In the early humble days before its move to Fo Tan in 1985, this co-educational international secondary school of the English Schools Foundation was known as the Shatin Annexe and was located on the campus of King George V School, with its first intake of 11-year-olds of Form 1 (now called Year 7 in today’s parlance) students in September 1982. There were 44 students and 6 dedicated teaching staff. Some of the amazing staff I remember were Mr Eddie Wake (Mathematics), Mr Mark Coombes (Science), Mrs Andrea Bryant (English), Miss Julie Crane (Humanities/History), Mrs Laura Baker (Art, Music, Drama) and Mrs Sue White (French). The School Principal was the ever-enthusiastic Ms Jennifer Bray. And last and by no means least was Mr Wong, the caretaker.
The school was a single storey block building with 4 classrooms on the private road opposite the KGV School Pavillion. One classroom on the first floor functioned as a science laboratory. A blue pre-fabricated porters cabin just next door to the school building in the grassy field by the private road functioned as a principal’s office cum staff room.
Some KGV facilities were inevitably utilized by the embryonic school such as the school sports field for physical education, the design and technology facilities in the adjacent New Block (Marshall Hughes was a KGV staff teacher before shortly joining Sha Tin College), and some of the Art, Drama and Music lessons were held in the Activities Centre opposite the KGV swimming pool. In 1983 the school changed its name to Sha Tin College.
Most of the students then were White British extraction, with the remainder mainly Chinese, Eurasians and South Asians. The school uniform back then was a light blue shirt and dark blue shorts or trousers or skirts.