香港資優教育學院 The Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education

Bad Weather Arrangements for Student Programmes/Activities

Please note that participants have to refer to the programmes/activities confirmation for the bad weather arrangements if the programmes/activities are held outside the Academy.

If the Education Bureau (EDB) announces that all day school classes will be cancelled due to bad weather, all programmes/activities of the HKAGE will also be suspended or cancelled.
If the EDB does not announce the cancellation of classes, the following arrangements will be applied to the programmes/activities of the HKAGE (Please refer to “5. Bad Weather Arrangements” below).
Participants should visit the Academy’s website (www.hkage.org.hk) for information on the latest arrangements.
Parents should decide whether their children should attend the programmes/activities after considering the weather, traffic and the entire environmental conditions. In such a case, students not attending the session will be regarded as absent. Parents may exercise their discretion in deciding whether or not to pick up their children at the time of inclement weather.

Bad Weather Arrangements

Signal is in force or will be in force within 2 hours before the programmes/activities start
Weather condition	Indoor programmes/activities	Outdoor programmes/activities
Typhoon signal no.1	Proceed as normal	Proceed as normal
Typhoon signal no.3	Proceed as normal	Cancelled*
Typhoon signal no.8 or above	Cancelled*	Cancelled*
Amber rainstorm warning signal	Proceed as normal	Proceed as normal Please note the Academy or Service Provider may cancel the programmes/activities depending on the situation and students will be informed
Red/Black rainstorm warning signal	Cancelled*	Cancelled*
The traffic or environmental condition in the vicinity of the venue is adversely affected by bad weather. E.g. Special Announcement on Flooding in the northern New Territories	Cancelled* Students will be informed individually by the Academy or Service Provider within 2 hours before the programmes/activities start	Cancelled* Students will be informed individually by the Academy or Service Provider within 2 hours before the programmes/activities start

Signal is in force during the programmes/activities
Weather condition	Indoor programmes/activities	Outdoor programmes/activities
Typhoon signal no.1	Proceed as normal	Proceed as normal
Typhoon signal no.3	Proceed as normal	Suspended immediately*
Typhoon signal no.8 or above	Suspended immediately*	Suspended immediately*
Amber rainstorm warning signal	Proceed as normal	Students will be taken to the best possible safe location and will be advised to remain there until the signal is lowered or a parent or designated responsible adult picks them up
Red rainstorm warning signal	Proceed as normal	Suspended immediately* Students will be taken to the best possible safe location and will be advised to remain there until the signal is lowered or a parent or designated responsible adult picks them up
Black rainstorm warning signal	Proceed as normal Students will be advised to remain indoor until the signal is lowered or a parent or designated responsible adult picks them up	Suspended immediately* Students will be taken to the best possible safe location and will be advised to remain there until the signal is lowered or a parent or designated responsible adult picks them up
The traffic or environmental condition in the vicinity of the venue is adversely affected by bad weather. E.g. Special Announcement on Flooding in the northern New Territories	Suspended immediately* Students will be advised to remain indoor until the signal is lowered or a parent or designated responsible adult picks them up

Signal lowered or will be lowered#
Weather condition	Indoor programmes/activities	Outdoor programmes/activities
Signal lowered or will be lowered	Commence as scheduled if the signal is lowered or will be lowered 2 hours prior to the programmes/activities	Students will be informed individually by the Academy or Service Provider within 2 hours before the programmes/activities start

*For cancelled or suspended programmes/activities, please visit our website at www.hkage.org.hk/en/sz_programmes.html on the following working day for the makeup arrangement. Classes cancelled due to bad weather will be excluded in the calculation of attendance.

#In case the morning session of a full-day session has been cancelled due to bad weather, the afternoon session will not be resumed even the signal has been lowered before the start of the afternoon session.

Swine Flu

Updated Arrangements for Student Programmes and Activities During the Swine Flu Outbreak

When the Education Bureau announces the cancellation of classes in all secondary schools as a result of the outbreak of Swine Influenza A (H1N1), all HKAGE student programmes and activities will be cancelled or postponed. Student members will have to visit our website later for information on further arrangements.
If there is a confirmed case of Swine Influenza A (H1N1) among the student members of the HKAGE, that infected student member and all his/her classmates who have attended the same classes should not attend all other HKAGE classes for 14 days with effect from the date of the confirmed case.