Ai Chun School / SJK (C) Ai Chun (1) & (2)
Someone in the previous post asked if this school is still around, yes it is!
Here’s how it looks like, this building has been around since March / April 1995.
Anyone here from this school? You might want to contribute facts about this school. I found from two websites details about this school. How interesting, I always thought that Ai Chun was a girls school, but originally, it was a boys school! It is published in Malay, but here’s my summary and translation.
Ai Chun School was the original name of the school and it was established in July 1942. In 1945, the Girls Division was set up. The girls classes was at an atap house in Jalan Rahmat. It is beside the Chinese Chamber of Commerce building now. It had around 30 students. The boys classes on the other hand was at an atap house in Jalan Soga, beside the Hindu Temple.
In 1926, the students population grew rapidly so on the 29 March 1927, it was decided that the school be separated into 2 single gender schools. Ai Chun Girls School was formed and Ms Tan Nai Wei was the headmistress. Since then, the school has moved twice and was closed during the Japanese Occupation period.
In 1932, due to limited and scarce resources because of the world economic depression, Ai Chun School was merged with Cheng Siu School. The Girls School was held in a shop in front of the Post Office. Cheng Siu School was held in the present Ai Chun School. Both the schools were under the care of the same School Board of Management.
During the 2nd World War, both schools were stopped because the school buildings and school resources had been destroyed.
After the war, the School Board of Management restarted Ai Chun School at the present location. It has around 800 students with 9 classrooms. It was obvoius that the school was becoming too small. In 1952, the 9 classrooms was demolished and replaced with 24 classrooms, 1 hall and a headmaster’s office.
By 1963, the school had around 1300 students and with advice from the Education Ministry, the school was split into 2 schools. Ai Chun School (1) and Ai Chun Girls School (2) was established on 13 April 1963.
Ai Chun Girls School (2) was established with 476 students, 12 classrooms and 15 teachers. Classes were held in the afternoon. The headmistress was Ms Ong Chin Che.
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Any old girls, (hmm what a term to use. ) please fill us up with into in the comments field. It would be interesting to know more about your school. Also, correct me if the facts I found on the internet is wrong. It was taken from geocities and tripod sites.
Thanks for the update! The school has really changed. The last time I saw it, there were several angsana trees, and a few rows of classrooms which surround a small assembly area.
This new look is harly recognisable from the old ones I have in my mind……
Things do change in Batu Pahat you know.
Just the other day, mum and I, we were going around taking photographs for posting here.
She was telling us about her secondary school, CHIJ Batu Pahat / Convent School.
I will be posting photos of them soon. I think many Convent girls will be thinking of it.
Yea, i missed my Convent! My primary & secondary school. Ai Chun didn’t change much but Convent do! Just like the yellow painting of High School, Convent’s turned into some red/maroon building instead. When i first heard about it from my friend, imagine how shocked i was.
Ai Chun sure changed a lot. During my primary time it has only 1 single storey block and 1 double storey block. And some big angsana trees. (Of course it was long long time ago lah…)
I want to thank Philip for posting Ai Chun School history here. I was from Ai Chun 2 and I didn’t know much about her history. It certainly has changed a lot. When I was studying there at that time, there were only a school hall with a sheltered basketball court which was also used as an assembly ground for weekly school assembly and any major school events. Kudos to Philip for your nice and I am sure lots of hard work regarding Batu Pahat. It is really a nice website to keep those ex-Batu Pahatian who are now working or living away from BP updated with news from BP. Keep it up with your good work !!!
Three of my sisters studied in Ai Chun, way back in the 70s/80s. At least one of them is posting in this blog, from many miles away.
In those days, most of the Batu Chinese children attended either Cheng Siew or Ai Chun. I remember the old Chinese songs my sisters would bring home with them. Apparently, singing was a major part of the Chinese education. Of course, all my 3 sisters are perfectly fluent i both Mandarin and English, much to the envy of the older siblings who went to the English medium primary schools (I ended up in Lim Poon Primary School 2).
Barry, a lot of Batu Chinese children attend Montfort too lah. Then Mon, Wed, Fri night attend Cheng Siu night school. just like yours truly.
Lulu, things in BP do change
Pooh Ling, you have to thank various people from various places who posted info a bit here and a bit there. I just compiled them every now and then.
any about montfort primary sch?
seems like we all like to talk about old school days… any of you bloggers from 1973 -1978 Ai Chun 2? or Convent 1979-1982? or even TIGS 1983-1986?
SRJKC Ai Chun in historic section? and the picture is like the new building ??
Eh, shouldn’t it be the Highschool building suppose to be in this section? I’m pretty sure that building is built far more earlier than Ai Chun.
Lulu,
try to go back more often, and got to walk around the town more often..
@lvin, i agree, should have a HS section.
ohh.. talk about the HS Dewan Lama, it was painted by Haji Jabit in white colour (long before i enter HS) then Mat Nor in biege colour and the current YELLOW COLOUR by previously Hajah Eshah; now Datin Eshah, Principal of HS from 2000 to 2005 i think.. She is the Pegawai Pendidikan Daerah of BP now, where by her new office is facing the Dewan Lama now.. OMG~ i was driving along HS Padang, when i 1st saw the Dewan Lama in yellow colour, my car nearly lost control.
and quite sad that they demolished the historic Bengkel KH to 2 blocks of 4 storey class room.
ifinally found this page as i don’t normally browse website for things which i don’t need!!
it is interesting reading all your messages…all sorts of stories i guess which is not important anymore!!
i do have my good and bad days there but never wanted to remember them at all as i wasn’t happy at all during my young age.
i left BP at the age of 15 and glad that i’ve left actually!! i only go back like once or twice a year!! no one that i feel like meeting up because i was one of those that people look down!!
i’m happy with who i am today and glad i actually left BP.
ai chun has the best teacher and she is teacher “chai” if anyone of you could remember her. she teaches dancing most of the time and i wonder if she is still around because i’m already 40 now..haha..
This is my school ,like there teacher my class is 5F.
Hi, you mentioned that you got information of Ai Chun from another two websites, is it possible to provide me with the two URL?? want to do some research on our school!! Thanks
miss my primary school ai chun (1)
Wah,my school.I love my school
I study in SJK(C)Ai Chun 1.I like my school, my teacher, and my friends very much.They are so friendly and kind.
I am from Ai Chun 2 from 1980 – 1986, i remember the library was constructed and completed during that time. The school was also under “renovation” from 2 storey and single storey block become 4 storey block now, that construction took quite some years and lots of donation activities was carried out to raise building funds. I remember the guys from Cheng Siu have given us a nickname ” Ai Kun” (love to sleep in Hokkian); and we call them as “Cheng Qiu” (Plant tree in Hokkian). I am from 6D and the Class teacher name is 陈雪梅, those from Ai Chun should know about her.
Hi Tay,
I am from Ai Chun 2 1980 -1985 batch too. Do you know Wu Nijuan?
I was teaching in Ai Chun 2 for 26 years (1976-2001),now holidays.
I <3 this school very much,,, miss my friends my class teacher Miss Wu.. 6K – UPSR in 1995…be4 we set up for donation n charity nite in purpose of earned for money,, this school block was very unique,,, i still remember at 1 time,,, when flood.. we have to take boat to the school… how i miss those memory so much,,,
tahun 2013 anak saya PUTERI NOR ABDAH BINTI AHMAD ABBAS akan masuk ke sekolah AI CHUN ini,sebelah pagi.anak saya yg ke empat dari 4 beradik..puteri IQ sangat cepat belajar..dia suka sekolah cina.dan saya juga yang suruh dia sekolah cina….thanks AI CHUN !