West Island School is a comprehensive, co-educational, international secondary school in Hong Kong. The campus is a purpose-built development located at 250 Victoria Road in Pokfulam, near Sandy Bay at the western part of Hong Kong Island. The school serves students along the western coast of Hong Kong Island, the Mid-Levels and the outlying islands and is the newest secondary school established by the English Schools Foundation.
West Island School began when the English Schools Foundation recognized a need for a third secondary 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 DB, 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.
The school offers secondary education from Years 7 to 13, for children aged 11-18. This corresponds to the United Kingdom's National Curriculum levels of Key Stage 3, 4 and 5. Although the curriculum is based on the British National Curriculum and leads to the British GCSE, IGCSE and GCE A/AS-Level and also IB qualifications, it is suitably and adequately localized for the needs of Hong Kong and the international student body.
In addition to its academic record, West Island also offer a large selection of extracurricular activities run by both staff and students. Such activities are also comprehensive, though internal competitions are also held; including an annual Sports Festival/Swimming Gala, Sports Day, Music Festival and Language Festival.
The school approximately has more than 1250 students enrolled, coming from nearly forty different countries. The student body is led by the Head Boy, Head Girl, Deputy Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl. Students are separated into six houses, known as Dynasties: Han, Ming, Qing, Sung, Tang and Yuan.
The four blocks that make up the West Island School building houses a range of academic departments and supporting facilities on its ten floors including academic departments, support faculty facilities, common area, staff offices, a pantry, a conference room, a Directed Studies room and a Careers Room, refectory, indoor sports hall (basketball, volleyball, badminton, etc), multi-purpose hall, auditorium equipped with full scale lighting and audio sound system, 25-meter indoor heated swimming pool; and rooftops used as playgrounds and outdoor sports pitches.
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