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Island School is a co-educational non-profit school located on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is the founding school of the English Schools Foundation, and remains a member to this date. The school has been accredited by international organisations such as the Council of International Schools〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=School Information Page )〕 and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WASC Accrediting Commission for Schools )〕 Originally located on 10 Borrett Road of the Hong Kong Mid-Levels district (the site of a former British military hospital), the school moved to its current and only campus on 20 Borrett Road in 1973. It currently houses around 1200 students across 33 nationalities〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our history )〕 and around 100 members of teaching staff.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Teaching staff )〕 Island School is a registered IB World School, and offers the IB diploma program along with an alternative BTEC program. Its students are academically successful, with a high graduation rate and results which are consistently above international averages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IB Diploma and BTEC Provisional Results: May 2012 – Island School )〕 It also sports a vibrant community with a large range of student-led organisations and activities, allowing students to pursue responsibilities in a variety of aspects such as the environment,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Island School – WANBO )〕 sports, international relations and providing student voice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ISSU )〕 ==History== The school opened in 1967 to meet increasing demand for schooling for the children of expatriates living in Hong Kong. As there were no secondary schools for English speaking children on Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong government established the English Schools Foundation (ESF) in 1965 to provide additional schools for expatriate British children. Island School was the first ESF secondary school. It was named 英童中學: 英童 meaning British boy, 中學 means secondary school, so the real meaning of the school's name is "British Boys' secondary school". The first Principal of Island School was the Reverend Geoffrey Speak who was appointed from St Paul's College in 1967.〔()〕 Speak, a graduate of Selwyn College, Cambridge, combined the principalship with managing the ESF between 1967 and 1971,〔 during a rather inauspicious time. In 1967 the Cultural Revolution was in its throes with bombs detonated in Central, water was rationed to four hours every fourth day and with Prime Minister Wilson's devaluation the prospect of working in Hong Kong became less financially appealing. Speak introduced the "House System" as the basis of pastoral care and for teaching, a system which is still in place today.〔 In 1971 C. Ronald Rivers-Moore was appointed to succeed Speak as Principal. Rivers-Moore, a Cambridge graduate,〔Tiverton Grammar School Magazine November 1954 Teaching Staff, p1.〕 continued Rev. Speak's vision both in academic policy and through the continuation of the extracurricular program〔 including the introduction of the Nepal Trek, the School Camp, a school zoo and the Student Union.〔 Chris Forse, former Deputy Head and Island School Historian, referred to Rivers-Moore as a man who combined his "integrity with liberal benevolence in roughly equal proportions".〔 Succeeding Rivers-Moore in 1978 was Charles Jonathan (Jonty) Driver, a graduate of Trinity College Oxford. Driver extended the Island School curriculum to include drama, photography and computing〔()〕 and a pastoral curriculum. A believer in community education, Driver founded the Island School Evening Institute which provided adult education to parents and friends of the Island School community. It was also during Driver's tenure that Island School's lasting student periodical, "The Islet", was established, succeeding the original student newspaper "The Echo".〔 Jonty left Island School in 1983 to become Headmaster at Berkhamsted School, later moving to Wellington College in Berkshire. Dr. Colin Niven, a graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Brasenose College, Oxford, was Principal of Island School between 1983–1988. During his tenure, Niven tripled Oxbridge entries〔()〕 while gaining membership of the Headmasters Conference. There was a major investment in a new library and the school uniform was replaced. After leaving Island School Niven became a fellow at Westminster College, Oxford and later the Principal at Alleyn's School in London. David James became the school's first internally appointed Principal in 1988. James introduced the new British National Curriculum, vocational education and the International Baccalaureate at 16–18. He enhanced the responsibilities of the Sixth Form enabling "students to become surrogate teachers and leaders of the school".〔()〕 He broadened the profile of Island School's out-reach efforts in both Hong Kong and abroad through the encouragement of student participation in community service programs among them the Summerbridge and School After School program through which Island School students taught English and life skills to less privileged children. In 1990 Island School became the first ESF school to introduce an Interim Week during which the regular timetable was abandoned for a range of alternative challenges in Hong Kong and overseas. James retired in 2005 and was succeeded by a deputy principal Michelle Hughes. Hughes tenure began in difficult circumstances with a pay dispute between the teachers and the ESF which resulted in some curtailing of the extra curricular program and support for parent run activities like the school fair. Her tenure has been characterised by its attention to meeting the modern imperatives of quality assurance and in increasing role of "student voice" at Island School. Hughes left the position in June 2009, and was replaced by Christopher Binge, previously Secondary Principal at the "La Chataigneraie" campus of the International School of Geneva. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Island School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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