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NE Committee

  • Mr Mohamad Nazar
  • Mdm Sim Kia Mien
  • Ms Beatrice Zhang
  • Mdm Marhaini
  • Ms Puranadharshini
  • Ms Kalaivani
  • Mr Tan Wei Chung
  • Mdm Toh Yeok Tee
  • Mdm Zareena Beevi

Importance of National Education

“National Education must be a vital component of our education process. National Education goes beyond book knowledge. It is an exercise to develop instincts that become part of the psyche of every child. It must engender a shared sense of nationhood, an understanding of how our past is relevant to our present and future. It must appeal to both heart and mind.”

Excerpt from Mr Goh Chok Tong’s Teachers’ Day Rally Speech on Sept 9 1996

“Our schools play a key role in helping new generations of Singaporeans thrive, and shape social norms that will keep Singapore secure and cohesive in a constantly changing future. They have to open the minds of their students to the rich expanse of possibilities in the world around us. They should nurture an ability to think originally, and to take the initiative. And, most importantly, they have to help their students develop strength of character – the ability to face up to difficulties, fight as a team, and lead. They must groom citizens who are keen to contribute to the well-being of fellow citizens. Singaporeans who will push the boundaries of achievement, not just to enjoy life’s comforts, but so that we can enhance the lives of others, and leave something behind to enrich future generations.”

Excerpt from Speech by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Acting Minister for Education, at the Opening Ceremony of the Redeveloped Campus of Presbyterian High School ( Friday, 14 May 2004) on Developing Strength of Character and Discipline

Bukit View Secondary School NE Committee: 2007

National Anthem

National Anthem
Majulah Singapura

Mari kita rakyat Singapura
Sama-sama menuju bahagia
Cita-cita kita yang mulia
Berjaya Singapura

Marilah kita bersatu
Dengan semangat yang baru
Semua kita berseru
Majulah Singapura
Majulah Singapura

Marilah kita bersatu
Dengan semangat yang baru
Semua kita berseru
Majulah Singapura
Majulah Singapura

English Translation

Come, fellow Singaporeans
Let us progress towards happiness together
May our noble aspiration bring
Singapore success

Come, let us unite
In a new spirit
Let our voices soar as one
Onward Singapore
Onward Singapore

Come, let us unite
In a new spirit
Let our voices soar as one
Onward Singapore
Onward Singapore

Our Pledge

We, the citizens of Singapore
pledge ourselves as one united people,
regardless of race, language or religion,
to build a democratic society,
based on justice and equality,
so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
progress for our nation.

Our National Education Messages

  • Singapore is our homeland; this is where we belong.
    We treasure our heritage and take pride in shaping our own unique way of life.
  • We must preserve racial and religious harmony.
    We value our diversity and are determined to stay a united people.
  • We must uphold meritocracy and incorruptibility.
    We provide opportunities for all, according to their ability and effort.
  • No one owes Singapore a living.
    We find our own way to survive and prosper, turning challenge into opportunity.
  • We must ourselves defend Singapore.
    We are proud to defend Singapore ourselves, no one else is responsible for our security and well-being.
  • We have confidence in our future.
    United, determined and well-prepared, we have what it takes to build a bright future for ourselves, and to progress together as one nation.

Our NE Vision

To develop an active and useful generation of Singaporeans by inculcating a sense of heritage through bonding, knowing and loving Singapore so as to have confidence in its future. We aim to actualise NE Vision through the Bukit View NE Framework.

NEVISION

Our NE Framework

The NE Experience @ Bukit View aims to engage the awareness, experience passion and endeavour conviction and both the students and staffs. The NE Experience @ Bukit View is represented by a rising sun. At the core of a dynamic institution that adds value to all, everyone in Bukit Value will achieve the following NE goals before they leave the school.

  1. Building Bonds

    Building bond among all is the first step to ensure everyone feels important and wanted. Only with strong bonds, a sense of belonging to a school and country can be created.

  2. Developing a Sense of Belonging?

    With a deep sense of belonging, there will be an urge to know more about Singaporean understand its strengths and weaknesses and appreciate and Love Singapore for what it is. This will lead on to our next goal.

  3. Understanding & Loving Singapore

    After having an understanding of Singapore, the survival instincts will automatically guide us to build upon our strengths which will thus create great confidence in our future.

  4. Having Confidence in Our Future

    With a great confidence in our future, it will lead us on to ensure that everyone else feel the same way about Singapore. There will be a genuine urge to help Singapore achieve its aims in future. Thus, it will lead us to being an Active and Useful Citizens.
  5. Being Active and useful Citizens

    The last goal ties in well with our mission to nurture every Bukit Viewan who possess moral integrity and are responsible to self and society.


From the time a student steps into Bukit View, our school aims to achieve the following goals before he leaves Bukit View. Various programmes organized in school will incorporate these NE goals to actualize our NE Vision. Some of these programmes are Service Learning, Co-Curricular activities, Values Education, Student Development, Academic Programmes and Learning Journeys. As with the current focus on engaging the heart head and hands, our programmes will be designed to incorporate the 3 ‘H’s so as to make NE a meaning journey for our students.

 

Our NE Initiatives

  1. NE Committee:

    All Departments are represented in the committee to ensure:
    • Whole-school NE Approach
    • Inter-departmental collaboration on NE
    • Coordinate and streamline Learning Journeys of our students
  2. NE Ambassadors (to work with NE Cluster W4)

    • Students representatives to be sent for external workshops to become NE Ambassadors sponsored by W4 Cluster
    • To work with NE Committee to implement NE related programmes for school

  3. NE for Teachers

    • Teacher to be regularly updated on the following Issues:
      - Custom and practices of the different ethnic and religious groups
      - Political and Social Development of Singapore
      - Political and Social Development in the International Arena
  4. NE for Parents & Community

    • Engage Parents in NE

 

Our NE Programmes

Programme Target Group Remarks
Commemoration of NE Events All students The 4 events are:
  • Total Defence Day (14th Feb)
  • International Friendship Day – (11th April)
  • Racial Harmony Day (21st July)
  • National Day (8th Aug)


We will be commemorating the above mentioned events as they signify defining moments in Singapore’s history. The aim is to entrench these events, their significance and the images they evoke in the consciousness of each student.

* To bring to the students a greater sense of the historical importance and solemnity of National Day,  apart from other festive events during the celebration, we will also conduct a Formal 15-minute National Day Ceremony
Learning Journeys All students This programme enables students to visit various organizations (both public and private installations, local and overseas) to better understand how Singapore had overcome her constraints to achieve world-class standing, and to take pride in her achievements.
The concept, “Learning Journeys” is to emphasise that every trip out of the school is an important learning experience, essential and integral to the educational process and not a one-off event.  A learning journey can maximize the learning experience for our students. They can make an impact in shaping the lifelong interests of a child, and start him on the road to lifelong learning on a subject which captures his imagination, fascinates him.
Community Involvement Programme All students This programme aims to nurture students to be socially responsible and to help them understand that every Singaporean has a role enhancing the well-being of the community and the country. It has been made compulsory for all to ensure that every student will be given an opportunity to be involved in community work.
NE Quiz Sec 4 students All students have to take an NE Quiz at the milestone levels of Secondary 4. The unique feature of this Quiz is that is administered in the form of a ‘fun’ computer game where students will be tested on the basic facts about Singapore.
NE Seminar Teaching & Non-teaching staff The seminars seek to sensitise the participants to Singapore’s challenges, constraints and vulnerabilities and to bring them into greater confidence on some of the more sensitive challenges in internal and external security. Selected staff members to attend.
News. Teach All Education Officers The monthly videos cover a wide range of topics and aim to keep teachers up-to-date not only with educational initiatives but also with regional and international happenings.

About Total Defence 2009

Every year on 15 February, the day Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942, Singapore commemorates Total Defence Day to remind Singaporeans that everyone has a part to play in defending our country. In 2009, we will be commemorating 25 years of Total Defence with a key difference. Instead of suggesting to Singaporeans how they should think about the five aspects of Total Defence, the 2009 Total Defence outreach will revolve around a central question - What will you defend?

Let us dig deep within ourselves, and reflect on what it is in Singapore that we hold most dear in life, what it is that we will strive to protect and defend in times of threat or crisis. It may be something connected to our personal passion, or our closest friends and loved ones. It could be a physical item of sentimental worth like old photos, something abstract like the core value of sincere friendship, or just people we cherish.

In doing so, the various Total Defence outreach activities will drive home the theme of "It's Personal. Play Your Part", by providing the people of Singapore with opportunities to reflect on the relevance of Total Defence to their personal lives, and understand that everyone has a part to play.

So, express yourself and share with us: What will you defend?

The Total Defence Logo

Since its inception in 1984, Total Defence has been adopted as the way Singaporeans come together to respond to challenges and build a strong society and nation. In commemorating 25 years of Total Defence, the logo has been given a tweak to stay in tune with a more modern feel while retaining its familiar identity. The tagline "It's Personal. Play your Part." is in a handwritten font that emphasises the personal nature of our involvement in Total Defence, reminding Singaporeans that everyone has a role in protecting the Singaporean way of life. The rounder edges of the logo give it a softer touch, reflecting the personal stake in Total Defence and encouraging Singaporeans to embrace Total Defence in their daily lives.

 

 

News releases

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_events/nr/2009/feb/04feb09_nr.html

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_events/nr/2009/feb/04feb09_nr/04feb09_fs3.html

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_events/nr/2009/feb/04feb09_nr/04feb09_fs4.html

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_events/nr/2009/feb/04feb09_nr/04feb09_fs5.html

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_events/nr/2009/feb/04feb09_nr/04feb09_fs2.html

Five Pillars, One Roof

Five Pillars, One Roof brings together some of Singapore’s leading theatrical talents and performers from the three main segments of society - the people, private and public sectors - to commemorate 25 years of Total Defence in an original, heartwarming and entertaining Singaporean musical revue.

Written and directed by Jonathan Lim and Bang Wenfu of Chestnuts fame, the musical revue pieces together stories, dreams and the day-to-day concerns of a group of Singaporeans who are neighbours in a typical housing estate.

Told through music and songs that span several decades, their experiences bring the different generations together - from the memories of the early days of Singapore as remembered by an elderly pair of neighbours to the frank realities of modern living as experienced by a yuppie couple; from the challenges facing National Service boys to the visions of the future of our children. This portrays the relevance of Total Defence in the past, present and future.

Familiar Singaporean issues such as the cost of living, the rat race, National Service and racial harmony become lenses through which we view the importance of Total Defence.

Five Pillars, One Roof was staged at TD25 Day on 15 February 2009 at the Suntec City Tropics Atrium. Watch it now in 3 parts!


View Streaming Video

Five Pillars, One Roof (Part 1)
Five Pillars, One Roof (Part 2)
Five Pillars, One Roof (Part 3)

Links to other resources

http://www.connexion.sg/web/guest/home

http://www.ne.edu.sg/

http://www.nexus.gov.sg/imindef/mindef_websites/topics/nexus/home.htmldefe

Important Procedures

Some important procedures to adhere to show our commitment towards NE

School language policy All staff & students All Staff and Students are to use English as a medium of communication in the school. The use of the Mother Tongue is only allowed during the Mother Tongue classes and between MT teachers and their students.
Classroom seating arrangement Form teachers Form teachers MUST ensure seating arrangements take into consideration good racial/ethnic integration
Group work/Pair work/ Project work/ Interclass games and competitions All Subject Teachers

Teachers are to ensure pupils are in multi-racial/ethnic groups when they have to do any form of group activities to promote cohesiveness among students.
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