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MOE’s Teacher Work Attachment Programme
Since 2005, we have worked closely with MOE under
its “Teacher Work Attachment” programme to provide
professional development for teachers with MOE. Under
this programme, MOE assigns their teachers to work under
attachment with teachers in our School for a period of two
to four weeks, to gain an understanding of OFS’s and IB’s
teaching practice.
On 23 November 2011 and 20 November 2012, we were
awarded the Certificate of Appreciation by the Academy of
Singapore Teachers, in recognition of OFS’s contribution to
the professional learning of teachers in Singapore. OFS has
renewed its commitment to the Teacher Work Attachment
programme with MOE for 2012, and will continue to
participate in this partnership on a sustained basis to provide
attachment places for teachers from MOE.
Exchanges with Local Schools
There are school exchanges between our School, Ang Mo
Kio Secondary School and Bendemeer Secondary School,
respectively, where students share and celebrate their
cultural differences and similarities. For example, students
from our School and Bendemeer Secondary School went
over to each other’s schools for International Friendship Day.
In addition, students from our School performed at Ang Mo
Kio Secondary School’s Chinese New Year’s celebrations
for the past four years, while students and teachers from
Ang Mo Kio Secondary School provided dance training and
costumes for our students, the most recent of which was for
a traditional Malay dance performance at our High School
United Nations Concert held in September 2012.
ENVIRONMENTAL
As part of our initiative to minimise the School’s impact on
the environment, we have since 2010 replaced all the
refrigerants in our School’s approximately 500 air-
conditioners with non-ozone depleting refrigerants. Under
the Montreal Protocol to which Singapore is a party, all air-
conditioners in Singapore are required to cease using ozone
depleting refrigerants by 2040.
As such, we are significantly ahead of the stipulated deadline
for the use of non-ozone depleting refrigerants. Apart from
being more environmentally friendly, these new refrigerants
also provide improved electric current delivery, thereby
lowering the energy consumption in our School. We have
measured a reduction in the electricity consumption of our
air-conditioners by up to 36% following the replacement of
the refrigerants.
In addition, we have to date replaced about 40% of all the
fluorescent lights in our School with light-emitting diode
(“LED”) lights. Custom-made for our School, these LED
lights are better for the eyes as the lights are non-flickering.
They are also non-hazardous, as there is no mercury in the
lights, which is what is traditionally found in florescent lamps.
Furthermore, they have reduced our electricity consumption
from lighting by up to 46% as compared to when we used
florescent tubes.
These efforts by us to use more environmentally friendly air-
conditioning refrigerants and lighting at our present campus
are intended in part to be a ‘trial-run’ in preparation for the
school-wide installation of such green technology at our new
campus.
2 Overseas Education Limited AR 2012
Investing In Education
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