The Philippine Consulate General attended the 60th jubilee celebrations of the Li Cheng Uk Government Primary School (LCU), a prominent public school for ethnic minorities including Filipinos, at the Yuen Long Theatre on 17 May 2018.
The guest speakers were Hong Kong’s Education Undersecretary, Dr. Choi Yuk-lin, and the Chairman of Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Prof. Alfred Chan Cheung-ming. The presenters of awards for various student competitions were Pakistan’s Consul General Mr. Abdul Qadir Memon and the Consulate’s Attaché Luz M. Iglesias, among others.
Among the pupils handed awards for exceling in their respective categories was Abigail V. Aquino who won as champion in the Logo Design Competition (Senior Group). The program was capped by the presentation of a musical, “The Secret to Success,” by the pupils and their parents.
The LCU was established in 1958 in Yuen Long, Kowloon District with Cantonese as medium of instruction. In 1960s, LCU was one of the newest government schools providing quality education in the district. In 1984, it set up an Anglo-Chinese section with the aim of making the school freely accessible to ethnic minorities in Kowloon and New Territories.
Today, LCU has become a multi-cultural English Government Primary School and is one of the most ethnically diverse primary schools in HK with students coming from more than 30 countries. The major ethnic groups are from the Philippines, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
The school’s whole approach is to cater for student diversity. LCU adopts new initiatives to enhance the learning experiences of the children, to provide them a well-rounded education that values and supports the intellectual, physical, social and moral development of each child.
