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Dunman Secondary School has come a long way since
its humble beginnings in Haig Road in 1963. Today, the school which
focuses on the holistic development of its students, is one of the
premier schools in the Tampines - Pasir Ris area.
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Academic
Dunman Secondary was the proud recipient of the prestigious School
Distinction Award in 2007. It was awarded the Sustained Achievement
Award for fine Academic Performance over three consecutive years
where the school clinched a Gold Value-Added Award for both 2006
and 2007. Over the last few years, the L1B5 (English and 5 Best
Subjects) has been improving with 13.9 in 2004, 13.4 in 2005 and
13.2 in 2006. More of our students are qualifying for Junior College.
For 2006, 93 % of students qualify for JC with 100% qualifying for
the Polytechnic. For the Secondary 5 Normal Academic Stream in 2006,
25% of students qualified for JC and 91% for the Polytechnic. In
the 2005 GCE 'O' examinations, 95.3% of its express stream students
qualified for Junior College. 100% of students qualified for the
Polytechnic. The top Malay pupil in Singapore 2005, Muhd
Nabil, with 8A1s and 1A2 hails from Dunman Secondary.
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Top Student 2006 Chew Tariq |
Top Student 2005 Muhd Nabil
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Top Student 2004 Tan Mee Cheng
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Zong Bao with his proud family members. |
Dunman Secondary is extremely proud of our student Ong Zong Bao
from Secondary 4 Normal Technical (2007) for being accorded the
prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Award for All Round Excellence
in 2007. Apart from being a very active member of the NPCC and a
good role model for others to emulate, Zong Bao excelled in his
studies. He scored 5 distinctions for the GCE 'NT' Level Examinations.
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Innovation
and Enterprise
In 2006, Dunman Secondary School was awarded the prestigious Service
Excellence Award by SPRING for organizational excellence.
Dunman was also awarded the Singapore Innovation Class
the same year. Innovation is one of the hallmarks of the school.
Dunman Secondary received the National Thinking Culture Award 2005/6
given out to 7 schools in Singapore each year. Once again this year,
the school was awarded the National Thinking Culture for 2007/8.
The school is extremely proud of our talented and creative Dunmanites
who have clinched several prestigious awards this year. Our students
continue to perform well in the environmental and life-sciences.
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It was a proud moment for Dunman Secondary when
our life-sciences students clinched the second prize in NEA's
Environment Competition 2007 (formerly enviro-innovate)
with their project 'Isolation and Application of Oil Degrading
Bacteria'. This project is supported by SIA. The first and third
prize went to Raffles Institution.
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In the Blue Earth Greening Competition
2007, a website competition to turn our earth green organised
by the Singapore Polytechnic, the team of Environmental Champions
from the Dunman clinched the first prize valued at more than $7,500. |
At the Biotech Fair 2007 organised by the Singapore
Science Centre, our pupils won a consolation prize for their project
'Investigating Mutagenicity of Hair and Nail Products'.
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From left, Nur Hannah Bte Muhamad Hanim, Iris Tan, Shahera
Begum, Zunairah Bte Lukman and Norfarasheena Bte Ibnuputra
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In the Young Enterpreneurship Challenge (YES)
as part of theNational Entrepreneurial Convention (NEC) 2007 (left),
a team of Dunman students emerged National Champions with their
innovative business plan on car maintenance.
In the Creatively Mine Competition (right)
organised by Media Corps to promote student inventions, Dunman emerged
winners for their category where they completed with RGS and Anglican
High. The event was broadcast over Channel 8. The invention which
separates food waste from crockery has significant impact in canteens. |
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Dunman Secondary School clinched
the Second Runner Up prize in the Yescom (Young Entrepreneur Skill
Competition) competition organised by the Malay Newspaper, The
Berita Harian. The team won $400 in cash including a 3D2N trip to
Negeri Sembilan sponsored by the Tourism Malaysia. On top of that
they also won the Most Creative TV Advertisement Award winning another
$100 cash. Their advertisement would be telecast on Suria 12 as it
will be filmed by an advertising company, Screenbox for one of their
clients. All proceeds of our team' s sale of items were donated to
a school mate who is not well and needed to undergo a major operation. |
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In the Health in Motion Competition 2007 (left) ,
organised by Ngee Ann Polytechnic, a team of Dunman students emerged
Champions.
In the IT MAP Competition 2007 (Information Technology Music
Arrangement in Performance) organised by Kranji Sec, Music
Tec and Singapore Polytechnic Dunman Sec emerged first Runners-up.
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Dunman Secondary keeps
up its its yearly tradition of winning an award for the learn@series
IT competitions. In 2007, Dunman won Second Prize in the Learn@Library
competition. The first prize went to Crescent Girls' and third prize
to Raffles Institution. In 2006, the school won the the Innovative
Discoverer Award and the Discovery Scramble Award in the Learn@Singapore
Discovery Centre competition. In 2005, it won the Technology
Award in the Learn@Rivertrail competition. In 2004, it won the
coveted Science Genius Award for the National Learn@Quest Competition
beating top schools. In 2003, the school won the Arts Educator
Award, in 2002, the coveted Publisher Award for Learn@Parks,
in 2001, the Gold i-micro award and a Silver for the Learn@Museum
and a Gold for Learn@Zoo in 2000.
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In the D & T Coursework Awards Presentation
2007, Dunman Secondary won was honored with 8 awards out
of the 38 awards given out, for producing creative and innovative
designs. These include 6 Creative Aesthetic Awards, 1 Creative Innovation
Award and 1 Creative Adaptation Award. Moreover, the school was
presented with an outstanding award for the school with the most
number of shortlisted entries, and Dunman Secondary was indeed proud
to receive their award in a ceremony graced by Permanent Secretary
of MOE, Mrs Tan Ching Yee.
 
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In the 2007 Senoko National Weather Project,
Dunman won a Commendation Award with its project on An Automobile
Cooling System
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Dunman Secondary participated in the Lam Soon Salad Competition
2007 and one of its teams from Sec 1 emerged champions in
Category A for Lower Secondary Pupils with their creation - Nutty
Seafood Cuppies
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In 2006, the school
once again clinched 3rd prize in the Enviro-Innovate Contest. Dunman
would like to thank SIA for sponsoring the project. In 2006, it once
again linched the Innovator Award for its curriculum innovations.
The school also clinched one Gold and three Silver Awards at the National
IQC in 2006 and 2 Silver Awards at NIQC 2007. |
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Dunman received the
Gold Award for Physical Health in 2006 and 2007. Our HOD PE/CCA, Mr
Teo Khong Beng received the award from our Minister for Education.
We would like to congratulate our Subject Head for Design and Technology,
Ms Grace Kwek for winning the Innovator Award at Innergy 2006. Dunman's
teacher, Mr Khairyl was the proud recipient of the Platinum Award
for the 8th School Video Awards. |
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In 2005, Dunman Seconday
was the only school and one in 6 organisations to receive the Greenplan
2012 Award from the Minister of the environment and water resources.
The school was the only school to achieve a Gold Award in NEA's
Recycling Competition. The school won a place in the Singapore
Book of Records for stringing together more than 5 km of plastic
bottles to spread the message to recycle plastics. Dunman has received
the Sustained Lotus Achievement Award from the Singapore Environment
Council for the period 2005 - 7. In 2007, the school was successfully
revalidated for the award. |
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in 2006, the school won the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize in the KARA
Programming Challenge at the East Zone Science Carnival organised
by VJC. The school also clinched the 1st and 3rd prize in the Toy
Design competition organised by the Singapore Polytechnic. In
the Solar Sprint Competition organised by Singapore Polytechnic,
the school emerged 1st runner-up. |
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In the area of robotics, for 2006, Dunman Sec was 1st runner up
in the Asia Pacific Robotics Competition 2006 organised by ReliNet
Pte Ltd. The students also achieved a merit award at the World Skills
Day Mobile Robot Competition organised by ITE West (Balestier).
In 2007, the school was 3rd runner up in the Micromouse competition
organised by Ngee Ann Polytechnic. |
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Aesthetics
Watch
out for our Dunmanites on The ARENA -on Channel 5
in March 2008. Dunman's team of debaters from the StageArts Club
have made it to the top 12 in the inter-school debating competition.
Congratulations!
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At the 2007, Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging,
Dunman Secondary clinched 7 awards. We would like to congratulate
the Dunman Choir for achieving a GOLD with Honours Award. The
Guitar Ensemble, Concert Band and Malay Dance achieved Silver Awards
while the Indian Dance, Modern Dance and String Ensemble achieved
Bronze Awards. In 2005, our choir has won the Gold Award at the
International Festival of Advent and Christmas Music with Petr Eben's
Prize in Praque, Czech Republic, a feat they accomplished in 2003.
Only 5 International Choirs received a Gold Award.
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Our other groups also performed well with the Concert Band, Guitar
Ensemble and Malay Dance receiving a Silver Award and the String
Ensemble, Indian Dance and Modern Dance a Bronze Award. |
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Guitar Ensemble- Silver |
Malay Dance - Silver
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Guitar Concert - Silver
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Indian Dance - Bronze |
Modern Dance - Bronze |
String Ensemble - Bronze |
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Uniform Youth
Organisations
For 2007, Dunman Secondary has clinched the sustained achievement
award for uniformed groups for the 8th Year with 1 Gold Award and
4 Silver Awards. The NCC (Air) achieved a Gold Award while the NCC
(Land), Red Cross, NPCC and Scouts achieved Silver Awards. We congratulate
Nurhuda bte Sammon for her successful selection to attend the World
Scout Jamboree in United Kingdom. The trip was fully sponsored by
his Excellency Mr S R Nathan, or President and the Chief Scout.
 
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NCC (Air) - Gold |
Red Cross - Silver |
NCC Land - Silver |
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National Police Cadet Corp - Silver |
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Sports
and Games
It was indeed a proud moment for Dunman Secondary
when its 'C' Division Netball team emerged National Champions in
the National Inter-Schools Netball Champtionships 2007. The 'B'
Division and 'C' Division Volleyball Boys Teams both emerged 3rd
in the East Zone Games this year while the 'B' Boys table-tennis
team emerged 4th in the East Zone Games. Both the 'C' Girls and
'C' Boys Basketball teams emerged 2nd in the East Zone Games and
are currently preparing for the National Championships.
 
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Volleyball 'C' Boys EZ 3rd
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Volleyball 'B' Boys EZ 3rd |
Table-tennis - East Zone 'B' Boys 4th |
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Basketball
'C' Division Boys EZ 2nd, 'C' Division Girls EZ 2nd
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