Holy Childhood High

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Holy Childhood High School
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Holy Childhood High
9 Skibo Avenue Kingston 10, Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica

Jamaica
Coordinates 18°00′27″N76°47′54″W / 18.00746°N 76.79820°W / 18.00746; -76.79820
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Motto"Post Proleium Praemium" "After the battle, the reward"
Religious affiliation(s)Christian
DenominationCatholic
Founded1937
FounderFranciscan Missionary Sisters
StatusOpen
Head of schoolSis. Maxine Marie Mcintosh
Grades7–13
Gender Female
Number of students1700+
Language English, Jamaican English
Colour(s)   Blue and Gold
Song"Let Us Now In Youth Rejoice"
Yearbook"The Shield"
AlumniJacqueline Bishop, Marcia Douglas, Macka Diamond, Paula-Ann Porter, Tricia "ZJ Sparks" Spence

Holy Childhood High School is a Catholic school in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] It is a well-ranked all-girls school for academics and sports. [2] Pupils of the institution go on to careers in, among other areas, law, business, education, medicine and the arts.

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The school was named after the Child Jesus, and was founded by the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help of Jamaica (FMS) in Jamaica. [3] Holy Childhood High began as a private school in 1937 with 8 pupils (3 boys 5 girls the boys were later transferred to St. George's College) housed in a building near Holy Cross Rectory. Today the school is located at 9 Skibo Avenue Kingston 10, Jamaica, West Indies. The school is operated by the Ministry of Education in Jamaica and receives financial assistance, which makes it a grant-in-aid school.

As of 2010 the student population stands at over 1700, exclusive of the Holy Childhood Institute, a private institution which caters for approximately 300 students. [4] Both the high school and the Institute are accommodated on approximately 7 acres (28,000 m2) of land which provide space for offices, a playing field, blocks of classrooms, science and language laboratories, a library, bookstore, areas for Home Economics, Music, visual art studios, two tennis courts, a health clinic, gardens, and a large multipurpose hall - Stephanie Hall- named for a past headmistress Sr. Stephanie Grey, FMS, who served as headmistress from 1966-1996.

The school's emblem is a shield, embedded with the school’s motto, Post Proleium Pramieum which translates to "AFTER THE BATTLE THE REWARD". The school’s colours are blue and gold.

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  1. ↑ "Home". holychildhoodhighschool.org.
  2. ↑ / https://www.my-island-jamaica.com/ranking-of-high-schools-in-jamaica-jamaicas-top-secondary-schools.html /.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  5. ↑ "Indelicate truths — an artist's depiction of slavery on fine china". Financial Times. 10 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Mrs. Ann-Marie Campbell, MBA, B.A. (Class of 1981)". Holy Childhood High School. 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Macka Diamond".
  8. ↑ "Marcia Douglas".
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