YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College (Chinese: 港青基信書院; Jyutping: gong2 cing1 gei1 seon3 syu1 jyun2), abbreviated as YHKCC, is a secondary school located at Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong operated under the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) of the Education Bureau.
[2][15] It was the first directly subsidised Christian secondary school sponsored by the YMCA of Hong Kong since its establishment in 1901.
[23][24] The diverse culture, background, languages and curriculum of the school was highly praised by a politician during the graduation ceremony that year.
[36] In 2019, it was the first time the school enrolled Form 1 students from SWYHKCS, an English private primary school located in Kowloon also sponsored by YMCA of Hong Kong, as a school network,[37][38][39][40][41][42] where those students already received sufficient education of local curriculum for Chinese language and Mathematics education, international curriculum for English language and other subjects including STEM subjects corresponding to the education in the United Kingdom.
[43][44][45] After the protest on 1 September 2019, the school postponed the start of term until the next day because of considerable uncertainty resulting from the dangerous situation in Tung Chung station and the likelihood of traffic disruption.
[50] During the suspension period, a video was created by the Science Department of the school which explains the details of Coronavirus disease 2019.
[51] While the epidemic situation hinders parents' livelihood, the school helped bail out the tuition fees for next academic year.
[52] The school has paid or promised to pay more than HK$700,000 deposits to travel agencies for the purpose of organising study tours.
When the government issued red tourism warnings to all overseas countries, travel agencies and airlines took the initiative to contact the school to discuss compensation arrangements.
[53] The IGCSE and GCE examinations were cancelled, though the school claimed that they were not too worried about the impact on further education of students, as most of them have already obtained conditional offers by that time.
General facilities include a canteen currently operated by Sodexo[64] on G/F, a careers centre and a reading corner on 1/F, an assembly hall on 2/F, and a library on 7/F.
[12] There is an independent two-storey high building called Music Block which cost HK$26 million.
Aside from the teaching building, there are many first-class sports facilities in the school,[29] such as a four-lane 100-metre running track with a long jump sand-pit, a basketball court, an all-weather covered playground which is fully air-conditioned, and a multi-purpose turf pitch and grass field which usually serves as a football pitch.
[12] The outermost circle in blue colour represents completeness, unity of the total of life, and God's created order.
[76] With the large range of meaningful alternative learning profile, the school provides flexible homework to students.
Other STEM related equipments include astronomical telescopes for learning astronomy,[2] six 3D printers for makers' projects with 3D printing,[2] and programming robots of different brands and models.
[23] The British National Curriculum comprises the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and GCE A/AS-Level.
Self-driving Best Design Award in the EIE Robotics Challenge Junior 2019 organised by the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
[87][109] In October 2019, the students of STEM Club made an instrument using the principle of electromagnetism, able to play the YMCA song.
Every year students who preferably study Physics can be selected to participate in the Future Pilot Training Programme organized by the Hong Kong Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools Council.
The training venue is Bankstown Airport, Sydney, Australia and the campus of the University of New South Wales.
Aside from this, they were also able to visit the Qingjing Farm, Sun Moon Lake, Gaomei Wetlands, and Tunghai University.
Among the approximately 900 students at the school,[132][133] 73% are foreign students from more than 40 countries or regions,[13][29] including United States,[18][100] Argentina, Australia, Austria,[18] Bangladesh, Brazil, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, China,[100] Croatia,[34] Denmark, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, France, Guatemala, Germany,[134] Ghana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India,[18] Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico,[135] Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan,[135] Philippines,[134] Poland, Russia,[18] Serbia and Singapore.
[36][85][86][87][121] Music groups include Assembly Band,[149] Beat Club, Choir,[150][151] Chinese Instrumental Ensemble, and Orchestra.
[2][12] Service and spirit groups include Catering Team,[135] Christian Fellowship,[151] Community Service Group, The Hong Kong Award for Young People, Green Club & Ambassador, Scout,[152][153] Stage Management Crew,[21][22] and Student Librarian.
[2] The school organises three-day-two-night Life-Wide-Learning camp for junior form students in every Autumn to replace one-day picnic as their other learning experience.
[18][135][183][184][185] Visitors can enjoy ethnic food,[186] a bazaar, games,[187] bouncy castles and an art exhibition at the school.
[188] Visitors can also catch talent shows in the afternoon and evening,[189] featuring the songs and dances of different countries worldwide.
[38] Also, the school also make use of the YMCA facilities of other cities during its overseas events such as Service Outreach Scheme programme.
[12] School bus routes in the past include Tsing Yi, Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun and Sham Tseng, Prince Edward and Kowloon Tong, Tin Shui Wai and Yuen Long.