Unity Secondary School

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Unity Secondary School
Motto Vision in Direction
Excellence in Pursuit
Integrity in Action
Established January 2000
Type Government, Single
Principal Tan Siew Piang (Miss)
MOE Code 3611
Colours Red, Green, White
Locale Choa Chu Kang, Singapore
Enrollment 1413
Website www.unitysec.net
Ministry of Education
Flag of Singapore Republic of Singapore

Unity Secondary School (Abbreviation: USS) is a government co-educational secondary school in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore. It provides Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical courses from secondary 1 - 4/5 levels.

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[edit] History

Unity Secondary School was established in January 2000 with 17 staff and 364 pupils.

Mr N. Satianathan, who was appointed principal-designate of Unity Secondary School on July 14, 1999 became Unity Secondary School's first principal.

On December 19, 2005, Mr Satianathan handed over the principalship to Ms Tan Siew Piang.

Currently, the school has a population of about 1500 pupils. The mean PSLE T-scores for the 2006 intake in the Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical courses are 225, 184 and 140 respectively. The number of pupils opting Unity as their First Choice school has risen steadily from 279 in 2001 to 488 in 2006.

A picture of one of the blocks in Unity Secondary
A picture of one of the blocks in Unity Secondary

The school was awarded the Academic Value-added (Bronze) in 2005 and Sustained Achievement Award for Physical Fitness in 2004,2005 and 2006. The school also has a reputation for its basketball team as they are continuously the champions in the West Division and always finish top 2 in the National tier.


[edit] School Song

The original school song was written by Chua Wei Jian, a secondary 1 student in year 2000. The school song has since gone through one major modification done by Prof. Kelly Tan, who was hired sometime in June 2006 by the school to do the aforementioned.

Students looking at their result slips outside the teacher's centre
Students looking at their result slips outside the teacher's centre

[edit] Recent achievenments

2006 : Level Two Awards :
Sustained Achievement Award - Physical Fitness

Level One Awards :
TAF Award - Gold

Sports & Games Competition :
National Basketball B Boys : 3rd
National Basketball B Girls : 2nd
National Basketball C Boys : 3rd
National Cricket C Boys : 4th
West Zone Basketball B Boys : 1st
West Zone Basketball B Girls : 3rd
West Zone Table Tennis B Boys : 2nd

Uniform Groups (Based on 2005 Achievements) :
 Girls' Brigade : Silver
NCC Air : Gold
NPCC : Silver
Red Cross : Bronze
Frank Cooper Sands Award(Scouts) : Silver
JM Fraser Award(Boys' Brigade) : Silver
Company Award(Girls' Brigade) : Silver
Puan Nor Aishah Award(Girl Guides) : Bronze

Clubs and Societies :
LEO club : Merit
Interschool Debate : B Divisions(Quarter Finalist)

Academics :
Maths Olympiad : 1 Silver, 3 Bronze and 1 honourable mention (Ranked 37 out of 106)
Malay Language Oratorical(Juara Pidato Remaja) 2006 : Ranked 9th out of 20
Tampines *CCC Tamil singing : 3rd
W1 Cluster Tamil Poetry Writing : 1st
W1 Cluster pyramid Game : 2nd
UNSW science paper for Sec 3 express students : 6 Distinctions & 25 Credits

CCC - Central Community Club

Others :

An image of the campus at night, featuring the bridge between the auditorium and the staff room
An image of the campus at night, featuring the bridge between the auditorium and the staff room

National Schools Basketball 'B' Girls : 2nd
National Schools Basketball 'B' Boys : 4th
National Schools Cricket 'C' Boys : 4th
National Schools Rugby 'B' Boys Plate Finals : 2nd
National Kindness Week Cheer : 3rd
West Zone Microsoft Office Skills Challenge in Excel(Multi Media Club) : 3rd

Location map
Location map

2005 : Level Two Awards :
SAA (Physical Fitness)

Bird's-eye view of Unity Sec achieved by GoogleEarth
Bird's-eye view of Unity Sec achieved by GoogleEarth

Level One Awards :
AA (Academic Value-added) (Normal) - Bronze
TAF Award - Gold

Sports & Games Competition :
National Basketball  : B Boys 2nd
West Zone Basketball  : B Boys 1st
West Zone Basketball  : C Boys 1st
West Zone Basketball  : C Girls 2nd
West Zone Table Tennis : B Boys 1st
West Zone Table Tennis :C Boys 3rd

SYF Central Judging :
Choir  : Bronze
Concert Band  : Silver
Dance - Indian  : Bronze
Dance - International : Bronze
Dance - Malay  : Silver
Drama  : Bronze
Ensemble - Indian  : Bronze

Best Unit Award (Based on 2006 achievements) :
 Boys' Brigade  : JM Fraser Award for Excellence Silver

  Bible Quiz: Gold Honour Roll 
  BB Week: Bronze Honour Roll

Girls' Brigade : Silver

  Photo andVideo Competition: Silver 
  Estherfez: Gold

NCC Air  : Gold
NPCC  : Silver
Red Cross  : Frank Cooper Sands Award Silver

  National First Aid Competition: 1st Runner up
 (West District)

Scouts  : Silver

  Singapore River Raft Race: 2nd runner-up

[edit] Programmes offered

Students gathered in the multi-purpose hall for assembly
Students gathered in the multi-purpose hall for assembly

[edit] School-based programmes

  • Project CABIN (The Oasis) After school Activity Centre
  • Compulsory core IT Enrichment Programme
  • Creative Drama Programme

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