St. Paul's Secondary School

History

St. Paul's Secondary School is a Catholic grant-in-aid Anglo-Chinese secondary grammar school for girls. It was one of the first girls' schools in Hong Kong to offer science subjects and computer studies in the upper forms and computer literacy in the lower forms.

It introduced integrated science in the late 60s, computer studies in the late 70s, computer literacy and family life education in the early 80s and implemented IT in education in the 90s. It was selected as one of the 10 pilot secondary schools in the IT in Education Pilot Scheme in 1998.

To date, it has widened its curriculum and developed itself into a fully integrated educational institute with arts, sciences, commercial and social sciences at all levels.

First foundation

St. Paul's Secondary School owes its parentage to the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres who arrived in Hong Kong from France in 1848. They became involved in local education soon after their arrival. They sponsored and ran St. Paul's Convent School in 1854 and their work of educational excellence became well known in Hong Kong.

Second foundation

St. Paul's Secondary School was founded in 1960 by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres as an extension of St. Paul's Convent School to meet the growing needs of science education of girls in Hong Kong at secondary and matriculation levels.

Its former principal, Damian Lai, retired in 2006.

Academics

There are five classes in each of form 1 to form 6, constituting a total of 30 classes. Most of the form 1 students come from St. Paul's Primary Catholic School and the rest come from other primary schools.

School clubs and teams

Subject-related experiences

文史學會

普通話學會

Computer Club

English Society

Home Economics Club

Liberal Studies Society

Mathematics Society

Science Club

Social Sciences Club

Aesthetic development

中文戲劇學會

中國戲曲興趣小組

Dance Club

English Drama Club

Instrumental Classes

Music Society

Photography Club

School Choir

School Orchestra

Visual Arts Club

Physical development

Athletics Club

Badminton Club

Basketball Club

Rope Skipping Society

Swimming Club

Table Tennis Club

Volleyball Club

Moral & civic education

Green School Working Team

Legion of Mary (China Praesidium, Miraculous Medal Praesidium)

Mass Liturgy Group

Peer Group Counselling Team

Student Civic Education Team

Student Moral Education Team

Young Friends of St. Paul

Community service

Community Youth Club

Ecology & Health Club

Girl Guides

Hong Kong Award for Young People

I.T. Prefect Board

Prefect Board

Road Safety Patrol

Sister School Scheme

Social Service Society

SPSS Nursing Cadet Division

Z-Club

Career-related experiences

Campus TV Team

English Debating Society

Editorial Board (Yearbook)

Paulinian Spectrum Editorial Board

Student Careers Team

Student Librarian Society

中文演說及辯論組

School hymn

Refrain:

Hark! Daughters of the great St. Paul,

Come, listen to his call:

"O children of this loved school,

The loving nurse of all,

Rejoice in God, do work and pray;

Be true from day to day."

Beloved school of mine,

My pains and joys are thine,

My childhood's early dreams

Are closely linked with thee.

The hope that heaven brings

Thou dost unfold to me,

Thou dost unfold to me.

Sweet are the days of girlhood,

When friends we love and care,

Those golden links of childhood,

Whose sympathy we share.

Do stay and while the hours away,

With us in work and play.

And when we leave

Our dear old school

These mem'ries we'll recall,

These mem'ries we'll recall.

Extra-curricular activities

Music

The SPSS Symphony Orchestra was established in 2005 and has actively participated in various competitions in Hong Kong. It has won numerous awards, including second place at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival (香港校際音樂節), the gold award in the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows (香港青年音樂匯演), etc. The orchestra also performs at the school's annual concerts, open days and other events. In addition to the symphony orchestra, SPSS also has a wide range of musical groups, including the Junior and Intermediate Choirs, as well as a String Orchestra and a Wind Band. The School Intermediate Choir came first with 92 marks in this year's Schools Music Festival: Intermediate Girls Choir Competition Singing in Foreign Language Second Division. The School Junior Choir, out of 27 competitors, came second with 87 marks in this year's Schools Music Festival: Girls Choir Competition Singing in Foreign Language Second Division.

Sports

The School organizes a wide variety of sports teams, including Athletics, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis, National Dance, Fencing, Rope Skipping. The School is also actively participate in invitation competition organised by various school.

Basketball team

St. Paul's Secondary School is renowned for its outstanding basketball team. In the year of 2002, a group of devoted basketball players have joined the basketball team and changed the prospect of the team. After spending years of effort, the team won the Overall Champion in the Inter-School Basketball Competition 2006/07 which established the greatest success in the school's sports history.

Since then, the basketball team has achieved the followings in the Division One (HK) Inter-School Basketball Competition:

2008/09 A Grade - 2nd runner-up

2010/12 B Grade - 2nd runner-up

Notable alumnae

Politics and law

Dr. Margaret Ng Ngoi-yee: Politician, barrister, writer and columnist. Practising barrister in Hong Kong since 1988. Member of the Legal functional constituency of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1998-2012). Former director at Stand News and a former member of Civic Party.

Pamela Peck: Hong Kong famous columnist, radio host, actor, social activist

Claudia Mo: Former Legislative Council Member (Kowloon West geographical constituency), former The Standard, TVB and RTHK journalist. Hong Kong media worker, pan-democratic camp politician, and former member of the Civic Party

Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee, GBS, JP: Former Secretary for Food and Health Bureau

Sport

Siobhán Haughey: Famous Hong Kong swimmer, holder of 10 Hong Kong records. In the 2016 Olympic Games, she became the first Hong Kong swimmer to reach the semi-final of the women's swimming event, and she won the silver medal in the women's 200m freestyle at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Chan Wai Kei: Famous windsurfer, windsurfing gold medalist at the 2009 East Asian Games

Culture and media

Sandy Lau Sin Ting: The 2009 Miss Hong Kong champion

Roxanne Tong Lok Man: 2012 Miss Hong Kong Tourism Ambassador, Beauty Sublimation and Most Popular Pageant, famous female artist and TV actress

Sisley Choi: Miss Hong Kong 2013 first runner-up, famous female artist and TV drama actor

Scarlett Wong: Former ViuTV artist and host of a famous Hong Kong show. Sister of actress Jacqueline Wong

Ada To Man-Wai: Famous stage actress, screenwriter, composer and lyricist

Emily Kwan Po Wai: Famous TV actor and singer

Rosa Maria Velasco: Famous stage actress

Jarita Wan: Famous musical actress

Ashley Cheung: Winner of the HAF Award at the 2016 Hong Kong International Film and Television Festival

Gladys Li Ching Kwan: Model and actor

JuJu Chan Szeto: Hong Kong singer-songwriter, female action actress, taekwondo athlete, film producer, 2009 Miss Chinatown America

Wancy Tai: Hong Kong female singer

Kristy Shaw: Miss Hong Kong 2021 runner-up and Miss Friendship

Lam Tze Wing, Nora: Director

Sinnie Ng: member of the girl group Lolly Talk

Associated schools

Other sister schools:

St. Paul's Convent School

St. Paul's School (Lam Tin)

St Paul's International College (Australia)