Goals:

1. Imparting to students the need to conform to disciplinary norms and to observe rules and regulations; teaching students to respect themselves and others as well as exercising self-discipline
2. Instilling in students proper ethics and a sound value system so as to run an independent life and embrace life with much optimism; helping students to learn to accept setbacks and failures gracefully, as well as to admit making mistakes and rectifying them; cultivating students’ sense of responsibility
3. Paying special attention to students’ conduct and teaching them how to distinguish between right and wrong, as well as nurturing strong moral fibre in students; establishing a sober ethos at school as well as conducting teaching and learning activities efficiently while teachers managing to keep their classes in order
4. Discipline and counseling work are put on equal footing in our school and we have a high regard for guiding and encouraging students to correct their mistakes and turn over a new leaf

The school’s objectives for 2008-2009:

1. Instilling in students strong moral fibre, a sound value system and the right learning attitude
2. Heightening students’ sense of responsibility
3. Teaching students to be mindful of social manners/ etiquettes and their words and deeds
4. Promoting the integration of discipline with counseling and propagating a caring culture at school
5. Providing training for prefects and teachers from the Discipline Team

Committee Members:

Members: Ms. Chao Mei Kuen (Discipline Officer)
Ms. Chan Lai Shuen, Ms. Tsang Ah Yat (Assistant Discipline
Officers)
Ms. Chan Tsui Shan
Mr. Li Wai Lap
Ms. Wong Sze Nga
Mr. Kwok Kun Shing
Ms. Sun York Kin
Ms. Lee Chun Ting
Ms. Yip Ching Man
Ms. Au-Yeung Ho Yan

Prefect Inauguration Ceremony (2007-2008)

The “Prefect Inauguration Ceremony” was held on 2 November 2007 (Friday) in our school. Dr. Wong Wai Man, the former Deputy Director of Immigration, delivered an exhortation speech and presented students with awards.

Prefect Inauguration Ceremony (2006-2007)

The “Prefect Inauguration Ceremony” was held from 2:50pm to 3:50pm on 27 October 2006 (Friday) in our school. Dr. Sing-wing delivered an exhortation speech and presented students with awards.

Presently, Dr. Wong Sing-wing serves as the Assistant Professor of the Department of Applied Social Studies at the City University of Hong Kong and the Director of Youth Studies Net. He received Social Work undergraduate training initially and pursued postgraduate studies in England later on; he earned a MA in Social Policy at University of York and a PHD in Social Work at University of Bristol. Dr. Wong worked as a social worker in the area of outreaching youth work and he served as the superintendent of a residential home for delinquents before he joined the City University of Hong Kong. Apart from delivering consultation sessions and courses on Social Work theories and techniques, he also specializes in teaching children and youth; counseling is one of his fortes as well. Dr. Wong founded the Centre for Restoration of Human Relationships in 2000; he served as the consultant for various organizations and has been actively involved in conducting research studies commissioned by both governmental and non-governmental bodies. Dr. Wong is also a distinguished speaker, who often delivers parent talks and teacher training sessions. He won the Teaching Excellence Award at the City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong has been contributing to a number of international academic journals and his recent publications include “Value System and Delinquent Behaviour of Young People” (1999), “Helping Pupils away from Bullying” (2002) and “School Bullying and Responding Tactics: A Life Education Approach” (2003).

Student Feedback:

Our students responded to Dr. Wong Sing-wing’s sharing positively and enthusiastically; in the 90 questionnaires we received:

97% of our students stated that they are able to distinguish right from wrong and are not susceptible to peer influence;

99% of them know how to hold fast to proper ethics and moral values and to set a good example

91% of our students believe in the importance of building a caring campus collaboratively

Our students benefited substantially from Dr. Wong’s session and they picked up the following axioms:-

- We cannot count on our sentiments or feelings.
- Have to study hard
- Success is hard to come by. Diligence and stamina are the requisites for success. One can triumph over whatever difficulty if he/ she perseveres.
- Never throw in the towel in the face of adversity; to engage oneself in lifelong learning
- Don’t hang out with friends who have a bad influence on oneself; to perform one’s duties faithfully
- To cherish and make the most of the learning opportunities that come along; don’t give up on oneself

Our students found Dr. Wong’s sharing interesting and beneficial and they hoped that Dr. Wong will grace them with his presence at another school event in the future.

Discipline Committee— School Rules and Regulations

A. General Rules and Regulations

1. Students ought to observe the school rules, obey their teachers and heed their exhortations; they should learn to be self-disciplined as well.
2. Students should love their school and should not engage in any behaviour which brings discredit on the school, teachers and students or defames them.
3. Students should be polite to teachers and staff, janitors and their classmates.
4. Students should be honest and cooperative.
5. Students who have caused any damage to any school property have to report the case to the General Office and compensate for it; those who do not own up to such acts of vandalism will be deemed as dishonest; students who purposely vandalize school property will have to pay damages, and on top of that they will be severely penalized.
6. Students should wear school uniforms or the complete set of uniforms of specific Social Services groups. Students can wear P. E. uniforms to school on the days when they have P. E. lessons. They have to change into their school uniforms before they leave the school for the day.
7. Students should be attired neatly in their school uniforms when they enter and leave the school; they can only wear P. E. uniforms provided that they need to attend supplementary lessons and special school functions in the holidays.
8. Students should not eat in the street or buy food from illegal hawkers.
9. Students should return home immediately after school and should not loiter, run around and behave rowdily in public places.
10. Students must leave the school before 5pm unless they stay behind for special gatherings and extra-curricular activities.
11. Students should attend school assemblies punctually and stay quiet in the midst of assemblies.
12. Students should stay to their left whenever they climb up and down the stairs; they should not run after one another and act rowdily.
13. Students are not allowed to enter the Staff Room, with the exception of class/ subject captains who have to hand in homework books.
14. In the case of late submission of homework, class/ subject captains are responsible for recording the name of the student concerned and pass

the record onto the teacher involved/ teaching that subject.
15. Students should take note of the school notices which are posted up on the noticeboards and pay attention to the announcements every day.
16. Students should be mindful of the hygienic conditions of the toilets and changing rooms and they should keep the school campus clean.
17. Students need to bring along with them only a minimal amount of money. Any loss of money/ personal belongings or thefts should be reported to the school immediately. The school will try to track down the culprit but should not be held liable for compensating the victims for their loss if its attempt is of no avail.
18. Students should revise their school work quietly during the self-study sessions and comply with the general disciplinary rules for a normal class.
19. Students should try their utmost best when they are engaged in serving the school.
20. Students should only bring textbooks and reference books to school. They should not bring any other reading materials like comics and magazines.
21. Students are not allowed to have their lunch outside the school; they can choose to bring along their own lunchboxes, order lunchboxes via the school, buy food at the tuck shop, or have their family deliver lunch to them.
22. Students should not place their personal belongings in the common areas of the classroom. Clothes and shoes as well as foodstuff/ beverages should not be put into the lockers in the classroom. Besides, students are not allowed to bring along any bottled drinks to school.
23. Students need to seek their teacher’s written approval before they leave the school earlier than the normal school-end time or go out for a short while to run errands.
24. Speaking foul language is strictly prohibited and transgressors will be severely penalized.
25. Smoking and drinking alcoholic drinks are not permitted and transgressors will be severely penalized.
26. Truancy, cheating, fighting, stealing and improper conduct outside the school which adversely affect the school’s reputation are serious transgressions. Offenders will be severely punished.

B. School Uniforms and Hairstyles

1. Summer uniform: Short-sleeved cheongsam, white slip, metal school badge, plain black heelless leather shoes and plain white socks.
2. Winter uniform: Long-sleeved cheongsam, metal school badge, plain black heelless leather shoes, plain white socks, dark blue velvet school blazer (with blue buttons and the school badge sewn on the front pocket) or dark blue school jacket with a cotton vest inside.
3. Additional winter items: Dark blue v-neck jumper, dark blue shawl, skin-colored stockings underneath their plain white socks.
When the temperature is 14 degrees Celsius or below, students may wear their winter P. E. uniforms or dark blue Chinese cotton-padded jackets to school.
4. Students should be neatly attired. The cheongsam should be long enough to cover the knees. The slits along the two sides of the cheongsam should not be opened way too high up the cheongsam. Cheongsams and jumpers should fit well; they should not be too long, too big or too small in size.
5. Students should always look plain and tidy. They are not allowed to wear make-up and accessories.

C. Classroom Rules
1. Students should return to their classrooms immediately after the preparatory bell rings and remain quiet for a lesson to start.
2. Whenever the Principal, officers, teachers or staff are showing guests around the school, students should smile and nod to welcome the visitors and give way; if the guests enter a classroom, students should stand up and greet the guests.
3. When a lesson starts or ends, students should stand up and greet their teachers.
4. Students are not allowed to be absent from classes, be late or be excused from a class before it normally ends unless there is proper justification. If students are late in entering a classroom, they should explain to their teachers the reasons for their lateness.
5. If teachers are held up by something urgent and are late for a class, students should stay in the classroom for self-study and remain quiet.
6. After the class-start bell rings and if the teacher has not yet shown up for the class, the class monitress will have to keep the class in order. If the teacher has not turned up after 10 minutes, the General Office will have to be informed.
7. Students should put their hands up if they want to speak up during a class. They may speak up only upon teachers’ instructions to do so.
8. Students are not allowed to eat or drink water during a class; they should not do homework for other subjects or read other books.
9. Students should not engage in undesirable behaviours such as being
boisterous and playful, scribbling on the blackboard, and throwing chalk or scraps of paper.
10. Once the seating arrangements have been made by the teacher, students should not swap their seats with another classmate’s at will.
11. Students’ conversations with other classmates during a class are only limited to the purpose of occasional enquiry and discussion; such conversations should only take place when teachers pause in the midst of their teaching and provided that other students are not affected at all.
12. Students should not turn round or leave their seats in the midst of a class; teachers’ permission needs to be gained before they enter or leave a classroom; besides, students should knock on the door when they enter a classroom.
13. Students should not behave boisterously when switching to another session.
14. Students are not allowed to enter special rooms without teachers’ permission and they need to comply with the rules governing the use of the special rooms.
15. The class monitress should bear in mind that lights and fans are to be switched off and the classroom door needs to be locked upon leaving the classroom.
16. The student-on-duty and the class monitress should remind their classmates to keep their classroom clean and hygienic; if any classmate is uncooperative in this regard, they should report the case to their class teacher.
17. Students should stack their chairs up and place them upon their desks and clear the miscellaneous items on the floor away for janitors to clean up the classroom at school-end time on Friday.
18. The air-conditioners in the school can only be switched on or off by teachers; students who switch them on or off without teachers’ permission and thus causing the air-conditioners to become faulty or to break down will have to compensate for it and to be subjected to punishment. If any devices in the classroom are out of order, the class monitress should inform the General Office immediately.

D. Leave Application Rules

1. Students’ letters of excuse for absence will only be valid with the signature or the chop of their parents or guardians on the letters.
2. If students apply for casual leave, they should submit a written application to the Principal or the Dean of Studies two days in advance; they should also elaborate on the reasons for their applications.
3. If students apply for sick leave for only one day, their parent/ guardian should apply for leave to the school on their behalf by phone at 2871 1214 between 8am and 10am on the very day. A letter of excuse for absence should be submitted the next day when the student returns to school. A medical certificate should also be submitted together with the letter of excuse for absence if the student has been on sick leave for two days or more. The student needs to have her class teacher sign the letter of excuse for absence before handing it in to the in-charge officer at the General Office.
4. If students go on sick leave during tests or examinations periods, a medical certificate should be submitted; that also applies to the school picnic and other activities.
5. Students are required to attend gatherings or extra-curricular activities at school punctually; if students are unavailable to attend them owing to the fact that something urgent crops up, they have to apply for leave to the teacher-in-charge in advance.
6. Students who are on leave but have not followed the procedures for applying for leave will be regarded as being absent without a rightful cause; students who do not attend classes without prior permission will be regarded as skipping classes; students who deceive their parents and do not go to school will be treated as playing truant. Students who committed these 3 transgressions will be severely penalized.
7. Students should stay at school throughout the day for classes; if there are special gatherings that take place beyond school hours, the school will issue a notice to parents to keep them informed. Students should return home immediately after school, except for taking part in extra-curricular activities. Parents are reminded to take note of the time when their child should return home.
Discipline Committee: Things to Note for Students

Things to Note for Students of Hong Kong True Light College

1. Students should respect their teachers.
2. Students should behave discreetly and be mindful of their words and deeds, as well as develop self-discipline.
3. Students should obey the teachers’ instructions and the prefects’ admonition.
4. Students should be polite to their classmates, the janitors, the staff and the teachers.
5. Students should smile and nod to welcome visitors.
6. Students should enter and leave the school through the main entrance. Attention should be paid to school notices.
7. Latecomers must write their names in the Latecomers Record Book at the Main Entrance before proceeding to their classrooms.
8. Students should return to their classrooms after the bell rings and remain quiet.
9. Students should remain quiet when switching to another session and they should not make any noise on the way to special rooms.
10. Students must remain quiet in the assembly.
11. Students should only change into different clothes in the washroom or in the changing room.
12. Only textbooks, exercise books and paper are allowed to be kept in lockers in classrooms.
13. Students should keep their classrooms clean and tidy. Chairs should be placed on top of the desks on Friday so that it is easier for the janitors to clean the classrooms.
14. Students should not enter the classrooms of another class when the classrooms are vacant.
15. Students should not run around and behave rowdily on campus.
16. Students should keep the washrooms and the common areas clean.
17. Students are not allowed to eat in the corridors and in the common areas in the school.
18. Students should follow the rules specified by the tuck shop. They should line up and keep the tuck shop clean. Noodles can only be eaten in the covered playground.
19. Students may leave their personal belongings, schoolbags and clothes

etc with others for safekeeping. They should not leave their personal belongings unattended.
20. Students are not allowed to enter the staff room.
21. Students should not bring along with them to school anything which is unrelated to their learning. Cameras and electronic devices are not allowed.
22. Students are not allowed to wear any ornaments and their schoolbags should not be adorned with accessories.
23. Students should always bring along their wallets and valuables. Any loss of personal belongings should be reported to teachers immediately.
24. All students must leave the school before 5 p.m. unless they stay behind for activities run by teachers.
25. Students should ask their class teachers to sign the parents’ letter of excuse for absence before submitting the letter to the General Office.
26. Students should not hold birthday parties in school. The school does not encourage students to exchange birthday gifts among themselves or buy presents for teachers.
27. Students should always behave themselves at the bus stop outside the school and in public places. They should not eat and chat loudly when they are on board on vehicles.
28. Students should adhere to traffic regulations. Students must not cross the road in front of the school’s main entrance to reach the bus stop opposite the school.
29. Students should not loiter in eating and public places after school.
30. Students should comply with the school rules concerning hairstyles and school uniforms.

Hong Kong True Light College

Procedures regarding leave application and particulars on handling cases of rule-defying