Boon Lay Secondary School

Boon Lay Secondary School began in 1977 as a double-session school, offering Chinese and English mediums of instruction. It became a solely English-medium school in 1998, and started operating single-session in 2000.

In 2017, Boon Lay Secondary School absorbed Pioneer Secondary School, due to falling enrolment in both schools.

BLS is an Extended Family where teachers act in place of parents for students’ learning of knowledge, skills and values for further education, work and life ahead.

BLS structure is CCA-centric (not form-class-centric) where the CCA is the basic familial unit that each student belongs to for the development of skills and values and rootedness to the school, community and country.  It is where leadership and 21st century competencies are nurtured and exercised, and good character formed through its structure of discipline, activities and training.  The CCA-centric approach is our way of strengthening the Singapore Spirit – rootedness to the school through enhanced CCA and to the community through CCA (Values-in-Action).

The Academic Programme will be crafted as a social experience that is aligned to learning with purpose – building the foundation for further education towards personal dreams and aspirations.  The focus is to engage students in purposeful learning and foster the joy of learning in the classroom.

In BLS, besides the Academic and CCA Programmes, the Student Development Programme offers modules which cater to students’ interests and needs.  Students make choices to discover their strengths and passions, explore their career options and chart their own learning to build up a meaningful portfolio to support the pursuit of their dreams and aspirations.    This programme also seeks to bring out the joy of learning and nurture entrepreneurial dare as students make options to discover, experience and aspire.

In BLS, we don’t just teach.

We create possibilities and help our students realise their dreams and aspirations!