A brief history of Sacred Heart School

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SIBU: This year marks Sacred Heart School’s 50th  anniversary of relocation from Mission Road to Oya Road.

1902 – Father Aloysius Hopfgartner started Sacred Heart, marking the beginning of the Catholic Mission schools in Sibu. With the assistance of Brother Theodore Wagner, he began the challenging task of setting up the school in the form of an ‘attap’ hut near the Rajang River.

1905 — Sacred Heart moved to Lanang Road Lane 1. A two-storey building was constructed.

The classrooms were on the first floor and the ground floor was used as a hostel for the pupils.

1907 – Sacred Heart relocated to Mission Road and a school block was built over marshy land adjacent to the Rajang River, where during floods or high tides, water seeped in through the floorboards.

1967 – Sacred Heart School moved to its present location at KM 2, Oya Road here.