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</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>11 new primary schools <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Upgrading for 28 others in move to single session </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Amelia Tan
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In all, the ministry plans to build 18 new schools and upgrade up to 80, at a total cost of about $1 billion. There are currently 177 primary schools in Singapore. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->ELEVEN new primary schools will be built and 28 existing ones upgraded by the end of 2013 as part of a plan to move all such schools to single-session ones by 2016.
The works will be carried out in phases: The first phase, to build five new schools and upgrade the 28, will begin later this year, the Education Ministry said yesterday.
The five new schools will open in January 2012, and will be in Jurong West, Punggol Place, Sembawang Drive, Sengkang East Way and Woodlands Crescent.
A ministry spokesman said the locations of the new schools had been chosen because of their proximity to existing and new housing developments.
The other six schools to be built will open a year later.
Of the 28 schools to be renovated, 21 will undergo major revamps, to build facilities such as new wings. For three - CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh), De La Salle School and Kong Hwa School - these renovations will be so extensive that they will have to move to temporary premises.
The cost of building the 11 schools and upgrading the 28 is $560 million.
In all, the ministry plans to build 18 new schools and upgrade up to 80, at a total cost of about $1 billion. There are currently 177 primary schools in Singapore.
Moving all primary schools to single session was one of the main recommendations put forward earlier this year by the Primary Education Review and Implementation committee (Peri) - headed by Senior Minister of State for Education Grace Fu - and accepted by the Government.
The committee said a single-session model would free schools to organise enrichment classes for their pupils in the afternoons.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>11 new primary schools <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Upgrading for 28 others in move to single session </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Amelia Tan
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --><TR vAlign=bottom><TD width=330>
</TD><TD width=10>
In all, the ministry plans to build 18 new schools and upgrade up to 80, at a total cost of about $1 billion. There are currently 177 primary schools in Singapore. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->ELEVEN new primary schools will be built and 28 existing ones upgraded by the end of 2013 as part of a plan to move all such schools to single-session ones by 2016.
The works will be carried out in phases: The first phase, to build five new schools and upgrade the 28, will begin later this year, the Education Ministry said yesterday.
The five new schools will open in January 2012, and will be in Jurong West, Punggol Place, Sembawang Drive, Sengkang East Way and Woodlands Crescent.
A ministry spokesman said the locations of the new schools had been chosen because of their proximity to existing and new housing developments.
The other six schools to be built will open a year later.
Of the 28 schools to be renovated, 21 will undergo major revamps, to build facilities such as new wings. For three - CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh), De La Salle School and Kong Hwa School - these renovations will be so extensive that they will have to move to temporary premises.
The cost of building the 11 schools and upgrading the 28 is $560 million.
In all, the ministry plans to build 18 new schools and upgrade up to 80, at a total cost of about $1 billion. There are currently 177 primary schools in Singapore.
Moving all primary schools to single session was one of the main recommendations put forward earlier this year by the Primary Education Review and Implementation committee (Peri) - headed by Senior Minister of State for Education Grace Fu - and accepted by the Government.
The committee said a single-session model would free schools to organise enrichment classes for their pupils in the afternoons.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
