Commonwealth Secondary School
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| Motto | Ever with the best |
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| Established | 1964 |
| Type | Autonomous, Single |
| Principal | Teo Khin Hiang Nee Lee Wai Tai (Mrs) |
| School code | 3012 |
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| Locale | Jurong East, Singapore |
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| Website | www.commonwealthsec.moe.edu.sg |
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Commonwealth Secondary School(Abbreviation: CSS) is a government, autonomous and coeducational secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1964, Commonwealth Secondary School has positioned itself as a caring and vibrant learning organisation that ignites passion, inspires excellence and illuminates new frontiers. It offers secondary school education from secondary one to four/five which leads to the GCE 'O' Level certificate, and admits students with PSLE score ranging from 240-267 annually.
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[edit] History
Commonwealth Secondary School began as Tanglin Integrated Vocational Secondary School in 1964 and became an academic institution named Tanglin Secondary in 1969.
In 1972, the name was changed again to Commonwealth Secondary to commemorate the Commonwealth Heads of State meeting in Singapore that year. The school relocated to Jurong East in 1989 and functioned as a neighbourhood school in the Hong Kah constituency for seven years before moving to Jurong East Street 24 of the Yuhua Constituency at the end of 1995. With the move to its new campus on West Coast Road in Nov 2006, the school is able to take advantage of the state-of-the-art facilities to further enhance its curricular offerings and niche areas in the performing arts.
Commonwealth Secondary has been an autonomous school since 1995, a status given to the school because of its academic success and achievement in co-curricular programmes. Commonwealth Secondary is also a Higher Chinese Centre since 1995, catering to students who have the passion to pursue HCL in the West District. On the academic front, in addition to being a Higher Chinese Centre, Commonwealth has also been offering Higher Malay and Higher Tamil to its pupils since 2006. Dance and Drama has been Commonwealth's niche areas since 2000 and the Walk in Art Gallery is a proud heritage of Commonwealth since its official opening in 1993. In 2004, Commonwealth received the Ministry of Education's Sustained Achievement Award for both uniformed groups and the performing arts.
From 2005, Commonwealth Secondary School is led by Mrs Teo Khin Hiang.
[edit] School crest
This is the School's statement on The CSS crest:
"Behold our school crest
With our motto, ever with the best
See the flame burning with zest
It proudly stands of CSS.
Blue for infinite resourcefulness
Gold for faith and fruitfulness
Ever-glowing is our flame
Ever-growing is our name."
The school crest is designed by Miss Ruth Ng.
[edit] Key thrusts
Vision A caring and vibrant learning organisation that ignites passion, inspires excellence and illuminates new frontiers.
Mission To develop each Commonwealthian into champions of today and leaders of tomorrow.
[edit] Co-curricular activities
Commonwealth Secondary has a diverse CCA programme, which comprises a wide spectrum of activities such as sports, uniformed groups, aesthetic groups, clubs and societies to allow students to develop holistically. 2003 was a key milestone for Commonwealth Secondary as all five of its aesthetic groups (band, choir, drama, Chinese dance, Indian dance) attained gold medals in the biannual Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging. In 2005, these gold-medal winning groups sustained their achievements as they moved on to attain 2 Gold with Honours and 3 Golds in the SYF Central Judging. The newly-formed Malay Dance Group also started the ball rolling with a silver award in the SYF.
Commonwealth Secondary takes pride in its sports CCAs. The Athletics team stood out in the running arena as many of the athletes achieved outstanding results in at least 18 races since 2004. The hockey team was also ranked among the top 8 schools in Singapore for the third year running.
Commonwealth Secondary is also proud of its uniformed groups. Its NCC unit has grown over the years to attain the gold medal in the Best Unit Award. The Red Cross Unit has also been awarded the Community Service Gold Award for the 4th consecutive Year, circa 2006.
[edit] Achievements
- 2005 GCE 'O' Levels: 1 top student with 10 A1s, 5 top students with 9A1s
- 2005 SYF Central Judging: Choir - Gold with Honours, Drama - Gold with Honours, Military Band - Gold, Chinese Dance - Gold, Indian Dance - Gold, Malay Dance - Silver
- Sustained Achievement Award in Arts, Uniformed Groups
- 2005 Best Units Awards: NCC Gold, Red Cross Gold, Girl Guides Silver, NPCC Bronze
- Top Prize for Global Learning Journey
- People Developer Award
[edit] School Motto
Ever With The Best
Our school motto expresses our belief that we strive to be the best that we can be.
[edit] School Anthem
Commonwealth Secondary School
To you we pledge our total loyalty
Neither colour nor creed shall affect
The total unity we pledge to you
Your flag and principles we'll cherish
Even if we have in the course to perish
The crescent and starts five shall guide
The flame of solidarity in which we pride
To serve will be our very aim
No influence will our zeal maim
The purity of thought and deed we'll nurture
Thus we will attain stature
