Mayflower Secondary School is a co-educational government secondary school in

Ang Mo Kio Ang Mo Kio is a planning area and residential town situated in the North-East of Singapore. Located approximately north of the Downtown Core district, Ang Mo Kio is the 3rd most populated planning area in the North-East Region and ranks 8th ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

founded in 1981.

History

Mayflower Secondary School began in 1981 with Wan Hussein as the pioneering principal. On 15 July 1983, the school was officially opened by

Lim Boon Heng Lim Boon Heng (; born 18 November 1947) is a Singaporean former politician. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was a Member of Parliament (MP) between 1980 and 2011, and had served in the Cabinet between 2001 and 20 ...

, Member of Parliament for

Kebun Baru Kebun Baru also known as Nee Soon South is a precinct within Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. It is located in the west of Ang Mo Kio and bounded by Mayflower district and Bishan - Ang Mo Kio Park. The current Member of Parliament (MP) for this precinct i ...

. In 2007 the school embarked on a programme "Project Cool Running" to raise funds to equip the school hall with air-conditioning. This was organised by the Kebun Baru Community Club. The first event, "Tri-Fit", was carried out on 12 March 2011. This event involved the whole school population, and they participated in one of the three sports events: walking, rollerblading and rope skipping. The school's partners were invited to participate in the afternoon festivities of line dancing, karaoke and waltz dancing.

Principals

Notable alumni

Paige Chua Paige Chua Qi Hui (; born 25 June 1981) is a Singaporean actress. Early life Chua was born in Singapore on 25 June 1981. She attended Mayflower Secondary School and Serangoon Junior College before graduating from the National University of S ...

, actress *

Huang Biren Huang Biren (born 7 March 1969) is a Singaporean actress best known for appearing in numerous MediaCorp Channel 8 television dramas. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1988 to 2008, but continues to film on an ad-hoc basis. ...

, actress *

Ann Kok Ann Kok (; born 11 January 1973) is a Singaporean actress. She started her acting career in 1993 after emerging as a finalist in the local talent-search competition ''Star Search'', where she won a contract to work on Chinese-language TV chan ...

, actress

References

External links

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Mayflower Secondary School E-Learning portal
{{Authority control Secondary schools in Singapore Educational institutions established in 1981 Schools in Ang Mo Kio 1981 establishments in Singapore