History
The Society of the Holy Child Jesus was founded by Reverend Mother Cornelia Connelly who was born in Philadelphia in 1809, she set up her first Convent in Derby, England in 1846 at the request of Pope Gregory XVI. The Society was founded for the "spiritual works of Mercy" of which education was a major focus. It has branches in Calabar, Abakaliki and Jos in Nigeria as well as Ghana, Cameroon, Chad, United States, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, France and Brazil.
The Reverend Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus came to Africa in 1930, their first school was set up in Calabar. The Society founded Holy Child College Lagos, in 1945 at the invitation of Archbishop Leo Taylor who wanted a good Catholic secondary school for the girls in his Archdiocese.
The College started on the 9th of April 1945 with two classes of 15 girls each and four Nuns as full-time Teachers. To increase the number of Students, a new class was admitted each year. By the time the foundation set had completed the six-year programme, the Student population had increased from 30 to 200 in 1950. The foundation students mostly came from ' Popo Aguda' '(Yoruba meaning of Catholic Lagosians) who were Brazilian Returnees and old Lagos families like the Trezise's, Da Rocha, Vera Cruz, Pereira, Soares and Pedro as well as other prominent Nigerian families like Apena, Akran, Alakija, Nwosu and Okoli.
Holy Child College Lagos, offers an all-round academic education as well as Sports, Oratory Skills, Latin, Art and Drama, Etiquette and Deportment. Everything in the College is done, Ad Majorem Dei Gloria - to the Glory of God.
The school motto and call is 'Facta non Verba' or 'Action not Words'.
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