Mrs Vivien Low (Mdm Ang Wek Cheng),

Vice-Principal

Upgrading of Dunman Secondary School

Dunman’s upgrading project which began in June 2007 is progressing smoothly and will be completed in July 2009 equipping the school with facilities befitting that of an autonomous school.  Students have the use of an air-conditioned multi-purpose hall, a 250 seat AVA, an indoor sports hall, and a sheltered basketball court which doubles up as an amphitheatre.  The Library, Information Technology and Design and Technology blocks have been completed and are in the process of being equipped with furniture and equipment. The upgrading project will be completed in July 2009. The school is in the process of setting up an experimental Science station above the roof of the porch. As the East Zone Centre for Excellence for Innovations in Science, the school has been equipped with 6 state of the art Science laboratories in addition to the Life Sciences Research Centre. We would like to thank our many partners and organisations who have donated generously or assisted in fund raising towards our building effort.

45th Anniversary Celebrations - 15 November 2008

Dunman Secondary School celebrated its 45th Anniversary on 15 November 2008 with the theme, “Celebrating 45 years of Distinction”.  The event was held at our very own school hall which is now large enough to accomodate our entire school. The Guest of Honour for the event was none other than our most supportive Chairman of the School Advisory Committee, Mr Roland Ng San Tiong who graduated from Dunman Secondary School in 1968 as the top pupil from the Chinese Stream.  Mr Ng’s wife also hails from Dunman Secondary.  Mr Ng has been a member of the SAC since 1985. Today, Mr Ng is a successful Businessman who has clinched the 2008 Businessman of the Year Award.  

We would like to thank all SAC members, parents, alumni and friends of Dunman Secondary for gracing the event and making it such a memorable one.

The school would like to put on record its extreme gratitude to Mr Ng for his unstinting support of the school . We also thank Mr Ng for his generous presentation of $100,000 to the Dunman Secondary School Building Fund.

Guests were treated to a wonderful concert put up by the wonderful and talented staff of Dunman secondary school.

Dunman Care and Share Day - 21 February 2009

We would like to thank all SAC members, parents and ex-students for their unstinting support of the Dunman Care and Share Day to raise funds for needy students. Thank you for all your donations in cash and kind and for your presence at our event.  Together with the support of our School Advisory Committee, we have raised about $10,000 through direct donations and $25,000 through sales at our event including tickets for the concert put up by staff on that day.  We are very much heartened by the huge numbers of ex-students who streamed into the school the whole day most of whom informed me that they had learnt about the event through facebook.. We did not expect to sell $14, 769 worth of tickets on the day itself. The money raised will be of assistance to us this year as last year, we had spent $41,000 on lunch vouchers, school fees, textbooks, examination fees and uniforms for those needing assistance and expect to spend the same amount if not more, this year. Thank you for your kind support towards the less fortunate.

Our dedicated and supportive parents in action

Dunman’s achievements would not have been possible without the support of its many partners. We would like to thank our School Advisory Committee for its continuous support especially in the area of financial assistance for needy pupils and support of school programmes and events. 

Mr Ng San Tiong, Chairman, gives out the Ng San Tiong scholarship to the top students for the GCE 'O' levels and 'N' level examination. We thank Mr Alec Ang, Vice-Chairman of the SAC for 17 years of dedicated service to the SAC and wish him all the best as he focuses on his many other commitments.

Dunman Secondary Alumni

Dunman Secondary is grateful to the Dunman Secondary Alumni under the Presidentship of Mr Bernard Quek for its continuous support of school activities. Their support of Dunman Care and Share Day, our Enviro-Life Sciences Symposium as well as our 45 Anniversary and Prize-Giving Day is greatly appreciated.The Dunman Secondary Alumni gives out the DSA Award to the top Normal Technical Stream student each year.  We thank them for strong support and showing appreciation of their former teachers.

 

Dunman Dedicated and Supportive Parents' Group

The Dedicated and Supportive Parents’ Group (DSP) under the leadership of Mr Thurairajah are actively involved in all school programmes to bring out the best in our students.   We thank them for the hard work and support for our major events, fund raising for needy students, running of the pottery club and involvement in committees such as the Pupil Development Steering Committee and CHERISH committee. We place on record our great appreciation for all the fine work done by Mr Nadarajan, Chairman of the Parents’ Group from 2002 to 2007.  Not only did Mr Rajan and his team organize meaningful events, he conducted training for teachers and student leaders and helped the school conceptualise many of its frameworks.

Singapore Airlines, All Saints' Home, Temasek Polytechnic, Rotary Club of Marina City

Dunman would like to thank its Environmental Partner Singapore Airlines for its continuous support of our environmental and life-sciences projects over the past 4 years. We also thank them for sponsoring all prizes for the EZ Enviro-Life Sciences symposium for the past 2 consecutive years. With their support our students have clinched many awards. The All Saints Home adopted by Dunman Secondary in 2001 provides our students with diverse opportunities to mix with, render service and come to a better understanding of the elderly. The Rotary Club of Marina City with whom our Interact Club is closely affiliated has provided our students with many opportunities including the opportunity to be involved in overseas community service to countries like Vietnam and Thailand. Dunman Secondary works closely with Temasek Polytechnic in offering the 'O' level subject, 3D Animation to its students.

Our Twinning Partners, Zhuo Dao Quan Secondary School in Wuhan, Santa Laurensia in Indonesia and Rukmini Devi Public School in New Delhi

Dunman partnership with Zhuo Dao Quan Secondary School in Wuhan is into its fourth year. We thank the school for the opportunity to learn much about Chinese culture and for giving me the opportunity in 2008 to conduct a workshop for English teachers in the district. Every year, the students from China put up a most memorable concert together with Dunman students.

For the first time this year, Dunman hosted students from our twinning school in India, the Rukmini Devi Public School. Our students had a most meaningful cultural exchange programme when they visited the school in November last year. In March this year we welcomed the students of Rukmini Devi Public School to our school. Together with the students from RDPS, were students from Santa Laurensia School in Indonesia which has an exchange programme with Dunman Secondary since 2005. In addition to a pottery workshop conducted by the Secretary of the Dunman Dedicated and Supportive Parents' Group and a life-sciences workshop by Dunman staff, students took part in an amazing race with Dunman students. We thank the students for the wonderful concert they put up for our students.

On behalf of my staff, I would like to thank all those who have rendered unstinting support to the school and who have aided in the school's progress over the years.

Edelweis Neo

Principal Dunman Secondary (Dec 2000 - Present)