Yau Chi Leung
Principal Yau Chi Leung is an education elite with a rich educational background and working experience in education. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons.), a Postgraduate Diploma in Education, and a Master's degree in Information Technology in Education from the University of Hong Kong. With over 30 years of experience in secondary education in Hong Kong, he served as the principal of Yuen Long Merchants Association Secondary School (a Band 1 school using English as a medium of instruction) before retirement in August 2023, where he established the first Microsoft Future Library and the second Microsoft AI Innovation Lab in Hong Kong. Leading by example during the pandemic, he guided the school to become the first in Hong Kong to conduct online real time classes according to a normal timetable. Principal Yau has also been honored with the Excellent Award at the 5th Outstanding Teaching Award for Moral Education in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Outstanding Award at the 6th Outstanding Teaching Award for Moral Education.
Welcome to the website of Shenzhen Kingfan Hong Kong Children School. Our school is a new school for Hong Kong Children but we have experience in running HKDSE curricula for five years. In Kingfan, our students will experience not just high quality education and have wonderful and colourful school life.
At Kingfan, your learning will not limit to your study in the classroom and you have to seize every opportunity to learn, “ALWAYS LEARNING and LEARNING ALL WAYS”. Any element in your school life will allow you to learn and grow. Learning will not only take place in the classroom, it will take place in any activities or any small incidents you will encounter in your school life.
I would like to share a story about a very famous scientist, Thomas Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931), who was schooled at home because his teacher said that he was “too stupid to learn anything”, and he was fired from his first couple of jobs because he was “non-productive”.
Most of us know him as the inventor of the modern light bulb, but not many know that he was actually a serial entrepreneur of his time.
Before becoming famous for the lightbulb, Edison had already been coming up with new things for quite some time. He started a company called the Edison Portland Cement Co, the aim of which was to improve the cement industry. He also invented the automatic vote-tally system for the congress. The first example, the company, never grew to the scale that Edison had anticipated it to grow, and the vote-tally system was simply rejected by the congress.
There were many other creations of his that never made it big, but that never stopped him from trying over and over again. All in all, Edison acquired as many as 1,093 patents throughout his life to protect all of his ideas and inventions.
It is said that before coming up with the light bulb, he had to go through more than 10,000 prototypes to finally make it work the way he wanted it to. When he was asked about his failure, the 10,000 attempts, Edison replied that “I have not failed 10,000 times — I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” Your attitude determines your altitude.
One of the great singers, Madonna has said, “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always become a better version of yourself.”
We all are a continual work in progress, so we can’t beat ourselves up for not being where we want to be in this very moment. It takes hard work, dedication, and serious soul-searching to become the best versions of ourselves, but we can always keep striving for better. We can always rise above our self-imposed limits and accept more than mediocrity. In no matter what you are doing, if you haven’t given up yet, then you should be extremely proud of yourself. No one promises us that life is a piece of cake, and it takes a true warrior to see it through to the end.
“Your attitude determines your altitude”
Mr. Yau Chi Leung
