Si Ling Secondary School

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Accorded Lee Hsien Loong Award for Innovations in the Normal Course

Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam, then-Minister for Trade and Industry, officially opened SLSS on 27 Aug 1982.

Awarded the Gold Award for Malay Dance at the 2009 and 2011 Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging (2009).

LLP committee organises Trekking and Service Learning Trip to Nepal in March 2015.

School History

Si Ling Secondary School (SLSS) was the first secondary school to be established in the Woodlands housing estate in 1980. It was also the first secondary school in Woodlands to offer both English and Chinese as the mediums of instruction. In 1985, the school became a fully English-medium school.

In the early 1990s the school developed its own model of nurturing students known as ‘The Nurture of a Silian’. This scheme aimed to promote care, concern, innovation and creativity among the students. During this period, SLSS was known as a ‘second-chance school’: Students who came to SLSS for a second chance were taken in.

In 2007, the school was designated by the Ministry of Education as one of the three Normal Technical Mark II schools in Singapore, where Institute of Technical Education (ITE) lecturers were seconded to teach applied learning subjects for students in the Normal Technical stream to better prepare them for the courses at ITE.

These efforts led to the consolidation of its flagship programmes and their respective frameworks. The programme, Res Adventura, was designed to promote leadership, teamwork, self-confidence, love for the outdoors and a spirit of adventure. It would evolve to become the school’s Learning for Life Programme, ‘VALOUR’ (Values and Character-building through Outdoor Curriculum).

In the later years, as most of the students were kinesthetic learners and aesthetically inclined, SilcARTS – Cornucopia of the Arts Framework, was formed, targeted at the aesthetic development of the students. From 2010 to 2015, the school staged a musical every year.

On 1 January 2017, Si Ling Secondary School merged with Marsiling Secondary School. The merged school took on the latter’s name while adopting Si Ling’s Chinese name.

Principals:
- Mr D. Natarajan (1980)
- Mr Lee Chin Leong (1980–1984)
- Mr Bhajan Singh (1984–1995)
- Mr Ong Kock Hua (1995–2000)
- Mrs Lau Kum Leng (2001–2009)
- Mr Wong Lok Oon (2010–2015)
- Mr Goh Aik Choon (2016)

Key Milestones

School Motto

Excel

School Crest

The colour red stands for courage, brotherhood, tolerance, perseverance and equality, while white represents everlasting purity, virtue and scholarship. The circle with radiating spikes symbolises an all-round education, and the five red stripes represent democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.

School Song

Si Ling our school, we pledge to thee
Our love and utmost loyalty.
We come to seek, to strive and find
Values to cherish, knowledge sublime.
We shall excel, we shall excel!
Forward to glory Silians all!
We shall excel, we shall excel!
Si Ling shall prevail forever more.

Si Ling our school, we owe to thee.
Courage, wisdom, righteous charity.
You arm us all, our nation to serve,
life challenges shall never master us.
We shall excel, we shall excel!
Forward to glory Silians all!
We shall excel, we shall excel!
Si Ling shall prevail forever more.