Boon Lay Secondary School (BLSS) is a government

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located in

Jurong West Jurong West is a planning area and residential town located in the West Region of Singapore. Jurong West shares boundaries with Tengah in the north, Jurong East in the east, Boon Lay and Pioneer in the south, and Western Water Catchment in t ...

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History

The school commenced operations in 1977 at a S$3.59 million campus at the junction of Boon Lay Way and Jalan Boon Lay, with 13 classes, seven of which were English-medium and the remaining six Chinese-medium. It was officially opened in 1979 by the then-

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for Boon Lay Ngeow Pack Hua. It became a solely English-medium school in 1998, and started operating single-session in 2000. In 1996 Boon Lay began enrolling deaf students. - MITA (P) No. 250/10/97 - Document starts on p. 9/11. Specifically it educated deaf students who were required to use

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to communicate. In 2017 the

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designated

Beatty Secondary School Beatty Secondary School is a co-educational government secondary school in Toa Payoh, Singapore. It was established in 1953 along Beatty Road and moved to its current site in Toa Payoh in 1982. It educates deaf students who must use sign languag ...

as the school to educate deaf students who must use sign language, concentrating all such students at one school due to them numbering about 15. As part of the phasing-out of streaming, Boon Lay has been dividing classes by their students' co-curricular activities (CCA) since 2017.

Merger with Pioneer Secondary

In 2017, Boon Lay Secondary School absorbed

Pioneer Secondary School Pioneer Secondary School (abbreviation: PSS) was a government co-educational secondary school in Jurong West, Singapore. It existed from 1994 to 2016. Due to falling enrollment, the school has merged into Boon Lay Secondary School. History ...

due to falling enrolment in both schools.

School identity and culture

Crest

The current school crest was introduced in November 2016, in order to commemorate the merger of the school with Pioneer Secondary from then on. It depicts two people moving as one moving towards their goals, embodying a teacher and student working together. Its resemblance to a ladder also calls for its students to spur on to greater heights. The crest is accompanied by the acronym of the school and its Chinese name, the latter indicating the school's early years as a Chinese-medium school.

Notable alumni

Ken Chu Ken Chu () is a Taiwanese singer, composer, actor, cook; and a member of Taiwanese Mandopop vocal quartet boy band F4. Educated in Singapore (Boon Lay Secondary School), he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Biography Chu was worki ...

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References

External links

Official site
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