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{{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Cleanup Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox school Victoria School (VS) is a government autonomous boys' secondary school in Siglap, Singapore. The school has a hostel. Established in 1876, it is Singapore's second oldest state secondary school.

It offers a six-year Integrated Programme. This allows students to skip the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations and proceed to Victoria Junior College for Years 5 and 6. The Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations are taken at the end of Year 6.

HistoryEdit

Kampong Glam: 1876-1900Edit

Victoria School began in 1876 as an English class for 12 Malay boys at Kampong Glam Malay Branch School. The first headmaster was Y. A. Yzelman.<ref name=Milestones>"Milestones". Victoria School. Retrieved 19 March 2020.</ref>

Syed Alwi: 1900-1933Edit

In 1900, Kampong Glam Malay Branch School merged with Kampong Glam Malay School and moved to Syed Alwi Road near the Victoria Bridge, so the school was renamed Victoria Bridge School. At the time, it was a feeder school for secondary schools, including Raffles Institution, then the only government secondary school in Singapore. In 1909, Victoria Bridge School added classes for Standard Five to alleviate the enrolment pressure at Raffles Institution. In 1931, it became the second government secondary school in Singapore.<ref name=Milestones/>

Many students left school at age 13 so from 1930 to 1952, the school operated an afternoon session for continuing education. The school uniform was introduced by 1929, and a school library was opened in December 1929 with the aid of businessman Syed Ahmed bin Mohamed Alsagoff. During this period, school games were formalised, with the first annual sports meet being held in 1915. The first annual Speech Day was held in 1916 and the first annual academic prizes were awarded. The house system was instituted in 1929 while the house prefect system began in 1930.<ref name=Milestones/> The first Boy Scouts troop was formed in 1919,<ref name="hist-Singapore-scouting">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

When Victoria Bridge School was at Syed Alwi Road, the school had a recommended maximum enrolment of 560. However, by 1925, it had 705 students.<ref name=Milestones/> Victoria Bridge School's campus at Syed Alwi Road is depicted on the back of the S$2 banknote in the current series.

Tyrwhitt Road: 1933–1984Edit

In 1933, Victoria Bridge School moved to Tyrwhitt Road and changed its name to its current name, Victoria School. In 1935, the primary classes were phased out and the school became a district secondary school. The school motto, Nil Sine Labore (Latin for "nothing without labour"), was adopted before World War II.<ref name=Milestones/>

During the Japanese occupation of Singapore between 1942 and 1945, Victoria School continued operating as a Japanese school called Jalan Besar Boys' School.<ref name=Milestones/> Following the end of the war, Victoria School reopened with 16 pupils on 1 October 1945 as one of the first schools in Singapore to resume classes. It was housed at the Kampong Glam Malay School site until May 1946 since the Tyrwhitt Road building was used as a hospital.<ref name=Milestones/> Under the headmaster R. F. Bomford's leadership, a science block was constructed for the school. At the time, Victoria School had the best school laboratories in Singapore, attracting students from Raffles Girls' School and St. Andrew's School to take science lessons at Victoria School. It was also selected as Singapore's pioneer school for audio-visual education.<ref name=Milestones/>

Post-School Certificate (now the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level) classes began in 1951 and included the first girls to attend the school. In 1955, the school achieved the best results in Singapore in the examinations for the Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (present-day Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level), with a 99.5% pass rate. In 1957, it had the best results in Singapore for the University Entrance Examinations. In 1969, after Singapore introduced the junior college system, Victoria School started offering three-year pre-university courses in 1979.<ref name=Milestones/>

The school building was designed by Frank Dorrington Ward, the chief architect of the Public Works Department who also designed the Supreme Court Building and other prominent landmarks in Singapore.<ref name=Ward>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was upgraded in 1966<ref name=Milestones/> and gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) in 2007. It is one of the few early city-centre schools still in existence and features two school buildings from the pre- and post-war period on a single site. The hall-and-canteen block is the only known school hall left of this style and configuration in Singapore. The site was awarded the URA Heritage Award in 2009.<ref>Carol Lim, "Old School Charm", Skyline, Urban Redevelopment Authority, July–August 2009.</ref><ref>Cheryl Tan (5 October 2009). "8 win heritage awards" Template:Webarchive. The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref> It is a marked-out historical landmark of the Jalan Besar Heritage Trail.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It became the headquarters of the People's Association in 2010.<ref name=Ward/><ref>Nur Dianah Suhaimi (30 January 2010). "A grand old building for PA" Template:Webarchive. The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref>

Geylang Bahru: 1984–2003Edit

In 1984, Victoria School moved to 3 Geylang Bahru Lane. The new site's move was marked with a 2.3  km march by 1,500 present and former students, teachers, and principals from Tyrwhitt Road, led by Abbas Abu Amin, Member of Parliament for Pasir Panjang GRC who was an alumnus of Victoria School.<ref>Matilda Gabriel (19 November 1984). "Victorian farewell...". The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref> Students preferred the junior colleges to the pre-university programme, so Victoria Junior College was established that year as a separate institution and the school ended its pre-university intake, with the last group of students sitting for the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations in November 1985.<ref name=Milestones/>

The school began offering the Art Elective Programme in 1985 and set up its first computer laboratory in 1986. The first Victoria Challenge was inaugurated in 1987, and the Victorian Profile began in 1991.<ref name=Milestones/>

In 1989, Victoria School was a small number of schools chosen to receive overseas scholars from the ASEAN countries. After the introduction of national ranking by the Ministry of Education in 1992, the school placed in the top ten in four years of that decade. The school became the seventh Gifted Education Programme centre in 2001 and hosted the programme until 2005.<ref name=Milestones/>

Single-session schooling began in 1992 after the extension of the school building the previous year. The school opted to remain a government school and not become independent; it was selected to become one of the first six autonomous schools in 1994.<ref name=Milestones/>

Siglap Link: 2003–presentEdit

The campus at Siglap Link off Marine Parade Road opened in 2003, incorporating a hostel. It was designed on ecological principles<ref>Jane Lee (24 May 2003). "Victoria School goes green" Template:Webarchive. The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref> to reflect the school's values, with roofs curved like an open book and the school centred on the library. At its opening, it had the largest government secondary school library in Singapore.<ref name=Milestones/> The campus was selected to participate at the 9th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.<ref>"Architectural awards" Template:Webarchive, Education, CPD Corporation</ref> The ceremonial procession to the new campus was attended by President S. R. Nathan, who was an alumnus of Victoria School.

In 2008, Victoria School became the first school in Singapore to offer Physical Education as a subject examinable at the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level.<ref name=Milestones/><ref>Alfred Siew (20 July 2006). "Victoria School to offer PE as O-level subject" Template:Webarchive. The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref> It also became one of the first four secondary schools to offer the Regional Studies Programme, and the only one offering Bahasa Indonesia.<ref name=Milestones/><ref>Lynda Hong (14 January 2008). "Students learn Bahasa Indonesia or Malay in Regional Studies Programme". Channel News Asia (Singapore).</ref>

The school began offering the six-year Integrated Programme through the Victoria-Cedar Alliance, together with Cedar Girls' Secondary School and Victoria Junior College, in 2012.<ref name=Milestones/><ref>Hoe Yeen Nie (1 September 2010). "Seven new schools join the Integrated Programme" Template:Webarchive. Channel News Asia (Singapore).</ref>

Campus and facilitiesEdit

The Victoria School campus covers Template:Convert. Between the classroom block and the science block, the "Eco-Street," planted with tropical vegetation and houses fish and turtles, forms a central artery providing natural light and ventilation to the classrooms and a setting for outdoor learning. The Victoria Pool, Learning Garden, Bio Pod, and Exploration Patch represent a move away from rigidly-structured, classroom-based instruction.

The ground-level classrooms, known as Learning Studios (consisting of the Gentlemen, Professional, and Sportsmen rooms), are air-conditioned and have sliding doors that open out to the landscape. Some classrooms on the upper floors have balconies, which were originally intended to take advantage of the sea view, but these are closed for safety reasons, and the Indoor Sports Hall and the Condominium Seaside Residences now blocks most of the view.

The school facilities also include a 500-seater auditorium and a three-storey library, of which the third floor is reserved for teachers and contains a collection of teaching resources.

Victoria HallEdit

Victoria Hall is a hostel consisting of two 11-storey blocks (one male and one female) within the school compound. It is next to the sea and East Coast Park, giving boarders both a sea view and access to the park's sporting facilities. It houses about 500 boarders of several nationalities, including Vietnamese, Thai, and Chinese, many of whom attend either Victoria School or Victoria Junior College. Secondary/Year 3 students also stay at the hostel for six weeks. Three classes attend this programme in Term 1, four classes in Term 2, and three classes in Term 3.

Sports facilitiesEdit

A S$500,000 AstroTurf field replaced the conventional field in early 2007.

The Indoor Sports Hall (ISH) was completed in June 2009. It consists of two storeys, but the building's height is approximately four storeys because of the high ceiling.

The school also has an air-rifle range, a tennis and basketball court, a fitness corner, and a gymnasium.

Computer facilitiesEdit

The school is mostly covered by a Wi-Fi network (SWN) provided by the Ministry of Education for the use of teachers and students. There is also another separate Wi-Fi network for the students' Personal Learning Devices (PLD).

Culture and traditionEdit

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UniformEdit

The school uniform consists of a white short-sleeved shirt, with either khaki short trousers (for Year 1 and 2 students) or white long trousers (for Year 3 and 4 students). A 'Victoria' label is sewn on the back pockets of the trousers. Secondary 3 and 4 students wear a black school belt.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The school socks are white with the initials 'VS' in red on both sides, although plain white socks are allowed. Shoes have to be at least 80% white. In 2005, an official 'Victoria School' shoe with the letters 'VS' on each side was introduced.Template:Citation needed

Students wear a maroon striped tie every Monday and on formal occasions, sometimes with a maroon blazer as well. The school badge is worn above the left chest pocket. Student bodies such as the Prefects' Council and Monitors' Council have their own badges, but the school crest remains their main feature.

For physical activities and camps, students wear a bright yellow 'bumblebee' T-shirt with a pair of black shorts and white socks with sports shoes. The word 'VICTORIAN' is printed on the back of the PE T-shirt.

House systemEdit

The students are grouped into five houses, namely Glam (red), Kallang (blue), Kapor (green), Rochore (yellow), and Whampoa (purple), which compete against each other in the school's annual Sports Day, Cross-Country Championships, Track and Field Championships and during Inter-house games and since 2019, Project APEX. Each house has its own running vest (singlet) in the house colours.

Victorian SpiritEdit

The Victorian Spirit is a sense of pride and belonging to the school, a fighting spirit, and striving to be their best.<ref>Mavis Toh (14 September 2009). "School spirit keeps Victoria diehards going". The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref><ref>Aaron Aik (10 August 2009). "The Victorian Spirit – The story of the Victoria School B Division football team". Red Sports (Singapore).</ref>

Special programmesEdit

Victoria School offers the Integrated Programme, GCE Ordinary Level Physical Education Programme, Art Elective Programme, Regional Studies Programme, and Higher Mother Tongue Languages in Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. VS students may also enrol in the Music Elective Programme in Secondary Three or a third language (French, German or Japanese). However, these lessons are held at external venues. Students of foreign languages take part in the Ministry of Education Language Centre's month-long Study-cum-Immersion Programmes (SCIP) in countries such as France, Germany, and Japan.

Victoria-Cedar Alliance Integrated ProgrammeEdit

The Victoria-Cedar Alliance Integrated Programme is a six-year Integrated Programme that allows students to bypass the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examinations and proceed directly to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations at the end of the sixth year. Under this programme, students complete their four-year secondary education in Victoria School before moving to Victoria Junior College for Years 5 and 6 for pre-university education.

Victoria School started offering the Integrated Programme together with Cedar Girls' Secondary School and Victoria Junior College in 2012, building upon the success of the original four-year Victoria Integrated Programme started by Victoria Junior College in 2005.<ref>(18 November 2011). "Implementation of Integrated Programme (IP) on Track" Template:Webarchive</ref>

GCE Physical educationEdit

In 2008, Victoria School became the first school in Singapore to offer Physical Education (PE) as an examinable subject at the GCE Ordinary Level after receiving the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2006. The course involves theoretical and practical aspects, including weight training, football, hockey, and cross-country running, among others.

Students take the theory examination at the end of the course (i.e., November of the graduating year). This examination contributes 40% of their overall grade, the other 60% coming from the practical component, assessed over a period of time.

To better acquaint students with the style of GCE Ordinary Level PE lessons, PE theory lessons are also conducted in lower secondary classes as an examinable subject. The selection process for GCE Ordinary Level PE candidates is carried out towards the end of secondary two. Students whose applications have been approved by the PE Department are notified before the subject combination allocation process at the end of the school year.

Art Elective ProgrammeEdit

The Art Elective Programme (AEP) leads to the GCE Ordinary Level Higher Art examination. The AEP is offered to academically good students with talent in art. For lower secondary classes, the AEP class is not entirely made up of AEP students. Usually, about a third of the class will take AEP lessons, while the other two-thirds will have Home Economics or Design & Technology lessons. For upper secondary classes, AEP lessons are conducted after normal school hours.

Regional Studies ProgrammeEdit

Students in the Regional Studies Programme (RSP) learn about Southeast Asian culture and contemporary society. The curriculum includes overseas immersion programmes and structured enrichment modules spread throughout the course. Other schools in Singapore that have the Regional Studies Programme offer Malay as a third language, but since the Singapore Indonesian School is situated opposite Victoria School's campus at Siglap, students in the RSP programme take Indonesian as a third language.

VECTORSEdit

VECTORS is a school-based talent programme aimed at nurturing students who demonstrate high abilities in mathematics and science. Students are given a wide range of opportunities to learn beyond the curriculum, including enrichment modules at junior colleges, polytechnics and universities, research mentorships, and other institutions.

Co-curricular activitiesEdit

The school offers students 40 co-curricular activities (CCAs) in the four areas of sports, uniformed groups, performing arts, and clubs and societies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The school holds performing arts and sporting activities, including the biennial Rhapsody, Drama Festival (Dramafest), Musical World, Arts Festival, and Evening of Music and Drama (EMD), the annual Sports Day and Cross-Country Championship.

SportsEdit

13 sports are offered in Victoria School: badminton, cricket, cross-country, floorball, football, hockey, sailing, shooting, table-tennis, tennis, track & field, volleyball and wushu. The school also participates in the Inter-School Dragon Boat competition. Between 2009 and 2024, the school won 40 national team titles and 32 zonal team titles at the National Schools Games and achieved a national top-four placing 210 times.<ref>Lim Say Heng (21 January 2009). "Victoria School: Lack of space is no excuse". The New Paper (Singapore).</ref><ref>Yvonne Yap (18 August 2009). "Victoria School beat Teck Whye to clinch C Division Boys Hockey title". RedSports (Singapore).</ref><ref>V K Santosh Kumar (8 April 2010). "Victoria victorious after 41 years". The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref><ref>Noor Farhan (9 April 2011). "B Division Hockey: Victoria edge Teck Whye 3-2 in overtime with the golden goal to win final". RedSports (Singapore).</ref><ref>Yap Ann Ann (3 April 2012). "Victoria School wins National Inter-School Floorball Championship after 4-year wait". VOXSPORTS (Singapore).</ref><ref>Felicia Quick (16 August 2013). "Victorians triumph in ‘C’ Div hockey final". Today (Singapore).</ref> VS students have won six Singapore National Olympic Council Best Sportsboy/Team Awards and 23 Singapore Schools Sports Council Best School Boy Awards for sports.

Ten Victorians have represented Singapore at the Olympics - four in hockey, three in athletics, two in sailing and one in water-polo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="auto">"S. JEYATHURAI - Singapore National Olympic Council"</ref><ref name="auto1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Uniformed groupsEdit

Victoria School has six uniformed groups, four national and two worldwide. They offer Secondary 2-3 students a combined cultural exchange trip overseas to place such as Perth and Hong Kong. All have won the best unit competitions in the 21st century.

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Passing Over Ceremony at Victoria School, circa 2005

Scouting was first started in Victoria Bridge School (present day Victoria School) when the 5th Singapore (HQ Malay) Troop was formed on 28 March 1919.<ref name="hist-Singapore-scouting" /> The 5th Troop was mentioned in the local newspaper in August 1950,<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> but appears to have been disbanded shortly after. The 6th Troop was founded in 1922,<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> when school-based Scouting was introduced in government schools. In 1932, the 6th Troop was renamed Arrow Scout Group after the Golden Arrow which BP had proclaimed in 1929's 3rd World Scout Jamboree as Scouting's symbol of peace and goodwill.

Performing artsEdit

Victoria School has four performing arts groups.

Chinese orchestraEdit

Victoria School Chinese Orchestra is one of the top school Chinese orchestras in Singapore.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the biennial Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Arts Presentation, Victoria School Chinese Orchestra has always attained the Certificate of Distinction.Template:Cn

ChoirEdit

Victoria School Choir is one of the school choirs in Singapore. In the Singapore Youth Festival Choral Judging Competition, the school has always attained a Gold with the Honours award. It has also won gold medals in international choir competitions. In the 2012 National Day Parade, the 300-strong Combined School Choir was formed by students from Victoria School and Cedar Girls' Secondary School.<ref>Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid (4 August 2012). "Combined schools choir returns to this year's National Day Parade". Channel News Asia (Singapore).</ref>

Clubs and societiesEdit

  • AV Club
  • Photography Club
  • Chess Club (consisting of International Chess Club and Chinese Chess Club)
  • English Language Drama Club
  • Debate and Oratorical society
  • Infocomm Club

In The Straits Times National Youth Media Competition, Victoria School holds the best record among all the schools in Singapore, clinching the championship twice and runner-up position three times since the competition was inaugurated in 2005.<ref>Sheryl Quek (18 December 2011). "Victoria School is tops in ST news contest". The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref>

Community involvement programmesEdit

Youth DayEdit

On Youth Day, Victoria School boys attempt to 'paint the town yellow' as they go round nearby housing blocks in the neighbourhood collecting old newspapers and items for disposal. The boys are clad in their yellow PT kit so that they are easily identified.

President's ChallengeEdit

Victoria School participates in the President's Challenge every year. In 2004, each class did a specific activity to raise funds for the charity. Activities included washing cars, going door-to-door to do household chores for a donation. In 2005, the school held a watch design competition, and the best designs were made into real watches and put on sale. In 2006, booklets were sold containing art by past and present Victorians.

Victoria ChallengeEdit

Started in July 1987, the Victoria Challenge, conducted every four years, allows classes to identify tasks that will contribute to the school. The "challenge" itself is for classes to carefully plan their task and pledge to complete it within 24 hours. Special T-shirts have been designed for every Victoria Challenge since its inception. Past challenges have included creating miniature clay figurines, folding 3D origami eagles to hang in the library, drawing floor murals, and creating an "Arts Nook" in the corner of the school, complete with books and a piano.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> The latest Victoria Challenge was held on 23 June 2023 to 24 June 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Overseas exchange programmesEdit

Victoria School has established ties with schools abroad to promote Singaporean education and exchange ideas.

As part of the initiative to improve bilateral education links between Singapore and Malaysia, Victoria School has been linked up with Penang Free School, Malaysia by the Ministry of Education.<ref>Sandra Davie (3 July 2005). "School ties that bind" Template:Webarchive. The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref><ref>Sandra Davie (4 December 2007). "S'pore, M'sia forge stronger links in education". The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref> Other schools with which Victoria School has bilateral exchange programmes include Hebei Baoding Yizhong, English School Attached to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Beijing Sanfan Zhongxue and Nan Hai Zhi Xin Zhongxue (all in the People's Republic of China), Modern School of Vasant Vihar (India), University of Griffith (Australia) and Sultan Omar Ali Saiffudin High School (Brunei).<ref>Mohammad Abdullah (17 November 2009). "S'pore students get taste of Brunei"Template:Dead link. Brunei Times (Brunei).</ref>

Humanities tripsEdit

Victoria School offers week-long overseas humanities trips to ASEAN and other parts of Asia for secondary 1 to 3 students to increase awareness of other cultures and relate lessons to the real world. These have included a trip to Vietnam in 2019.

CampsEdit

Secondary One bonding campEdit

During January, all secondary one Victorians attend a three-day, two-night camp, usually held at the school, where they participate in physical, interactive, and character-building activities designed to help them make new friends and adapt to the new secondary school environment.<ref>Randell Siow, "EDGE 2010", January 2010.</ref> It is facilitated by some of the secondary three and secondary four seniors.

Secondary Three overseas adventure campEdit

In 2001, Victoria School became the first school in Singapore to send its entire secondary three students to an overseas camp. The camp, which used to be held typically in March, is now held in January concurrently with the secondary one and two cohort camps on Malaysia's farmland. The aim is to bond the new secondary three students and help them settle into their new classes after being streamed according to their subject combinations and expose them to life outside the confines of urban Singapore. Also, following the "EDGE" model of the school, the camp aims to "Grow" (Third letter of the acronym) the students into effective leaders as they will take over various leadership roles from the secondary four students. Rigorous activities, including rafting, trekking, river-crossing, and mountain-climbing, are held during the camp. From 2001 to 2010, the camp was held at Kahang Organic Rice Eco-Farm, Kahang town, located near Kluang, Johor. From 2011, the annual camp location was shifted to Tanjong Sutera Resort, Tanjung Sedili, near the town of Kota Tinggi, Johor.

Victoria Enhanced Leadership/Outdoor Camp Instructor Training Camp (VELOCI-T)Edit

The VELOCI-T is a 5-day outdoor camp that begins locally and continues overseas. External camp instructors run it in collaboration with selected Secondary Three junior leaders for that year. It has garnered praise for being one of the most difficult and effective leadership camps among local institutions. 100 Secondary Two students, nominated through CCA teachers and who will undertake leadership positions the following year, undergo rugged adventure activities, are trained to run camps, and conduct activities commonly carried out during outdoor camps, and learn the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership through hands-on activities. Trainees have made an expedition on inflatable rafts and kayaks and climbed Gunung Arong. After the camp is concluded, the participants' performances are reviewed. Those who pass are promoted to Junior Leader (JL) or, upon further application and stringent selection, Senior Leader (SL).<ref>Randell Siow, "Veloci-T 2009 - The PULSE of Victoria", 22 November 2009.</ref> The JLs and SLs are informally called Red Shirts and Black Shirts after the shirts are awarded. They form the backbone of student leadership in VS and play an instrumental role in rallying and organising the student population.

AwardsEdit

In 2009, Victoria School was awarded the Ministry of Education's School Distinction Award (SDA).<ref>Ministry of Education (10 September 2009). "Recognising School Achievements in 2009" Template:Webarchive. Press release.</ref>

Victoria School has also attained various CCA awards, such as the Sustained Achievement Awards for sports, performing arts, and uniformed groups in recognition of its consistently high performance in national competitions, sports meets, the biennial Singapore Youth Festival and other events.

Victoria Advisory CommitteeEdit

The Victoria Advisory Committee (VAC), formed in 1968, set the direction and advice on the future of Victoria School and Victoria Junior College. The principals of VS and VJC and the President of the Old Victorians' Association sit on the committee.

Victoria ChoraleEdit

Formed in 1988, the chorale comprises Victoria School and Victoria Junior College's graduates.

Old Victorians' AssociationEdit

The alumni body, Old Victorians' Association (OVA), was established in 1941. It serves as a channel for former students of Victoria School and Victoria Junior College to associate with their alma mater.<ref>Nurul Asyikin Mohd Nasir (10 September 2009). "Victoria school alumni: Boys only, please". The New Paper (Singapore).</ref> The OVA supports the schools' activities, assists needy students, and promotes sports, social and cultural activities among association members. Previously alumni returned on Victorians' Day, the first Saturday of March, to play games, eat school canteen food again and catch up with long-time schoolmates.<ref>Patricia Yap (28 February 2005). "Victorians' Day to kick off on March 5" Template:Webarchive. Today (Singapore).</ref>

The OVA men's and women's hockey teams play in the Singapore Hockey Federation hockey leagues.

In 2009, OVA organized the inaugural combined VS and VJC gala concert, with a 260-strong cast comprising both students and celebrity alumni, at the Esplanade Concert Hall.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Kenny Chee (2 June 2009). "Victorians labour to celebrate artistic talents". The New Paper (Singapore).</ref><ref>Christopher Toh (4 June 2009). "Two upcoming local gigs to look forward to". Today (Singapore).</ref>

In 2011 and 2016, OVA organized the Victoria School 135th and 140th Anniversary Celebration Dinners at Tyrwhitt Road's former VS campus.<ref>Huang Lijie (19 September 2011). "Victoria School celebrates 135 years with 1,500 alumni, ex-teachers". The Straits Times (Singapore).</ref>

Notable alumniEdit

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Queen's, State and President's ScholarsEdit

Name Scholarship Year
Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim Queen's Scholarship 1936
Poh Soo Jin Queen's Scholarship 1951
Teh Ee Kheng Queen's Scholarship 1957
Yap Choon Teck Queen's Scholarship 1957
Si Hoe Sing Yin Queen's Scholarship 1958
Han Cheng Fong State Scholarship 1962
Lam Chuan Leong President's Scholarship 1967
Ng Chee Khern President's Scholarship 1984
Loh Wai Keong President's Scholarship 1984
Siow Mein Yeak President's Scholarship 2019

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ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

  • Lim Fang York, "A sense of belonging, and other poems", 1979, Victoria School
  • Lim Mu Yao, "Celebrating 130 years of Victoria School in Singapore", 2006, Victoria School
  • "Victoria School art elective programme, 21 years", 2006, Victoria School; English 741.683095957 VIC, Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
  • "Victoria Chorale", Victoria Chorale Victoria Chorale

External linksEdit

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