Holy Childhood High

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School in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica

Blue and GoldSong"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.

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.

Notable alumnae

Jacqueline Bishop, award-winning author and visual artist^[5]
Ann-Marie Campbell, executive vice-president for Home Depot^[6]
Macka Diamond, Jamaican singer and writer^[7]^{[circular reference]}
Marcia Douglas, award-winning author and university professor^[8]

References

^ "Home". holychildhoodhighschool.org.
^ "Ranking Of High Schools In Jamaica - Jamaica's Top Secondary Schools". My-Island-Jamaica.com.
^ Burke, Michael (4 October 2018). "Impact of Franciscans on Jamaica". amp.jamaicaobserver.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021.
^ / http://www.holychildhoodhighschool.org/html /. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Indelicate truths — an artist's depiction of slavery on fine china". Financial Times. 10 September 2021.
^ "Mrs. Ann-Marie Campbell, MBA, B.A. (Class of 1981)". Holy Childhood High School. 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
^ "Macka Diamond".
^ "Marcia Douglas".