La Salle School, Petaling Jaya (simply referred to as La Salle PJ or LSPJ) is a national primary and secondary school in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. It was established in 1959 by the De La Salle Brothers.
The immediate aim in building this school was to ease the pressure for places in St. John's Institution, which was rapidly expanding at the time as well as cater for the needs of the growing township. Its 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 for primary and 1988 for 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.
The Primary School
Head Masters Year service beganYear service endedName of Principal19591959Mr. Hew Weng Kong19601962Mr. Reggie Pereira19621965Reverend Brother Cronan Curran, FSC19651972Reverend Brother Alban Rozario, FSC19721979Reverend Brother Sebastian Leo, FSC19791984Mr. John Ng Soo Chai19841999Mr. Ng Cher Chai19992001Mdm. Yeoh Mee Ee20022009Mr. Yeo Sai Lim20092014Mr. Thillainathan S. Arumugam20152017Mdm. Teo Boon Hwa20172019Mdm. Noriah binti Mohammad20192021Mr. Tan Junhao 20212023Mr. Zakaria2023PresentMr. Gunalan Arumugam FSC - PAPZ, the group name of the De La Salle Brothers.
The Secondary School
Principals Year service beganYear service endedName of Principal19631965Reverend Brother Cronan Curran, FSC19651967Reverend Brother Philip Callaghan, FSC19671975Reverend Brother Lawrence Spitzig, FSC19751987Reverend Brother Felix James Donohue, FSC19871992Dr. Wong Sin Mong19921999Mdm. Hajah Ramlah Hasan19992002Mdm. Siti Nor Mohamed20032008Mr. A.Rajenthran20092012Mdm. P. Vasuthevan20122015Mdm. Chong Ah Loi20152018Mdm. Teo Boon Hwa 20192021Mr. Ganapathy Bass20212023Dr. Teh Lah Hoong 2023NOW≥Dr. Premala Jacob
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.
Notable alumni
Syahredzan Johan, Malaysian politician and lawyer, current MP for Bangi
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