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YING WAH GIRLS' SCHOOL-NEW WING

Architects: Chau and Lee

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View of the school showing the old building on the left and the new addition on the right.

(Photograph by King's Studio)

For some time Ying Wah Girls A series of breaks and new begin- the one just demolished to make School had experienced considerable nings filled the years between the way for the new building-and with- difficulty because of insufficient ac- foundation of Ying Wah and the in a few more years the enrolment commodation to cater fully for its eighteen-nineties when Miss Davis had grown to 300. 530 pupils.

With the addition of a of the London Mission found herself new wing recently, not only has this supervising nine schools with a total situation happily been alleviated, but of about 500 scholars. Then, to they are now able to cater for extra house the nucleus of a boarding pupils in fact they will be able to school which had started in a Wan- offer splendid educational facilities chai church, the present Ying Wah for some 600 pupils.

Girl's School was founded in 1900.

The school expanded through the first half of this century with the needs of the times, which after the war demanded the present further expansion and new facilities.

Ying Wah has also the distinction of having started the first real It was in 1846 that the London Ying Wah was for the first ten

Chinese kindergarten in the Colony. Missionary Society started the first years of its existence mainly а girls' school in the Colony.

This was opened in a small way in Scven boarding school offering primary pupils were originally enrolled in the education and receiving grant-in-aid 1911 and fully organised by a train- little school, which took its name from Government.

ed teacher in 1916. Two years later, It grew from 34 from the Anglo-Chinese College to 65 pupils and fees were first the Junior Middle School came into founded by Robert Morrison in charged in 1907. It was in 1910 when being, and to meet the urgent cry for Malacca; the name "Ying Wah" very Caine. Bonham and Robinson Roads teachers a Normal Training Course broadly translated means "English- were opened as Chinese residential was developed in conjunction with Chinese" and was adopted because areas, that the great influx of this tuition. The early twenties gaw the school taught in both of these students started, so that in a year it the build up of Middle School languages.

was imperative to build a new wing classes.

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