PRESS RELEASE

12 May 2010

80 Secondary Schools to Participate in Direct School Admission Exercise

1. This year, 80 schools, 6 more than last year, will be participating in the 2010 Direct School Admission – Secondary Exercise (DSA-Sec) for admission to Secondary One in 2011. The DSA-Sec Exercise promotes holistic education by giving participating schools greater flexibility in selecting students while holding to the key principles of transparency and meritocracy. For students, DSA provides them the opportunity to demonstrate a more diverse range of achievements and talents in seeking admission to secondary schools.

2. The 80 schools participating in the DSA-Sec Exercise this year are listed in Annex A.

New DSA Secondary Schools

Niche Programme Schools

3. Six new schools have been approved by MOE to offer discretionary places via the DSA-Sec Exercise for admissions from 2011 onwards in the following niche programmes:

School Niche Bendemeer Secondary National Education Chung Cheng High (Yishun) Chinese Orchestra Hong Kah Secondary Soccer Marsiling Secondary Environmental Education Siglap Secondary Gamelan and Angklung / Kulintang Ensembles West Spring Secondary Air Pistol

4. Two new niche areas, Gamelan and Angklung / Kulintang Ensembles and Air Pistol, will be introduced this year. Gamelan and Angklung / Kulintang Ensembles will be offered by Siglap Secondary School, while Air Pistol will be offered by West Spring Secondary School. More details on the selection criteria can be found at the respective schools’ websites.

1 5. A list of the 40 niche programme schools is at Annex B. MOE will continue to invite applications from schools interested to establish niche programmes in subsequent years.

Student Selection for DSA Places

6. Each school has its own merit-based criteria for selection (academic and/or non-academic criteria), based on the students’ personal qualities and areas of focus that the school would like to emphasise (such as science, music, sports). Information on the schools participating in the DSA-Sec Exercise, their selection criteria and their application and selection processes can be found on their respective websites.

DSA-Sec Exercise

7. The exercise will be conducted in 3 stages as follows:

Stage Stage Name Description Period Schools will conduct their own selection exercises, 28 Jun 1 Selection and inform students of the results (Confirmed Offer, 10 to 3 placed on Waiting List or Rejected). Sep 10 Students may indicate their school preferences during this stage, based on the Confirmed Offers and Exercise 25 Oct Waiting List offers they have received. Offers not 2 School 10 to 29 taken up will be considered as lapsed. They can Preference Oct 10 indicate their preferences online or at their primary schools. Results The results of the DSA-Sec Exercise will be released Late Nov 3 Release together with the PSLE results. 10

8. Students who take up Confirmed Offers or Waiting List offers by schools during the DSA-Sec Exercise are still required to take the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Those who take up Confirmed Offers are guaranteed a place in the school that has extended them an offer, provided that their PSLE results meet the minimum requirement for a course [Express/ Normal (Academic)/ Normal (Technical)] offered by the school.

9. Similar to previous years, students who have been admitted through the DSA- Sec Exercise will not be able to participate in the centralised Secondary One Posting Exercise.

For Further Information

10. Students who are interested in participating in the DSA-Sec Exercise should approach any of the participating secondary schools or visit their websites for more details regarding the selection exercises. They should do so well before the start of the Selection Stage.

11. Students/parents can also call the MOE Customer Service Centre at 6872- 2220 for further clarifications or refer to the DSA-Sec website [

2 http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/admissions/dsa-sec/ ] for more information regarding the DSA-Sec Exercise.

Background

12. MOE has been giving schools, polytechnics and universities greater flexibility in their admission of students to allow a more diverse range of student achievements and talents to be recognised.

13. Since 2004, MOE has introduced a phased plan to provide greater flexibility in the secondary and junior college (JC) school admission system. The plan includes:

• allowing schools with Integrated Programme (IP) or Specialised Independent Schools (viz. NUS High School, School of the Arts and School of Science and Technology, Singapore) full discretion in admissions; • enhancing the autonomy of Autonomous Schools (AS) and Independent Schools (IS) by: o increasing their level of discretionary places to 10% and 20% respectively, and o allowing them to adopt their own merit-based admission criteria for these places; • extending discretion on admissions, of up to 5% of intake, to mainstream secondary schools that are able to develop strong niche programmes; and • giving discretion on admissions to all JCs.

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

3 Annex A

List of Secondary Schools Participating in 2010 DSA-Sec Exercise - For Admission to Secondary One in 2011

Courses Contact S/No Schools SIS IP IS AS NS School Website Address Offered No. Admiralty Sec 1 √ E, NA, NT http://www.admiraltysec.moe.edu.sg 63651733 Sch Ahmad Ibrahim 2 √ E, NA, NT http://www.ahmadibrahimsec.com 67585384 Sec Sch Anderson Sec 3 √ E, NA, NT http://www.andersonsec.moe.edu.sg/ 64598303 Sch Ang Mo Kio Sec 4 √ E, NA, NT http://www.angmokiosec.moe.edu.sg/ 64548605 Sch Anglican High 5 √ E http://www.anglicanhigh.moe.edu.sg 62414866 Sch Anglo-Chinese 6 Sch √ √ E http://www.acs.sch.edu.sg/acs_indep 67731633 (Independent) Anglo-Chinese 7 Sch (Barker √ E, NA, NT http://acsbr.net/ 62561633 Road) Bendemeer Sec 8 √ E, NA, NT http://www.bendemeersec.org/ 62927616 Sch 9 Bowen Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.bowensec.moe.edu.sg 63859466 Bukit Merah Sec 10 √ E, NA, NT http://www.bukitmerahsec.moe.edu.sg/ 64748934 Sch Bukit Panjang 11 √ E, NA, NT http://www.bpghs.moe.edu.sg/ 67691031 Govt High Sch

12 Catholic High Sch √ E http://www.chs.moe.edu.sg 64582177 Cedar Girls' Sec 13 √ E http://www.cedargirlssec.moe.edu.sg 62884909 Sch CHIJ Katong 14 √ E, NA, NT http://www.chijkatongconvent.moe.edu.sg 64486433 Convent CHIJ Sec (Toa 15 √ E, NA, NT http://www.chijsec.edu.sg 63534972 Payoh) CHIJ St Nicholas 16 √ E http://www.chijstnicholasgirls.moe.edu.sg 64549698 Girls' Sch CHIJ St 17 Theresa’s √ E, NA, NT http://www.chijsttheresasconvent.moe.edu.sg 64775777 Convent Chong Boon Sec 18 √ E, NA, NT http://www.chongboonsec.moe.edu.sg 65531263 Sch Chung Cheng 19 √ E http://www.cchms.moe.edu.sg/ 63441393 High Sch (Main) Chung Cheng 20 √ E, NA, NT http://www.chungchenghighyishun.moe.edu.sg 67583912 High Sch (Yishun) Clementi Town 21 √ E, NA, NT http://ctss.moe.edu.sg 67777362 Sec Sch Commonwealth 22 √ E, NA, NT http://www.commonwealthsec.moe.edu.sg 65606866 Sec Sch Crescent Girls' 23 √ E http://www.crescent.edu.sg/ 64758711 Sch

24 Deyi Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.deyisec.moe.edu.sg 64561565 Dunman High 25 √ √ E http://www.dunmanhigh.moe.edu.sg 63450533 Sch

26 Dunman Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.dunmansec.moe.edu.sg 67862668 Evergreen Sec 27 √ E, NA, NT http://www.evergreensec.moe.edu.sg/ 63656392 Sch

4 Courses Contact S/No Schools SIS IP IS AS NS School Website Address Offered No. Fairfield 28 Methodist Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.fairfieldsec.org 67788702 (Sec)

29 Fuhua Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://schools.moe.edu.sg/fhss/ 65633067 Gan Eng Seng 30 √ E, NA, NT http://www.ganengseng.moe.edu.sg 64745594 Sch Hong Kah Sec 31 √ E, NA, NT http://www.hongkahsec.moe.edu.sg 65679655 Sch Hwa Chong 32 √ √ E http://www.hwachong.edu.sg 64683955 Institution

33 Jurong Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://schools.moe.edu.sg/jurongsec 62655980 Jurong West Sec 34 √ E, NA, NT http://schools.moe.edu.sg/jwss 62623593 Sch

35 Manjusri Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.manjusrisec.moe.edu.sg 68424558 Maris Stella High 36 √ E http://www.marisstellahigh.moe.edu.sg/ 62803880 Sch 37 Marsiling Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.mslportal.edu.sg/ 68941413 Methodist Girls' 38 √ E http://www.mgs.sch.edu.sg/ 64694800 Sch (Sec) 39 Montfort Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://schools.moe.edu.sg/montfort_sec 63869351 National Junior 40 √ E http://www.njc.edu.sg 64661144 College Nan Hua High 41 √ E http://www.nanhuahigh.moe.edu.sg 67788303 Sch Nanyang Girls' 42 √ √ E http://www.nygh.moe.edu.sg/ 64663275 High Sch Ngee Ann Sec 43 √ E, NA, NT http://www.ngeeannsec.edu.sg 67844583 Sch Northland Sec 44 √ E, NA, NT http://www.northlandsec.moe.edu.sg 62576781 Sch 45 NUS High School √ √ E http://www.highsch.nus.edu.sg 65161709

46 Outram Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.outramsec.moe.edu.sg 67334077 Pasir Ris Crest 47 √ E, NA, NT http://schools.moe.edu.sg/prcss 65811655 Sec Sch 48 Pasir Ris Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.prss.moe.edu.sg 65010800 Paya Lebar 49 Methodist Girls' √ E, NA, NT http://www.plmgss.moe.edu.sg 62816606 Sch (Sec)

50 Peirce Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.peircesec.moe.edu.sg 64576454 Presbyterian High 51 √ E, NA, NT http://www.phs.sg 64543722 Sch Raffles Girls' Sch 52 √ √ E http://www.rgs.edu.sg/ 67371845 (Sec) 53 Raffles Institution √ √ E http://www.ri.sch.edu.sg/ 63538830 Riverside Sec 54 √ E, NA, NT http://www.riversidesec.moe.edu.sg 62699631 Sch River Valley High 55 √ √ E http://www.rvhs.moe.edu.sg 65678115 Sch School of Science 56 and Technology , √ E http://www.sst.edu.sg/ 65717200 Singapore (SST) School of the 57 Arts, Singapore √ E http://www.sota.edu.sg/ 63389663 (SOTA)

5 Courses Contact S/No Schools SIS IP IS AS NS School Website Address Offered No. Seng Kang Sec 58 √ E, NA, NT http://www.sengkangsec.moe.edu.sg 63887258 Sch 59 Siglap Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.siglapsec.moe.edu.sg 65829461 Singapore 60 Chinese Girls' √ E http://www.scgs.edu.sg 62527966 School Springfield Sec 61 √ E, NA, NT http://www.springfieldsec.moe.edu.sg 63183053 Sch St Andrew's Sec 62 √ E, NA, NT http://www.saintandrewsschool.info 62851944 Sch St Anthony's http://www.stanthonyscanossiansec.moe.edu.s 63 Canossian Sec √ E, NA, NT 64490616 g/ Sch St Hilda's Sec 64 √ E, NA, NT http://www.sthildassec.moe.edu.sg 67814994 Sch St Joseph's 65 √ E http://www.stjosephsinstitution.moe.edu.sg 62500022 Institution St Margaret's Sec 66 √ E, NA, NT http://www.stmargaretssec.moe.edu.sg 64664525 Sch St Patrick’s 67 √ E, NA, NT http://www.stpats.edu.sg 63440929 School Tanjong Katong 68 √ E http://www.tanjongkatonggirls.moe.edu.sg 63441593 Girls' School Tanjong Katong 69 √ E http://www.tanjongkatongsec.moe.edu.sg 63443471 Sec Sch Temasek Sec 70 √ E, NA, NT http://www.temaseksec.moe.edu.sg 64495020 Sch

71 Unity Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.unitysec.moe.edu.sg 67671070

72 Victoria School √ E http://vs.moe.edu.sg 62912965 West Spring Sec 73 √ E, NA, NT http://www.westspringsec.moe.edu.sg/ 68920369 Sch Woodlands Ring 74 √ E, NA, NT http://www.woodlandsringsec.moe.edu.sg 63643712 Sec Sch

75 Xinmin Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.xinminss.edu.sg 62889382 Yio Chu Kang 76 √ E, NA, NT http://www.yiochukangsec.moe.edu.sg 64560669 Sec Sch Yishun Town Sec 77 √ E, NA, NT http://www.yishuntownsec.moe.edu.sg 67587219 Sch

78 Yuhua Sec Sch √ E, NA, NT http://www.yuhuasec.moe.edu.sg 65661985 Zhenghua Sec 79 √ E, NA, NT http://schools.moe.edu.sg/zhss 67639455 Sch Zhonghua Sec 80 √ E, NA, NT http://www.zhonghuasec.moe.edu.sg/ 62824339 Sch

Legend

SIS – Specialised Independent School E – Express IP – Integrated Programme NA – Normal Academic IS – Independent School NT – Normal Technical AS – Autonomous School NS – Niche School

6 Annex B

Niche Programme Schools

Based on their track record of achievements and their development plans for their niche areas, the following 40 schools (in alphabetical order) have been approved by MOE to offer discretionary places under the DSA-Sec Exercise for schools with approved niche programmes:

School Niche Programmes 1 Admiralty Secondary School Robotics Enterprise 2 Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School Shooting 3 Ang Mo Kio Secondary School Symphonic Band 4 Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) Drama, Water Polo 5 Bendemeer Secondary School National Education 6 Bowen Secondary School Band 7 Bukit Merah Secondary School Floorball 8 CHIJ St Theresa’s Convent Hockey 9 Chong Boon Secondary School Environmental Education 10 Chung Cheng High School (Yishun) Chinese Orchestra 11 Clementi Town Secondary School Uniformed Groups 12 Deyi Secondary School Performing Arts 13 Evergreen Secondary School National Education 14 Fuhua Secondary School Robotics 15 Gan Eng Seng School Uniformed Groups 16 Hong Kah Secondary School Soccer 17 Jurong Secondary School Basketball 18 Jurong West Secondary School Uniformed Groups 19 Manjusri Secondary School Wushu 20 Marsiling Secondary School Environmental Education 21 Montfort Secondary School Badminton 22 Northland Secondary School Hockey 23 Outram Secondary School Rock Climbing 24 Pasir Ris Crest Secondary School Fencing 25 Pasir Ris Secondary School Chinese Orchestra 26 Peirce Secondary School Uniformed Groups 27 Presbyterian High School Uniformed Groups, Volleyball (Girls’ Team) 28 Riverside Secondary School Dance, National Education 29 Seng Kang Secondary School Hockey

7 30 Siglap Secondary School Gamelan and Angklung / Kulintang Ensembles 31 Springfield Secondary School Rock Climbing 32 St Andrew’s Secondary School Rugby 33 St Hilda’s Secondary School Volleyball 34 St Patrick’s School Military Band 35 Unity Secondary School Basketball 36 West Spring Secondary School Air Pistol 37 Woodlands Ring Secondary School Robotics 38 Yio Chu Kang Secondary School Performing Arts 39 Yuhua Secondary School Concert Band 40 Zhenghua Secondary School Uniformed Groups

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