Pui Ching Middle School (Hong Kong)

Infobox School
name = Pui Ching Middle School |

size = 156px
motto = 至善至正
phone = [phone]
fax = [phone]
established = 1889
type = Aided, secondary, co-educational.
grades = 1-7
head = Yip Chee-Tim 葉賜添 (2003)
street = 20 Pui Ching Road
city = Ho Man Tin
state = Kowloon
country = Hong Kong
district = Kowloon City
enrollment = 1400
website = http://www.puiching.edu.hk http://www.puiching.edu.hk

Pui Ching Middle School (Chinese: 香港培正中學) is a Baptist secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Founded in 1889, it currently has sister schools in Macau and Guangzhou.

History

The Hong Kong branch was established in 1933 in Ho Man Tin. Initially, only primary school education was offered; a junior high school division using Chinese as medium of instruction was established in 1938, a senior high division was established in 1940. The school was suspended during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Students and staff went to Macau and mainland China. In 1945, the school move back to a temporary site in Kowloon Tong and in 1946, the school move back to Ho Man Tin. In 1950, the school was renamed from a Hong Kong branch of the Canton school to the present name. In 1952, a new extension on the land donated by Hong Kong Government was built and complete in September, 1953. The premises is located at Pui Ching Road which was named after the school.

Notable alumni

* Daniel Chee Tsui, 崔琦, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 1998.
* Shing-Tung Yau, 丘成桐, mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. Calabi-Yau manifold was named after him.
* Alfred Y. Cho, 卓以和, father of molecular beam epitaxy.
* Yum-Tong Siu, 蕭蔭堂, mathematician, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University.
* Shiu-Yuen Cheng, 鄭紹遠, Dean of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
* Sun Kwok, 郭新, founder of Interactive Wind Model in Planetary Nebula, Dean of Science of University of Hong Kong
* Chia-Wei Woo, 吳家瑋, founding President of the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* Daniel Tse Chi Wai, 謝志偉, former president of Hong Kong Baptist University
* Ng Ching-fai, 吳清渾, president of Hong Kong Baptist University
* Wong Jing, 王晶
* Gigi Lai, 黎姿
* Samuel Chan, 陳鍵鋒 [陳恩耀]
* Cindy Au, 歐倩怡
* Wong Yuk Long, 黃玉郎
* Wu Wai Hong 胡謂康(香港小虎隊成員)

See also

* Pui Ching Middle School
* Education in Hong Kong
* List of schools in Hong Kong
* Pui Ching Invitational Mathematics Competition

External links

* [http://www.puiching.edu.hk/ Hong Kong school homepage]