Carmel Secondary School

**Carmel Secondary School** is the first of the Carmelian schools, and the secondary school attended by Mikael Larsson and Ulrika Leung. Founded in 1964, it is currently located at 55 Chung Hau Street in Ho Man Tin.

## Campuses

The first campus of Carmel Secondary School was built in 1958 at 7 Carmel Village Street and was originally purposed for a primary school. A second campus is built in 1975 at 55 Chung Hau Street to accomodate more classes. In 1989, with a donation from Li Ka-shing, a property tycoon, the new wing of the second campus (formally named the Li Ka Shing Building) is built, and the school no longer actively uses the first campus. Since then, the first campus has been leased to the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Association, the Hong Kong Schools Sports Council, the Hong Kong Schools Sports Association and the New Territories Schools Sports Association, with the latter three organizations merging into the Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation in 1997.

## Student culture

### Houses

Carmel Secondary School is divided into four houses since September 2000, namely Intellect (blue), Virtue (red), Loyalty (purple) and Trust (green). Before 2000, there were six houses, namely Blue, Red, Purple, Green, White and Gray. Each house has a committee which comprises of one chairperson and two vice-chairpersons.

The largest house event is the Sports Days in autumn and early winter, and formerly the Swimming Gala in July. The Swimming Gala was held from 2011 to 2018, but was permanently cancelled due to constant low participation.

Some other events are held according to the year, such as basketball, volleyball and debating competitions.

### School teams

Carmel Secondary School has a number of teams that represent the school at inter-school competitions.

#### Robotics team

Carmel Secondary School has a robotics team. The team has frequently represented Hong Kong at international robotics competitions, such as the FIRST Lego League and the World Robot Olympiad.

#### Sports teams

Carmel Secondary School has regular teams in volleyball, basketball, badminton and table tennis that participate in inter-school events organized by the Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation and other organizations. Apart from that, the school also sends top athletes to the Inter-School Athletics Competition after the post-Sports Days selection, though it lacks a regular athletics team.

#### Music teams

Carmel Secondary School has a choir, an orchestra, a handbells team and a handchimes team. They are collectively known as the music teams.

The Carmel Choir participates in various competitions, such as the Super Voice Singing Contest and the Joint School Music Competition, the Carmel Orchestra performs at the Hong Kong Youth Music Interflows and other events, and the handbells team perform at the Hong Kong International Handbells Olympics.

The music teams organize the Carmel Annual Concert, a music event open to the public, every July.

## Students (fictional)

* Mikael Larsson (fictional character), cheerleader, debater and chorister born 2002
* Ulrika Leung, wing spiker born 2008, #8

## Students (real)

* Mikael Larsson, cheerleader, debater and chorister born 2002