Weekly
Morning assembly
Announcements, awards and the occasional whole-school dance — outdoors on the field, or in the gym when the Penghu wind gets going.
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Campus Life
What a year actually feels like for a child at Magong Elementary — from the morning broadcast to the last song of the Christmas concert.
A day in the life
From 7:30 in the morning
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Morning
Arrival, reading time and the student-run campus DJ broadcast. Monday brings the whole-school assembly on the field.
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Lessons
Four morning periods. Specialist teachers for English, music, PE, arts and information technology.
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Lunch & rest
School lunch prepared on site with a published monthly menu, followed by a quiet rest period.
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Afternoon
Two or three further periods, then clubs, sports training or after-school care for families who need it.
Through the year
The events children remember
October
Halloween week
Costumes made from recycled materials, a runway show, and English dialogues at every classroom door.
Autumn
Science Week
A week of experiments and demonstrations, ending in a school-wide hands-on science competition.
December
Christmas carolling
Every class sings on Christmas Eve, and the choir performs for the whole school. Classrooms are decorated by the children themselves.
December
Year-end gratitude
Our Christmas gratitude card project asks every child to thank someone in the school by name — a cleaner, a cook, a classmate.
Year round
Visiting authors
Writers come to campus to talk about dreams, popular science and picture book making — and then sit down and work alongside the children.
Beyond the timetable
Clubs, teams and after-school life
Club enrolment opens each semester and children choose for themselves. Our sports teams train seriously and travel off the island to compete — a significant undertaking for a school in an archipelago.
Sports teams
- Taekwondo — county and national competition
- Inline skating — including the Commissioner's Cup road race
- Chinese martial arts
- Athletics and swimming
Clubs and activities
- English picture book club
- Choir and instrumental ensembles
- Dance
- Science and making
- Campus broadcasting and DJ team
- Reading promotion and library helpers
Sport
Teams that travel
Getting to a national competition from Penghu means a flight. Our teams do it anyway — and come home with medals.
Our facilities
The campus itself
Built up over ninety years on the same site, and still growing.
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Library
A well-stocked reading room with Chinese and English collections, plus a growing audiobook library.
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Music & dance studios
Dedicated rehearsal spaces for the Music and Dance talent classes and the school choir.
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Smart classrooms
Interactive displays and class tablet sets, backed by the school's 5G network infrastructure.
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Sports field & hall
A full field for athletics and assembly, plus indoor space for wet-weather PE and events.
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Green campus
Mature trees, shaded corridors and planting beds used for environmental education.
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Kitchen
Lunches prepared on site for the school and kindergarten, with nutrition education alongside.
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Kindergarten
Four affiliated kindergarten classes on campus, founded in 1947.
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Resource room
A calm space for small-group and individual special education support.
Photo gallery
Our campus and our children
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Thinking about joining us?
Enrolment information for new students and the affiliated kindergarten.