St Andrew’s School (Secondary) is a authorities-aided Anglican all-boys’ secondary college in Potong Pasir, Singapore. Established within the nineteenth century, it still operates along conventional British lines and offers a four- or five-12 months programme, leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Peculiar Stage or Singapore-Cambridge GCE Regular Degree examinations.

History
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The school was founded in 1862 by Reverend Edward Sherman Venn. In May 1872, after the Colonial Chaplain, Canon J. A. Beccles, applied to the federal government for financial assist, St Andrew’s College became a grant-in-support institution. Then in 1875 to a 4-acre site along Stamford Street. The growing faculty moved from Higher Hokkien Street to Victoria Street. [1]

By the 1920s, the school’s enrolment had reached 800 boys. Within the 1930s, a system of prefects was instituted, and the varsity turned known for its excellence in boxing[2] and rugby in this interval.

A brand new, bigger campus was opened in Woodsville in 1940.[3][4] Extra buildings had been added in the 1950s, housing both the primary school and secondary school sections.

In 1986, the secondary faculty moved from Woodsville to a site in Potong Pasir across the Kallang River after the Woodsville buildings had been deemed insufficient for the operating of each the primary and secondary courses. In mid-2003, the school moved briefly to the previous Victoria College building at Kallang Bahru before returning to new buildings opposite St Andrew’s Junior College in 2005 as part of the St Andrew’s Village project, which brings collectively in one complicated the Junior, Secondary and Junior School campuses.[5]

Meanwhile, the old-fashioned buildings have been conserved and strengthened for re-use as a church, winning an Honourable Mention within the UNESCO Heritage Awards in 2007.[6]

The St Andrew’s Village has the primary artificial rugby pitch in Singapore, shared between the secondary faculty and the primary faculty. [7] Gives an all-weather surface. It opened in January 2008 at a value of S$1 million.

In celebration of the college’s 163th founding anniversary in 2025, the school changed their title to St Andrew’s Faculty (Secondary), in conjunction with the junior college’s renaming to St Andrew’s School (Junior). Secondary schools’ common heritage. The move was finished to reflect the junior.

Lecturers
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In 2008, St Andrew’s was one in all eight schools in Singapore to begin offering three new topics on the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Stage: Creative 3D Animation, Fundamentals of Electronics, and Introduction to Enterprise Development.[8]

In 2009, St Andrew’s gained an instructional Value-Added Sustained Achievement Award from the Ministry of Training.[9]

In 2010, the college was commended for together with the St Andrew’s River Programme in its science curriculum. Students investigated the impact on the Kallang River ecosystem and water quality of the constructing of the Marina Barrage and the enclosure of the Marina Basin.[10]

From 2011, St Andrew’s presents enhanced enrichment programs for higher secondary students taking the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Unusual Degree examinations in art.[11]

In 2011, the college received the Particular Lee Hsien Loong Award for Innovations in Normal Course.[12]

Sporting achievements
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St Andrew’s is one in every of the standard “Big Three” rugby faculties in Singapore, along with Raffles Establishment and Anglo-Chinese College (Independent). [16] [15] It has been awarded area of interest standing in rugby by the Ministry of Education. [13] The varsity has gained a complete of 157 nationwide school titles for rugby because the late 1960s (based on accessible records). [14] It has also held the Kiwi Cup from 1945 to 2013 inclusive.

The college can also be robust in hockey. The B Division Hockey Team emerged champions of the B Division Competitions in 2005, 2008 and 2018, 2023, as nicely because the C Division Hockey Workforce who emerged champions in 2010, 2012 and a current win over Raffles Establishment gave them one other national title in 2014.[17] The B Division Hockey Workforce also just lately emerge as champions in the 2016 B Division Hockey Competitions after edging their opponents, Sengkang Secondary, in the finals with a rating of 2-0. In cricket, St Andrew’s was under-17 champions in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 and 2003.[18]

School tradition
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Regardless of being an Anglican faculty, it isn’t a requirement for college kids to be Christian. [19] St Andrew’s has a home system comprising five houses: Gomes, Hose, Loyfatt, Romanis and Venn. [20] The school regards its system of prefects as an essential ingredient in sustaining an ethos of service and excessive requirements of conduct. [21]

College uniform
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All students wear white quick-sleeved shirts bearing the college badge. Lower secondary boys (Secondary 1 and 2) wear dark blue quick trousers with white socks;[22] Bermuda shorts usually are not permitted. Upper secondary boys (Secondary three onwards) wear dark blue long pants, though Secondary three students have been allowed to do so solely since the 1990s.[22] The prefects in higher secondary wear white lengthy pants.

Discipline
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St Andrew’s maintains strict guidelines for behaviour inside and outdoors the college. There is a brand new system of demerit factors, used together with the college’s lengthy-standing[23] policy of corporal punishment within the type of caning on the palm of the hand or on the buttocks over clothing.

After a collection of bullying instances attracted consideration in 2003, the school said that the situation at St Andrew’s was no worse than at every other college, including that bullies obtain a stern warning; recalcitrant offenders or those that injure others are caned and finally expelled.[24] A St Andrew’s scholar caught bringing pornography to high school can be caned both in public or at school, depending on the seriousness of the case.[25]

For instances where the offence has a victim or the place there’s conflict to be resolved, a system of Restorative Practices is in place. “Within the means of resolving the battle, the offenders are asked to counsel the appropriate penalties for their motion, which can embody any form of punishment. However, any college students who fail to cooperate with the teacher will be handled differently.”[26]

Notable alumni
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Politics
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Devan Nair: Third President of Singapore

Fong Chong Pik: former chief of the Malayan Communist Celebration

J. B. Jeyaretnam, politician, former secretary-common of the Staff’ Occasion, founding father of the Reform Occasion[27]

Kenneth Jeyaretnam: politician. Secretary-common of the Reform Celebration.

David Saul Marshall, first Chief Minister of Singapore[28]

Michael Palmer: former Speaker of Parliament

S. Iswaran: Former Minister of Transport

Benjamin Sheares: Second President of Singapore[29]

Paul Tambyah: politician. Chairman of the Singapore Democratic Social gathering.

Francis Thomas, former politician and educator

Civil
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Kishore Mahbubani, tutorial and former diplomat[30]

Legal
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Joseph Grimberg: Singapore’s Senior Counsel

Harry Elias: Singaporean lawyer, founding father of Harry Elias and partners

Business
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Koh Boon Hwee: chairman – Yeo Hup Seng Group, chairman – DBS Group, chairman – Singapore Airways, director – Temasek Holdings

Brandon Wade: American web entrepreneur, Founding father of Looking for.com

Woffles Wu: plastic surgeon, present head of the St Andrew’s Alumni Association

Arts
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Nickson Fong: First Singaporean to receive an Academy Award. CEO and co-founder, Egg Story Inventive Manufacturing Pte Ltd. FX technical director and shot growth technical director of The Matrix and its sequels.

Cherian George: Writer, journalist, writer of quite a few works

Rex Goh: Musician. Former guitarist in Air Supply.

Koh Buck Track: author, journalist, creator of Brand Singapore, business consultant, deputy chairman of Censorship Overview Committee 2009-10.

Sports activities
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Indra Sahdan Daud: Singapore nationwide soccer participant

U.K. Shyam: Former holder of Singapore’s national a hundred m sprint document at 10.37s. Singapore’s national team.

Shaheed Alam: Singapore National Tennis Player

Wilfred Skinner: former Singapore international soccer goalkeeper and field hockey centre-half.[31]

Schooling
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Elizabeth Choy: Conflict heroine, Obtained the Order of British Empire

Affiliated schools
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St Andrew’s Junior College

St. Andrew’s Junior Faculty

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^ “St. Andrew’s Champions at Inter-faculty Boxing”. Malayan Saturday Publish. Singapore. 12 September 1931. p. 8.

^ “Model Faculty for Singapore”. The Singapore Free Press. Mercantile Advertiser. 5 November 1936. p. 9.

^ “New St. Andrew’s College”. The Singapore Free Press. Mercantile Advertiser. 12 July 1940. p. 7.

^ “Changes at different households of faculties”. The Straits Instances. Singapore. 10 February 2010. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011.

^ Hong, Lynda (24 August 2007). “Previous St. Andrew’s School will get Honourable Point out at UNESCO Heritage Awards”. Channel NewsAsia.

^ Singh, Patwant (eleven January 2008). “Singapore’s first artificial rugby pitch opens at St Andrew’s School”. Channel NewsAsia. Singapore.

^ Mohandas, Vimita (25 October 2007). “8 colleges to supply three new applied subjects at ‘O’ ranges”. Channel NewsAsia. Singapore.

^ “Faculty Achievement Desk for Special/Categorical Course” (PDF). Ministry of Education. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2011.

^ “Deal with by Ms Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State, on the Opening Ceremony of the first Place-primarily based Schooling Seminar”. Ministry of Training. 17 March 2010. Archived from the unique on 20 March 2012.

^ Hoe Yeen Nie (23 September 2010). “MOE to increase music and artwork electives from 2011”. Channel NewsAsia. Singapore.

^ “Recognising Finest Practices of Schools in Delivering Holistic Training” (Press release). Ministry of Education. 18 September 2011. Archived from the unique on 23 February 2012.

^ “Not your typical rugby schools”. The Straits Instances. Singapore. Thirteen April 2010.

^ Goh Chin Lian. “Rugby School Champions”. Singapore: Red Sports.

^ “Kiwi Cup 2011”. The Village On-line. 1 February 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2011.

^ “From Robotics to Rope-Skipping: More than a 3rd of Faculties now have Area of interest Areas to Cater to Students’ Various Pursuits” (Press launch). Ministry of Schooling. 1 April 2009. Archived from the original on eleven April 2011.

^ “Hockey Faculty Champions”. Singapore: Pink Sports.

^ “Past college champions: Cricket”. Singapore: Purple Sports activities.

^ “Interests came first in choice of colleges”. The Sunday Occasions. Singapore. 23 August 2009.

^ “College students’ Nook”. Saint Andrew’s School.cite net: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (hyperlink)

^ “Scholar management”. St Andrew’s School.

^ a b “Sec three students forced to put on shorts to high school”. AsiaOne. Singapore. 30 January 2010.

^ Hwang, T.F. (21 September 1974). “T.F. Hwang takes you down memory lane”. The Straits Times. Singapore. p. 14.

^ Nadarajan, Ben (13 October 2003). “Mostly ‘thoughtless pranks’: St Andrew’s”. The Straits Occasions. Singapore.

^ “Boys taking porn to school – in handphones?”. The new Paper. Singapore. Eight June 2009.

^ “Pupil growth programme – Discipline”. St Andrew’s School.cite web: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (hyperlink)

^ Kennedy, Alex (30 September 2008). “Singapore opposition head Jeyaretnam dies”. The Jakarta Put up. Related Press. Archived from the original on eight October 2012.

^ “Special Programmes: Marshall Plan”. St Andrew’s Secondary College. 2009.cite net: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

^ “A Man of Humility Who Put The Nation Before Self”. The Straits Times. Thirteen Could 1981. p. 8. Retrieved 15 October 2024 – via NewspaperSG.

^ “Anne King Markey, Lawyer, to Wed”. The brand new York Times. 10 February 1985.

^ Kraal, David (25 March 1962). “Skinner – two games for Singapore”. The Straits Occasions. p. 22.

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