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Established
  
1818 (1818)

Phone
  
044 2858 9010

Founded
  
1818

Gender
  
Boys

Founder
  
Rev. James Lynch

Wesley Higher Secondary School

Type
  
State Syllabus of Government of Tamil Nadu

Motto
  
IN GLORIAM DEI OPTIMI MAXIMI ("THE SCHOOL STRIVES TO CONDUCT ALL ACTIVITIES TO THE GLORY OF GOD")

Address
  
West Cott Road , Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600014

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Wesley Higher Secondary School is a school in Tamil Nadu, India.

History

A group of followers of John Wesley (1703–1791) set sail from Britain for India under the leadership of Thomas Coke. James Linch, who accompanied Coke, founded the Methodist Mission in India, establishing a small school and a chapel at Royapettah, Madras (now Chennai) in 1818.

Royapettah School, a High School, was founded shortly after 1848, by Ebenezer Jenkins. He managed to establish Wesley Arts College in those days. When the Arts College was closed in 1935, Meston College of Education emerged in 1937 headed by Rev. T.R. Foulger. The Wesley High School in addition to its regular academic activities served as a practicing school for this professional college.

In conformity with the structural change in school sducation introduced by the Government of Tamil Nadu, the institution was upgraded as a Higher Secondary School for boys in 1978, with academic courses at +2 level. The School is also involved in welfare education by arranging integrated programmes for handicapped children.

References

Wesley Higher Secondary School Wikipedia