Queensway Secondary School (abbreviation: QSS) is a co-educational, government secondary school situated in the residential area of Queenstown, located in the central-western part of Singapore. It offers a four to five-year course leading up to the GCE 'O' Level or 'N' level exams. The school motto is "Success through Diligence".
The QSS emblem is three designs against a purple background - the purple represents loyalty.The upper part of the emblem depicts a touch encircled by laurel. The torch represents learning and knowledge, while the laurel is the success attained as a result. The left bottom design originates from the emblem of the City of Singapore - a lion on a castle.
The lion represents courage and excellence, while the castle on which it stands represents strength and stability, while the spider web at the emblem showcases the obvious - diligence of the spider as it spins the web.
The attire for QSS are white shirt with white shorts for lower secondary boys, white pants for upper secondary boys and white blouse with a purple skirt for girls. Upper secondary prefects have a different design of uniforms. The inner collar is purple while there is no purple label with the word "Queensway" sewn above the pocket. The girls have different skirts which is at a design of a narrow skirt opening the letter "A". The school badge is worn above the breast pocket and all students have to wear the purple school tie during Friday assemblies. For the P.E T-shirt, the design is a polo tee with no collar, the base colour is purple while the rim around the neck is the house colour. For the newer P.E T-shirt design introduced in 2016, The right/left side is white with no house names printed behind.
The houses are named after the legendary creatures found in Greek mythology such as Centaur, Griffin, Pegasus, Phoenix & Unicorn. Centaur is represented by red, Griffin is represented by blue, Pegasus is represented by yellow, Phoenix is represented by green and Unicorn is represented by white.
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