Tung Wah Student Handbook 1949-1950 Tung Wah School Motto 1949

Student Handbook of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Free Primary School for the school year 1949 to 1950.
Tung Wah’s school motto – ‘Diligence, Frugality, Loyalty and Faithfulness’ – is stated as the guiding principle in the moral and intellectual development of children and young people, and the group puts as much emphasis on students’ development of good personal qualities as on their academic achievements. (Collection of Tung Wah Museum)

1949至1950年度東華三院免費小學學生手冊
東華三院向以「勤、儉、忠、信」為各校的校訓，勉勵學生「能奮鬥，知進取；尚節約，不妄取；負責任，肯犧牲；重言諾，務實踐」，足見東華三院除了注重學生的學業成績外，亦以培養學生的良好素質為己任。
（東華三院文物館藏）

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The Hong Kong Education’s Heritage Exhibition is jointly presented by the Hong Kong Museum of Education (HKME) at the HKIEd with its four collaborating School Sponsoring Bodies (SSBs): the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, the Anglican (Hong Kong) Primary Schools Council Limited, the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China and the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals.

Thanks to the generous support of the four SSBs, around 60 invaluable artefacts and over 200 historical photographs dated back to more than a century ago will be on display. Other exhibits include a large amount of historical documents and audio-visual records. Members of the public will have a glimpse of the contributions made by the SSBs to the development of Hong Kong’s school system since the middle of the 19th century.

After Hong Kong’s transformation as a free port, the then British Hong Kong government adopted new funding models to encourage the development of the private school sector. This resulted in a favourable environment in which religious bodies and other community groups could establish and run schools with different missions and goals.

After World War II, the scale of the school sponsoring activities of Catholic, Anglican and other charitable organisations grew rapidly. This was accompanied by a significant increase in the number of school sponsors, with business chambers, fellow countrymen associations, neighbourhood community welfare societies, college alumni associations and organisations of other religious faiths joining their ranks. Hong Kong now has over 270 school sponsoring bodies, large and small, that manage and run primary and secondary schools.

As part of its commitment to enhancing the quality of education, the HKIEd entered into a partnership agreement with the four SSBs in December 2010. The wide-ranging agreement covers the provision of systemic professional development programmes for in-service teachers, school-based support, and research and development projects

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辦學傳承：教院夥伴辦學團體歷史珍藏聯展
為讓市民了解本地辦學團體的發展歷史及教學宗旨，香港教育學院轄下香港教育博物館聯同天主教香港教區、香港聖公會、中華基督教會香港區會及東華三院四個辦學團體合辦「辦學傳承：教院夥伴辦學團體歷史珍藏聯展」，並於10月11日舉行開幕禮，由香港教育學院署理校長鄭燕祥教授、天主教香港教區教育事務主教代表黃若嫻修女、聖公宗（香港）小學監理委員會有限公司總幹事謝振強先生、中華基督教會香港區會學務總監余及東華三院主席兼名譽校監陳文綺慧女士主禮。
聯展展出十九世紀以來六十多件見證本地教育歷史發展的珍藏文物及逾二百張歷史照片，並輔以文獻及視聽紀錄，勾劃各辦學團體由十九世紀中葉至今的歷史發展及辦學宗旨；透過這批珍貴展品，讓公眾人士窺探本地教育的歷史變遷，及辦學團體在保存學校文化所作的努力及其寶貴成果。展品橫跨香港戰前及戰後時期，包括學生成績表、考試時間表、教職員履歷冊及運動會獎盃等。

鄭燕祥署理校長表示，每份展品都展示了歷代教育工作者的努力。是次展覽展出的文物彌足珍貴，包括1904年監督學院大人（即現教育局局長）就荷李活道女館的批諭公文，是現存最早的西差會辦學文字記錄；而東華三院首間文武廟義學考試時間表，亦見證辦學團體對香港教育的貢獻。