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YING WA COLLEGE — Sham Shui Po Secondary School: Facts, Nearby Schools and Lesson-Prep Links
School guide · Sham Shui Po
Ying Wa College is a direct-subsidy Christian boys’ secondary school in Sham Shui Po, whole-day. This page takes the two places boys most often lose marks — classical Chinese vocabulary and integrated-skills data handling — neither of which extra papers alone will fix.
1. YING WA COLLEGE: the public record
Every field below comes from the EDB School Location and Information open data, October 2026 snapshot. Facts only: no admission figures, no results, no rankings.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| English name | YING WA COLLEGE |
| Address | 1 YING WA STREET, SHAMSHUIPO, KOWLOON |
| Telephone | 23368838 |
| Website | http://www.yingwa.edu.hk |
| Session | Whole day |
| Level and type | Secondary, Direct subsidy |
| Gender | Boys |
| Religion | Christian |
| District | Sham Shui Po |
2. Location: the three nearest secondary schools
YING WA COLLEGE sits at 1 YING WA STREET, SHAMSHUIPO, KOWLOON, coordinates 22.32958, 114.15265, 0.8 km from the centre of the district. The district has 39 secondary schools; the three closest by straight-line distance are listed below.
| School | Distance | Type |
|---|---|---|
| ST. MARGARET’S CO-EDUCATIONAL ENGLISH SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL | 160 m | Direct subsidy |
| TSUNG TSIN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | 380 m | Direct subsidy |
| TACK CHING GIRLS’ SECONDARY SCHOOL | 430 m | Aided |
Straight-line distance is not travel time: a route that crosses the harbour, climbs a hill or needs two changes can take three times as long. Try the real route once before you agree a slot.
3. What students at YING WA COLLEGE usually need
Classical Chinese: the order of inference
Students look up every character and forget line one by line three. The workable order is syntactic slot first (subject, verb, object), then a guess at meaning, then checking. The classical Chinese chapter sets it out as four steps.
Integrated skills: too much copying
Paper 3 marks are lost to over-copying: whole paragraphs go into the answer and the point disappears. Limit each source paragraph to one point of no more than twelve words; if that cannot be done, the paragraph has not been understood.
4. Lesson-prep guides and practice papers that match
Each guide below names the prior knowledge, a lesson flow, a read-aloud script and an exit check, so a parent and a tutor can follow one process at secondary level.
| Resource | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Secondary (DSE) lesson-prep guides | ten subjects, 60-minute chapters mapped to DSE |
| DSE maths guides | functions, calculus, probability |
| DSE English guides | Papers 1 to 3, one by one |
| DSE physics guides | mechanics, waves, electricity |
| DSE economics guides | micro, macro, policy |
| DSE physics practice paper | 14 questions, 100 marks, with answers |
| DSE chemistry practice paper | with answers and marking notes |
| DSE economics practice paper | with answers and marking notes |
5. Three practical points when you book lessons
- Session: this school runs a whole-day session. Weekday slots only open after four in the afternoon; Saturday morning is the most contested block.
- Place: within 1 km in a straight line of YING WA COLLEGE there are 8 secondary schools in the same district, so a tutor can shorten the trip by meeting closer to the school.
- Format: step-by-step explanation (maths, physics, chemistry) works better face to face; past-paper drills and marking work just as well online, without the travel.
6. Common questions
How should a venue be arranged in Sham Shui Po?
Rail and bus routes are dense here, so tutoring at home and studying at a study room come to much the same; study-room seats do need reserving early in exam season.
Is Chinese genuinely harder to tutor for boys?
It is a question of method, not ability. Build the reading routine first, then add papers; most students show a difference within four to six weeks.
School data comes from the EDB School Location and Information open data, October 2026 snapshot: name, address, telephone, website, type, gender, religion and session only, with no admission, results or ranking figures. Distances are computed from the official coordinates using the great-circle formula. Compiled by the TutorZone team.
