The Beginnings
The College was founded by Mr Tsui Yan Sau Peter on 16 December 1919 on the 3rd and 4th floor of 60 Hollywood Road, which is the building of the Kung-Lee sugar cane juice store and is listed as one of the Grade II Historic Buildings. On the first day of lessons, there were only 4 students.
In subsequent years, the College has also used 54A Peel Street and 33 Mosque Junction as campuses. As the number of students continues to rise, the College moved to a new campus at 2 Robinson Road (the present site of Bishop Lei Int'l House and Raimondi College) after Lunar New Year, 1921. On 1 October 1922, the College was listed as a Grant-in-aid school. In 1924, a new branch school of the College, now known as Wah Yan College, Kowloon, was established. A hostel in Wah Yan opened in 1927. In the same year, the first Irish Jesuit father, Fr John Neary, came to Wah Yan as a teacher of religious knowledge.
In the early days of Wah Yan, the grades were not named as Forms 1–7, but Classes 1–8 instead. The "classes" were numbered in reverse order: Class 1 was equivalent to present day's Form 6 (the equivalent for Form 7 did not exist at that time), Class 6 was equivalent to present day's Form 1 and Class 8 was equivalent to present day's Primary 5.
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