SMS Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra

SMS Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra
SMSTMFP

Sains Asas Kemajuan
(Science , the foundation of progress)
Address
16100 Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan[1]
Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan, 16100
Malaysia
Coordinates 6°09′16″N 102°17′54″E / 6.154465°N 102.298336°E
Information
Type Secondary school,
Boarding school, Sekolah Berasrama Penuh, Mixed-gender education
School code DEE1415[2]
Principal Shaffie bin Awang
Teaching staff 78[2]
Number of students 763[2]
Classes Alpha,Beta,Delta, Gamma,Lambda, Kappa (available in Upper Form only)
Student to teacher ratio 9.8 : 1[3]
Language Malaysian, English
Colour(s)             Red, blue and yellow
Yearbook Semasa
Alumni FARIS PETRA

Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra or SMSTMFP is a premier government-funded secondary boarding school (Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) in Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Bharu in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia. Established in 1973 under the Second Malaysia Plan to obey with Malaysian New Economic Policy,the school is located about 9 km northeast of the state capital Kota Bharu and about 1.5 km southeast of the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport. The students bears the name Farisian. In 2011,the school was awarded with the Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi or High Performance School [4]title, a title awarded to schools in Malaysia that have met stringent criteria including academic achievement, strength of alumni, international recognition, network and linkages. For the recent PMR examination, the school managed to produced 112 students with straight A's out of 148 (75.68%) with GPS of 1.05 and become the best in Kelantan[5]

History

It was one of the ten new residential science schools built by the Malaysian Government in the wake of the 1971 Malaysian New Economic Policy to give education with a science bias to selected pupils, predominantly Malays. Its original name was Sekolah Menengah Sains Kelantan, which means Kelantan Secondary Science School.

It officially opened in 1973 with six classes and eleven teachers, but the students had to reside in the nearby Sekolah Menengah Ismail Petra (SMIP) until the present campus was ready at the start of 1974.[6]

In 1986 the name was changed to Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra Science Secondary School, named after the crown prince of Kelantan, His Royal Highness Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra.[6]

In 2012, the school have been honoured with Premier SBP title which grant itself to stand tall with other premier SBP such as MCKK, STF and STAR.[7]

Notable alumni

The former students' association (also known as FARIS PETRA) showed their appreciation to the school by contributing a mosque in 2004. All the costs of RM 600,000 were borne by the alumni and by collections by the school's Parent-Teacher Association..Earlier, alumni association acronyms were SEMESTA. Them changed it in 2009 to FARISAINS to better reflect the school's name. However, in 2012, the acronym was changed again to FARIS PETRA.

References

  1. ↑ "Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra". Malaysian Ministry of Education Official Portal. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Malaysian Ministry of Education (June 2008). "Senarai Sekolah Menengah Kerajaan Dan Bantuan Kerajaan Di Negeri Kelantan Seperti Pada 30 Jun 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  3. ↑ "Secondary Schools in Kelantan, Malaysia". JADN Repository. 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  4. ↑ http://www.mstar.com.my/berita/cerita.asp?file=%2F2011%2F2%2F17%2Fmstar_berita%2F20110217141926&sec=mstar_berita
  5. ↑ http://faris-petra.blogspot.com/2012/12/faris-petra-masih-juara-kelantan.html
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "School History". Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra website. 10 November 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2009.
  7. ↑ http://www.smstmfp.edu.my/index.php/beritasmstmfp/item/10-smstmfp-adalah-sbp-premier
  8. ↑ http://kickdefella.net/2011/05/07/pas-akan-tercicir-kelantan-dalam-pru-13/

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