Singapore Quality Class
The school attained the Singapore Quality Class in 2003
The Singapore Quality Class (SQC) Programme provides organisations with a framework for achieving business excellence. Based on widely accepted international models, the SQC Business Excellence Framework has seven dimensions - Leadership, Planning, Information, People, Processes, Customers and Results. The SQC Business Excellence Framework provides an excellence model that can be applied to any organisation, regardless of its uniqueness. It enables organisations to adopt a total approach in managing people, processes and customers to achieve better business results.
What it means
Singapore Quality Award/Class
What it is
This programme provides organisations with a framework for achieving business excellence. The framework has seven dimensions: Leadership, Planning, Information, People, Processes, Customers and Results. The SQA has stricter certification criteria than the SQC.
Who are certified
After 70 public agencies and 300 private organisations have attained the SQC.
The myth
Attaining the SQC requires too much documentation and unnecessary paperwork.
The truth
The documentation is part and parcel of putting in place a framework for excellence. When initiatives are real and impactful, documentation is usually not a problem. Documentation allows an organisation to "stock-take" its state of health and review its strengths and weaknesses, and provide an opportunity to devise a concrete plan for improvement.
The benefits
An SQA/C organisation has in place a comprehensive framework to achieve excellence in the seven key areas. This should enable it to enjoy greater productivity, increased employee and customer satisfaction, better financial performance, and enhanced competitiveness. SQC organisations also get to participate in SPRING's special business excellence journey programmes that help in their continual development.
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*adopted from "Challenge, August 2005"
Sustained Achievement Award (SAA)
We have been awarded the Sustained Achievement Award (SAA) in Physical Fitness Tests since its inauguration in 1999 making 2004, our 6th award.
Our Primary section has achieved the Sustained Achievement Award (SAA) for Sports and Games in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
The Secondary section has achieved the Sustained Achievement Award (SAA) in this area in 2001, 2002 and 2004.
Our achievements in the uniformed groups have helped us to clinch the SAAs in 2003 and 2004.
Sustained Achievement Award (SAA) is one of the two second level of achievement awards, as proposed in the Masterplan of Awards, given to schools to recognise niches of excellence in the Result category of School Excellence Model (SEM). It is an award based on past sustained achievement in various Result categories.
The first SAAs were given to schools in 1999 during the MOE Workplan Seminar on 4th September 1999 . There were five categories of awards presented to school in this inaugural SAA, namely Arts, Sports, Uniformed Group, Academic Value-addedness and Physical Fitness.
Since the SAA is intended to give recognition to niches of excellence in schools based on a trend of good performance in a category, the selection of schools for a category in a particular year will be based on sustained results in that category for the past 3 consecutive years.
Community and Parents in Support of Schools (COMPASS)
- Merit Award in 2002
- Outstanding Award in 2004
In Dec 1998, the Ministry of Education announced that an Advisory Council named COMPASS (Community and Parents in Support of Schools) would be set up. COMPASS will advise the Ministry on ways in which school-home-community collaborations in education can be strengthened.
The Ministry wants to engage parents and the community as partners in education. Schools need the support of the home and the community to develop the child to his full potential and to bring him up as a useful citizen. Schools can only succeed in developing good character and instilling sound values if parents and the community reinforce the same values imparted in school.
COMPASS will actively encourage parents and the community to work together with schools to help children learn better. It will be a forum where the best practices on collaborative efforts of school, home and community are surfaced, shared and promoted.
COMPASS was first chaired by the Minister for Education, RAdm Teo Chee Hean and draws its members from amongst principals, parents and the community.
Programme for School-Based Excellence (PSE Award)
MOE will launch the Programme for School-Based Excellence (PSE) for primary schools from Jan 2005 to better support schools with strong niche programmes that will benefit their students educationally. Successful applicant schools will receive a recurrent grant of up to $100,000 per year per primary school, so as to further raise the quality and outreach of their school-based programmes/initiatives.
The PSE was announced by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education, at the MOE Work Plan Seminar 2004 on 29 Sep 2004 .