20 19 ories GETTING TO KNOW SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE WEST ZONE Foreword E STories is a collection of stories from secondary schools, specialised and specialised independent schools in the West Zone. Just as our Wlives are made up of stories and the stories we tell to one another, every school has a fascinating story to share and an utterly unique perspective from which to tell it. Through each narrative, we hope to give fresh insights on the endeavours of each school in creating authentic learning experiences for our students. Building on the efforts of our inaugural issue in 2018, the West Zone Publicity Committee has worked on an electronic version for the 2019 edition of WE STories. Some new features include a map that shows the actual geographical location of schools with links that lead the reader directly to the respective schools’ stories. Information on the schools’ Applied Learning Programmes (ALP), Learning for Life Programmes (LLP) and talent areas for Direct School Admission (DSA) have also been consolidated into one list for easy referencing. 9 We hope that this would allow P6 students to more easily identify schools that 1 0 could best support their own areas of interest and passion, when selecting 2 their secondary schools. ories Stories have power to bring people together and we hope that WE STories will connect our schools with you. We believe the stories will be helpful to parents and teachers in guiding their charges towards choosing schools that can cater to their interests and strengths. More importantly, we hope our primary school students who are on the cusp of a new chapter in the education journey will be excited by the many new learning experiences that await them in secondary school. May you be delighted by the stories we have shared! West Zone Publicity Committee Members Advisor: Ms Nathalie Chen Ms Haslinda Zamani Vice-Principal, Henry Park Primary School Superintendent West 2 Cluster Mr Lee Ko Yong Vice-Principal (Admin), Nanyang Primary School Co-Chair: Mrs Angeline Chan Mr Syamsul Anwar Principal, Hillgrove Secondary School Vice-Principal, Frontier Primary School Ms Deborah Tan Co-Chair: Vice-Principal, Jurong Secondary School Mr Eugene Lin Mdm Diana Goh Principal, Zhenghua Secondary School Vice-Principal, Teck Whye Secondary School Miss Narayanasamy Uma Rani Vice-Principal, Lakeside Primary School 1 20 Unity Secondary 19 School 20 Regent 19 Secondary Kranji Zhenghua 20 School 20 20 19 Secondary 19 19 Secondary School School West Spring Chua Chu Kang 20 Secondary Secondary School 19 School Teck Whye 20 Bukit Panjang 20 19 Government High Secondary 19 20 Greenridge School School 19 Secondary School Fajar 20 Secondary 19 School Assumption 20 Pathway School 19 20 Assumption 20 Swiss Cottage 19 English School 19 Secondary School Dunearn 20 19 Secondary School 9 1 Hua Yi 0 20 2 Secondary 19 Westwood ories 20 School 20 20 Hillgrove 19 Secondary 19 19 Secondary School Yuhua Secondary Jurongville School 20 School 19 Secondary School Fuhua Bukit Batok 20 20 Secondary 19 19 Secondary School 20 Bukit View School 19 Secondary 20 River Valley High School 19 Crest 20 School 20 19 Secondary 19 20 Boon Lay School 19 Yuan Ching Secondary School 20 Juying Secondary School 19 Secondary 20 School 19 Jurong West Secondary School 20 Methodist Girls’ 19 School 20 Jurong Secondary 20 Nanyang Girls’ 19 School 19 High School 20 Hwa Chong 19 Institution 20 Commonwealth 19 Secondary School 20 Clementi Town 19 Secondary School 20 School of Science and 19 Technology, Singapore 20 New Town 19 Secondary School Nan Hua High 20 School 19 20 NUS High School 19 Of Math and Science 2 3 Contents Assumption English School 6 90 Kranji Secondary School Assumption Pathway School 10 94 Methodist Girls’ School 20 Boon Lay Secondary School 14 98 Nan Hua High School Bukit Batok Secondary School 18 102 Nanyang Girls’ High School 19 Bukit Panjang Government High School 22 106 New Town Secondary School Bukit View Secondary School 26 110 NUS High School of Math and Science Chua Chu Kang Secondary School 30 114 Regent Secondary School Clementi Town Secondary School 34 118 River Valley High School Commonwealth Secondary School 38 122 School of Science and Technology ories Crest Secondary School 42 126 Swiss Cottage Secondary School Dunearn Secondary School 46 130 Teck Whye Secondary School Fajar Secondary School 50 134 Unity Secondary School Fuhua Secondary School 54 138 West Spring Secondary School 9 1 Greenridge Secondary School 58 142 Westwood Secondary School 0 2 Hillgrove Secondary School 62 146 Yuan Ching Secondary School ories Hua Yi Secondary School 66 150 Yuhua Secondary School Hwa Chong Institution 70 154 Zhenghua Secondary School Jurong Secondary School 74 158 West Zone Secondary Schools DSA Talent Areas Jurong West Secondary School 78 161 2019 Applied Learning Programme (ALP) & Learning For Life Programme (LLP) Jurongville Secondary School 82 Juying Secondary School 86 162 Acknowledgement GETTING TO KNOW SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE WEST ZONE 4 5 ASSUMPTION ENGLISH SCHOOL www.assumptionenglish.moe.edu.sg ASSUMPTION JOY IN LEARNING: Tell me and I forget. Teach ENGLISH SCHOOL Beyond the me and I remember. Involve www.assumptionenglish.moe.edu.sg me and I learn. Classroom Walls Confucius − Learning Comes Historical and Geographical Investigations Alive at AES form part of the Humanities curriculum and Men and Women of Character and Learning in the students go through rich sensory experiences hrough various performance tasks Service of God and Community and authentic hands-on learning to better understand the concepts and issues Texperiences, Secondary 1 students apply discussed in class. their knowledge and understanding to solve For example, Secondary 1 students take a hike real world problems beyond the classroom down to the nearby park to observe rainforest walls. Students preparing to fly their kites on the school field structure and features. There, they take Imagine you are stranded on an island with photograph notes of their observations and no access to clean water. Can you build a In another lesson, Assumptionknights use practise the sketching skills taught in class. simple water filtration system to obtain estimation and measurement skills learnt in clean and drinkable water from the seawater Mathematics to calculate areas of shapes and In Secondary 2 History, Assumptionknights available around the island? polygons needed to make the best kites. learn about what life was like during the Japanese Occupation through a visit to With that in mind, our Assumptionknights The lesson unit ends with the students the Ford Factory Museum for insights into head down to the school pond to collect running gleefully around the school field those dark times. Beyond seeing, students water samples and find out more about water competing to see whose kite will fly the are challenged to feel what was felt; the quality. They make use of their collected furthest, and for the longest period of time. highlight of the whole experience is a food 9 samples to conduct separation techniques, 1 rationing exercise and a simulated Sook 0 before finally proceeding to design and Ching operations back in school after the 2 build their own water filtration system using Through the actual fieldwork museum visit. ories recycled materials. at Dairy Farm Nature Park, we saw what we learnt about in the Geography textbook. I saw An institution by the Montfort Brothers of St Gabriel the layers of the rainforest and APPLIED LEARNING PROGRAMME (ALP): how the canopy layer helps to provide shade. I also saw SPEAK Out, SPEAK Loud! many beautiful flowers and ood morning, Assumptionknights… many different types of trees. It here are the news headlines of the was a breathtaking view. Gday... Wong Dalton, Sec 1 (2019) This is a familiar line that greets the school each morning during assembly. Every day, two Lower Secondary students are scheduled Students collecting water samples from the school pond Assumptionknights stepping out of their classrooms for to report the news headlines to the school for pH testing a hike to Dairy Farm Nature Park population as part of the school’s Applied Learning Programme (ALP), SPeak English with grAce and Knowledge (SPEAK). AFTER-SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT: In AES, students build their confidence and “Tuesdays with Morrie” book trailer, “A Day in the Life of an AES Teacher”, A Home Within eloquence in speaking through a variety of produced by a group of Secondary 1 produced by a group of Secondary 2 programmes as part of the English Language students (2018) students (2018) School curriculum: https://youtu.be/AqWWelkTYEY https://tinyurl.com/AESteacher ancy a game of Nerf War? Or perhaps, Secondary 1 (Book Trailers) Secondary 3 (Campaigns) you would like to hang out with your classmates over a game of pool or Foosball? In groups, Assumptionknights produce book As they grow in confidence, Assumptionknights F Stay in school. trailers with the aim of encouraging others learn to become convincing advocates for to read. They write their own scripts and set a variety of issues. Secondary 3 seniors take The Assumption Cabin is a safe haven in turns to raise awareness for their selected the direction for their trailers, making use of school for Assumptionknights to let their hair social campaigns, persuading their peers to Students battling it out in a NERF Gun war Cabin Leaders taking ownership of their duties and the narrative skills and techniques, as well down after a long day of lessons, and to build join them in their cause. meaningful relationships with their peers. responsibilities as articulation strategies taught in class to produce the clips. Upper Secondary Levels (Public Speaking) The Cabin is designed to provide a cosy Programme, which focusses on providing and facilitation skills, so that they may Additional platforms and competitions such ambience for those who just wish to hang support and intervention for identified oversee the general running of the Cabin Secondary 2 (News Clips) as the Inter-class Debate Championships and out after school.