Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School is a private primary school in Hong Kong, previously known as "Portuguese Community Schools, Inc., Escola Camões", in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school has 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 located in 7 Cox Road, Jordan. Since 1996, the school has been run by Po Leung Kuk. In the school year 1999, the school moved to a new school premise in Yau Ma Tei. The school was founded with a donation of $3,330,000 from Dr. Tan Siu-lin. Since then, the school was known as "Po Leung Kuk Camões Tan Siu Lin Primary School". The school became a pioneer Direct Subsidy Scheme primary school in Hong Kong in the school year 2000. In the school year 2017–2018, it broke the Hong Kong record of Primary One application by having 8,100 applications.

Curriculum

English is the medium of instruction. Everything is taught in English other than the subjects of Chinese and Putonghua. Subjects include: • Mathematics • General Studies • Visual Arts • Music • Oral Skills (for primary three to six students only) • Physical Education • Third Language (Basic French, Basic Spanish and Basic Japanese, students are required to choose one) • Chinese (Putonghua and Cantonese as the medium of instruction) • Computer Studies (replaced by Final Year Project for primary six students) • English • Reading and Storytelling (for primary one to two students only) Despite having many students from foreign countries, all students are required to learn Chinese regardless of whether they speak the language.

Extra-curricular activities

The school offers a variety of extracurricular activities, including:

Annual events

Special events include the Annual Concert, Sports Day, Open Day, Chinese Week, English Week, 3rd Language Week(Japanese Week, French Week and Spanish Week), STEAM Week, Thanksgiving 360°, Christmas Party and Post Exam activities. At the latter, students can choose to wear casual clothing.

School facilities

The school has 60+ classrooms in the main building and more than 60 new classrooms in the new annex for different learning use. Other facilities include:

Self-publishing

Achievements

2014–2015 2015–2016 2016–2017 2017–2018 2018–2019 2019–2020 2020–2021 2021–2022 2022-2023