Holy Innocents' High School
| Holy Innocents' High School 圣婴中学 |
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Singapore Hougang |
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| Coordinates | 1°22′18.99″N 103°53′44.65″E / 1.3719417°N 103.8957361°ECoordinates: 1°22′18.99″N 103°53′44.65″E / 1.3719417°N 103.8957361°E |
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| Type | Government-aided |
| Motto |
谦诚和爱 ((Sincerity and Charity)) |
| Established | 1892 |
| Session | Single Session |
| School code | 7108 |
| Principal | Mr Yap Wai Meng |
| Enrolment | approx. 1,250 |
| Colour(s) |
Blue, White |
| Website | holyinnocentshigh.moe.edu.sg |
Holy Innocents' High School (Simplified Chinese:圣婴中学, Traditional Chinese: 聖嬰中學, pinyin: Shèngyīng Zhōngxué) (HI/hs) is one of the earliest Catholic schools in Singapore. Founded in 1892, the school offers secondary school education leading up to a GCE O' Level certification, in both Express and Normal (Academic) streams, as well as GCE N' Level certification in the Normal (Technical) stream.
Holy Innocents' High School was founded as Tao Nan School in 1892, as one of the first Chinese Mission Schools to in Singapore. Bible studies and classical Chinese were taught. In 1920, the name of the school was changed from Tao Nan to Holy Innocents' Boy School. It means pure, wholesome and innocent. Between 1942 and 1945, Holy Innocents' Boys School was administered by the Japanese as Syonan School.In 1957, a two-storey building consisting of 12 classrooms was built at 7.25 miles off Upper Serangoon Road.
Secondary classes were started in 1958 and the school was renamed Holy Innocents' High School. The new campus was declared open on 5 January 1958, with blessing by Archbishop Michel Olçomendy. Between 1960 and 1964, eight additional classrooms and two laboratories were built. Pre-University classes were introduced in 1965, and the school was further expanded in 1968 with an addition of three-storey building. On 9 September 1983, Mr Ho Kah Leong, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, officiated the opening of the Auditorium and four classrooms.
On 23 March 1985, the primary school section of Holy Innocents' High School was separated from the high school section as Holy Innocents' Primary School, and moved to new premises at Lorong Low Koon. The secondary section functioned as a single-session high school. In 1987, a School Building Committee was formed headed by then Chairman of the School Management Board, Rev Fr Mathias Tung, to expand the school to a standard-sized secondary school. Approval was given from the government with an 80% capital grant.
Expansion and refurbishment works commenced in May 1992.The school's lower secondary classes shared premises with Hai Sing High School (present Hai Sing Catholic School) while the upper secondary classes reminded at the present site. The official commissioning of the upgraded facilities were officially commissioned on 30 July 1994 by Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore, The completed project added three new teaching blocks and an administrative block to the original building. The total built in area was 9000 sq m.
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