The school was founded by Elsie Elliott in Kai Tak New Village in 1954 with an enrolment of 30 squatter and refugee children.

Elliott later quipped that the name came to refer to a literal thirst for daylight, since it was so dark inside the former British Army tent in which classes were initially held.

[5] A formal social welfare clinic, offering medical services and distribution of relief food, was set up at the school with the assistance of members of the Guild of Saint Helena in 1959.

[5] About five years after its founding, the school moved to occupy two storeys of a building on Nga Tsin Wai Road.

[2] On 28 November 1972, the new 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) school building was opened on Kung Lok Road, Kwun Tong by the Director of Education, J. Canning.