School History

      Po Leung Kuk Gold & Silver Exchange Society Pershing Tsang School is a government-aided whole-day primary school. It was formed on 1 September 2006 upon the merger of two long-established primary schools, namely “Po Leung Kuk Pershing Tsang Primary School” and “The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society School”. With complementarity resulted from the merger, more operating resources could be acquired to develop quality educational services, whereas our school leveraged on the advantages in terms of campus space, manpower and teaching resources.

Opening Ceremony︰

       Our school’s opening ceremony was held on 15 January 2007. We were honored to have Mrs. Betty FUNG CHING Suk-yee, JP, the then Deputy Secretary for Education and Manpower, as the officiating guest, and also Mr. William LEE Tak-lun, the then President of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society, attended the ceremony.

Brief History of Po Leung Kuk Pershing Tsang Primary School

      Po Leung Kuk Pershing Tsang Primary School was at first known as “Po Leung Kuk School” and was established in 1946. It was the first school run by Po Leung Kuk. The school initially focused on the provision of education to children residing in Po Leung Kuk's dormitory, but its scope of services later extended to other school-age children.

       “Pershing Tsang Memorial Fund” was set up in 1988 with the generous donation of approximate $2,000,000 by Mr. Chang Sun-way Parry (Mr. Pershing Tsang was the late father of Mr. Chang Sun-way Parry), the then Director of Po Leung Kuk. Payment of about $1,500,000 from the fund was used to support the school’s comprehensive repair works, hence later renamed as “Po Leung Kuk Pershing Tsang Primary School” on 25 March 1991. With the shortage of campus space due to the increase in the number of classes, the school campus expanded to include the first floor of the adjacent Po Leung Kuk Vicwood K.T. Chong Building. Mr. Chang agreed that part of the remainder of the fund was used for the enhancement and addition of facilities, and campus refurbishment, and that the “Po Leung Kuk Education Fund” made up the difference in case of unsettled deficit. The opening ceremony of the campus extension was held on 23 January 1998.

Brief History of The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society School

      The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society School was founded in 1949 with donations totaling over $400,000 from Mr. Lam Bing-yim, Dr. Ho Sin-hang, “Hang Seng Ngan Ho” (later known as “Hang Seng Bank”) and other major “Ngan Ho”. The school was then allocated land from the Government to construct the campus. Originally named as “The Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society Industry Workers’ Free School”, it focused on the provision of complimentary educational services to children of industry workers, including school tuitions, book supplies, stationery and lunch meals. The school was renamed as “The Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society School” in 1954.   It was converted to a government-subsidized school (now commonly termed as government-aided school) upon the approval of the Education Department in March 1967.