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Quarry Bay School
Quarry Bay School
Traditional Chinese	鰂魚涌小學
Simplified Chinese	鲗鱼涌小学
Cantonese Yale	jāk yùh chūng síu hohk
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zéiyúchōng Xiǎoxué
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	jāk yùh chūng síu hohk
Jyutping	zak1 jyu4 cung1 siu2 hok6

Quarry Bay School
Quarry Bay School
Location
	6 Hau Yuen Path; Braemar Hill, North Point, Hong Kong
Information
Type	Private, international, primary, co-educational.
Motto	Labore et Honore
Principal	Ms. Sue Yee
Enrollment	approx. 720
Years	1 - 6
Website	https://www.qbs.edu.hk/

Quarry Bay School is the oldest English Schools Foundation primary school in Hong Kong. There are around 720 students. Its current campus is on Braemar Hill on Hong Kong Island.

The principal is currently Sue Yee who started her role in August 2021. Mina Dunstan was principal from 2012 until June 2021. The previous principal was Debra Gardiner who, before she retired, had been at Quarry Bay School for 4 years.

History

The juvenile hall was opened in 1926 to educate the children of expatriate dockyard workers. It remained at 986 King's Road, Quarry Bay until the 1970s, briefly interrupted by World War II when it was forced to operate in the Stanley Internment Camp. In 1980 it relocated to temporary premises in Victoria Barracks, and then in 1984 to its current location on Braemar Hill.^[1]

A time capsule filled with children's work, messages and other items was buried in its gardens during the academic year of 1996-97 and still remains under the ground near the terrapin pond to be exhumed in 2027 to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Handover of Hong Kong.^[2]^[3]

Conservation

The former building of Quarry Bay School, located at No. 986 King's Road, in Quarry Bay, has been listed as a Grade III historic building since 2010.^[4]

References

^ 蕭, 國健 (Siu, Kwok-Kin Anthony) (2023-02-01). 舊日足跡：香港地區與民生尋蹤 [Footprints of the Past: Tracing the Hong Kong Region and People's Livelihoods] (in Traditional Chinese). 三聯書店(香港)有限公司. ISBN 978-962-04-5095-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Quarry Bay School Year Book, 1997-8. Hong Kong. 1998.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Relics sealed with a kiss e". South China Morning Post. 1997-07-06. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
^ Antiquities Advisory Board. List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings with Assessment Results