OPEN DAY
Peak School Nestled away on The Peak, this intimate ESF primary school offers a well-rounded education that prioritises creative and social development as well as academics. By Evie Burrows-Taylor.
Peak School students at Sports Day
For more than a century, Peak School has provided a warm and familial environment for its primary aged students. For the last 60, the school has looked out over the city from what is arguably one of its most prestigious addresses. A member of the English Schools Foundation (ESF), the school maintains a philosophy that emphasises the importance of helping its students to become good communicators, critical thinkers and lifelong learners, an approach consistent with the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum that the school follows. And with only 360 students, pupils are able to experience early learning in a safe and caring community, where every face is a familiar one. “We’re a lovely size and it allows us to
With only 360 students, pupils are able to experience early learning in a safe and caring community foster a community spirit,” says principal Bill Garnett. “There are opportunities for the younger students to work with the older ones throughout the year, which creates a family feeling.” Even with just 60 students in each year group, the school consistently triumphs at Hong Kong’s interschool competitions. For
the past two years, Peak School has won the annual Gecko Maths competition, where its pupils are pitted against students that are sometimes a whole year group older than them. The school’s focus on producing wellrounded students is evident throughout the campus. Artwork lines the corridors; the impressive playground, big enough for all years to play in together, is brand new; and the music rooms are decorated with creative flair. Children fill the bright corridors, happily greeting each other, as well as the teachers. “When it comes to teaching you have to recognise the whole child,” the principal says. “It’s about the emotional and social side for the children, as well as academics. You have to take all of those things into consideration.”
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