History
Damai Secondary School was established in 1994. Currently, it has approximately 1,500 students (known as Damaians).
The school has been expanded several times. In 2000, the National Education corner was added. Between 2002 and 2004 the school was upgraded under the PRIME programme, enlarging and improving the school facilities.
In 2002 and 2003 Damai came 49th in Singapore in its express stream results. In 2002 it was awarded the People Developer Standard (this was renewed in 2005 for another three years.)
Its technical stream was awarded the 30th Singapore NUTMEG Prize. This was presented by the managing director, Chang Yeng Yong.
The school has strong emphasis on National Education (NE)& was awarded the Outstanding Devt Award NE from 2006-2010. Its NE framework includes student leadership devt, student-centric processes, NE integrated curriculum & establishing strategic partnerships with the community. The school is currently working towards creating a Borderless Learning environment by 2010 using mobile devices, WiFi & Bluetooth technology. The school's inter-disciplinary Project Work is integrated with the use of ICT. In 2008, the school introduced the use of mobile learning, using Bluetooth-enabled handphones to engage its lower secondary students. The school shared its mobile learning approach at the Int'l Conference on Teaching & Learning with Technology (ICTLT) at Suntec City.
Subjects Offered : CHINESE, GEOGRAPHY (REVISED), HOME ECONOMICS, PRINCIPLES OF A/C, DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY, MATHEMATICS (SYLLABUS A), SOCIAL STUDIES, ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS, BIOLOGY, COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE (SYLL T), LITERATURE(E), MALAY, MALAY N(A), SCIENCE (SYLL T), COMBINED HUMANITIES (S,G), CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, ART 'O' LEVEL, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS, MUSIC, TECHNICAL STUDIES, ELEMENTS OF BUSINESS SKILLS, HISTORY (REVISED), BASIC CHINESE,HIGHER MOTHER TONGUE, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, SCIENCE, BASIC MALAY, CHINESE N(A), CIVICS & MORAL EDUCATION, FOOD & NUTRITION, SCIENCE (PHY, CHEM)
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