The 8 Caritas secondary schools (Aided schools) offer a balanced and broad curriculum through which students acquire their knowledge and skills under Catholic ideology.
The Printing Training Centre and the Car Repair Workshop provide apprenticeship programmes to students from the Vocational Training Council, aiming at training youngsters interested in printing and auto repair to become qualified technicians in these two fields. The Centre and the Workshop also provide relevant services to the general public.
The Field Studies Centre provides educational courses on natural science to students and teachers in Hong Kong. It also runs programmes for the general public to promote their awareness on environmental protection and sustainability.
Objectives
- To provide mainstream secondary education for primary school graduates, offering youngsters a diverse range of secondary curriculum to prepare them for further studies or employment. Caritas secondary schools collaborate with Saint Francis University to offer programmes under Project VPM in addition to the general secondary curriculum, aiming to cultivate vocational professionals with both talent and virtue, broaden and expand students' future opportunities
- Apprentice Training Centres - To provide apprentice training through structured, shop-floor training and part-time day release study courses
- Field Studies Centre - To provide students with tailored field-study programmes related to the New Senior Secondary curriculum
Achievements
- Over 600 students graduated from Caritas Secondary School each year .
- Some students from Caritas Secondary Schools obtained outstanding results when they participated in competitions such as art and design competition, essay competition and dancing competition, etc. They were also complimented for their excellent performance in voluntary services.
- A technician apprentice of Caritas Printing Training Centre was awarded the "2002 Outstanding Trainee / Apprentice" by the Hong Kong Vocational Training Council.
- Through the assessment by the Quality Assurance Inspection teams of the EDB, the performance of our Caritas Secondary Schools in general were shown positive. Most of the schools were assessed as value-added schools.
- Many Caritas secondary schools were awarded the “Caring Campus Scheme” award.
- Caritas Chong Yuet Ming Secondary School was awarded the 1st Runner-up of the "Quiz on 30th anniversary of China's Economic Reform" on 2008.
- Caritas Ma On Shan Secondary School was awarded the Inviting School Award 2012 by the International Alliance for Invitational Education.