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The National University of Singapore High School of Mathematics and Science is a specialized independent high school in Singapore offering a six-year Integrated Programme (IP) leading to the NUS High School Diploma, which is recognized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) (its parent institution), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU) and overseas universities like Harvard, Oxford, Imperial and Yale. Students will also take Advanced Placement and Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) examinations in their senior years for credits for admission into foreign universities. Advanced Placement examinations may allow students to get exemption from reading Year 1 university courses. The school offers an accelerated mathematics and science curriculum integrated with language, humanities, arts, sports, co-curricular activities, in a modular system. It is the second specialized school in Singapore after the Singapore Sports School.
[edit] School LogoThe logo is made up of a test tube, symbolising science, combined with the symbol for the number "pi", symbolising mathematics. A third element, the "sparkle", shows the dynamism of bringing the two disciplines together and the creativity that is to be found within the school. It is also representative of the six-faceted learning model that the school adopts. The green colour symbolises growth and a nurturing environment, whilst the grey colour symbolises the solid base upon which the institution is built. [edit] Attire and appearance[edit] UniformStudents wear the formal attire, a white collared shirt and light green long trousers (male) or skorts (female), together with the school tie on Mondays, Assemblies, public speeches, school functions, and any events where the students represent the school. Student Leaders, on special occasions or school functions, and students who represent the school for any competition or events, may be required to don grey blazers on top of the formal attire, together with black shoes (male) or low heels (female). On other days, students are allowed to wear their informal attire, a white polo shirt, together with either light green bermudas or long trousers (male), or skorts (female). [edit] BadgeStudents wear their badges when they are wearing the formal attire. Badges are worn on informal clothing except for the new polo tees. Student Leaders are given special Student Leader badge that indicates their Student Leadership Board below the school logo. [edit] Shoes and socksSport/Track shoes or white canvas shoes are allowed. [edit] PE attireThe girls' PE uniform is a green and yellow cap-sleeved shirt and green and grey shorts with curved edges. The boys' PE uniform is a green and yellow sleeveless shirt and green and grey shorts with straight edges. A unisex T-shirt was also introduced. In 2009, the shirt was changed to a cap-sleeved shirt and a new design of the PE shorts in black for boys was released. [edit] Campus[edit] Campus facilities and features   The NUS High campus sits on 4.67 hectares of land off Clementi Ave 1, a few minutes walk from the outskirts of the National University of Singapore. The school shifted operations there from its holding site at the former Raffles Junior College in Mount Sinai where it had held classes in 2005. NUS received an Honour Award from US-based DesignShare Awards programme for the innovative design of its affiliated NUS High School. The award is given to projects that exemplify "best practice innovation from around the world in designing for the future of learning". The campus comprises 11 science research labs, over eighty classrooms, a 700-seat auditorium, a 300-seat theatrette, an observatory, and the NUS High School Residence (Boarding School). The school has a Scanning electron microscope housed in a science research lab called the "Dry Lab". Considering its high cost, it is rare for an institution of this size and level to have such a piece of equipment and as such it can only be accessed by teachers and students who are doing their research experiments (Da Vinci Research Programme). NUS High also has a biology lab, called the "Wet Lab", where biology experiments and research (usually related to food science) are carried out. The campus has many publicised facades like the DNA nucleotides, the Nano-Tube, Math Walk, the Periodic-Table, as well as two twelve-storey blocks of hostels with an observatory for astronomy on top. Other facilities include a field with a 400 m running track, one basketball court, two tennis courts, a netball court, a badminton court, a multi-purpose hall, environmental and eco-garden features, an exhibition concourse, a student lounge, computer, Mac Pro and iMac laboratories, a media resource room, and a library and canteen running alongside each other under the running track. The campus also has art and music studios and CCA rooms, as well as facilities for the disabled. The Mac Pro laboratories in the Art Studios is mainly used by staff and students to create and edit digital photography. The iMac laboratories which are located in the Music Studios and the library are mainly used to teach, create, and edit music. These iMac laboratories are usually used for conducting the module MU4121 Technology in Music Education as well. Twenty classrooms are air-conditioned, and the school completed installing air-conditioning units in the hall in April 2008. For relaxation, there is a mini trail park which includes benches, plants, flowers, etc. and a student lounge with sofas, tables, chairs, sports equipment, etc. A new administration Annex office is located directly opposite the administration office. This new Annex office houses more executive rooms, meeting rooms, conference rooms, staff cubicles, etc. The school is developing its new Science Research Complex on the 6th level. This new complex will comprise research laboratories and facilities which include a life sciences lab, an analytical chemistry lab, a synthetic chemistry lab, an applied technology lab, a clean energy development lab, an infocomm technology lab, overseas IP video conferencing room, seminar rooms, and additional classrooms. These new facilities are comparable to facilities available in universities and polytechnics. The cost for the new complex is estimated to be S$4.5 million and is expected in operation by November 2009. [edit] Campus security servicesNUS High School operates an open-based campus concept, which is like universities and junior colleges where visitors are allowed to enter the campus with lesser scrutiny. But security measures are still in place to ensure the safety of the students and school's property. The school's campus is protected by Certis Cisco security guards, who are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The school's main vehicular entrance has a barricade to stop all incoming vehicles for security inspection before allowing the vehicle further access into the campus. The main vehicular exit gate is automated and opens automatically only when an exiting vehicle approaches it. The school's side and rear gates (the rear gate is near the canteen for access to bus stops at the back of the campus, and the side gate is located at the NUS High School Residence main vehicular entrance) are locked by smart/proximity card readers and the gate is locked using an electromagnetic mechanism. Students and staff to use their personalized smart card (matriculation or staff card) for access through these gates, while residents use their NUS High School Residence resident's smart card as a form of authentication. The school's science research labs, theatrette, staff room/lounge, server/data centres all require the appropriate staff's smart card in order to gain access. The administration office and library requires staff's smart card in order to gain access during non-school hours. The NUS High School Residence is secured using biometric (fingerprint) authenticatio. The NUS High School campus also has access to NUS main security services, as the NUS campus is nearby. The NUS Campus Security services applies to all NUS campus (including NUS High School Campus) island-wide. [edit] NUS High School Residence (boarding school) The NUS High premises include a boarding school (NUS High School Residence) consisting of two blocks that can accommodate some 500 residents. Facilities include studying areas/rooms, library, gym, pantries, media room (TV and relaxation), multi-purpose function room and laundry room. The Residence is also open to scholars studying within or outside of the school and serves as the site for the school's boarding programme. Students are required to live in the boarding school for their duration of their Year 5 academic study if they are not already living there. Since the bulk of graduation research is done in Year 5, living in the boarding school cuts travelling time and costs, since students spend long hours in science laboratories. NUS High School Residence (Boarding School) boarding fees are subsidized for NUS High School Year 5 students by the Ministry of Education. The NUS High School Residence (Boarding School) has enlarged its administration office. [edit] NUSNET[edit] School networkThere is wireless and wired (LAN and NUS Secure Plug and Play Authentication) internet and network access coverage throughout the campus. NUS Computer Centre manages the school's main network. A fibre optic cable runs below ground to link the school to NUS. All students and staff are issued with an NUSNET network account for access to the school's internet/network resources and facilities. NUS wireless network access are secured by either LEAP encryption authentication or NUS Secure Plug and Play Authentication to prevent outsiders from gaining unauthorized access to the network. As an independent faculty of NUS, NUS High School students have full access to NUS IT and eLibrary resources as well. [edit] NUS Computer Centre IT Disaster Recovery Data CentreThe Computer Centre houses the IT Disaster Recovery Data Centre at the campus. Apart from functioning as an IT Disaster Recovery Data Centre for data and network access for NUS and NUS High School networks (in an event where the main data centres at NUS Computer Centre has problems), the Data Centre also acts as a secondary NUS and NUS High School data centre. However, only NUS Computer Centre staff have physical access to this Data Centre premises. [edit] Curriculum[edit] Academic curriculumThe curriculum is built on a 2-2-2 structure, with the first two years being the Foundation Stage, the second two the Advancement Stage, and the final two the Specialization Stage. After each semester, students will be awarded a preliminary Cumulative Average Point (CAP) score based on their semestral results, with a final CAP score calculated at the end of every stage. Studies are based on a modular system similar to NUS, where core modules are compulsory, elective modules help deepen the student's knowledge and may be compulsory for a major in a particular subject, and enrichment modules are purely for the student's interests. The school offers an accelerated curriculum of mathematics and science. Students are also exposed to humanities and the arts, where the flexible modular system allows for a sampling across this discipline. Mother Tongue is compulsory in the school, and complies with the Ministry of Education's guidelines and curriculum, and the English curriculum teaches students practical skills such as reading, writing, and public speaking effectively. For able students, acceleration in mathematics and science is permitted, whereby students may skip a module of their level and take up a higher level module instead. Students also readiNUS modules from certain faculties if they have the foundation knowledge, allowing students exemption from these modules if they enter NUS in the future. Examples of the advanced curriculum include topics not usually covered in the mainstream curriculum for the students' respective years when they take them. These advanced curriculum topics on science include quantum mechanical atomic models of matter, relativity (Newtonian and Einsteinian), quantum physics, particle physics, and cosmology in Year 2; nanotechnology, superconductivity, Buffon's Needle and the elementary constants, and genetics in Year 3; the theory of evolution and a four-hour per week calculus course held in Year 4. Examples of accelerated curriculum on mathematics include sections on solutions of equations and coordinate geometry held in Year 1 and 2 respectively, rather than in Year 2 and 3 as in other schools. [edit] Non-academic curriculumLike other secondary institutions in Singapore, students also take up a co-curricular activity (CCA). CCAs include performing arts, uniform groups, sports and games, and clubs and societies. The cIn addition to this, the school places every student in one of four houses named after an outstanding person in the fields of mathematics, physics, biology and chemistry : Fibonacci, Faraday, Fleming and Nobel. There is also the ACE (Affective and Character Education) programme where the school develops the character of students and instils moral values. The uniform groups have started to display results with NCC (Land) Corporals receiving 6 out of 12 Honour awards in the Specialist Course 2008 Phase 1. [edit] Da Vinci Research ProgrammeThe school also particularly emphasizes research. Besides a satisfactory academic and CCA performance, the graduation requirement also includes a full-scale research project in math or science. This research emphasis is represented in the Da Vinci Research Programme, which all students are required to go through. The programme is planned and managed by the Office of Research, Innovation and Enterprise. In Years 1 and 2, students participate in activities that stimulate creative thinking. These include the Innovation Programme, IDEAS and Future Problem Solving. In Years 3 and 4, students take part in Independent Research Studies, which are structured to give students flexibility in conducting research. Students are required to complete a Research Methodology module and a small research project under the guidance of a teacher-mentor. The option of linking these projects to external research programmes such as the Science Mentorship Programme (NUS), Nanyang Research Programme (NTU/NIE), Young Defence Scientists' Programme (DSTA), National Weather Study Project, Moot Parliament Programme and the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Programme (NUS) is also given to the students. They can also choose to take part in research and science project competitions and count their competition projects as Independent Research. In Years 5 and 6, students must embark on an Advanced Research Project in an area of math and science. This research project is the culmination of the entire AXIS programme and counts towards a student's graduation requirement. Typically, a graduation research project will take nine to eighteen months to complete, depending on the research topic, and it usually comprises at least two weeks of full-time research. Research projects may be mentored by in-house teachers, or, more frequently, linked to external partners including universities, research institutes and statutory boards, and conducted within the partners' premises. Once a student has completed a graduation research project, he or she can opt to do another ARP, this time in any field, not limited to math and science. Older students are encouraged to present their projects outside school. This can range from local presentations such as the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair and the Singapore International Science Conference, to international research congresses in countries all over the world, and even having research work published in journals, as was the case in 2007 for a group of three students. The school also holds an annual Research Congress to showcase some of the research work of its pupils. This congress is open to some primary and secondary schools in Singapore. [edit] Affiliations to the National University of Singapore (NUS)[edit] NUS Non-Graduating ProgrammeOnly NUS High School students are eligible for the NUS Non-Graduating Programme. Under this programme, NUS High School students are allowed to read and take up any NUS modules and courses from Faculty of Science (including Office of Life Sciences), Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (Literature, History, Geography and Economics), and School of Computing (CS1101S - Programmimg Methodology), provided that students meet the minimum academic competency level. Gifted students with talent in a subject may be able to be exempted from NUS High School modules and accelerate to take up NUS courses and modules from various faculties. Completed NUS modules are reflected in the student's NUS High School Progress Report or Transcript but they are not included in the computation of their CAP for the NUS High School Diploma. These students are considered to be under the NUS Non-Graduating Programme. Should these students be admitted to NUS after graduation from the NUS High School, the module grade and module credit associated with the completed NUS modules can then be included in the computation of their NUS graduation degree/certification requirements and components. [edit] NUS LibrariesThe library at NUS High School is an NUS Library, where it shares the same loaning, transaction and catalogue system as any other NUS Libraries. Teaching staff can request any books located at any other NUS Library and have them transferred to the NUS Library in NUS High School. All NUS High School students are able to obtain and have full electronic access to all journals available at NUS Libraries. [edit] NUS CO-OP (book store)NUS High School has an NUS CO-OP University CO-OP book store for purchase of stationary, books and resources. NUS CO-OP University CO-OP is managed by NUS. Students and staff can buy laptops and electronics from here at a university subsidized rate. [edit] Key partners[edit] Parent institution[edit] Strategic partners
[edit] Research/education partners[edit] Staff[edit] TeachersThe mathematics faculty is staffed mainly by teachers formerly from other independent schools or junior colleges in Singapore. Science teachers are mostly university graduates with others from IP (Integrated Programme) schools, mainstream schools or junior colleges. Humanities, Chinese language and physical education teachers come from mainstream schools while music and art teachers are mostly experts in their own fields. The English department comprises teachers from junior colleges, mainstream schools and the media industry. At least half of the school's staff do not hail from the National Institute of Education. Most teachers hold at least a Masters degree in their fields. Some hold doctorates, and some are in various stages of doctorate completion. [edit] Principals
[edit] School organised events[edit] National Mathematical Olympiad of Singapore (NMOS)The National Mathematical Olympiad of Singapore is a national mathematical olympiad competition organized by the school in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Singapore Mathematical Society. Through this competition, the school aims to instil an interest in mathematics among Primary school students, to showcase students' mathematical abilities, and to nurture mathematical talent. [edit] NUS High School Annual Research CongressThe annual research congress organised by NUS High School Office of Research, Innovation and Enterprise is held in collaboration with the NUS High School Research Programme (AXIS Programme). The school demonstrate the school's commitment towards the AXIS Programme via this annual event. Every year, parents and guests from research organisations (Such as A*STAR, DSTA, DSO, NIE, NUS, etc) are invited to this event where students' research works are showcased. [edit] Singapore International Mathematics Challenge (SIMC)This is the first time Singapore has hosted this international mathematical challenge. It is co-organised by the National University of Singapore High School of Mathematics and Science (NUS High School) and the Ministry of Education (Singapore). SIMC is an international mathematics event held every two years. In addition to the competition for students, symposiums and workshops will be planned for participating teachers and principals. Mathematical talents from around the world visit NUS High School for one week in May to sit for a mathematical competition paper, and to showcase their mathematical projects to a panel of judges. For SIMC 2008, all participants stayed in Prince George's Park Residences at the National University of Singapore (NUS) campus. The next SIMC will be SIMC 2010. [edit] Singapore Amazing Machine CompetitionThe SAMC is a science competition jointly organised by the school, DSO National Laboratories, and the Science Centre Singapore. Teams construct a complex machine (the Amazing Machine) that performs a seemingly simple task in as many steps as possible. Teams will be judged on their creativity and the incorporation of scientific concepts in the machines.[1] [edit] National Primary 4 Mathematics CarnivalIn collaboration with MOE Gifted Education Branch, the school organizes the annual Primary 4 Math Carnival. It aims to generate interest in mathematics amongst Primary school students. Around 2000 Primary 4 students from all primary schools around Singapore participate. The theme of the Carnival is “Math Alive!” where the use of mathematics in science is highlighted, as well as in everyday life. A Mathematics Project Competition is given to all schools who participate. [edit] School demographicThe school has a large Chinese majority with a significant Malay and Indian minority, reflective of the demographics of Singapore. The Primary School Leaving Examination scores of students admitted from primary school through the examination via the PSLE admission phase are mostly in the 264-285 range whereas those admitted through Direct School Admission have varying PSLE scores.[citation needed] There are also many foreign students, mostly from Vietnam or China, from Year 3 as the school aims to have a 20% foreign enrollment. There are more boys than girls in the school. [edit] AdmissionsStudents are admitted to the school in Year 1 (13 years old) or Year 3 (15 years old) after a selection process comprising tests and group activities in which they are assessed for their understanding and passion in mathematics and the sciences. The school’s 6-year high school programme attracts the top 10% of Singapore’s national cohort of primary school students. Annually it receives about 2000 applications for 170 places from both local and international students for its Year 1 admissions. The school will select around 70 students at Year 3. Pupils may apply directly to NUS High School. There are two phases for the Year 1 selection exercise and one phase for the Year 3 selection exercise. Year 1 students may apply through Direct School Admission (DSA) Exercise or through Direct Application after the release of PSLE results. Year 3 students only apply through Direct School Admissions (DSA) Exercise. Pupils will be assessed by one or more of the following indicators:
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