La Salle School, Petaling Jaya

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La Salle School Petaling Jaya
also, La Salle PJ
and, LSPJ
Location
Chantek Road,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Malaysia
Information
Type National Primary School and National Secondary School
Motto Sapientia Et Caritas
(Wisdom and Love)
Established 1959
Principal Pn Lattifah (primary school)
Pn Teo Boon Hua (secondary school)
Grades Standard One to Form Six
Enrollment 600+ (Primary)
1200+ (Secondary)
Colour(s) Green, Yellow, Red
Affiliation La Sallian Educational Institutions
Yearbook La Sallian (primary school)
La Sallian (secondary school)
Current Head Boy Danny Pek Eng Leong
Website

La Salle School, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, is a missionary school established by the De La Salle Brothers (also known as The Christian Brothers) in 1959. It is part of the national education system of Malaysia.

The immediate aim in building this new school was to ease the pressure for places in St John's Institution, Kuala Lumpur, which was rapidly expanding at the time as well as cater for the needs of the growing township. Its enrolment, however, consists of students of all races regardless of their religions.

It is divided into primary school and secondary school. Both primary and secondary schools are formally known today as Sekolah Kebangsaan La Salle Petaling Jaya and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan La Salle Petaling Jaya.

The school was administered by the De La Salle Brothers until 1980 (Primary) and 1988 (Secondary). Since then, the heads have been lay individuals appointed by the Ministry of Education in consultation with the De La Salle Brothers in Malaysia.

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. On 2 April 1956, Brother Lawrence Spitzig, who was then Director of St. John’s took a historic step by applying for a piece of land in Petaling Jaya on which to erect a school run by Christian brothers. The vision at that time was to acquire a ten-acre site on which to erect a primary school, with a secondary school to follow later.

As the population grew so did the pressure for places in existing schools, so on 15 July 1959, Brother Lawrence made yet another request for permission to commence work on the construction of six classrooms (now known to all PJ Lasallians as the ‘Old Block’) to house primary classes which had launched La Salle PJ on the educational scene in January 1959. A new building completed in 2003 was to replaced the Old Block.

Standing in place of the Old Block is a two-storey New Block. This building houses a total of 10 classes, 2 workshops, a large surau and the long-awaited computer labs.

Affiliations

La Salle School, Petaling Jaya is affiliated to hundreds of other La Sallian Educational Institutions in 80 countries around the world.

The Primary School

Head Masters

Year service began Year service ended Name of Principal
1959 1959 Mr. Hew Weng Kong
1960 1962 Mr. Reggie Pereira
1962 1965 Reverend Brother Cronan Curran FSC
1965 1972 Reverend Brother Alban Rozario FSC
1972 1979 Reverend Brother Sebastian Leo FSC
1980 1984 Mr. John Ng Soo Chai
1984 1999 Mr. Ng Cher Chai
1999 2000 Mrs. Yeoh Mee Ee
2000 2010 Mr. Yeo Sai Lim
2010 2014 Mr. Thillainathan S. Arumugam
2014 Present Pn. Latifah Abdul Latif
  • FSC - PAPZ, the group name of the De La Salle Brothers.

The Secondary School

Principals

Year service began Year service ended Name of Principal
1963 1965 Reverend Brother Cronan Curran FSC
1965 1967 Reverend Brother Philip Callaghan FSC
1967 1975 Reverend Brother Lawrence Spitzig FSC
1975 1988 Reverend Brother Felix James Donohue FSC
1988 1992 Dr. Wong Sin Mong
1992 1999 Pn.Hajah Ramlah Hasan
1999 2003 Pn. Siti Nor Mohamed
2003 2008 Mr. A.Rajenthran
2009 2011 Pn. P. Vasuthevan
2011 2015 Pn.Chong Ah Loi
2015 Present Pn.Teo Boon Hwa
  • FSC means [Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des écoles chrétiennes];English: Brothers of the Christian Schools]; a Roman Catholic religious congregation dedicated to education for all (the Last, the Least and the Lost) was founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and is now based in Rome.

See also

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