Principal’s Address Mdm Adel Ong 10 Feb 2023

Designation Vice-Principal Vice-Principal

Name Ms Ng Tien Ni Jenny Mr Lim Cheng Tju

School Management Committee Designation School Staff Developer Year Head Year Head Asst Year Head (Upper Sec) Asst Year Head (Lower Sec) HOD/Student Management and Guidance

Name Mr Shanmugam s/o Suppiah Ms Chia Kel- Li Mr Ng Yan Kit Ms Ong Soo Chuin Jean Ms Neo Ruey Ning Fiona

HOD PE CCA

Mr Low Yee Fun

SH/ Character & Leadership Development

Mdm Nur Shaikhah bte Rajab

SH/Student Leadership Development

Ms Jeslyn Cheong

Mr Chew Thiam Teck Scott

SSD & SDT Team

School Management Committee Designation HOD/ Craft and Technology HOD/ English ST/ English HOD/MTL LH/Chinese Language SH/ Malay Language ST/Tamil Language HOD/ Humanities SH/Geography

Name Ms Fathiah Borhan Mr Ng Lip Siang Adrian Mr Andrew Lim You Shun Mr Tie Hieng Han Ms Ng Pin Leng Mdm Rashidah bte Md Yaakob Mr Jaya Kumar Mdm Khamilia bte Hanapi Mrs Jasmin Mariya d/o Madasamy IP Team

School Management Committee Designation HOD/ CIT HOD/ Mathematics LH/Mathematics LT /Learning Support HOD/ Science LT/ Science LH/ Science SH/ Chem Administration Manager Operation Manager 1 Operation Manager 2 ICT Manager

Name Ms Chong Shur Chin Mr Tan Yee Kee Ms Ong Pei Ee Mdm Rohaila bte Sanusi Ms Chua Chiew Ping Ms Jacqueline Tan Lin Yin Ms Huang Ningxin Ms Liang Yenshan Ms Chua Bee Kuan Mr Yeo Lay Kin Mr Daniel Ong Mr Jeremy Yong IP & Admin Team

Care Team Designation Snr School Counsellor

Snr School Counsellor Learning Behaviour Support Counsellor Student Welfare Officer Education Career Guidance Counsellor School Counsellor (Trainee) With Unity till Oct 2023

Name Mdm Kumutha d/o Subramaniam Mdm Michelle Ong Mrs Wendy Ng Ms Michelle Mah Mr Peter Phoa Mr Yeo Rui Xing

Uniformed Groups CCA Boy’s Brigade

Character Coaches (LS) Mr Andrew Lim

SMC

Girl’s Brigade

Mrs Qu Ruokun Mdm Yue Qun

Mr Shanmugam

NCC (Air)

Mdm Mok Lee Huang Mr Low Jackson

Ms Fathiah

NPCC Scouts

Ms Ong Pei Ee Ms Jeslyn Cheong Mr Arab

Mr Tie Hieng Han Ms Chia Kel-Li

Sports Groups CCA Basketball

Character Coaches (LS) Mr Md Fairus Ms Ng Pin Leng

SMC Mr Scott Chew

Mdm Fadilah Ms Karen Kang

Mr Tan Yee Kee Mr Ng Yan Kit

Track and Field

Mr Sony Rajan Mr Tsia Gwo Hong

Mdm Rohaila

Volleyball

Ms Rashidah Mdm Chen Biqing

Mr Low Yee Fun

(Boys & Girls) Football Table Tennis

PERFORMING ARTS Groups CCA Choir

Character Coaches (LS) Mdm Li Xu

Concert Band

Ms Hidayah

Indian Orchestra

Mrs Ganesh

Modern Dance

Miss Syazwani

Speech and Drama Mdm Norhayati

SMC Mdm Chua Chiew Ping Mdm Fiona Neo

Mdm Khamilia

Clubs & Societies Groups CCA Art and Crafts Environmental Science Media Production Media Resource Library

Character Coaches (LS) Ms Joanne Goh

SMC Ms Jean Ong

Mr Alex Lim Ms Sabrina

Ms Jacqueline

Mdm Hamidatulamaliah Mr Norman Phua Mrs Christina Choo Mr Abdul Rahman

Ms Chong Shur Chin Mr Adrian Ng

Critical Core Skills in Spore from Skills Future Report: Interacting with Others - Building Inclusivity - Collaboration - Communication - Customer Orientation - Developing People - Influence Thinking Critically Creative Thinking Decision Making Problem Solving Sense Making Transdisciplinary Thinking

Staying Relevant Adaptability Digital Fluency Global Perspective Learning Agility Self Management

Future Jobs require a lot of Self-Agency!

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School Vision Lifelong Learners. Inspiring Leaders.

Student Outcomes Attributes of a Unitian CONFIDENT PERSON - Thinks independently - Questions & perseveres - Uses technology adeptly -Curate, Communicate, Collaborate, Create

Student Outcomes

CONCERNED & CARING CITIZEN - Empathises and respects others - Aware of community & national issues & plays a part to improve the community & nation - Aware of global issues & trends, & their implications on Singapore

CONSCIENTIOUS LEARNER - Takes responsibility for own learning - Manages & monitors own learning - Reflects & learns beyond CRITICAL & INVENTIVE THINKER -Explores possibilities and generates ideas - Exercises sound reasoning, decision making & metacognition - Manages complexities and ambiguities

2022 SEC 4/5 CCA LEAPS PERFORMANCE CCA Bonus Pts EXCELLENT (2pts) Levels 3/3/3/4 GOOD (1pt) TOTAL (at Least 1 pt)

2020 85.4 14.0 99.4

2021 86.6 11.5 98.1

2022 88.6 10.8 99.4

LEAPS

Structure

Leadership

Level 3: Platforms intentionally created for every Sec 3 student to lead in CCA and Homegroup Level 3 for all (Represent the school in CCA Competitions) Level 4 (at least 75% attendance for 4 years) Level 3 (School-structured VIA Opportunities for 4 years)

Achievements Participation Service

LEAPS 2.0 Domains Co-Curricular Attainment

Basic Requirement for Level of Attainment in Domains

Bonus Points

Excellent

Student who attains a min. Level 3 in all four domains with at least a Level 4 in one domain. (4,3,3,3)

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Student who attains a min. Level 1 in all four domains with any one of the following: i. At least Level 2 in three domains; (2,2,2,1) ii. At least Level 2 in one domain and at least Level 3 in another domain; or (3,2,1,1) iii. At least Level 4 in one domain (4,1,1,1)

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Did not meet above criteria

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Fair

Striving to Excel in LEAPs

2022 USS ‘N’ and ‘O’ Level PERFORMANCE • 100% of 4NT Students Progress to ITE • 91.4% Of 4NA Students are eligible for Sec 5NA (Exceeding National Average of 78.4%) • 67.5% of 4E eligible for JC and 98.1% eligible for poly.

Celebrating Unitians’ Achievements

Inspiring Leader ● Senior Patrol Leader ● Scout Chief Commissioner ● Vice President of Unity Council

LEONG ZHAN MING S4-SCOUTS L1R5 = 9

All Round Excellence Achievements ● Chief Commissioner Award for 2022 ● Edusave Character Awardee (ECHA) ● A*Star Awardee

Celebrating All-Round Excellence

Inspiring Leader & Lifelong Learner

Lifelong Learner and Active Contributor ● Involvement in Young Scientist Programme ● Involvement in Art Elective Programme ● Promoted Vegan Eating App ● Raised Funds for Wildife Conservation

Unity Total Curriculum - All of the experiences, planned and unplanned, which a learner encounters in Unity Secondary School Academic Programme

Student Development Programmes

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Languages Humanities Maths & Science PE, Art, Music, D&T, FCE, PoA Talent Development Programmes • Leaders of English • Advanced Mathematics • Young Scientists • Design Innovation Applied Learning Programme • Sustainability Education

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Character & Leadership Programme • Character & Leadership Education lessons • Student Leadership Development Programme • Values in Action Programme • Cyberwellness Programme • Sexuality Education Programme • National Education • Cohort Camps (sec 2 & 3) CCAs Guidance Programmes • Education & Career Guidance Programme • Advanced Elective Modules & Elective Modules Learning for Life Programme • Lead Through Outdoor & sporting Adventures Aesthetics Education Internationalisation Programme

Every Unitian an Active Learner. • Active Learning Approach • Student-Centered, • Self-Paced, • Blended Learning Doing to Learn; Learning with Others and constantly Assessing their Self Learning. Technology is harnessed to make learning and teaching visible in our classrooms.

Sec 2 Learning for Life Program (LLP) • Unity Run (Term 1 Week 10) • 4 Days-3 Nights Outdoor Adventure Learning Camp (Term 2 Week 10) • Sports Fiesta (Football, Term3 Week 1)

4 Days-3 Nights Outdoor Adventure Learning Camp (Term 2 Week 10) Unity Sec 2 OAL camp aims: To enable students to understand the importance of resilience when facing challenges and persevere in achieving success as an individual and as a team in activities such as low elements and dragon boating. To allow the students to learn and apply the outdoor/camp craft skills including outdoor cooking, knots and lashes, structure building and orienteering. To allow student to be able to reflect upon the experiences in learning to communicate and support each other.

Sec 2 Leadership Training Camp • End of October

Leadership Opportunities: Peer Support Leader Community Service Leader ECG Leader

Objectives • Equip and hone the leadership skills for the Sec 2 leaders guided by the 5 practices of exemplary leadership of Student Leadership Challenge Model. • Acquire skills needed to become effective leaders such as facilitation, communication, project & people management skills. • To bond and forge new friendship among Sec 2 leaders in different CCA groups.

Sec 2 Learning Journey to National Museum • 28th July and 4th Aug 2023 • LJ to National Museum is part of the cohort learning journeys • This LJ not only promotes an interest in the arts, but it will also complement the learning of Social Studies and Character and Citizenship Education.

Sec 2 Applied Learning Programme Sustainability Education@Unity Aim:

To nurture every student to be Eco-stewards for life where they will develop sensitivity towards the environment and understand what it takes to live sustainably

Real World Issue: Challenges in the Singapore’s Energy Landscape Driving Question:

How would your energy-efficient school or neighborhood in Singapore look like in 2050? ●

To develop creative solutions to overcome the energy trilemma balancing the trade-offs between energy security, competitive prices, and environmental sustainability

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Using Minecraft Education, students exercise their problem-solving and computational thinking skills to share their vision and solutions for a cleaner and more energy-efficient Singapore

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Period of Implementation:

Term 2 Week 5 - 9

Demonstrating Understanding through Virtual Learning Environments Game-based Learning

▪ Minecraft: Education Edition helps prepare students for the future workplace, building skills like collaboration, communication, critical thinking and systems thinking

▪ The open learning environment gives students the freedom to experiment, encouraging creative self-expression and problem solving.

UNITY SEC BL/ SIL JOURNEY for Sec 2 Featured SIL Subject(s) on BL days

Music & Art (Aesthetic Education)

Frequency of featured SIL Subjects

4 one-hour-sessions on Blended Learning days Followed by 8 F2f Hands-on Training Sessions

Nature of Learning Activities -Exercise Choice -Set Goals -Identify learning tasks -Capture process of learning -Demonstrates and reflects on learning

(Demonstration of Learning)

Students have a choice to take modules in either Perf Arts or Visual Arts: Performing Arts Hip Hop Dance, World, Percussion, Stomp!, Cajon drumming Visual Arts Brush Calligraphy, Polymer Clay Making, Manga Drawing Creation e-portfolio showcasing personal learning journey in Art, Music and AEM

Begin with the end in mind “Would you tell me, please which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat. “I don’t much care where-” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat

• Experience ITE Programme (EIP) Students will be exposed to the boundless opportunities that ITE provides; campus tour, course sharing and exciting hands-on sessions. • ECG Seminars, workshops and Fairs World Skills seminar, Lifelong learning institute and career fairs • Interest-based learning Journey • In order to help them explore the world of work, students can sign up for industrial visits based on their interests or hobbies.

Sec 2 ECG Prog

PARENT-TEACHER PARTNERSHIP

Communication. Cooperation. Collaboration.

PSG Application Form: Scan the QR Code https://m5.gs/eUJZTV

Join Unity Parent Support Group Partners In Education For Students Unity Secondary's Parent Support Group (PSG) organises programmes and events to provide a platform for parents to come together, to support one another and to support the school in nurturing our children.

Examples: The Games and Sports Sessions, Dad’s For Life activities, workshops, inspirational sharing and PSG Family Day, PSG Racial Harmony Day Booths etc

Unity’s Communication Channels with Parents • • • • •

Termly School Letter to Parents via PG Unity Newsletter Parents’ Briefings Parent Teacher Meeting Email to school’s generic email: [email protected] • or Teachers’ email found in School Website • Follow us on Unity’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitysec/ • SMS Attendance Updates

Communications with School

Within school hours (7.30 a.m. – 6 p.m.), on working weekdays, and during school terms

Teachers are not expected to provide their personal mobile numbers

Urgent messages to teachers may be directed to the school’s General Office

Appointments for face-toface meetings made at least 3 days in advance

Response Time 3-7-21

THANK YOU Children are our Priority. Changes are Reality. Collaboration is the Strategy.