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
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 www.smklasallepj.org

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
19591959Mr. Hew Weng Kong
19601962Mr. Reggie Pereira
19621965Reverend Brother Cronan Curran FSC
19651972Reverend Brother Alban Rozario FSC
19721979Reverend Brother Sebastian Leo FSC
19801984Mr. John Ng Soo Chai
19841999Mr. Ng Cher Chai
19992000Mrs. Yeoh Mee Ee
20002010Mr. Yeo Sai Lim
20102014Mr. Thillainathan S. Arumugam
2014PresentPn. Latifah Abdul Latif

The Secondary School

Principals

Year service began Year service ended Name of Principal
19631965Reverend Brother Cronan Curran FSC
19651967Reverend Brother Philip Callaghan FSC
19671975Reverend Brother Lawrence Spitzig FSC
19751988Reverend Brother Felix James Donohue FSC
19881992Dr. Wong Sin Mong
19921999Pn.Hajah Ramlah Hasan
19992003Pn. Siti Nor Mohamed
20032008Mr. A.Rajenthran
20092011Pn. P. Vasuthevan
20112015Pn.Chong Ah Loi
2015PresentPn.Teo Boon Hwa

See also

External links

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