Tanglin Trust School (TTS) is an international school in Singapore. Singapore The school teaches a British-based curriculum and is intended primarily to serve the British expatriate community in Singapore. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing The school has around 2,000 students. Though the majority of students come from the United Kingdom, around 40 different nationalities are represented among the student body. Very few Singaporean students attend the school, however, as the Singapore government's regulations prevent most of its citizens from attending international schools within the country. The school was founded in 1925. For much of its existence, the school was a primary school, but in the mid-1990s, the school expanded and now also offers full secondary education. Primary education is the first stage of Compulsory education. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Australia See also Education
In 2006, The Guardian newspaper named Tanglin Trust School as one of the best UK-curriculum international schools in the world. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. [1]
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History
The school was founded on the island of Singapore in 1925 by Anne Griffith-Jones. Anne Laugharne Phillips Griffith-Jones (1890–1973 was the founder of Tanglin Trust School, a well-known international school primarily catering for British The school was initially known as Tanglin Preparatory School, and operated from premises within the Tanglin Club. The Tanglin Club is one of the most prominent and prestigious Social clubs in Singapore. It opened with just five students, but soon began to grow rapidly. At the time, many British expatriates living in Singapore sent their children away to boarding school in Britain at an early age. The school offered the alternative of providing British-style education in Singapore, so parents could postpone boarding school until an older age.
In 1935, Griffith-Jones opened a second school – the Tanglin Boarding School in the Cameron Highlands (now part of Malaysia). Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cameron Highlands is a highland region located about 121 km east of Ipoh and about 214 km north of Kuala Lumpur, in Pahang, Malaysia. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and Again this was intended as a near-by alternative for expatriate families living in the region who would otherwise have to send their children to boarding schools in Britain. Many children who attended the school in Singapore up to the age of eight then went on to the boarding school in the Cameron Highlands, which catered for students up to the age of 13. The Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula in 1942 forced the closure of both schools, as British expatriates in the region (including Griffith-Jones) were interned by the Japanese. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The Malay Peninsula or Thai-Malay Peninsula (Semenanjung Tanah Melayu (คาบสมุทรมลายู is a major Peninsula located in Southeast The schools reopened after the war. In 1948, the school in Cameron Highlands had to be put under full-time armed guard after terrorists surrounded the school, and was eventually forced to close by the Federal Government for security reasons. However the school in Singapore continued to flourish.
In 1958, Griffith-Jones retired and sold the private company Tanglin School Ltd to the British European Association in Singapore. In 1961, governance of the school was handed over to a non-profit education Trust known as the Tanglin Trust Ltd.
In 1971, the Trust opened a second British international primary school in Singapore called Weyhill Preparatory School. Three years later the Trust also took over the running of another international school in Singapore called Raeburn Park School, which had originally been in opened in 1954 by the Singapore Harbour Board for the children of its expatriate staff. In 1981, the three schools were merged into one at its present campus on Portsdown Road. Initially, the campus housed two largely separate-functioning infant and junior schools known as Tanglin Infant School and Tanglin Junior School. A separate nursery school (known as Winchester Nursery School) also operated at different premises for a few years, but this was later moved to the Portsdown Road campus. In the late-1980s, the administration and curriculum of the schools was centralised under a single Head Teacher and the name Tanglin Trust School was adopted. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Headmaster redirects here For the type of Transformers please see Headmaster (Transformers.
The school expanded its student age-range beyond primary school in 1996. It now takes in students up to the age of 18, and prepares the secondary-age students for GCSE and A-Level examinations. The General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE) is the name of an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject generally taken in a number of subjects by The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales,
Alumni
Well-known alumni of Tanglin Trust School include:
- Daniel Bennett – professional football player for the Singapore national football team and in Singapore's S.League
- Philip Jeyaretnam – Singaporean writer and lawyer
- Blair McDonough – Australian actor
References
- ^ A guide to schools abroad that offer a British curriculum, educationguardian. Daniel Mark Bennett (born January 7 1978, in Great Yarmouth, England) is a professional soccer player who plays for the Singapore Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered The Singapore national football team is the national Football (soccer team of Singapore. Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964 is a Lawyer from Singapore. Blair McDonough (born 30 April 1981, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an actor who is best known co. uk, 12 December 2006.
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