True Light Girls' College (TLGC, Cantonese: 真光女書院) is a Christian girls' secondary school in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1973, to commemorate the centenary of the first True Light Middle School, which was founded in 1872 in Canton by the American missionary, Harriet Newell Noyes.[1] It is run by the Kowloon True Light Middle School Management Board with the assistance of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China. The school is an aided EMI secondary school.
| True Light Girls' College | |
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真光女書院 | |
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54A Waterloo Road, Yau Ma Tei | |
| 22°18′50″N 114°10′22″E / 22.3138°N 114.1728°E | |
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| Type | Aided |
| Motto | Thou art the Light of the World |
| Denomination | Christian (Church of Christ) |
| Established | 1973 |
Principal | Dr. Mui Lai Yuk |
Teaching staff | 46 |
| Grades | Secondary 1–6 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 真光女書院 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 真光女书院 | ||||||||||
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School motto
editThou art the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)
Teaching staff
editThere are in total 48 teaching staff in approved establishment with 6 staff who are not included in approved establishment.
School uniform
editThe school uses a cheongsam as the student uniform, and was the first Hong Kong secondary school to adopt the garment as such.[2]
Class structure
editNotable alumnae
edit- G.E.M., Hong Kong pop singer (graduated 2008)
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ Story of Harriet Newell Noyes, American Presbyterian missionary and educator in China Archived 12 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
- ↑ "Wearing a bit of history". South China Morning Post. 29 November 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ↑ HKEDB: New Academic Structure Web Bulletin
- ↑ Official website: School Information
