Boon Lay Secondary School (BLS) is a government secondary school located in Jurong West, Singapore.
History The school commenced operations in 1977 at a S$3.59 million campus at the junction of Boon Lay Way and Jalan Boon Lay, with 13 classes, seven of which were English-medium and the remaining six Chinese-medium. It was officially opened in 1979 by the then-Member of parliament for Boon Lay Ngeow Pack Hua. It became a solely English-medium school in 1998, and started operating single-session in 2000.
In 1996, Boon Lay began enrolling deaf students. - MITA (P) No. 250/10/97 - Document starts on p. 9/11. Specifically it educated deaf students who were required to use sign language to communicate. In 2017 the Government of Singapore designated Beatty Secondary School as the school to educate deaf students who must use sign language, concentrating all such students at one school due to them numbering about 15.
Principals Source:
Principal YearsMr Ng Siok Yen 1977-1981 Mr Tan Kiok Ngiap 1981-1982 Mr Kiat Jun Ngin 1982-1988 Mr Toh Chye Seng 1988-1992 Mrs Yu Sing Tong 1992-1995 Ms Ong Pheng Ye 1995-1997 Ms Lui Yin Leng 1997-2000 Ms Peck Soo Hiong 2000-2001 Ms Doris Ho 2001-2008 Mr Victor Giam Chong Guan 2008-2014 Mr Tan Chor Pang 2014-2019 Mr Inderjit Singh 2020-2025Mr Chan Zheng Ming 2025-present
Merger with Pioneer Secondary In 2017, Boon Lay Secondary School absorbed Pioneer Secondary School due to falling enrolment in both schools.
School identity and culture Crest The current school crest was introduced in November 2016, in order to commemorate the merger of the school with Pioneer Secondary from then on. It depicts two people moving as one moving towards their goals, embodying a teacher and student working together. Its resemblance to a ladder also calls for its students to spur on to greater heights. The crest is accompanied by the acronym of the school and its Chinese name, the latter indicating the school's early years as a Chinese-medium school.
CCA Centric School As part of the phasing-out of streaming, Boon Lay has been dividing classes by their students' co-curricular activities (CCA) since 2017. The CCAs are also divided into houses, these are Garnet, Emerald, Morganite and Sapphire.
List of CCAs Source: Chinese OrchestraBasketballNational Civil Defence Cadet CorpsCyberAceNational Cadet CorpsNetballContemporary DanceBoys' BrigadeSt John BrigadeAudio Visual AidChoirConcert BandNational Police Cadet CorpsMalay DanceMusical TheatreBadminton
Notable alumni Ken Chu: Member, Taiwanese boy band, F4https://www.webcitation.org/5knzVLH3v?url=http://www.geocities.com/kenzhu_xiao_tian/biography.html
References
External links Official site