Queen¡¦s
College
Regulations for Boys
(All parents and students are requested to read them carefully)
1. School Uniform
(a) All students should attend school properly dressed.
Summer uniform: white open-neck shirt with buttons, except the first one, fastened up and with the school badge sewn on four sides onto the pocket, and white shorts or trousers. The shirt must be tucked in.
Winter uniform: a blue blazer with pocket badge, white shirt and school tie, and grey flannel trousers. Sweaters must be either grey or navy blue in colour. Fancy pullovers and track suits are NOT allowed.
(b) Students must wear black leather belts. Belts made of cloth or other materials are not allowed.
(c) Students should wear leather shoes or sports shoes. Leather shoes should be black. As for sports shoes, the basic colour should be white, and the laces should also be white. Boots and sandals are not allowed.
(d) Socks should be white, black or grey in colour and they should cover the ankles.
(e) Students should wear full school uniform at all school functions whether inside or outside the school.
(f) The school generally disapproves of students wearing the latest or most cut-edged hairstyles; dyeing and curling are prohibited.
(g) Class T-shirts are not allowed on normal school days.
(h) When the temperature falls below 12¢XC in the urban area,boys are permitted to wear plain overcoats other than the blue blazer. In addition, students may also wear plain coloured scarves ( black or grey ) to keep warm.
(i) On occasions when students are allowed to have casual wear for their normal school days ( school picnic; clean QC day ); they must wear their metal school badges for identification and security purposes.
(j) On non-school days, students have to deposit their student identity cards at the main entrance when come back for activities. They have to get their identity cards back when leaving the school.
2. Care of school property
(a) Boys must take care of the school property.
(b) Any damage to school property must be reported at once to the Principal and the person causing the damage may be required to pay for it. Every boy is expected to look after his own desk and chair in the classroom.
(c) Boys must not play with chalk.
(d) Boys are not allowed to kick balls within the school premises. They must not play ball games in the classrooms or on the corridors.
(e) Boys must not walk on the lawn.
3. Movement in corridors and on stairs
Boys must walk along the left side of the stairs. Running is at all times forbidden.
4. Manners and courtesy
(a) At all time boys should behave well at school and in public.
(b) Good manners should be practiced at school when boys meet their teachers or schoolmates for the first time in the morning or afternoon, they should give greetings: i.e. ¡§Good Morning¡¨, ¡§Good Afternoon¡¨. For leave-taking, they should say, ¡¨Good-bye¡¨
(c) Boys must stand and give greetings when a teacher or a visitor enters their classroom. When the teacher or the visitor leaves, the boys must again stand and say ¡¨Good-bye, Sir/Madam¡¨.
(d) A boy wishing to see a staff in any common room must knock on the door and wait.
5. P.E. Lessons
(a) Clothing: Boys should wear proper P.E. uniform and white shoes with rubber soles during P.E. lessons..
(b) Boys must change their clothes in the changing rooms, not in the class-rooms.
(c) Exemption from P.E. for periods longer than one month may only be granted by the Principal on presentation of a medical certificate. For exemption from a single lesson, a boy must report to the P.E. teacher personally and obtain his permission.
(d) Boys, wishing to have friendly matches with students of other schools on the school basketball court, must obtain approval from the Principal.
6. Security of personal property
It is the individual¡¦s responsibility to safeguard his own property. Boys having lessons in special rooms must carry their school bags or valuables along with them.
Boys should not bring to school valuable articles or large amount of money. The school will not be responsible for any loss of such things.
7. Lost Property
All articles found are to be taken to the teacher ¡Vin-charge, to whom the articles should be reported.
A list of articles not claimed will be put on the school notice board at regular intervals. Any property not claimed within two weeks after a notice has been put up may be disposed of.
8. Classroom Regulation
Special regulations are issued.
9. Disciplinary Actions
Student offenders may be given Major Black Marks, Minor Black Marks, Defect Points, Written Warning, or Verbal Warning according to the extent of seriousness of their offences. Boys found committing serious offences such as stealing, fighting, truancy, cheating in examinations or being triad society members are liable to be suspended from school. Punitive records will be printed on school¡¦s reports.
However, the school does offer correctional programmes for these offenders through the ¡§Bright Future¡¨ Scheme, so as to provide them with a chance of mending their wrongs.
10. Mobile Phones
Students are not allowed to use mobile phones and their associated functions within the school premises or else, they will be punished.
11. Punctuality
(a) Boys must arrive at school and enter their classroom before the first bell in the morning and after the lunch break. Boys who fail to do so will be marked late. Students who are frequently late will be given warning or defect points. Warning letters may be issued to the severe late-comers who arrive without any acceptable excuse.
(b) In the morning and the last 15 minutes of the lunch break, all boys must enter the school through the main entrance at Causeway Road.
(c) Latecomers should report to the prefect-on-duty or the clerical staff. The prefect or clerical staff will keep their student ID cards for reference. Students should collect their ID cards from the discipline teachers after school.
(d) Habitual latecomers will have to face a downgrading of conduct mark penalty.
12. Leaving the school premises
No boys may leave the school during school hours without permission from his form-teacher. Boys who have to leave early must fill in an Early Leave Permission-Form¡¨ obtainable from their form-teacher and hand it to the minor staff on duty at the school main entrance on leaving,
13. Absence
(a) A boy requiring leave of absence for urgent private affairs must bring a letter from his parents, addressed to his form-teacher asking for such leave. Permission must be obtained in advance.
(b) After absence due to sickness, a boy must bring a letter of explanation to his form-teacher and, if necessary, a medical certificate.
(c) Any boy feeling ill must report to the class-teacher. In the case of injury, it must be reported to the Principal at once.
(d) Boys requiring a long leave of absence for private affairs should obtain prior permission from the school./font>
(e) A boy who wishes to leave early during school hours with valid reasons, such as sickness, should first obtain a duly signed Early Leave Permission Form from his class-teacher.
14. Change of address or personal particulars
Any change of address or other important personal particulars must be reported at once to the class-teacher.
15. Withdrawal from school
Boys withdrawing from school must bring a formal letter from their parents. They must also give back their student identity cards to the school.
16. Photos on certificate, etc.
For all pictures on certificate, testimonials or documents, boys must be photographed in school uniform with the school tie or the school badge being visible.
17. Study room and free study periods
From half an hour after school to 7:00 p.m., Room 111 is specially reserved for students¡¦ self study purpose. For free study periods, S5, S6 and S7 boys may use the Main Library, SAC or any quiet corner of the school during the day.
18. Library and gymnasium
Special regulations are issued.
19. The tuckshop
Boys are not allowed to go to the tuckshop for food or drink during lessons, free periods, or at change of lessons.
20. Fire
When the fire alarm (continuous ringing of electric and/or hand bells for laboratory accidents) sounds, all boys must proceed at once to the particular playground/ locations as directed by the school.
21. Cleanliness
(a) Students must not litter the school premises.
(b) Eating and drinking are allowed in the classroom only in the lunch break.
(c) Lunch boxes or soft drink cans and boxes should not be dumped in the classrooms¡¦ waste paper baskets, but into the litter bins along the corridors.
(d) Soft drinks, soups or food in liquid form must be consumed inside the tuck shop and bottles must not be taken away.
(e) Always keep the corridor and basketball courts clean.
22. Prefects and Monitors
Prefects and Monitors are responsible for the general discipline of the school and their instructions and advice must be obeyed at all times.
23. Posters, circulars, bulletins, etc.
(a) Prior to display onto the notice boards, all posters must be approved by the Principal and signed by the Teacher-in-charge and stamped with the school chop.
(b) Club circulars must be approved by the school and signed by the Teacher-in-charge.
(c) Club bulletins, class bulletins, alumni¡¦s albums etc., should be checked by the teacher(s)-in-charge and approved by the school before publication.
(Mr. LI Lok-yin)
Principal
September, 2007