# Instituto Salesiano

Instituto Salesiano (or IS, Instituto Salesiano da Imaculada Conceição, Chinese: 澳門慈幼中學) is a Catholic elementary school through secondary school in São Lourenço (St. Lawrence's Parish), Macau. The school is one of the oldest educational institutions founded in Macau. The medium of instruction is English, although some particular subjects such as Chinese Literature and Chinese History are taught in Cantonese. It is a member of the Macau Catholic Schools Association.

## History

Instituto Salesiano was established in 1906, during the Qing dynasty, by Fr. Louis Versiglia. The school is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco, aims at giving the students a complete and balanced education in different aspects. The campus, front of St. Lawrence's Church, was originally owned by the British East India Company. Since 1976, the school has become an exam center of General Certificate of Education as well as an exam center of City and Guilds of London Institute.
People's Education  [zh] profiled the school in 1999. The school opened three new buildings in 2023 with funding from the government.

## Campus

In 2016 the 8,008-square-metre (86,200 sq ft) campus included a building that was built sometime before 1916. In 2016 the school made plans to raze the building so it could build new buildings as part of an expansion.

## Principals

| | Chinese Names | English Names | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | 聖雷鳴道神父 | Saint Fr. Luigi Versiglia, SDB | 1906 | 1918 |
| 2 | 金以義神父 | Fr. Vicent Bernardini, SDB | 1918 | 1925 |
| 3 | 路加神父 | Fr. Lucas Da Silva, SDB | 1925 | 1927 |
| 4 | 楊春忱神父 | Fr. John Pedrazzini, SDB | 1927 | 1931 |
| 5 | 溫普仁神父 | Fr. John Guarona, SDB | 1931 | 1937 |
| 6 | 陳基慈神父 | Fr. Marius Acquistapace, SDB | 1937 | 1946 |
| 7 | 溫普仁神父 | Fr. John Guarona, SDB | 1946 | 1951 |
| 8 | 時乃德神父 | Fr. Martin Schneidtberger, SDB | 1951 | 1960 |
| 9 | 司馬榮神父 | Fr. Guilherme Schrid, SDB | 1960 | 1966 |
| 10 | 馬耀漢神父 | Fr. Alexander Ma Tiu-hon, SDB | 1966 | 1968 |
| 11 | 馬士沖神父 | Fr. Matthias Mo Tze-tsong, SDB | 1968 | 1969 |
| 12 | 魯炳義神父 | Fr. Luigi RUBINI, SDB, SDB | 1969 | 1972 |
| 13 | 朱懷德神父 | Fr. Mario Rosso, SDB | 1972 | 1976 |
| 14 | 陳日君樞機 | Fr. Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB | 1976 | 1978 |
| 15 | 馬耀漢神父 | Fr. Alexander Ma Yiu-hon, SDB | 1978 | 1984 |
| 16 | 麥觀黔神父 | Fr. Joseph Mak Keun-kim, SDB | 1984 | 1987 |
| 17 | 孔智剛神父 | Fr. Francis Hung Chi-kong, SDB | 1987 | 1995 |
| 18 | 胡德鎏神父 | Fr. Estanislaus Vu Tak-lau, SDB | 1995 | 2003 |
| 19 | 周伯輝神父 | Fr. Chow Pak-fai, SDB | 2003 | 2015 |
| 21 | 周伯輝神父 | Fr. Chow Pak-fai, SDB | 2017 | 2022 |
| 22 | 梁樹榮老師 | Mr. Leong, Su Weng | 2022 | Current |

## School Hymn

The anthem was transcribed by Austrian missionary Fr. Guilherme Schmid
School Anthem of Instituto Salesiano of Macau 澳門慈幼中學校歌(Chinese)
   維我鮑思高慈幼學校
   時代青年訓練場
   四育並重國粹精良
   師生友愛永無疆
   校譽日隆學匯中西
   滿門朝氣樂洋洋
   秉承會祖鮑思高遺教
   取法聖多明我表樣
   我青年 步武聖賢
   效忠聖教作棟樑
   願同學 敦品勵學
   揚我校風增榮光

## ISSC

Instituto Salesiano Student Council, established in 1997, is the officially recognized student organization of the school. ISSC holds singing competition regularly every year ("Music's Demo" in 2010,"Blue's End" in 2011) Website:http://www.ism.edu.mo/issc/index.htm Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine

## Notable alumni

* Domingos Lam (The first Chinese born bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau.)
* Domingos Chan (Macau professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Macau team. He currently plays for Sun Hei in the Hong Kong First Division League.)
* Ao Man-long (ex- Secretary for Transport and Public Works of Macau)
* Fr. Pedro Ho (The director-general of Bosco Youth Service Network.)
* Brian Leong Ka Hang (Macau Top Footballer of the Year of 2011.)