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What are the Special Student Development Programmes that Clementi Town Secondary School offers?

CTSS places a strong emphasis on providing a holistic education to every Clementeen. Our programmes are designed in line with the Teaching and Learning framework of the school.

Our school’s Applied Learning Programme (ALP) – MARS (Mastery through Application and Research in STEM), provides all Clementeens to learn subject-specific skills such as Computational Thinking and Scientific Inquiry which help build subject disciplinarity and promote STEM mastery.

Our Learning For Life Programme (LLP) – Community Youth Leadership, provides tiered approaches in developing our students’ leadership skills.

We focus on inculcating values, skills and dispositions in all Clementeens so that they are in good stead to thrive with passion and purpose in the future. Our character development programmes for all students include '7 Habits for Highly Effective Youths' and a structured Service Learning programme that is designed to increase students' self-directedness and collaboration skills over the years.

2. What is CTSS Applied Learning Programme about? Do all Secondary 1 and 2 students take modules related to coding?

At Clementi Town Secondary School, the Applied Learning Programme is enacted in the form of Mastery through Application and Research in STEM (MARS). This two -year programme aims to develop future-ready Clementeens who are conversant in a suite of digital literacy and problem-solving skills.

The acquisition of these STEM-related skills has been integrated into the English, Mathematics and Science curricula in a manner that guides Clementeens into becoming architects of their own STEM learning. With their teachers as facilitators, Clementeens in their groups embark on a journey to analyse future-world problems, derive practical STEM-based solutions based on Emergent Technologies and evaluate their proposals for effectiveness based on meaningful criteria.

Beyond the integrative activities and performance tasks, our school also uses a broad range of STEM learning experiences spanning across the formal and informal curriculum

Our Tier 1 programme involves the integration of STEM in the Lower Secondary Mathematics, Science and English Curriculum. STEM learning is infused in Secondary 1 Mathematics lessons through real-world projects that leverage on Computational Thinking and coding, as well as STEM-related learning journeys. In Secondary 2, STEM learning is infused in the Science lessons through the integrative activities.

The MARS ALP curriculum has been designed to enable students to work through problems in groups and to come up with practical solutions and real products.

Students who display stronger interest and passion in STEM are offered opportunities to deepen their learning through research projects, such as the Science in Action programme (see next section in this microsite) and the AI/Computing Mentorship programme, as well as participation in various STEM-related competitions such as the Science Olympiads, the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), the National Youth Tech Championship and SISTEMIC.

3. Does CTSS have any experience with hearing-impaired students in the school? Is there any support provided to assist a hearing-impaired student in his learning?

The school has hearing-impaired students and we do have experience supporting them in their learning. The student can be supported by a Satellite Team, comprising the Allied Educator (Learning and Behavioural Support), Year Head, 1 Buddy Teacher and 1 teacher trained in Special Needs. Parents of hearing-impaired children with more queries may contact the school staff for further discussion when your child joins us.

4. How does CTSS guide students to become active, concerned and responsible young persons?

As with all schools in Singapore, the students will undergo Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) lessons that will take them through Values Education, Cyberwellness, Sexuality Education, National Education, Family Education and Career Guidance. To develop the students to be aware of global and local issues, the teachers will focus on lessons regarding contemporary issues where the students will be encouraged to develop healthy perspective taking skills. The added feature in CTSS’ CCE lessons is The Highly Effective Youths (HEY) curriculum. The school believes in ‘taught and caught’ character education, and the students will be guided to develop the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Youths. These lessons will be reinforced in their Co-Curricular Activity, as well as Values-in-Action (VIA) projects. The school aims to prepare the students to be caring and concerned citizens, ready for the challenges of the unpredictable world.

An integral part of our students’ educational journey is the development of critical thinking skills, global and civic literacies as well as imbibing the values of empathy and respect for others. These competencies and values put them in good stead as they progress through teenage years to eventually adulthood.

Drawing from the example of learning the Humanities subjects, students are exposed to authentic sources that educate them about the various contemporary issues that Singapore and the world are facing today. The school also teaches the students the necessary critical thinking skills needed to discern the reliability of the sources that they are reading, given the prevalence of fake news outlets found on the internet today. The lessons which involve more student-centred learning tasks encourage students to be more collaborative and critical thinkers. Through the acquisition of these competencies, the students are better prepared to thrive in this fast changing world.

5. What are the opportunities available for students for community engagement, or contributions back to society?

All students undertake Values-in-Action (VIA) projects with their CCA. They will be involved in the planning and execution of the project, followed by the post-reflection of their learning.

In addition, the Student Union will champion some VIA projects to reach out to the community. The school focuses on recycling and upcycling of resources as part of environmental sustainability.

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More Information about Character and Citizenship Education (CCE)

What are the Special Student Development Programmes that Clementi Town Secondary School offers?

2. What is CTSS Applied Learning Programme about? Do all Secondary 1 and 2 students take modules related to coding?

3. Does CTSS have any experience with hearing-impaired students in the school? Is there any support provided to assist a hearing-impaired student in his learning?

4. How does CTSS guide students to become active, concerned and responsible young persons?

5. What are the opportunities available for students for community engagement, or contributions back to society?