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Yung An Wan
Yung An Wan
Retired primary school teacher
Sex: Female Birthyear: 1932 Age at Interview: 78 Education: Teachers' Training Occupation: Teacher Theme: Education When Yung An Wan studied in Chun Wah School, the school could only accommodate 20 students, but it enrolled 25. One day when an inspector from the Education Department came to visit the school, five students (including Yung An Wan) were led to hide on the rooftop. She was one of the students who could not afford to buy school uniform.
Title Students enrolled beyond the quota hid in the school building’s rooftop to evade inspectors from the Education Department Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 45s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-001 When Yung An Wan studied in the subsidiary secondary school of the Northcote College of Education, she asked a classmate to do a painting for her (colloquially called ‘ghost painter’) to cope with the examination.
Title A Chinese painting from a ghost painter was submitted as her own work for the examination Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 46s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-002 In Grantham Training College, the British female instructor had an assistant to provide the inter...After Yung An Wan was admitted in the Grantham Training College, she chose Physical Training which had classes in the Northcote College of Education on Bonham Road (the site where Bonham Road Government Primary School now stands). Students who chose Domestic Science also had classes there while carpentry students had classes in the carpentry workshop. The Physical Training instructor was an English lady who depended on an assistant for interpretation. They were taught to do the callisthenics, sand bag throw and balance beam.
Title In Grantham Training College, the British female instructor had an assistant to provide the interpretation service Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m15s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-003 When the Grantham Training College was first founded, the students had no school uniforms but had...At first, students of Grantham Training College had no school uniform. Female students usually wore blue cheongsam and silk stockings. They were advised to wear shoes with heels. The silk stockings cost more than $10 per pair but were easily worn out. To save money, the girls had to mend the stockings very often. Male students had to wear a tie. Yung An Wan wore a pair of western-style shorts for the physical training lessons. The school had no rules regarding girls’ hairstyle. When Yung An Wan was in Senior Secondary 3, she permed her hair to make herself look more mature in the admission interview of the teachers’ training college.
Title When the Grantham Training College was first founded, the students had no school uniforms but had rules to follow in clothing Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 3m26s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-004 When Yung An Wan studied in Grantham Training College, she had to teach in a primary school as internship. Yung An Wan recalled that for a lesson on natural science, she brought a coconut to the classroom, cut it into halves in front of the students and showed to the students the physical structure of a coconut.
Title In the Natural Science lesson, she explained with aid of a real coconut Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 21s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-005 Yung An Wan also learned classroom management in the teachers’ training course at Grantham. For example, students must raise their hands before talking to the teacher. Yung believed that a teacher should pay attention to all the students in the classroom and remember the name of every student as soon as possible. Yung An Wan thought these were useful for a teacher in his/her life time.
Title Classroom management is a lifelong skill she has learnt from the Grantham Training College Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m23s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-006 Yung An Wan taught in Pui Tak Canossian Primary School. Those were happy years. She liked the school very much because she had a harmonious relationships with the school nuns and the obedient students.She was satisfied that she had good confidence in teaching.
Title She built up confidence in teaching at the Pui Tak Canossian Primary School Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 43s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-007 Pui Tak Canossian Primary School tended to train students to be obedient and well-disciplined. Students had to chant the scriptures together in the morning and keep quiet in the class. As a result they were afraid of the teachers and were not motivated to raise questions in the class.
Title Pui Tak Canossian Primary School emphasized discipline of students Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m37s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-008 When Yung An Wan taught in GTC Past Students’ Association Tsz Wan Shan Primary School, Tsz Wan Shan had a population of mixed backgrounds. The complicated environment in Tze Wan Shan appeared to be an alien place to her. Each class had 45 students but the schools admitted 46 students in Primary 6 classes. Because the intake included many overaged students, the classrooms became too small for these grown up students.
Title Intake of overaged Primary 6 students beyond the quota brought crowded conditions in the classrooms Date 03/06/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m14s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-009 Yung An Wan thought a teacher should be considerate and managed students’ problems from their point of view so that students could feel happy at school. For students who did not do their homework, revise lessons and were not supervised by their families, Yung An Wan would ask them to finish their homework at school. She asked them questions about what they had learnt in the class to help them consolidate the basic knowledge learned.
Title A lesson learned from teaching experience: Solve problems from student’s perspective Date 03/06/2010 Duration 3m19s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-YAW-HLT-010