Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School


Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School is a primary school in Hong Kong, previously known as Portuguese Community Schools, Inc. ; demonym: Camõesian. The school is located at 6 Hoi Ting Road, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It has a multicultural environment with over 1,000 students from 18 different countries.

History

The school was established in the 1950s by the Portuguese Community Education and Welfare Foundation Incorporated. Since 1996, the school has been run by Po Leung Kuk. In school year 1999/2000, the school became a pioneer DSS primary school in Hong Kong. In the school year 2017–2018, Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School broke the Hong Kong record of Primary One application by having 8,100 applications.

Curriculum

English is the main medium of instruction. Everything is taught in English other than the Language subjects.
Subjects include:

Extra-curricular activities

The school offers a variety of extracurricular activities, including:
Special events include the Annual Concert, Sports Day, Open Day, Chinese Week, English Week, Japanese Week, French Week, Spanish Week, 3rd Language Week, STEAM Week, and Christmas Party. At the latter, students wear traditional costumes. In year 2014–2015, there was a new event called the "Thanksgiving 360°".

School facilities

The school has 30 classrooms in the main building and more than 30 new classrooms in the new annex for different learning use. Other facilities include
2014–2015
2015–2016
2016–2017
2017–2018
2018–2019