History
Mr Goh Tong Pak led the school to become in the top 20 Value-Added Schools in Singapore from 1992 to 1997. Under the leadership of Mr Lee Hak Boon, the school attained autonomous status from the Ministry of Education with effect from 2001.
In the same year, the school was accorded the Singapore Quality Class accreditation.
From being a neighbourhood school attracting students with Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) aggregate scores of around 191 in 1994, the school is the recipient of the School Excellence Award, the most prestigious award a school can ever receive from the Singapore Ministry of Education. Today, it attracts students with PSLE aggregate scores of approximately 245 (as of 2007) to its Express stream.
-
Xinmin Secondary School
-
The Vertical Challenge @ Xinmin
Read more about this topic: Xinmin Secondary School
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)