Quarry Bay School
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(By work and honour)
| Quarry Bay School | |
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6 Hau Yuen Path Braemar Hill, North Point, Hong Kong | |
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| Type | Private, international, primary, co-educational. |
| Motto | Labore et Honore (By work and honour) |
| Established | c.1926 |
| Principal | Ms. Sue Yee |
| Enrollment | approx. 720 |
| Years | 1 - 6 |
| Website | https://www.qbs.edu.hk/ |
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| Traditional Chinese | 鰂魚涌小學 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 鲗鱼涌小学 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | jāk yùh chūng síu hohk | ||||||||||||
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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 had been at Quarry Bay School for 4 years from 2007 until Christmas 2011. The previous principal before Gardiner was David James Harrison who, before he retired, had been at Quarry Bay School for 23 years.[citation needed]
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. The school was briefly interrupted by the Second World War, which 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]
