Boon Lay Secondary School
Sekolah Menengah Boon Lay
文礼中学
Address
11 Jurong West Street 65
Singapore 648354

Boon Lay

Singapore
Coordinates1°20′36″N 103°41′59″E / 1.34335°N 103.69969°E / 1.34335; 103.69969
Information
TypeGovernment
MottoTo Love and To Forgive [1]
Established1977
SessionSingle
PrincipalMr Inderjit Singh
GenderMixed
Colour(s) Blue   Silver 
Websitewww.boonlaysec.moe.edu.sg/

Boon Lay Secondary School (BLS) is a government secondary school located in Jurong West, Singapore.

History

The school commenced operations in 1977 at a S$3.59 million campus at the junction of Boon Lay Way and Jalan Boon Lay,[2] with 13 classes, seven of which were English-medium and the remaining six Chinese-medium. It was officially opened in 1979 by the then-Member of parliament for Boon Lay Ngeow Pack Hua.[3] It became a solely English-medium school in 1998, and started operating single-session in 2000.

In 1996 Boon Lay began enrolling deaf students.[4] Specifically it educated deaf students who were required to use sign language to communicate. In 2017 the Government of Singapore designated Beatty Secondary School as the school to educate deaf students who must use sign language, concentrating all such students at one school due to them numbering about 15.[5]

As part of the phasing-out of streaming, Boon Lay has been dividing classes by their students' co-curricular activities (CCA) since 2017.[6]

Merger with Pioneer Secondary

In 2017, Boon Lay Secondary School absorbed Pioneer Secondary School due to falling enrolment in both schools.[7]

School identity and culture

Crest

The current school crest was introduced in November 2016, in order to commemorate the merger of the school with Pioneer Secondary from then on. It depicts two people moving as one moving towards their goals, embodying a teacher and student working together. Its resemblance to a ladder also calls for its students to spur on to greater heights. The crest is accompanied by the acronym of the school and its Chinese name, the latter indicating the school's early years as a Chinese-medium school.[8]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Organisational Culture". BLS website. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Boon Lay School To Open". The Straits Times. 18 November 1976. Retrieved 14 November 2017 – via NewspaperSG.
  3. ↑ "School to open officially". New Nation. 27 July 1979. Retrieved 14 November 2017 – via NewspaperSG.
  4. ↑ Lim, Chin Heng (May 1998). "An Overview of 20-year Development of Total Communication Approach with Signing Exact English in Singapore (1977-1997)" (PDF). Signal. Singapore Association for the Deaf. pp. 217–219. - MITA (P) No. 250/10/97 - Document starts on p. 9/11.
  5. ↑ "Deaf students who sign can join mainstream primary school from 2018". Today Online. 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  6. ↑ Jolene Ang (5 March 2019). "Boon Lay Secondary's 'unorthodox practice' of organising form classes by CCAs". The Straits Times. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  7. ↑ Lim, Kenneth (4 March 2016). "22 secondary schools to merge over next 2 years due to falling demand". ChannelNewsAsia. Archived from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "School Crest". boonlaysec.moe.edu.sg. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  9. ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/kenzhu_xiao_tian/biography.html&date=2009-10-26+01:19:20


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