倉集團有限公司); chairman, president and chief executive officer of i-CABLE Communications Limited (有線寬頻通訊有限公司); deputy chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited(會德豐有限公司); director of Joyce Boutique Holdings Limited and Modern Terminals Limited(現代貨箱碼頭有限公司); chairman, president and chief executive officer of Wharf T&T Limited(九倉電訊有限公司)

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Notes

See also

• Education in Hong Kong
• Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
• List of secondary schools in Hong Kong
• List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
• Society of Jesus
• Fo Pang

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External links

• Official site
• WYK Past Students' Association
• Wah Yan International Network
• Wah Yan Boys' Community
• Jesuit Secondary Education Association