Established 1 January 2010 Age range 13 - 16 Phone +65 6571 7200 Number of students 800 | Principal Mrs Chan Mui Mui Linda Enrolment 800 Founded 1 January 2010 | |
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Type Specialised Independent
Co-educational Language English, Chinese, Malay, Tamil, NTIL Address 1 Technology Drive, Singapore 138572 Motto Shaping Future Innovators, The SST Way Profiles | ||
The School of Science and Technology, Singapore (SST) is a specialised independent secondary school in Singapore, established in 2010. It offers a four-year applied-learning curriculum which leads to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE O Level examination. The school uses the Direct School Admissions (DSA) Exercise to obtain its cohorts with the application including a selection camp and several academic tests. The institution is currently one of the eight schools in the FutureSchools@Singapore project.
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History
The School of Science and Technology, Singapore was set up with assistance from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP).
The institution was first announced in Parliament by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam in March 2008, that a new specialised independent school with an emphasis on applied learning will be set up. The inaugural SST Board of Directors meeting was on 3 March 2009 and was followed by the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Nanyang Technological University (NTU), NP and SST.
SST was officially declared open by Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam on 13 April 2013.
Curriculum
Initial admission to the SST is done via the Direct School Admission (DSA) which includes interviews, General Ability Tests (GAT), Comprehension Reasoning Tests (CRT) and selection camps. The school admits 200 students in the Secondary 1 cohort and up to 50 students at the Secondary 3 level each year.
Secondary 1 and 2 students take regular subjects, such as English, Mother Tongue Language, Mathematics, plus Information Communication Technology (ICT), Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) and Art, Design, Media & Technology (ADMT). At Secondary 3 and 4, students continue the focus on applications with applied subjects such as Electronics, Computing, Design Studies and Biotechnology. All lower secondary students are required to take Interdisciplinary Research Studies (IRS) as well, which merges with Science in the second semester of Sec 2 to form ISS (Investigative Skills in Science).
Facilities
SST was temporarily housed at 5, Clementi Ave 6, for two years. The site was retrofitted with design studios, laboratories, places for collaboration and discussion, and a work display area. Certain facilities (e.g. laboratories) at Ngee Ann Polytechnic were also available for students' use. SST moved into its current campus, which is located at 1 Technology Drive, near Dover MRT Station and Singapore Polytechnic in January 2012. SST's new campus comprises four blocks, three of which form the main building on one side of the campus and a Sports Block on the other side of the field. The new campus's facilities include an "Info Hub" (Library), design and media studios as well as many specialized laboratories and classrooms.
Partners
The school works in educational partnerships for attachments, internships, and special programmes with Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), DigiPen Institute of Technology, and Apple Inc.. Industrial partnerships include programmes in collaboration with A*STAR - Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Exploit Technologies (ETPL), and the Defence Science Organisation (DSO) National Laboratories. SST is also part of the Strategic Alliance of Global Educators (SAGE) alliance, a professional network for educational institutions from different regions (America, Europe and Asia-Pacific).
Co-curricular activities
The co-curricular activities offered by SST are listed below:
Talent Development Programmes
SST also has a Talent Development Programme (TDP) which develops students in various areas including academic subjects and leadership. Students are introduced to different levels of experiences based on their aptitude and interests. These include: