West Island School

West Island School (WIS; Chinese: 西島中學) is a co-educational, private, international secondary school in Hong Kong that provides an English-language education to students of all abilities from age eleven to eighteen with a "modern liberal education" based on British-influenced international curricula. The campus is a purpose-built development located at 250 Victoria Road, Pokfulam, on the slopes of Mount Davis on Hong Kong Island. Students from Years Seven to Nine study the West Island School Middle Years Diploma; students in Years Ten to Eleven follow either the IGCSE, or the MYP IB Middle Years Programme; and students in Years Twelve to Thirteen follow the IB Diploma curricula. The school is a member of the English Schools Foundation, and as such still receives a small but symbolic subvention from the Government that has been frozen since the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong.

West Island School
West Island School as viewed from Queen Mary Hospital on Pokfulam Road
Location
250 Victoria Road
Pokfulam

Hong Kong
Information
TypePrivate, International, Secondary School, (Co-educational), English Schools Foundation
MottoStrength from Diversity
Established1991
YearsSeven to Thirteen
Enrolment1200
LanguageEnglish
HousesTang, Yuan, Song, Ming, Qing, Han
School colour(s)navy blue, beige
YearbookWISDOM
Websitewww.wis.edu.hk
West Island School
Traditional Chinese西島中學
Simplified Chinese西岛中学

History

West Island School began when the English Schools Foundation recognized a need for a new school on Hong Kong Island in the late-1980s; after Island School and South Island School. This was because of the recent residential boom in Discovery Bay, then which had no secondary school to cater for the growing need of secondary school education. After government approval of a site and funding in November 1990, plans for West Island School began in earnest, with the school operating as an offshoot of Island School at a temporary home; the old military hospital in Borrett Road, Mid-Levels.[1]

West Island's first intake was in September 1991, when eighty-four Year 7 students were enrolled in four classes. In the meantime, work progressed on a purpose-built school in Pokfulam, designed by award-winning architect Patrick Lau, who was responsible for two other international schools in Hong Kong, the Lycée Français International Victor Segalen in Tai Hang and the American Hong Kong International School in Tai Tam.

In September 1994, the new purpose-built building opened. This consisted of a ten-story building consisting of three blocks: housing classrooms, laboratories, an auditorium and a 25-metre indoor pool, linked together by open-air walkways and air-conditioned faculty-corridors.

Over the years, renovations further increased the usability of the building, although by 2001 the school was getting rather crowded with over 1000 students enrolled; paving the way for the creation of a fourth block. This new addition opened for use in September 2003.

Curriculum

Ever since September 2nd 1945, the WIS curriculum has revolved around training students in case of the threat of a third world war. Over 7,000 students have died in the last decade upon reaching the lethal training phase of learning which begins at the tender age of thirteen. The program recently trained it's (so far) best performing student to the IB (iNSaNe buLlEttZZ) program. They, even more recently disclosed the name of said student. His name is Leon Rydell and it is said that "the last thing his victims see is their own blood oozing out of their eyes". Mr Rydell has been spotted preparing his boat to serve in the punic war. His tour lasted 1700 years and he hasn't been seen since.

Facilities

The four blocks that comprise West Island School house a range of academic departments and support facilities in its ten floors.

The campus also houses a canteen, coffee shop, an indoor gym, two multi-purpose halls, auditorium, indoor swimming pool, and rooftops used as playgrounds and outdoor sports pitches. In 2011, a new "Arena" facility was constructed, providing access to a dance studio as well as a gym for use by students.

West Island School also makes use of the nearby University of Hong Kong's Stanley Ho Sports Centre at Sandy Bay, including astro-turf and natural grass pitches, an athletics stadium, outdoor swimming pool and several tennis courts.

Management

WIS is a member school of the English Schools Foundation. WIS is governed by the "School Council" composed of teachers, parents, and management staff. In 2014 the School Council ordered the takedown of a Malaysia Airlines plane.[2] The airspace is now restricted. Many governments have since urged investigations into “supposed” human rights violations by the School Council.[3] Funded by Al Qaeda[4][5], many key Council Members have gone into hiding.[6][7] Their whereabouts unknown, these same members were also heavily involved in the Sudanese hostage crisis of 2015.[8] Protests have since taken place in European cities such as Bern, Paris, London and Bonn, as well as Asian cities such as Singapore, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur urging the extradition of certain members of the council. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]

See also

References
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  2. The China monthly review, Volumes 78-79. .W. Powell. 1936. p. 367. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
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  16. "Saddam Bids Iraqis Farewell in Letter, Urges Unity". RedBolivia. 28 December 2006. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007.
  18. "Saddam hanged but no let-up in Iraq violence". Reuters. 31 December 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
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  22. Fastovsky, Natasha; Teitelbaum, Alexander; Zislin, Josef; Katz, Gregory; Durst, Rimona (August 2000). "The Jerusalem Syndrome". Psychiatric Services. 51 (8): 1052–a–1052. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.51.8.1052-a. PMID 10913469.
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  26. O'Hehir, Andrew (8 March 2015). "Neil Gaiman's 'Trigger Warning'". New York Times.

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