Church Park Anglo - Indian Teacher Training School, Chennai was established by the Irish Presentation Sisters who came to India in the year 1842. The School is under the Management of the Presentation Sisters whose foundress is Nano Nagle. In 1912 the sisters saw the need for trained Anglo – Indian lady teachers and began the Teacher Training School at George Town. Later the school was shifted to Church Park in 1919 and the present building was occupied in 1925. Permanent recognition under the Code of Regulations for Anglo-Indian schools was received from the Director of Public Instruction, Madras Vide proceedings Dis. No. 1488/26, dated 16.04.1926. It was brought under the Directorate of Teacher Education Research and Training (DTERT), Chennai in the year 1996. Over the past ninety years, the Institution, one of its kinds in the State of Tamilnadu, has built up an outstanding and remarkable tradition of training young women to be committed, competent and dynamic teachers. The main objective of the training course is to train young women over a period of two years in the theory & practice of teaching, to equip them to teach children of classes I to VII, (age 5 to 11+), the 3Rs as well as the knowledge of subjects and practical skills as laid down in various types of syllabi of English medium schools especially Anglo-Indian Schools.