Subjects Offered

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS
ART
BASIC CHINESE
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
CHINESE
COMBINED HUMANITIES (S,G)
COMBINED HUMANITIES (S,H)
COMBINED HUMANITIES (S,L)
COMBINED HUMANITIES (SS,LC)
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
ELEMENTS OF BUSINESS SKILLS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FOOD & NUTRITION
GEOGRAPHY
HIGHER CHINESE
HIGHER MALAY
HISTORY
LITERATURE(E)
MALAY
MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS
PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTS
SCIENCE
SCIENCE (PHY, CHEM)

Physical Sports

Air Rifle / Shooting
Badminton
Volleyball

Uniformed Groups

Boys’ Brigade
Girls’ Brigade
Ncc (Land)
Npcc
St John Ambulance Brigade

Visual and Performing Arts

Art And Craft Club
Band – Symphonic
Choir
Dance – Chinese
Drama – English
Ensemble – Guzheng
Media Club

Clubs & Societies

Debate Club
Library
Mathematics Society
Mother Tongue Culture Club
Mother Tongue Culture Club (Cldds)
Outdoor Adventure Club
Science Club
Students’ Council

Others

Not Available

School Excellence Awards

SEA

Best Practice Awards

BPA (Staff Well-Being)
BPA (Student All-Round Development)
BPA (Teaching and Learning)

Outstanding Development Award

ODA (Character Development)

Sports & Games Competition

  National Zone

SYF Arts Presentation

  Awards

Best Unit Award

  Awards

Others

  Berita Harian Inter-Schools Debate, Quarter-Finals – 2009, National Science Challenge 2009, Quarter-Finals – 2009, Natl Sch Sports Climbing Competition,Boys-3rd,Girls&Mixed Dbls-2nd – 2009, Singapore Mathematical Olympiad-1 Gold, 2 Silvers, 12 Bronzes – 2009, Singapore Mathematics Project Festival 2009, 3 Bronzes – 2009, Singapore Science & Engineering Fair 2009, Bronze – 2009, UNSW Intl Science Competition 2009, 2 High Distinctions, 29 Dist – 2009, F1 in schools – Ngee Ann Challenge, 4th – 2008

Other school features and achievements

  An all-round education for our students (academic, values-inculcation, CCA, student leadership) Singapore Quality Class, Best Practices Awards (Teaching & Learning, Staff Well-Being, Student All-Round Development), Sustained Achievement Awards (Academic, Uniformed Groups & Physical Fitness, Arts), Character Development Award (Outstanding) 2006-2010, Thinking Culture Award, Innergy Awards, Additional features include a rock-wall, indoor sports hall, auditorium, Creative Arts Complex, BioMedical Research Laboratory, E-learning environment.

MOE Programmes

Not Available

Special Student Development Programmes Offered

In Xinmin, the development of 21st century skills is integrated into our curriculum and our tiered approach provides varying developmental opportunities to students according to their interests and abilities. In addition, all our students look forward to our school-based curriculum, comprising Analytical Thinking Skills, a games-based approach to learning thinking skills; Applied Science Programme, which allows students to apply their Science knowledge in research and problem solving; ICT and Enterprise programmes, which allow students to exercise creative and inventive thinking; as well as an enjoyable and challenging PE programme that allows students to develop psychomotor skills, learn new games, acquire soft skills and mindsets of resilience and teamwork. Our Flipped Classroom pedagogy at the lower secondary levels emphasises collaborative and self-directed learning, and allows students to acquire lifelong skills for future learning. Leadership training is provided to all students and student leaders are given many opportunities for further development in skills and exposure to real-world learning.