Catholic High School, Singapore: Difference between revisions

The Catholic High School was classified under the [[Special Assistance Plan]] in 1979.<ref name="chshistory" /> This enables it to offer students in the top 10% of the cohort both English and Chinese as their first languages. In the same year, pre-primary classes were started to prepare students for primary school Chinese study. In March 1987, discovery of structural cracks at the Queen Street premises of the primary section caused the campus to be declared unsafe.<ref name=":0" /> Despite clarified later as a misjudgment, the incident prompted a decision by the Ministry of Education to relocate Catholic High School, for safety concerns in wake of the [[Collapse of Hotel New World|Hotel New World collapse]].<ref name=":1" /> The high school section was relocated to the premises of [[Guangyang Secondary School]] in [[Bishan, Singapore|Bishan]]. Pre-primary and lower-primary classes were held at Gentle Road and upper-primary classes were held at Norfolk Road. Both the primary and secondary sections of the school moved to its current, permanent campus at Bishan Street 22 in 1992. In 2008, Catholic High School was awarded the School Distinction Award under the MOE Master Plan of Awards, in recognition of its value-added holistic development of its students through exemplary processes and practices.<ref>[http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/files/2008/09/pr20080921-annex-a2.pdf Winners of Special Awards 2004 to 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519064505/http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/files/2008/09/pr20080921-annex-a2.pdf |date=19 May 2011 }} Ministry of Education, Singapore.</ref>

* Dr [[Liang Wern Fook]]: singer and composer; Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at [[Nanyang Technological University]] <ref>{{cite news |title=NTU Faculty Profiles |url=http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/chinese_eng/Faculty/Pages/chinese_profilelwf.aspx |publisher=[[Nanyang Technological University|NTU]] |date= |accessdate= | language=Chinese |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329203346/http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/chinese_eng/Faculty/Pages/chinese_profilelwf.aspx |archivedate=29 March 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>