The Guangzhou Ying Tung High School is an international school planned and contributed by the Fok Ying Tung Foundation.
The School is situated in the southeast of the Nansha New Coastal City, Guangzhou, backing on mountains and seas, with a 60km road network covering 14 major cities in the Pearl River Delta, 38 sea miles away from Hong Kong and 41 sea miles away from Macao by water. The School has a floor area of 126,786m2, a total building area of 45,000m2 and Over 60% of the campus is tastefully landscaped. The School boasts modern teaching buildings, a science and technology building, a comprehensive library, a multimedia report hall, a gymnasium and an art center. These buildings embody a mixture of European and Chinese styles.the student dorms are bright and spacious, provided with air- conditioning and cold/hot water supplies; there are a 400m standard rubber circular racetrack, an international standard natural grass pitch, tennis court, standard swimming pool and other sports and recreation facilities. The School is an ideal place for study, work and life due to its reasonable layout and elegant taste.
The school owns modern teaching facilities beyond the provincial first level standard and strong teaching forces, practices expert governance and famous teacher coaching. The executive principal, professor Paul Lo once served as a professor in the University of Cambridge, is an Asia regional representative of the England Academic Association, a representative of the Cambridge International Education and Examinations Centre, a exeaminer of the AQA English Test. Principal Lo is an educational expert with far-reaching international education background and advanced education ideas.
The school owns an excellent teaching team which is consisted of experienced teachers from Hong Kong or overseas, and also domestic elite teachers. The combination of overseas and domestic teachers creates a atmosphere which will get the students to be involved in both Chinese and western culture.
Besides strengthening the original local curriculum and enhancing the quality of English teaching, top quality British Secondary & Matriculation Programms are introduced, this programs are designed by professor of Cambridge University specially for Asian students. A balance between pastoral guidance and training in the development of independent decision-making and personalized goal-setting skills &Hostel experiences, contributes to the integrated Self-Management Training to each Ying Tung student.
The School provides subsidy for the students who have excellent school records but cannot afford the tuition, and the students also can obtain the scholarship if they get good results at school.
The School will stick to the school motto to be “patriotic, moral, curious and practical” outlined by Mr. Fok Ying Tung, actively cooperate with Hong Kong and overseas educational institutions, endeavor to create an educational plateau for the fusion of Chinese and foreign cultures, build up an international school system, fully deepen the educational modernization project to promote the coordinated development of students’ overall competencies and individual specialties in a vivid manner, educate students to “learn to seek knowledge, live, behave and coexist”, cultivate excellent youth with overall development in “morals, intelligence, physical education, aesthetics and collective values”.
The School practices the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the Board. Mr. Fok Ying Tung acts as honorary board chairman, Mr. Ian Fok Chun Wan as board chairman.
And the School Management Committee was set up to better serve needs of our students and their parents, this Committee will fulfill the four main roles of formulation, implementation, supervision and evaluation. Mr. Kenneth Fok acts as the chairman of the Committee.
