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West Island School (, Abbreviated: WIS) is a co-educational, private, international secondary school in Hong Kong that provides to students from age eleven to eighteen an English medium education. The campus is a purpose-built development located at 250 Victoria Road, Pokfulam on the slopes of Mount Davis, Hong Kong Island. The school is reputed for its strong academic, matriculation and athletic record, providing students of all abilities with a "modern liberal education" based on British-influenced International curricula. Students from Years 7-9 study the West Island School Middle Years Diploma; students in Years 10-11 follow the (I)GCSE program; and students in Years 12-13 follow the IB Diploma curricula. The school is a member of the English Schools Foundation, and as such still receives a small but symbolic subvention from the Government that has been frozen since the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong. ==History== West Island School began when the English Schools Foundation recognised a need for a new school on Hong Kong Island in the late-1980s; after Island School and South Island School. This was because of the recent residential boom in Discovery Bay, then which had no secondary school to cater for the growing need of secondary school education. After government approval of a site and funding in November 1990, plans for West Island School began in earnest, with the school operating as an offshoot of Island School at a temporary home; the old military hospital in Borrett Road, Mid-Levels. () West Island's first intake was in September 1991, when eighty-four Year 7 students were enrolled in four classes. In the meantime, work progressed on a purpose-built school in Pokfulam, designed by award-winning architect Patrick Lau, who was responsible for two other international schools in Hong Kong, the Lycée Français International Victor Segalen in Tai Hang and the American Hong Kong International School in Tai Tam. In September 1994, the new purpose-built building opened. This consisted of a ten-storey building consisting of three blocks: housing classrooms, laboratories, an auditorium and a 25-metre indoor pool, linked together by open-air walkways and air-conditioned faculty-corridors. Over the years, renovations further increased the usability of the building, although by 2001 the school was getting rather crowded with over 1000 students enrolled; paving the way for the creation of a fourth block. This new addition opened for use in September 2003. 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「West Island School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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