New Town Secondary School

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**New Town Secondary School**
Motto	To Forge A Better Life
Established	1965
Type	Government, Single
Principal	Mdm Neo Lay Wah Vice principal = Mrs Cathrine Ang
MOE Code	3507
Colours
Locale	Dover Road, Singapore
Enrollment
Website	Link
Ministry of Education
Republic of Singapore

New Town Secondary School is a secondary school in Queenstown, Singapore. It was established in 1965. On December 8, 1998, the school was relocated from Queensway to its present location at Dover Road.

The current Principal, Mdm Neo Lay Wah, assumed leadership of the school in November 2004.

The New Town students' uniform comprises a blue and white combination. The blue top is described by the school's handbook as a 'Light blue safari jacket with pockets'. The bottom can be a 'white skirt with inverted pleats in the front and back' for the girls, and the boys don white shorts for Lower secondary (1&2) and white trousers for Upper secondary (3,4&5). Prefects in the school wear a tie embroidered with the school badge and a prefect's badge directly under their name tags. However, after year 2007, the uniform of the school was made to be tucked in as advised by the principal as she feels that the new look of tucking in of uniform makes students more smart-looking and presentable. Hence, this new school rule was implemented on January 2nd 2008.

CCAs are an integral part of the school's education system. The aim of CCA is to provide healthy recreational activities for the students. The school claims to gear towards teaching students a skill and cultivating correct values and desirable social attitudes. NTSS has also achieve a 10year straight gold award which also proves how well the school is doing in their CCA achievements

CCA points are distributed to students who participate in their respective CCAs. Secondary 4 students who obtain 25 and above CCA points get an A1 grade, which will give them a 2 point bonus when they are presented with their O 'level examination reults. Secondary 5 students need to get 26 points and above in order to obatin an A1 score.