Renaissance College Hong Kong
Encyclopedia
Renaissance College, Hong Kong is a co-educational, through-train, private independent international school in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong
, serving primary, middle, and high school students (ages 5–18). It is under the umbrella of English Schools Foundation
(ESF). It provides IB Primary Years Programme
(PYP), Middle Years Programme
(MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) to all students according to their year levels. It is one of three ESF schools in Kowloon
and the New Territories
that provide schooling for secondary students, the others being King George V School
and Sha Tin College
.
Students come from different parts of the world including the United Kingdom
, the United States
, Australia
and various Asian, African and European countries. The secondary section offers art
, Chinese
, design technology
, drama
, English
, humanities
, mathematics
, music
, PE
, science
, and Spanish
classes.
60,000 to 80,000 to provide iMac
s and MacBook
s, and MacBook Pro
s, running on Mac OS X
operating system. Projectors and interactive whiteboards are also installed in most classrooms.
Secondary students attending RCHK are required to bring laptops to school everyday. Laptops can also be borrowed from the school ICT
centre during the school day. There is wireless internet connection in the school, allowing students to have access to the internet
within the boundaries of RCHK.
School runs from 8:40 am to 3:00 pm. There are 185 days in a school year. The lunch break is 50 minutes and the morning break is 20 minutes. There are 8 periods each day and each period lasts 40 minutes.
There is a hub area in each year group; a hub is a centre of activity for a year group. Classrooms lead off from the hub. There are books, computers and games in the hub.
, association football, volleyball
, tennis
, golf
, badminton
, swimming
, cross-country running
, pedal kart, and a recent introduction of rugby
.
, Song
, Ming
, and Qing
. The House colours are Tang (red), Song (yellow), Ming (blue), and Qing (green). House activities include sports and charity events. Community service
and volunteer activities, assemblies and meetings with elected student council representatives enable both senior and junior students to interact together, providing many opportunities for students to master co-operation and leadership skills. All houses have 13 advisory groups, each group having an advisory teacher supporting a group of about 15 to 20 secondary students with similar year level(s).
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, serving primary, middle, and high school students (ages 5–18). It is under the umbrella of English Schools Foundation
English Schools Foundation
The English Schools Foundation is an organisation that runs 20 educational institutions, most of which are international schools, which are all located in Hong Kong...
(ESF). It provides IB Primary Years Programme
IB Primary Years Programme
The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme is an educational programme managed by the International Baccalaureate for students aged 3 to 11. While the programme prepares students for the IB Middle Years Programme, it is not a prerequisite for it...
(PYP), Middle Years Programme
IB Middle Years Programme
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme is an educational programme intended for students aged approximately 11 to 16 . Thus, in the United States the programme is often taught throughout the middle school years and the first two years of high school...
(MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) to all students according to their year levels. It is one of three ESF schools in Kowloon
Kowloon
Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population of...
and the New Territories
New Territories
New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory...
that provide schooling for secondary students, the others being King George V School
King George V School
King George V School , often shortened to "KGV" is a co-educational international secondary independent school of the English Schools Foundation, located in the Ho Man Tin area of Hong Kong. Currently school 1,700 students in the Kowloon peninsula, it is one of the oldest schools in Hong Kong,...
and Sha Tin College
Sha Tin College
Sha Tin College is a private secondary school in Hong Kong and a member of the English Schools Foundation – the largest independent schools organization in Asia....
.
Students come from different parts of the world including the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and various Asian, African and European countries. The secondary section offers art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
, design technology
Design Technology
Design and Technology is a school subject offered at all levels of primary and secondary school. In some countries such as England it is a part of the National Curriculum. It is offered in many countries around the world such as Brunei, Bermuda, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Jordan...
, drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, PE
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
classes.
History
On 26 October 2001, Phoenix International School's former school, Canadian Overseas International School closed because of financial difficulties owing to the bankruptcy of the company which provided financial support to the school. Approximately 380 students lost their school. The Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) decided to set up a temporary new school named Phoenix International School, and managed by ESF. Meanwhile, the EMB promised the ESF to give them land for a permanent campus. The permanent campus was completed in 2006 and was named Renaissance College, officially replacing Phoenix International School in September. The school was officially given the status of IB World School in 2007. Mr. Peter Kenny, principal of the College since its foundation, was succeeded by Dr. Harry Brown in summer 2009.Technology
The College partners with Apple Inc., spending HK$Hong Kong dollar
The Hong Kong dollar is the currency of the jurisdiction. It is the eighth most traded currency in the world. In English, it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively HK$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
60,000 to 80,000 to provide iMac
IMac
The iMac is a range of all-in-one Macintosh desktop computers built by Apple. It has been the primary part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since its introduction in 1998, and has evolved through five distinct forms....
s and MacBook
MacBook
The MacBook was a brand of Macintosh notebook computers built by Apple Inc. First introduced in May 2006, it replaced the iBook and 12-inch PowerBook series of notebooks as a part of the Apple–Intel transition. Positioned as the low end of the MacBook family, the Apple MacBook was aimed at the...
s, and MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro is a line of Macintosh portable computers introduced in January 2006 by Apple. It replaced the PowerBook G4 and was the second model, after the iMac, to be announced in the Apple–Intel transition...
s, running on Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
operating system. Projectors and interactive whiteboards are also installed in most classrooms.
Secondary students attending RCHK are required to bring laptops to school everyday. Laptops can also be borrowed from the school ICT
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
centre during the school day. There is wireless internet connection in the school, allowing students to have access to the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
within the boundaries of RCHK.
Primary School
The Primary School consists of 33 classes across Years 1 to 6. There are approximately 870 students and 40 teachers in the Primary school. Teachers in the primary section come from various parts of the world such as New Zealand and the U.S.School runs from 8:40 am to 3:00 pm. There are 185 days in a school year. The lunch break is 50 minutes and the morning break is 20 minutes. There are 8 periods each day and each period lasts 40 minutes.
There is a hub area in each year group; a hub is a centre of activity for a year group. Classrooms lead off from the hub. There are books, computers and games in the hub.
Secondary School
The secondary section of RCHK is attended by middle and high school students, ages 11 to 18. The middle school, Years 7 to 11, follows the Middle Years Programme, while high school students in Years 12 and 13 undergo the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, with approximately 1,000 students in total. The secondary school runs from 8:30 am until 3:10 pm from Mondays to Thursdays, and 8:30 am until 1:00 pm on Fridays, with morning breaks from 10:40 am to 11:00 am and lunch breaks from 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm.Sports
RCHK has a number of teams participating in various sports under ISSFHK (International Schools Sports Federation of Hong Kong). There are teams for the following sports: basketballBasketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, association football, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, cross-country running
Running
Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...
, pedal kart, and a recent introduction of rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
.
Facilities
Facilities within RCHK include: A swimming pool, two basketball/volleyball courts, a cafeteria, two gymnasiums (one including a rock climbing wall), a Performing Arts Centre, and two astroturf playing fields.Library and Information Resources Centre
The Library and Information Resources Centre (LIRC) is housed on two separate floors at the school. Students can have access to resources for their schoolwork. As of March 2011, there are more than thirty thousand resources in the LIRC.Houses
The four houses at the College are named after four out of five major imperial dynasties of China. They are TangTang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire...
, Song
Song Dynasty
The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...
, Ming
Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...
, and Qing
Qing Dynasty
The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
. The House colours are Tang (red), Song (yellow), Ming (blue), and Qing (green). House activities include sports and charity events. Community service
Community service
Community service is donated service or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions....
and volunteer activities, assemblies and meetings with elected student council representatives enable both senior and junior students to interact together, providing many opportunities for students to master co-operation and leadership skills. All houses have 13 advisory groups, each group having an advisory teacher supporting a group of about 15 to 20 secondary students with similar year level(s).