OUR INSPIRING STAFF

“Soon after I completed my Postgraduate Diploma in Education in NIE, I was appointed as a General Education Offcer, or classroom teacher, and was deployed to Woodlands Secondary School in May 1998 to teach Elementary Mathematics and Additional Mathematics. I had the privilege to get to know and work with passionate and inspiring teachers such as Ms Amirtham, Mr Lin, Mr Thiru, Cikgu Hamimah, and Mdm Tan, among others. I was given the opportunity to teach classes of various academic proclivities and across the different levels from Secondary 1 to Secondary 5. I was also afforded the scope to be a Library Teacher and to teach Project Work. This latitude of teaching experience seeded my interest in information science and in public policies (areas in which I did my postgraduate studies), and in social innovation and community work. I left the teaching service and Woodlands Secondary School in 2004 to pursue my postgraduate studies but I am always grateful for the opportunities I had and the work relationships I forged in the school. Thank you, Woodlands Secondary School, for playing an instrumental role in my development as an educator and academic faculty.”

“I was posted to Woodlands Secondary School in 1982 and was supposed to retire in 2008. I continued working under contract when I decided to retire in 2016. At that point of time I was 70 years old. Before my postings to Woodlands Secondary , I was in Dunearn Secondary School.

…During my 34 years with the school, the staff were all pleasant, helpful and very co-operative. I was attached to the Technical Department and we worked very closely with the school. I witnessed the transformation of the school, the renovation, with improved amenities. Also the transformation of the Technical Department, from a two trade skill, namely Woodwork and Metalwork, to a new Design and Technology Programme that included wood, metal, plastics technology, and electronics. We also had our own non-teaching staff committee. We organised staff upgrading courses, excursions and educational trips. I am grateful to the staff who nominated me for the Outstanding Contribution Awards in 2010 and 2011.

The best things in life are the people we work with, the people we love, the places we have been together and the memories we have made along the way. Things end but memories last forever.

Nothing is lost as long as we remember!”