Boon Lay Secondary School

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

Boon Lay

Singapore
Coordinates 1°20′36″N103°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 (outgoing)
GenderMixed
Colour(s) Blue  Silver 
Website www.boonlaysec.moe.edu.sg/

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

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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]

Principals

  Pre-Merger
  Post-Merger
  Both
PrincipalYears
Mr Ng Siok Yen1977-1981
Mr Tan Kiok Ngiap1981-1982
Mr Kiat Jun Ngin1982-1988
Mr Toh Chye Seng1988-1992
Mrs Yu Sing Tong1992-1995
Ms Ong Pheng Ye1995-1997
Ms Lui Yin Leng1997-2000
Ms Peck Soo Hiong2000-2001
Ms Doris Ho2001-2008
Mr Victor Giam Chong Guan2008-2014
Mr Tan Chor Pang2014-2019
Mr Inderjit Singh2020-
New Principal

Merger with Pioneer Secondary

In 2017, Boon Lay Secondary School absorbed Pioneer Secondary School due to falling enrolment in both schools. [6]

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. [7]

CCA Centric School

As part of the phasing-out of streaming, Boon Lay has been dividing classes by their students' co-curricular activities (CCA) since 2017. [8] The CCAs are also divided into houses, these are Garnet, Emerald, Morganite and Sapphire.

List of CCAs

Garnet
National Civil Defence Cadet Corps (ND) [9]
Chinese Orchestra (CO)
Basketball (BL)
CyberAce (CA)
Emerald
Boys' Brigade (BB) [10]
National Cadet Corps (NC)
Contemporary Dance (CD)
Netball (NE)
Morganite
St John Brigade (SJ)
Choir (CH)
Concert Band (BA)
Audio Video Aid (AV)
Sapphire
National Police Cadet Corps (NP)
Malay Dance (MD)
Musical Theatre (MT)
Badminton (BN)

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. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "School Crest". Boon Lay Secondary School. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Jolene Ang (5 March 2019). "Boon Lay Secondary's 'unorthodox practice' of organising form classes by CCAs". The Straits Times . Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "National Civil Defence Cadet Corps". Boon Lay Secondary School. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  10. ↑ "Boys' Brigade". Boon Lay Secondary School. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  11. ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/5knzVLH3v?url=http://www.geocities.com/kenzhu_xiao_tian/biography.html


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