Bukit View Secondary School

From left to right:

Mdm Ratna Selvadurai, Mrs Toh Kai Poh, Ms Salwa, Mdm Maziyan (SH), Mr Wai Kam Hoa (HOD C&T), Mdm Nancy Lau, Mr Ong Soon Gee,  Mdm Grace Lee,
Mr Sirajutheen, Mr Jeffrey Chua

innovative creative Craft and Technology Department

Design & Technology

Art Food & Nutrition

At the Craft and Technology Department, we aim to train students to become more than designers, engineers or artists. Our flexible learning approach ensures that we nurture a new breed of students who are highly skilled and ready to excel in a diverse landscape.

Click below for more information on our subjects and programmes

* Art

* Design and Technology

* Food and Nutrition / Home Economics

Design ilights

2009

D&T Conference 2009, Presentation on Pull-Out Programme for Higher Ability Design Students @NUS High

DESIGN

• W4 Cluster & Ngee Ann Polytechnic: 10^th Design Competition & Exhibition 2009.

Preliminary Judging & Interview of Finalists @Bukit View Secondary School.

Exhibition & Award Ceremony @Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Guest-of-Honour: Mr Lawrence Chong, President, Design Association of Singapore

• W4 Pull-Out Programme (POP) for High-Ability W4 cluster design students.

Module 1 – Design (June) and Module 2  - Digital Media (Nov), where students design school souvenir for Youth Olympic Game 2010.

Venues: Bukit View Secondary School and Singapore Polytechnic.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Young Designers'  Award Junior Category

Cheak Yen Hui 4E5, SILVER

Zamzilah Jamal 4E4 and Nurul Huda Sulaiman 4E3, BRONZE

World Media Masters 2009 (A Digital Gaming Competition), BRONZE for Game Achievement Level

10^th Design Competition & Exhibition, 2009

Thilagan s/o Narayanasamy 4E2 – “Design Competition”, Graphic Design, MERIT

Zamzilah  Jamal 4E4 & Nurul Huda Sulaiman 4E3, “Mousy”, Digital Media Design, MERIT

Cheak Yen Hui 4E5, “Got Yours?”, Digital Media Design, Finalist

PUSH Award 2009 is to acknowledge and recognize award winners of the various Institutes and Associations in making Singapore as a brand of design excellence.

BVSS Inaugural Winner: Cheak Yen Hui 4E5, for project “Sling Carrier” in the Young Designers’ Award (Junior Category)

Singapore Guinness Book of Records – Ceiling Art: “The Largest Handpainted Hanging Art Pieces” @IMM

PARTNERS

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Singapore Polytechnic

A School Cluster W4 project, Bt View Secondary organized a study trip to Australia to learn more about design education. Six out of the ten teachers who went to four institution of higher learning in Sydney and Canberra on the 5 days trip (10 to 14 Dec 07) came from our school.  The other two schools are Hua Yi and Yuan Ching Secondary Schools.

The objectives of the trip is to:
• To enhance the professional knowledge and skills of teachers i.e.,  capacity building to develop an environment conducive for digital media design;
• To enable teachers to leverage on the knowledge gained on this trip for curriculum customisation,so as to better promote the subject and to engage students in the area of digital media design; and
• To enhance our pupils’ competency in digital media design, to arouse interest and allow them to keep abreast with technology advances and application.

Pull-Out-Program (POP) for High Ability Pupils in Jun and Nov 08

A School Cluster W4 project, Bt View Secondary together with Hua Yi Sec organized the POP for High Ability Pupils as enrichment to pupils contemplating design as a career. Part of the programme included partnering Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic in conducting a customized programme for the students.

Design Competition and Exhibition For Primary and Secondary Schools

^{Now into its 9th year, we co-organized this event with Ngee Ann Polytechnic for the second time and this year we have a total of 49 entries from 10 primary schools and 122 entries from 11 secondary schools taking part in the competition. It was held at Ngee Ann Polytechnic on 18 July 08 and attended by approximately 300
over pupils.BVSS did well in the competition. Fathin Atikah bte Mas’ud won the Silver Award for her entry ‘Death Unlimited’.  As for the Special Mention Awards; ‘The Environment’ by Thiagan s/o Narayanasamy and ‘School Robot’ by Tristan Lim You Jie won the Best in Graphic Design and Best in Multimedia respectively.}

^{Advanced Elective Module (AEM) The AEM is aimed at providing exposure to the practice-oriented learning approach adopted in the polytechnics.  It will also enhance students’ learning experiences and help them discover their strengths and interests.}

AEMs Planned for Bukit View students in 2008

Course	Period	Venue	Level
Electronic Design & Development	10 March – 10 AprilDates:Full days: 10/3, 11/3, 12/3Afternoons: 18/3, 27/3, 1/4, 10/4	Singapore Polytechnic	5N, 4E, 3E
Fundamentals of Solar and Renewable Energies	13 Oct to 17 Oct(Altogether 40 hrs during school vacation & term time.)	Ngee Ann Polytechnic	3E , 3N, 2E
Food Science & Culture	2nd - 6th Jun (5 full days)	Nanyang Polytechnic	3E, 4N
Art of Animation	10 October – 6 November (afternoons)Mdm Maziyan	Ngee Ann Polytechnic	3E, 4N

by Siraj S.H