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Grace Ling Liang English School

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School type
  
Coeducational, Private

Session
  
April to March

Phone
  
033 2285 2942

Established
  
1974

Chairman
  
Pastor Chiang Kuo Thai

Founded
  
1974

Grace Ling Liang English School

Motto
  
Deo Gratias (To God Be The Glory)

Sister school
  
Ling Liang High School, Kolkata

Address
  
14, Gobinda Chandra Khatik Rd, Topsia, Kolkata, West Bengal 700046

Founders
  
Mrs. Mary Lamb, Rev. Dr. T.D.Lamb

Grace Ling Liang English School (informally glles) is a private, co-educational school imparting primary, secondary and higher secondary education, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The school is located at 21B, Hughes Road in the city of Kolkata and is open to children from all creeds and communities.

Contents

The school has a church. The school is equipped with a basketball court.

History

The late Rev. Dr. and Mrs. T. David Lamb, a missionary couple that came to India from Shanghai, China in 1949, founded the Ling Liang Chinese Church Trust in 1961 and the Grace Ling Liang English School in January 1974. They brought with them a keen respect for literacy and did commendable piece of pioneering work in the field of education which finally resulted in the establishment of two educational institutions, one in central Kolkata and other in Tangra, an eastern suburb of Kolkata.

Recognition

The Grace Ling Liang English School is recognized by the Department of Education, Government of West Bengal and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi, which conducts the ICSE and ISC Examinations at the close of Classes X and XII respectively.

School Session

The school session is from April to March. Saturday is the normal weekly holiday (in addition to Sunday).

Principals

  • Late Mr Ravi Verma
  • Dr M.C. Alexander
  • Mr Valentine Peter Roy
  • Mr Terence John
  • Ms. Dorothy Matthews

    • Teaching Staff

  • English Department:

    • •Mrs. T. Sen •Mrs. Supriya Chakraborty •Mrs. Swati Ghosh •Mrs. B. Gomes . Mrs. S. Mitra

  • Mathematics Department:

    • •Mr. Sabat Akhtar Khan •Mr. C.J. Joshi

  • Chemistry Department:

    • •Mrs. P. Koley

  • Biology Department:

    • •Mrs. Madhuchandra Chakraborty •Mr Jayanta Pal

  • Physics Department:

    • •Mrs. P. Sikdar

  • Economics Department:

    • •Mrs. Chameli Mukherjee

  • Accounts Department :

    • •Mr. Chitrasen Bhattacharyya

  • Commerce Department:

    • Mr. T. K. Ghosh •Mrs. Li Chiu Chou

  • History & Civics Department:

    • •Mr.A.J Ambett

  • Geography Department:

    • •Mrs. Florence Chakraborty

  • Computer Department:

    • •Mrs. Sarmistha Biswas •Mr. Jayanta Chowdhury

  • Hindi Department:

    • •Mr. Suresh Shaw •Mr. Anand Tiwari

  • Bengali Department:

    • •Mrs. A. Mondal •Mrs. Sumita Chakraborty

  • Chinese Department:

    • •Mrs. Li Chiu Chou •Mrs. Li Chun Yin

    Alumni

    ISC-2009-- Argho Bakshi Krishanu Chakraborthy Debjyoti mondal Souptik Sur Priyankya Patro .ISC-2012-- Science Stream- Siddharth Bhattacharjee Sounak Chandra Suvam Maity Anirban Chatterjee Soumya Chatterjee Abhishek Saha Aindrilla Das Debopriya Gupta Ayesha Anjum Souptik Garai Sourav Paul Avi Mondal Indranil Singha Arfi Khurshid Sayan Roy Sumit Paul Rahul Patro. ISC-2016-- Arijit Konner , Akash Chowdhury , Prince khatick , Annie Shaw , Sambhram Goswami, Sayan Bose , Krishnendu Ghosh , Rahul Roy , Farnaz Khan .

    References

    Grace Ling Liang English School Wikipedia
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