Ngee Ann Secondary School

Ngee Ann Secondary undergoing renovation, photo taken November 2007
Ngee Ann Secondary School
義安中学
Yì ān Zhōng xué

Righteousness and Courtesy
崇義尚禮
Location
Tampines, Singapore
Information
Type Autonomous
Established 1994
Session Single, mixed
School code 7310
Principal Mr Albert Lim
Enrolment Approx. 1400
Colour(s) Blue, yellow
Website http://www.ngeeannsec.moe.edu.sg/

Ngee Ann Secondary School (abbreviation: NASS) is an autonomous government-aided secondary school in Tampines, Singapore. The school was started by the Ngee Ann Kongsi, a Teochew clan foundation. Set up in 1994, Ngee Ann Secondary was a successor to the now defunct Tuan Mong High School which closed in that same year. It is also the youngest school in Singapore to be awarded the autonomous status till 2013. It has won several awards, including the Singapore Quality Class Award and Best Practice Award in Teaching and Learning. Construction works for PRIME have been fully completed in late 2010.

Principal

Facilities[1]

After the PRIME upgrade in 2010, these are some of the facilities available.

CCAs[2]

Sports

Uniformed Groups

Performing Arts

Clubs And Societies

Camps

Secondary Three Overseas camp

In 2008, the school sent the first batch of Secondary 3 students on a 3D2N overseas camp held in January on a farmland in Malaysia. The aim is to bond the new secondary three students and help them settle into their new classes as well as to expose them to life outside the confines of urban Singapore. Activities such as rafting, trekking and mountain-climbing are held during the camp. From 2008 to 2012, the annual camp had been held at Kahang Organic Rice Eco-Farm, Kahang town, located near Kluang, Johor. From 2013, the location of the annual camp was shifted to Tanjong Sutera Resort, Tanjung Sedili, near the town of Kota Tinggi, Johor. Other schools with similar camps all shifted to this location.

School Awards

2011

Information

The completed main building
Bridges on the 3rd and 4th level link the main building and classroom block together. Photo taken from 4th level of classroom block

Location [4]

The school is located at 1, Tampines Street 32, Singapore 529283. Bus service 291 (Townlink) and Bus 28 stop outside the school gate. The school is located very near to two infamous places in that area, the 201 shopping district and Tampines Mart. Students occasionally frequent these two areas for lunch and project discussion. The future Tampines East MRT Station on the Downtown Line (completed in 2017) will also be located at a close proximity to the school.

School Song [5]

We'll walk hand in hand through the years
with brotherly love and care
Work hard to achieve great heights
in studies and in games
Stormy weather there'll always be
so let us be prepared
Be loyal to country
Contributing to society
Chorus:
Righteousness and Courtesy
we'll abide this golden rule
Ngee Ann our great guard
we give our best to you
Righteousness and Courtesy
we'll abide this golden rule
Excellence in all we do
we'll do it just for you

Motto [6]

Righteousness and Courtesy

Education

Education is available in the four official languages of English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. As of most other schools in Singapore, NASS follows the system of bilingualism, which was initiated as a policy in 1978 by the Singapore government.[7]

From 2012, Ngee Ann Secondary School will offer the Enhanced Art Programme to provide greater opportunities for students with keen disposition and capability in art to develop their talent, as said by the Ministry of Education (Singapore), to provide an enriched learning environment. Ngee Ann Secondary is only 1 of the 4 schools in Singapore to offer this programme. The other programme which the MOE have offer with similar objectives is Enhanced Music Programme.

Infocomm Technology

The school has invested in the use of Information Technology for education. The school has currently two computer labs and ICT Studio for students that houses 40 computers each. A new subject, Computer Studies (CS), had also been started by the Singapore government in 2006,[8] and NASS accepts its first batch of CS students in 2008. and as of 2009, NASS has around 40 CS students in total. NASS has also been selected as one of the schools in the East to be known as EZ COE ICT (East Zone Center of Excellence Infocomm Technology) [9] on the 30 August 2007. The other school is Victoria School.

Achievements/Facts

Records Broken

SYF2009

SYF2011

SYF2013

Notable Alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Ngee Ann Secondary School". Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ngee Ann Secondary School website".
  3. ↑ "Future school programme" http://edulab.moe.edu.sg/edulab/slot/u110/fssg/about_us.html
  4. ↑ "NASS Website - School Location".
  5. ↑ "NASS Website - School Song".
  6. ↑ "NASS Website - School Motto and Crest".
  7. ↑ "NLB Database - World Atlas".
  8. ↑ "MOE Press Release - 22 September 2005".
  9. ↑ "NASS EZ COE ICT Website".

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