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Saint Nicholas Girls' School was established by the Sisters of the Infant Jesus near the Town Convent at Victoria Street in Singapore on 16 January 1933 as a Chinese-medium primary school for girls. The school began with an enrolment of 40 pupils in two classes, Primary One and Primary Two. At that time the entire teaching staff consisted of only two people, the principal who taught English, and another teacher who served as a Mandarin instructor.[1] At that time, the then-principal Sister Francoise Lee felt the need to cater to Chinese Catholic girls.[2] She pushed for the expansion of the Town Convent to include a Chinese school. That school was built on the former building complex of Hotel van Wijk, run by missionaries to provide education for daughters of Chinese-speaking families, including disadvantaged families and wealthy Chinese merchants alike.[3] The decision to purchase Hotel van Wijk was in part a preventive measure against moral corruption. The former building complex was a hotbed for prostitution activities, thus the purchase would indirectly reduce such influence on the girls living in the Convent.[4] Sister Francoise led a fund raising to make the purchase possible. However, the English section of the Convent occupied the new building, while the Chinese section was relocated to the old buildings, citing reasons of a larger English population needing more space.[5]In 1941, the school expanded into a full school.
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