Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School 4.66

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School is an all-girls school located in Hougang, Singapore, running on a single-session catering to students in the Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical streams. Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School and Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School . From the school’s early humble beginnings of being a small school of just 24 students in 1900s, the school has become a school of choice, with the Primary and Secondary schools together offering a holistic education to over 3000 students. Since 1995, PLMGSS has been offering Higher Mother Tongue languages and specialised deep-learning programmes in Maths, Science and Aesthetics to her students.The current Principal, Mrs Quek Li Gek is an alumnus of Paya Lebar Methodist Girls School. Mrs Quek started her career as a Teacher in Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ Secondary School. She then worked in the Curriculum Planning and Development Division in MOE, and served in various leadership positions in Compassvale Secondary School and in St Andrew’s Junior College. Before she joined PLMGSS, she was the Assistant Director of the Guidance Branch in the Student Development Curriculum Division, Ministry of Education.HistoryOn 31 October 1916, the Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Building and Location Board purchased a piece of land with an area of 93000sqft in the district of Amokiah and started the school known as Paya Lebar School. This was the beginning of Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School.It was started as a branch of the Anglo-Chinese School with the name Paya Lebar English School. The first headmaster was Mr. Robert Hanam. It began in 1917 with a staff of three and a pupil enrollment of 24 boys. In 1918, it began taking in girls. It was an elementary school providing education up to Primary 4.