La Salle School, Petaling Jaya
For other La Salle Schools in Malaysia, please see La Sallian Educational Institutions in Malaysia.
| La Salle School Petaling Jaya also, La Salle PJ and, LSPJ | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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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 | Amir Iskandar |
| Website |
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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
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 replace 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.