Creative Secondary School

Creative Secondary School (CSS; simplified Chinese: 启思中学; traditional Chinese: 啟思中學; pinyin: Qǐsī Zhōngxué) is a private school in Hong Kong under the DSS scheme, opened in September 2006. CSS offers both the IB Programme (which consists of the IB Middle Years Program and the IB Diploma) and Hong Kong's standard educational curriculum (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education)..

Creative Secondary School
Address
3 Pung Loi Road, Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, N.T., Hong Kong
Information
TypeInternational School, DSS Secondary school
Motto"Through this place we thrive, we serve and find our place in the world." [1] "Be Positive, Act Positively.[2]
PrincipalDr Anthony Adames
Years offeredF1-F6
GenderCo-educational
Enrolment800 (for the academic year 2015-16)
Campus165,000 m2 (1,780,000 sq ft)
Websitewww.css.edu.hk
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese啟思中學
Simplified Chinese启思中学

Curriculum

CSS offers both the IB Programme (which consists of the IB Middle Years Program and the IB Diploma.) and the standard Hong Kong DSE Diploma. The Creative Secondary School was one of the first in Hong Kong to offer a dual curriculum.[3] In 2009, the school won the Hong Kong Odyssey of the Mind competition and represented Hong Kong at an international level.[4]

School life

CSS offers extracurricular activities. Sports include rugby, badminton, football (soccer), archery and athletics. CSS also have a bunch of academics CCA Co-curricular Activities like debate, mathematics helping class and more after school activities, and also other arts subjects like Visual Arts, Drama, Music.

House system

CSS employs a house system in which all of its students and the majority of staff are assigned to one. The six houses are named after trees, Bauhinia, Bombax, Cassia, Delonix, Jacaranda and Juniper. Each house has its own colours, and houses compete against each other at various school events, such as the CSS Sports Day.

Staff

Cheung Siu Ming is the founding Principal. He attended St. Joseph's College in Hong Kong, received his degree and teaching qualification at the University of Bristol, and an MA in Education from the Open University (UK.) He taught in UK secondary schools and served as an adviser in Lambeth Education Department in London. He returned to Hong Kong in 1994 to join the English Schools Foundation as Deputy Principal of West Island School. In 2001 the ESF appointed Ming Principal of Phoenix International School. He has been a tutor for the OUHK's MED program.

References
  1. "School Motto & Core Values". www.css.edu.hk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. "Creative Secondary School Official Site". www.css.edu.hk. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. Yau, Elaine. "DSS Schools Find Middle Way on Curriculum" (PDF). South China Morning Post. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  4. Ong-Wood, Ivy (14 April 2009). "Creative Tradition". The Standard. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

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