True Light Girls' College

True Light Girls' College
真光女書院
School badge of True Light Girls' College
Location
54A Waterloo Road, Yau Ma Tei

Kowloon

Hong Kong

22°18′50″N 114°10′22″E / 22.3138°N 114.1728°E / 22.3138; 114.1728
Information
TypeAided
MottoThou art the Light of the World
DenominationChristian (Church of Christ)
Established1973 (1973)
Principal
Dr. Mui Lai Yuk
Teaching staff
46
GradesSecondary 1–6
GenderGirls
Websitewww.tlgc.edu.hk
True Light Girls' College
Traditional Chinese真光女書院
Simplified Chinese真光女书院
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhēnguāng Nǚ Shū​yuàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingzan1 gwong1 neoi5 syu1 jyun6*2

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.

School motto

Thou art the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)

Teaching staff

There are in total 48 teaching staff in approved establishment with 6 staff who are not included in approved establishment.

School uniform

The 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

There are 24 classes under the New Senior Secondary (NSS) [3] curriculum: 4 classes at each level from S1 to S6.[4]

Notable alumnae

  • G.E.M., Hong Kong pop singer (graduated 2008)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ "Wearing a bit of history". South China Morning Post. 29 November 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  3. ↑ HKEDB: New Academic Structure Web Bulletin
  4. ↑ Official website: School Information
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