Willes Little Flower School

A school is a place where people go to learn. In a school, students are helped by teachers in the learning process. In many places around the world, children have to go to school for a certain number of years. Learning may take place in classroom,outdoors or on visits to places of interests. In our country, a lot of schools have been founded for better education of our children. One of them is Willes Little Flower School and College. It is an English medium school in Dhaka and was established in 1956. The school is located in the capital’s Kakrail area.

Currently, around 15,000 students are studying in this school. Recently, the school changed its name to Willes Little Flower School and College from Willes Little Flower Higher Secondary School. Willes also has a speech and debate team, the Willes Debating Society. Willes has a developed science based group called "Willes Science club". Willes has a complete scout group called "40^th Willes Little Flower School & College Scout group".

Willes Little Flower School was originally housed in a two-storey 19th century building, but it has recently been demolished. Four sixstorey modern buildings have been constructed on the campus for classroom. There is also a two-storey building for administrative and official activities. The external Willes Field is the training ground and the home ground of Willes Little Flower Soccer Team. In addition, the school also has a central in-field with a garden. Currently, a 10-storey building is under construction. It has a canteen for hygienic food. Besides, there are two other canteens, one for books and accessories, and the other for stationery supplies.

Willes has three sports teams that each compete in the national level competitions. These include basketball, soccer and cricket. The Willes Soccer Team has won the School Premier Soccer League title for a straight three times and in 2011, the team became runners-up. The Willes Cricket Team won the National Inter-school Cricket Cup for a record three times in 2007, 2011 and 2012 and became runners-uptwice in 2008 and 2010.