100 Years of Excellence: STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS TOWARD TANGLIN 2025
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Contents 1
Introduction
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A Message from the CEO
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A Message from the Chair of Governors
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Team Tanglin
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Flourishing Individuals
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Inspired Learners
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Future Ready
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Our People and School Systems
Tanglin Trust School 2025 Tanglin Trust School is a not-for-profit, British international school in One-North, Singapore, offering an outstanding education for expatriate students. The school educates boys and girls between the ages of 3-18 years. We respect and nurture all students as individuals, seeking to inspire and celebrate their efforts in pursuing intellectual, moral, cultural, social, and physical development. Through teaching and modelling the core values of Respect, Responsibility and Purpose, Tanglin supports its students to be: • • • • •
Thinkers who acquire knowledge through resilient inquiry; Principled and reflective global citizens; Caring and thoughtful communicators; Open-minded and balanced; Successful lifelong learners.
Tanglin Trust School moves proudly toward its centenary in 2025. This strategic plan - Towards 100 Years of Excellence - provides a clear direction for the school’s journey. In doing so, we honour the past, embrace the present, and aspire to the future.
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A Message from the Chair of Governors The Governors, both as a group and as individuals, have provided leadership and guidance to the CEO in the production of this strategic plan. They wholeheartedly endorse its outcomes and are dedicated to ensuring that the necessary resources are provided to fully realise its objectives. The Governors are committed to keeping Tanglin relevant to Singapore and to serving its international community by providing a world class British education.
will agree that the operations team do a wonderful job of maintaining our campus facilities. We will undertake a full master planning exercise and provide updates through that process. Compliance has become a significant element of every organisation across Singapore and globally. PDPA, Workplace Safety and Health, Cybersecurity threats, and a host of other mandated or best practice solutions require implementation by management with support and leadership from Governors. We are fortunate to have a range of governors with expertise in these key areas.
Tanglin Trust School has a lease on our current site until 2038. The site we occupy continues to be zoned Education in the most recent STA zoning exercise for Singapore. The previous iteration of the physical campus masterplan was presented in 2014. Having completed the Centenary Building, we must now lift our sights toward the 2038 lease period. In making ourselves an integral part of the One-North landscape, we are considering how we can modify elements of our campus. A number of buildings are aging and there is considerable upkeep required. I think you
Thank you for your continued support of Tanglin. Our Vision is to be one of the best schools in the world. The continued examination of current practice, understanding of contemporary research and committed leadership will help us to achieve this.
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A Message from the CEO The Strategic Plan, One School, Exciting Futures was introduced in 2019. Our endeavours were punctuated by the COVID pandemic, during which our key focus became ensuring the health and wellbeing of our community, while keeping the school running and supporting our students through the challenges of learning in such difficult times. Over the last 12 months, we have maintained our focus on the strategic plan and are pleased with how much has been achieved.
focusing our attention. These projects - DEIJ, The Institute@Tanglin, Digital First, Centenary and Sustainability - are now reflected in the Strategic Plan. They are critical areas for us to consider in preparing our students for the future. I am grateful to the staff who have worked on these projects. They will continue to be the champions of our work and we will continue to report on the progress of each project in our annual Reflections publication. As we look to the future, we have modified elements of our strategic plan to ensure our efforts are better able to meet our students’ needs. We have included a ‘Future Ready’ strategic theme for both Tanglin Trust School institutionally, and for our students. We are a contemporary international school that has our students at its heart. Strengthening elements of the school through business services and our infrastructure is important to provide students with more and greater opportunities. There are also a number of new foci for us.
Striving to achieve excellent academic results, monitoring teaching and learning, creating educational resources, getting to know each other so that support is there in the tough times are essential processes in supporting positive educational outcomes. These intrinsic elements of life in schools form a virtuous circle. Sometimes, however, it is important to re-position the organisational intent by recalibrating our programmes. This might be a one-degree direction change for one area of school life, or a wholesale change based on a piece of research or evidence we have gathered that indicates change is necessary.
The Centenary in 2025 provides a fulcrum around which we can all collaborate and focus our efforts. I look forward to us all coming together as Team Tanglin to create Generations of Excellence.
We did this last year by identifying strategic projects that were timely and important in
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Team Tanglin Tanglin Trust School is an outward-looking and dynamic centre for educational excellence that is warmly responsive to its community, socially responsible and proud to contribute to the future of Singapore and the world. To achieve this aim, we will: 1. Shape and build the Tanglin community by enrolling students who will purposefully participate in the rich curricular and cocurricular opportunities at the school;
4. Enhance school spirit through opportunities for school representation - House activities, sports kits, school merchandise and school aesthetics;
2. Promote the diversity and richness of personal interaction that defines Tanglin through annual community events and Friends of Tanglin opportunities;
5. Provide opportunities for all members of the school community to be part of the Tanglin Centenary in 2025; 6. Support the work of the Tanglin Trust School Foundation in creating a culture of philanthropy to raise funds for exceptional educational opportunities.
3. Communicate the latest school updates, community stories and student achievements;
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Flourishing Individuals Tanglin Trust School aims to nurture and inspire every individual, ensuring they feel happy, valued, and successful in achieving their intellectual, spiritual, cultural, social, and physical goals. To achieve this aim, we will: 1. Affirm and embed a whole school approach to promoting, protecting, prioritising and safeguarding the wellbeing of children and young people;
4. Recognise excellence, participation and leadership in a broad range of endeavours through clearly understood awards at all levels across the school;
2. Support our students effectively by monitoring, tracking and analysing pastoral and wellbeing data, providing them with the skills to deal with issues, giving them a voice to share concerns and providing effective interventions when needed;
5. Ensure all members of our diverse community feel included, by listening to students and promoting equitable outcomes and representing our position in the DEIJ policy; 6. Ensure that the changes to the Shape of the Day provides opportunities for a holistic and balanced education.
3. Utilise Service Learning across the school to educate our students about how to support various community initiatives;
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Inspired Learners Tanglin Trust School aims to be a distinctive learning community, utilising both British-based and international learning programmes, to nurture and inspire lifelong learners who develop international-mindedness that will allow them to contribute to the world with confidence. To achieve this aim, we will: 1. Ensure that students are at the centre of teaching and learning, which is informed by developing research as well as recognising and responding to the individual needs of learners at each stage of their learning journey;
4. Offer a broad range of Clubs and Societies, and Institute events to extend and inspire intellectual curiosity; 5. Encourage and recognise participation, excellence and learning in the Arts and Sport through the school’s awards systems;
2. Continue to review and develop our 3-18 curriculum and enrichment programmes to ensure that our students are accessing rigorous, relevant and balanced programmes that prepare learners for the future;
6. Ensure a coherent Outdoor Education programme that incorporates service learning, residential trips and experiential learning;
3. Enhance our approaches to utilising student data to inform responsive teaching and timely interventions;
7. Introduce a small number of Centenary Music Scholarships to further develop our aspirational student culture. 6
Future Ready Tanglin Trust School aims to provide students with the skills, and dispositions to leave school ready for the next phase of their learning journey. To achieve this aim, we will: 1. Create a 2038 campus masterplan to shape the future physical development of the One-North Campus;
4. Ensure our students are educated in current and emerging technologies, including the benefits and the risks, so that they become confident, ethical users of technology;
2. Establish a Tanglin Campus in Australia and plan various opportunities for learning and experiential education;
5. Provide outstanding advice and guidance for Universities and Higher Education, national service, and other pathways beyond school;
3. Educate and support our students to understand principles of sustainability and how this can be embodied in their personal mission;
6. Expand the work of The Institute through partnerships with businesses, universities, and government networks.
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Our People and School Systems Tanglin Trust School aims to be recognised locally and internationally as a professionally stimulating and rewarding workplace that is committed to innovation, high-quality professional development, and the constant interchange of ideas as well as investing in staff who always seek to enhance the quality of education within and beyond the School. To achieve this aim, we will: 5. Implement regulatory best practices in sustainability, risk and compliance, cybersecurity, and PDPA implementation across the organisation with specific reference to staff understanding and cognisance;
1. Support all staff to evaluate and enhance their professional practice; 2. Create a positive and inclusive work environment that fosters employee engagement, satisfaction and wellbeing;
6. Create a school-wide focus on workplace safety and health.
3. Develop an understanding of new technologies to promote opportunities within and beyond the School; 4. Continue to recruit high–quality staff who understand and contribute to Tanglin’s values and educational philosophy;
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TANGLIN MISSION Tanglin Trust School in Singapore has a long tradition of providing British-based learning with an international perspective. At Tanglin we strive to make every individual feel valued, happy and successful. Responsibility, enthusiasm and participation are actively encouraged, and integrity is prized. Working together in a safe, caring yet stimulating environment, we set high expectations whilst offering strong support, resulting in a community of lifelong learners who can contribute with confidence to our world.
TANGLIN VISION STATEMENT We aspire to be the best school in the world with a dynamic learning community which nurtures and inspires every individual to be the best they can be.
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