Bukit Batok Secondary School

Uniform

Girls wear a cream blouse with sharp collars, along with bras that are not too fanciful or dark-colored. The school skirt is grey, underneath which there is no regulation on the type of panties to be worn. Wearing shorts under the skirt is optional but often practised.

Boys wear a safari-style cream shirt. Grey bermuda shorts for lower secondary boys and grey long trousers for upper secondary boys are worn. There are no belt holders.

Transport

Bukit Batok MRT station, next to West Mall, is the closest MRT station.

English/Literature

Achievements 2015

14th Inter-School National Scrabble Championship (Sec 1-3) - C Division: Ranked 5th among 18 schools - B Division: Ranked 10th among 12 schools - C Division qualified for the Grand Finals. They proceeded to win the second place in the Bowl category.

Creative Arts Programme (CAP) - 6 students from Sec 2 and Sec 3

UNSW International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) - English

YMCA Plain English Speaking Awards (PESA) 2015 (Certificates of Participation)

Orator's Trophy 2015 National Oratorical Competition for Secondary Schools (Certificate of Participation)

Mother Tongue (Chinese)

Achievements 2015

Creating Your Own Newspaper competition organised by SPH (First prize)

1HCL student was selected by SPH to be student journalist (Consolation prize)

Mother Tongue (Malay)

Achievements 2015

Journalism Camp organised by SPH – Creation of Newspaper (1st prize (Best Layout))

2015 Pintar Kata (Smart Vocabulary) App National Competition (Consolation)

Mother Tongue (Tamil)

Achievements 2015

Creative Writing Competition for lower sec conducted by Ministry of Education (Consolation Prize)

2015 Essay Writing Competition for sec3 conducted by Raffles Institution (Consolation Prize)

2015 Singing, Thirukkural Recitation and Oratorical Competitions conducted by Cluster West2 (Singing – 1st Prize Recitation – 2nd Prize Oratorical – 3rd Prize)

Mathematics

Achievements 2015

2015 Singapore Mathematical Olympiad 2 Gold, 4 Bronze, 7 Honourable Mention (40 participants)

Sciences

Achievements 2015

2015 Engineering Explorer - Championship in Engineering Science Challenge

2015 Singapore Junior Chemistry Olympiad - Advanced to second round

2015 International Competitions and Assessments for schools (12 distinctions, 56 credits)

2015 Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2015 - Chew Tingyu, Phoebe represented Singapore in Pittsburgh as Broadcom MASTERS International Delegate/ Student Observer at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

Applied Subjects

Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award Merit Award

D&T Awards Creative Invention Award (Participation

National Earthquake Competition (Participation)

iChef Cooking Competition (Participation)

Lam Soon Healthy Sandwich Competition (Participation)