La Salle School, Klang

La Salle School, Klang is a boys' mission school in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located at Persiaran Raja Muda Musa, Klang and neighbours three other schools: Hin Hua High School (Private), SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, and SK (1)&(2) Simpang lima.[1]

La Salle School Klang
La Salle School Klang Logo
Address
Persiaran Raja Muda Musa Klang , Selangor , 41200 Malaysia
Coordinates	3°1′57″N 101°26′17″E
Information
Other names	SK La Salle Klang and SMK La Salle Klang
Type	National Primary School and National Secondary School
Motto	Lux Luceat Vobis (Let Your Light Shine)
Established	1940
School district	Klang
Principal	Salmiah Bt Abd Hamid (Primary) Woon Boon Yeat (Secondary)
Grades	Standard One - Standard Six Form One - Form 5
Gender	Boys
Enrollment	400+ (Primary) 1000+ (Secondary)
Colour(s)	Green, Yellow, White, Red
Yearbook	Evolution (2014) (secondary school)
Affiliation	La Sallian Educational Institutions
Website	smklasalleklang.blogspot.com

History

La Salle School, Klang is one of the oldest schools in Klang. It was established by the Roman Catholic Church in 1940 to provide education for Malayan boys regardless of race and religious affiliation. It is one of 26 De La Salle mission schools in Malaysia. Commonly known as the La Salle School, it has long consisted of a primary school and a secondary school that are administered separately. The primary and secondary schools were administered as a single unit until 1964.[1]

Private school

Rev. Father Louis Guittart of France was the first principal of the school. The school was originally known as St. Bernadette's School but was renamed La Salle Institution in 1950 when the school was placed under the administration of the De La Salle Brothers, a teaching congregation with schools and universities across the world. In 1952, the school was renamed La Salle School. Today, the primary school is formally known in Malay as Sekolah Kebangsaan La Salle and the secondary school is formally known as Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan La Salle. They are now both national schools administered by the Malaysian Ministry of Education but remain under the ownership of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur which appoints members of the school's Board of Governors.[1] Like all Malaysian "English-medium" missionary schools, the payment of fees for primary and secondary school students at La Salle was required until the school fully integrated a "Malay-medium language instruction" which it had by the 1980s.[2][3][4][5]

The school was headed by a Brother Director of the De La Salle Brothers until 1989 when Mr. Rex C.C. Michael became the first principal not of consecrated life. The last Brother Director to serve the school was the Rev. Bro. Michael Wong FSC. The students and alumni of La Salle School, Klang call themselves 'Lasallians'. The school motto, 'Lux Luceat Vobis' is Latin for 'let your light shine' (Matthew 5:16). The school anthem is "All Through Our Classes" while "Hail Alma Mater" is used as the prefects' anthem. The school sports houses are Celestine, Harold, Leo, Edmund and Philip. Alumni of the school are represented by the Old Lasallian Association of Klang (OLAK).

Principals

Year service began	Year service ended	Name of Principal
1940	1947	Rev. Fr. L. Guittart
1947	1951	Rev. Fr. John Edmund
1952	1957	Rev. Bro. Stephen Phillip
1958	1963	Rev. Bro. Leo Manicasami
1964	1964	Rev. Bro. Celestine Jennings
1965	1967	Rev. Bro. John Mathew Neo
1968	1976	Rev. Bro. Harold Reynolds
1977	1982	Rev. Bro. Cassian Pappu
1983	1985	Rev. Bro. David Liao
1986	1988	Rev. Bro. Michael Wong
1989	1993	Mr. Rex C.C. Michael
1993	1994	Madam K. Sadasivam
1995	1998	Mr. Shum Kwok Hong
1998	2003	Madam Zainon Kasim
2003	2006	Madam Hasimah Karim
2006	2010	Madam Lee Lily
2010	2012	Pn. Hajah Adliyah Ramli
2012	2014	Pn. Ding Sooi Chong
2015	2017	En. Loh Kea Yu
2017	Present	Mr. Woon Boon Yiat

See also

• Persiaran Raja Muda Musa
• SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang
• SK Simpang Lima, Klang
• Hin Hua High School Klang

References

1. Klang, Smk La Salle (5 March 2014). "Carian Yes ID Pelajar". Retrieved 16 November 2019.
2. Foreign volume and a statistical mirror. Interchurch Press. 1920. Grants from the government, together with school fees, pay the salaries and traveling expenses of missionary teachers, so that these schools are not a ....
3. Joseph, C. (2014). Growing up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia. Routledge. p. 51. ISBN 9781317638117. Retrieved 16 November 2019. ...[Missionary] schools with English as the medium of instruction provided the best education....universal free primary education with the abolishment [in 1966] of school fees at primary level...
4. The Far East and Australasia. Europa Publications Limited. 1980. p. 746. ISBN 9780905118512. Retrieved 16 November 2019. [In 1980]...No school fees are charged in assisted primary schools or in any of the Malay-medium secondary schools, but in other [secondary missionary]...
5. "Educational Statistics of Malaysia". Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. 1971. p. 98. Retrieved 16 November 2019.