Grace Ling Liang English School

Grace Ling Liang English School (glles)
Address
21B, Hughes Road
Kolkata – 700046
India
Information
School type Coeducational, Private
Motto Deo Gratias
(To God Be The Glory)
Established 1974
Founders Rev. Dr. T.D.Lamb and Mrs. Mary Lamb
Sister school Ling Liang High School, Kolkata
Session April to March
Chairman Pastor Chiang Kuo Thai
Principal Ms. Dorothy Jane Mathews
Classes Preparatory to Class 12
Medium of language English
Hours in school day 6
Houses
Lambs     , Davidson     , Verma     , Dzao     
Slogan Deo Gratias
Song We are Proud to Belong Ourselves
Sports Basketball, Cricket, Football, Volleyball, Throwball
Nickname Gracians
Yearbook Light
Communities served LTS
Affiliations CISCE

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.

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

Teaching Staff

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

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


•Mrs. P. Koley

•Mrs. Madhuchandra Chakraborty •Mr Jayanta Pal

•Mrs. P. Sikdar

•Mrs. Chameli Mukherjee

•Mr. Chitrasen Bhattacharyya

Mr. T. K. Ghosh •Mrs. Li Chiu Chou

•Mr. Ambett

•Mrs. Florence Chakraborty

•Mrs. Sarmistha Biswas •Mr. Jayanta Chowdhury

•Mr. Suresh Shaw •Mr. Anand Tiwari

•Mrs. A. Mondal •Mrs. Sumita Chakraborty

•Mrs. Li Chiu Chou •Mrs. Li Chun Yin

Alumni

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

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