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Sha Tin Government Secondary School

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school_name	Sha Tin Government Secondary School
district	Sha Tin
school_address	11-17 Man Lai Road Shatin
school_type	Gov't
student_gender	Co-ed
school_tel	26914744
school_fax	26091456
school_email	stgss@stgss.edu.hk
school_website	http://www.stgss.edu.hk
school_mission	School Vision: We inspire every student to learn, to think, to care and to achieve. It is our mission to provide the best opportunity for students to develop their potential to the full, to acquire knowledge, and to adopt a positive attitude towards work, life and their community in accordance with our school motto - LOVE, WISDOM & VIGOUR.
school_motto	LOVE, WISDOM and VIGOUR
commencement_of_operation_year	1972
religion	Not Applicable
sponsoring_body	HKSAR Government
imc	Not Applicable
language_policy	English is used as the main medium of instruction in all subjects except Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua, Chinese Literature and Citizenship & Social Development. Our school aims to train our students to become biliterate in English and Chinese, and trilingual in English, Putonghua and Cantonese.

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name_supervisor_chairman_of_mc	Hung Chi Pan
title_supervisor_chairman_of_mc	Mr.
name_of_principal	Choi Fung Man
title_of_principal	Ms.
principal_qualifications_experiences	(B.A., PGDE)
training_compliance_rate_supervisor_managers_smc_chair_members	100
school_size	4500
parent_teacher_association	Yes
student_union_association	Yes
school_alumni_association	Yes
tsi_no_of_approved_teaching_posts	55
tsi_total_no_of_teachers	55
tsi_percent_of_received_teacher_training	100
tsi_percent_of_bachelor	100
tsi_percent_of_master_doctorate_or_above	51
tsi_percent_of_special_edu_training	61
tsi_percent_of_exp_0_4	11
tsi_percent_of_exp_5_9	6
tsi_percent_of_exp_10_or_above	83
2025_2026_subject_offered_by_chinese_s1_to_s3	Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua
2025_2026_subject_offered_by_english_s1_to_s3	English Language, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Citizenship, Economy and Society (S.1 and S.2), Life and Society (S.3), Computer Literacy, Visual Arts, Music and Physical Education
2025_2026_subject_offered_others_s1_to_s3	Project-based Learning (S.3), Japanese Course for Junior Secondary Students
2025_2026_subject_offered_by_chinese_s4_to_s6	Chinese Language, Chinese History, Chinese Literature, Citizenship & Social Development
2025_2026_subject_offered_by_english_s4_to_s6	English Language, Mathematics, Mathematics Extended Part Module 1 and 2 (M1 and M2), Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Geography, Economics, Information & Communication Technology, Business, Accounting & Financial Studies, Visual Arts, Physical Education and Music (Senior Curriculum will be conducted in Arts and Technology Education Centre)
2026_2027_subject_offered_by_chinese_s1_to_s3	Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua
2026_2027_subject_offered_by_english_s1_to_s3	English Language, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Citizenship, Economics and Society, Computer Literacy, Visual Arts, Music and Physical Education
2026_2027_subject_offered_others_s1_to_s3	Project-based Learning (S.3), Japanese Course for Junior Secondary Students
2026_2027_subject_offered_by_chinese_s4_to_s6	Chinese Language, Chinese History, Chinese Literature, Citizenship & Social Development
2026_2027_subject_offered_by_english_s4_to_s6	English Language, Mathematics, Mathematics Extended Part Module 1 and 2 (M1 and M2), Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, Geography, Economics, Information & Communication Technology, Business, Accounting & Financial Studies, Visual Arts, Physical Education and Music (Senior Curriculum will be conducted in Arts and Technology Education Centre)
current_year_no_of_class_s1	4
current_year_no_of_class_s2	4
current_year_no_of_class_s3	4
current_year_no_of_class_s4	4
current_year_no_of_class_s5	5
current_year_no_of_class_s6	4
sc_pta_fee	"$50"
sc_student_union_association_fee	"$22"
sc_charges_for_non_standard_items	School-based Management Fee $200 (S.1 to S.5) / $150 (S.6)
sc_remarks	OLE activities are conducted through both formal and informal curriculum.
oa_s1_admission	Our school will accept discretionary places. Our school will participate in the Secondary School Places Allocation System through central allocation stage (Applicable for admission to S.1 in September 2026 ).Criteria for S.1 Discretionary Places: The school takes into consideration students' conduct (obtained good or excellent conduct in Primary 5 and Primary 6), the Rank Order from EDB, performance in extra-curricular activities, internal academic results and awards when admitting S.1 students. Students will be invited to attend an interview. For details, please refer to our school website http://www.stgss.edu.hk.
oa_orientation_activities_n_healthy_life	Orientation Activities: To help S.1 students adapt to the English learning environment, our school organizes the S.1 English Bridging Program in the summer. There is also a wide variety of orientation programs, such as the S.1 Orientation Day and Welcoming S.1 Students Camp. The S.1 Parents' Day is also held to facilitate communication and to create a close bond between parents and teachers. The Health and Sex Education Committee is set up to equip students with knowledge of health and sex education and promote a healthy lifestyle.
school_management_url	https://www.stgss.edu.hk/school-management-committee/
school_major_concerns	Major Concern 1: To nurture autonomous, lifelong learners with a global perspective Major Concern 2: To enhance students’ positive values and strengthen their well-being through establishing a healthy lifestyle
school_organisation	We are a government grammar school established on the basis of the policies devised by EDB. The School Management Committee is set up and it endorses and fully supports the school policies and development plans.
imc_smc_mc	The School Management Committee of Sha Tin Government Secondary School consists of teachers, parents, alumni and independent members.
school_green_policy	Environmental Education Committee is set up to promote environmental protection among students.
learning_and_teaching_plan_url	http://www.stgss.edu.hk/academic/subject.php
learning_and_teaching_strategies	With sophisticated computer network and facilities, our school actively promotes information technology in education. We also emphasize the training of students' self-learning skills, nurturing good virtues and manners, whole-person development, and effective teaching and learning. The curricula and teaching syllabuses of various subjects in our school gear closely to the curriculum framework and key learning areas devised by EDB. School-based curriculum is implemented in our school and the training of students' generic skills is also incorporated in everyday lessons.
school_based_curriculum	1. Electives: 3X. A multitude of subject combinations are devised from different key learning areas postulated by Education Bureau. 2. Curriculum highlights: - Cross-curricular Collaboration - STEM Education for S2 students - Cookery Classes for S4 students - Japanese Course for Junior Secondary Students Subject Choice of Senior Levels e.g. Students can choose electives from a combination of Science and Humanities Subjects. In addition to the core subjects, senior secondary students may choose HKDSE Category B- Applied Learning subjects as an elective subject according to their interests, aspirations and abilities. Senior secondary students can also choose to study HKDSE Category C- Other Language Subjects (Japanese) on Saturdays at designated educational institutions. There are S1 to S6 Reading Across Curriculum and S4 to S5 Other Learning Experiences lessons. Junior Levels: S.1: Aquaponics (collaboration between Science and English) S.2: Personal, Social & Humanities Education Project (collaboration between Geography, Citizenship, Economics and Society, Chinese History and History) S.3: Project-based Learning: blending STEAM Skills with AI tools
major_renewed_emphases_in_the_school_curriculum	The school places great emphasis on promoting 'Reading to Learn' to our students. Headed by the Reading to Learn Committee, extensive reading schemes, book exhibitions, seminars and book review writing competitions are organized. The school also promotes I.T. in education. With Wifi fully installed across the school campus, eLearning which aims to boost students' interest in all subject areas is one of our major concerns. To enhance teaching effectiveness, teachers will incorporate a variety of eLearning elements in the curriculum. Students will also be guided to learn at their own pace according to their ability through self-exploring a profusion of eLearning materials. STEM education will be widely implemented not only in our key learning areas but also in activities within and outside the school, with the community to enrich students' knowledge of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Last but not least, reading, lesson preparation and learning across the curriculum will continue to be indispensable parts of our curriculum in consolidating students' foundation. Our school also puts great emphasis on life education. We promote students' well-being through learning experiences to lead them a healthy lifestyle with positive values. We also establish students' national and global identity and foster their personal development so that they can contribute themselves to the development of society.
life_planning_education	In order to strengthen career and life planning education, our school has implemented a school-based “Careers and Life Planning Scheme” for all junior form students. Students will be able to explore their academic interests and career aspirations after completing aptitude tests, researching university programmes and participating in various career-related activities. Moreover, our school organizes Career Expo to equip both senior form students and their parents with the knowledge of various study, career and training pathways. A wide range of career-related activities, such as workplace visits, career exploration workshops and work experience programmes, are also held to furnish students with the knowledge, skills and attitude to make informed choices in accordance with their interests, abilities and orientations.
student_support_url	http://www.stgss.edu.hk/academic/subject.php
whole_school_approach_cater_for_learner_diversity	To cater for learner diversity, our school organizes after-school learning programs, assigns graded exercises to students of different abilities and employs different teaching strategies to match students' learning styles. Our school makes use of information technology to support students of diverse abilities to learn at their own pace after school. Group learning activities and discussions are held to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning. For S.1 Chinese, English and Mathematics lessons, the school has split classes to enhance learning effectiveness. Teachers give timely feedback to students regarding their learning tasks to consolidate their knowledge. Students also have to do self-evaluation on their studies.
whole_school_approach_integrated_education	We endeavour to foster integration and build a caring school community, offering students with special needs school-based support through home-school cooperation and resource allocation. Catering for the needs of individual student, our targeted and diversified support services will improve students’ learning effectiveness and communication skills, hence to ensure a more enjoyable integrated school life and healthier personal growth. We have set up a support group for students, members including our assistant principal, the SEN coordinator, teachers equipped with SEN training, our school social workers, teaching assistants, the speech therapist and the educational psychologist from EDB. We and our subsidiary units keep close contact with the inspectors from Special Education Support Section, EDB as well as parents. We carefully assign a range of resources including Learning Support Grant, Grant for Supporting Non-Chinese Speaking Students with Special Educational Needs and other resources for SEN assistance, providing professional care services such as social skill training workshop and other skills’ training workshops. Our valued home-school cooperation and regular communication between parents and our group members or teachers bring forward our joint-effort in student support.
support_for_non_chinese_students	Our school provides additional support for NCS students to facilitate their learning of Chinese: providing after-school support programmes in learning Chinese; appointing additional teacher(s)/teaching assistant(s) to support NCS students’ learning of Chinese; arranging intensive Chinese learning and teaching mode(s), e.g. pull-out learning if necessary, split-class/group learning, etc.; and organising activities to create an inclusive learning environment in the school.
adaptation_for_learning_and_assessment	There are one uniform mid-term test and one exam in each term. Project work forms part of the assessments. Continuous assessments are also introduced in S.1-S.6, which includes students' learning attitude in class and homework assessment.
home_school_co_operation_url	http://pta.stgss.edu.hk
home_school_co_operation	The Parents-Teachers' Association is set up with the aim to establish a close bond among parents, to facilitate communication and strengthen the tie between the school and the students' families. The Association also works closely with and fully supports the school for the betterment of students. Besides, two parent representatives are elected as members of the School Management Committee to help devise the school major policies and endorse the school budget.
school_ethos	Our school has established a good reputation and we provide a harmonious environment for students to learn. Students have a strong sense of belonging to the school and there are committees providing various kinds of support to our students, including discipline, guidance, moral and civic education, health, sex and life education, environmental education, careers and extra-curricular activities committees.
future_development_url	http://www.stgss.edu.hk/
school_dev_plan	We strive for excellence in learning and teaching through measures such as enhancing students' effective learning strategies, catering for learning diversity and implementation of senior secondary education. On top of these, the school also puts great emphasis on the Student Portfolio Scheme, Student Learning Profile, Project-based learning and Reading to Learn.
teacher_pro_training_and_dev	Teachers are encouraged to attend courses and seminars to broaden their professional knowledge. Our school organizes three Professional Development Days throughout the year and a mentor is assigned for every new teacher. The school arranges Collaborative Lesson Planning Sessions for professional development. Peer lesson observation and collaborative lesson preparation are frequently conducted among teachers to enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
life_wide_learning	There are four houses and twenty-two interest clubs in our school. School clubs are divided into five types, including academic, arts, sports, uniform and social service groups. For all S.1 students, we provide 'An Art/Sport for Life' Scheme.
fac_no_of_classroom	34
fac_school_facilities	Projectors and audio-visual equipment are installed in all 34 classrooms. Lessons and student activities are also conducted in the four well-equipped laboratories and special rooms such as Computer Rooms and Lecture Theatre. The Music Room, STEM Room, Student Activities Room, English Room and Conference Room are also in use.
fac_facility_for_special_educational_needs	Ramp, Accessible lift, Accessible toilet and visual fire alarm system.
others	The air-conditioned classrooms and the well-facilitated school premises provide a spacious and comfortable environment for various learning and extra-curricular activities.
direct_public_transportation_to_school	By Bus: 72A, 86, 89, 240X, 249X, E42, 282, 288; By MTR: Get off at Che Kung Temple Station, Tai Wai Station or Shatin Station.
other_districts	Sham Shui Po