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Singapore Schools' Performance 2004

A Broader Picture of Schools' Performance in Academic and Non-Academic Domains

This press release provides information on the following:

(A) Award winners under the Masterplan of Awards ¹. These comprise schools that have attained commendable achievements in the various categories, including exemplary school processes as well as excellent outcomes in the academic and non-academic areas.

(B) New School Achievement Tables, which replace the previous school ranking tables. The tables modify the way the academically better-performing schools are ranked. They also highlight their achievements in academic value-added and the non-academic domains. Other new sources of information on school performance include Honour Rolls and a web-based interactive system.

(A) Masterplan of Awards

For the first time, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will be giving out the School Excellence Award (SEA), the pinnacle award of the MOE Masterplan of Awards, to three schools. These schools have distinguished themselves in having achieved overall systemic excellence in providing a holistic education.

This year, a total of 141 schools have won awards ² under the MOE Masterplan of Awards. This is a significant increase compared to the 117 and 101 schools that had won awards in 2003 and 2002 respectively. Of the 141 schools, 16 schools have also won the newly-introduced School Distinction Award (SDA).

The Masterplan of Awards was expanded and refined in 2004 to provide a broader and holistic picture of schools' performance. The revised Masterplan of Awards comprises seven awards over four levels as shown below.

MOE’s Masterplan of Awards for Schools  

Special Awards 3				School Excellence Award ()
			School Distinction Award ()
Level Two Awards ( )	Sustained Achievement Awards (SAA)			Outstanding Development Awards 4(ODA)			Best Practice Awards (BPA)
	Academic Value-Added	Physical & Aesthetics		Character Development
	Academic Value-Added	Aesthetics Sports Uniformed Groups Physical Health		Character Development National Education			Organisational Effectiveness Student All-Round Development Staff Well-Being Teaching and Learning
Level One Awards ()	Achievement Awards (AA)			Development Awards 6 (DA)
	Academic Value-Added	Physical & Aesthetics 5		Character Development
	Academic Value-Added	Aesthetics Sports Uniformed Groups Physical Health		Character Development National Education

A breakdown of the number of Level Two Awards and Special Awards won by primary and secondary schools, and junior colleges, is given in the table below:

All winners will receive their awards at the 2004 MOE Workplan Seminar on 29 September 2004.

¹ The MOE Masterplan of Awards was instituted in 1998 as part of the implementation of the School Excellence Model (SEM). The SEM is a framework for school appraisal that emphasises a holistic approach to education with equal focus on processes as well as results.

² These awards include the Sustained Achievement Awards (SAA), Best Practice Awards (BPA), School Distinction Awards (SDA) and School Excellence Awards (SEA).

³ As is the current practice for winners of SAA and BPA, winners of the Special Awards will be allowed to use the logo of the awards on their official letterheads and other publicity materials for as long as the awards are valid.

⁴ The first Outstanding Development Awards (ODA) will be given out at a later date.

⁵ The first Development Awards (DA) will be given out at a later date.

⁶ Achievement Awards in the categories of Aesthetics, Sports and Uniformed Group refer to the awards won at the various national level competitions such as the National Championships and Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Central Judging.

⁷ For Special/Express course, this is based on average L1B5, which is the average of students’ aggregate grades in L1 (English or Higher Mother Tongue Language) and the best 5 subjects. For Normal course, this is based on average L1B4, which is the average of students’ aggregate grades in English and best 4 subjects. The smaller the values of L1B5 and L1B4 scores, the better the performance of a school.

⁸ Please see Annex B1-B3 for the 2004 Honour Rolls.

⁹ Including Innova JC, which will open in Jan 2005.

¹⁰ For example, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) will be offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, instead of the ‘A’-levels, to their IP students.

Source: Ministry of Education Press Release 26 Sep 2004