St Andrew's School (Junior)

Image Gallery

The “Old School” was officially opened in 1940 and was gazetted for conservation in 2003. The current school (right) was modelled after the old structure with a similar quadrangle (2018).

Staff and students in SAJS united in effort to build the Singapore Spirit during SG50 Celebration (2015).

Uniform Group students led in the 2016 National Day Commemoration Ceremony as Flag Party – one of the platforms where SAJS develops Servant Leaders and builds Exemplary Character (2016).

Strong Partnership with stakeholders – Chaplaincy support at Prefects Commendation Service and Parent Volunteers at Children’s Day Carnival (2017).

School History

St. Andrew’s School was founded on 8 September 1862. It was then located at Chin Chew Street. The following year, on 10 September 1863, the school moved to Upper Hokkien Street because it needed a better building and more space for the growing school population. Later, the continually expanding school moved yet again to Victoria Street. In the 1870s, the British government gave the school a four-acre plot of land on the then Government Hill (present-day Fort Canning) with a frontage on Stamford Road. Here, the Chapel was constructed in 1875; later that year, the school shifted to the Stamford Road site. In 1940, the school moved to a new two-storey building with a sprawling campus in Woodsville.

St. Andrew’s School was the first school to reopen after the war. As the enrolment grew, there was a pressing need for more classrooms. Another floor was added in 1952. That year, the Lim Teck Kin Tower was also added to the school premises.

St. Andrew's Junior School relocated to Potong Pasir in 1996. It was officially opened on 6 September 1997. The concept of St. Andrew’s Village (SAV) was soon mooted in 1999: All three institutions – (St. Andrew’s Junior College, St. Andrew’s Secondary School and St. Andrew’s Junior School) – were to come under one roof as ‘One Family Unbroken’ (as sung in the school hymn). SAV was officially opened on 26 August 2006.

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the school gathered over 500 participants for an envisioning exercise in 2012. Participants included the school’s board of governors, alumni, staff, students, parents and other stakeholders.

After months of strategic dialogue, the new and shared school vision, mission and values for St. Andrew’s Village were formalised.

Principals:
- Mr Dong Chui Seng (1946–1962)
- Mr Goh Soo Toon (1959–1963)
- Mr Quahe Beng Chuan (1964–1980)
- Mr Chin Wai Fah (1981–1984)
- Mr Tan Cheng Lim (1985–1986)
- Mr Phua Eng Hee (1986–1990)
- Ms Jacqueline Oehlers (1991–1997)
- Ms Poh Chwee Sian (1998–2003)
- Mrs Wai Yin Pryke (2004–2010)
- Mrs Wong Bin Eng (2011–2016)
- Ms Patsy Neo Phei Tze (2016-2022)
- Mrs Elsie Poey (2023 - present)

Key Milestones

School Motto

Up and On

School Crest

Culture – Synergise to Serve and Soar
- Keys to knowledge
Constantly seeking to learn Curiosity
- Courageous Heart
Confidence and Strength
- Up and On!
Spirit of Continuous Improvement

School Song

Lives are in the making here,
Hearts are in the waking here,
Mighty undertaking here,
Up and On! Up and On!
We are arming for the fight,
Pressing on with all our might,
Pluming wings for higher flight,
Up and On!

Up Boys!
Truest fame lies in high endeavour;
Play the game!
Keep the flame burning brightly ever!

Fair before us lies the way,
Time for work and time for play;
Fill the measure while we may,
Up and On! Up and On!
Life and time will not delay,
Time is running fast away,
Life is now today; today;
Up and On!
Up Boys!
Truest fame lies in high endeavour;
Play the game!
Keep the flame burning brightly ever!

Foes in plenty we shall meet,
Hearts courageous scorn defeat;
So we press with eager feet,
Up and On! Up and On!
Ever onward to the fight,
Ever upward to the Light,
Ever true to GOD and RIGHT,
Up and On!

Up Boys!
Truest fame lies in high endeavour;
Play the game!
Keep the flame burning brightly ever!