- Dunman High School - Our History 回顾历史

On 31 July 2004, MOE announced that Dunman High School would offer a six year Integrated Programme (IP) or the Dunman High Programme (DHP) that leads directly to a GCE A-Level certification.

Dunman High School is the first government secondary school to offer IP, the announcement signaled MOE's strong confidence in the school to provide a top class education.

The school's 6th and 7th principals Mr Tan Thiam Hock 陈添福 (1998-2004) and Mr Sng Chern Wei 孙振炜 (2004-2009) respectively played an instrumental role in conceptualizing and implementing the 6-year Dunman High Programme.

2004 also produced the school's fourth President Scholar – Mr He Ruijie.

In 2007 and 2008, Dunman High School underwent PRIME (Programme for Rebuilding and Improving Existing Schools) and was temporarily located at a holding school situated in the former Raffles Junior College campus at Mt. Sinai Road.

In January 2009, Dunman High School’s new premises have expanded with many state-of-the-arts facilities such as an 850-seater Performing Arts Centre and Life Science Laboratory.

In 2009 Tan Baojia who belonged to the first batch of IP students was awarded the President’s Scholarship. Since 1976 the school has produced five President’s Scholars. All the five President’s Scholars achieved sterling academic results, possessed a keen interest in a variety of activities, knowledgeable, as well as demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities. Additionally, they were individuals with good character and personality.

Dunman High has nurtured countless students into good citizens who have contributed much to society and the country. This has been and will continue to be the driving force for all staff and students to strive for excellence in all their endeavours.

In 2010, Dunman High School welcomed a new principal, Dr Foo Suan Fong 符传丰博士, a former Dunman High student.

In July 2011, Dunman High celebrated its 55 Anniversary and the official Opening of its expanded campus. 2011 also marked the establishment of the Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning for the East Zone (EZ COE T & L) at Dunman High School to support East Zone teachers to enhance professional practice in curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment.

The year saw the re-validation of Dunman High School’s Outstanding Development Award (Character Development) and Best Practice Awards (Teaching & Learning, Student All-Round Development, and Staff Well-Being). Also renewed this year was our School Excellence Award – MOE’s pinnacle award for schools. These awards reaffirmed Dunman High School’s sustained excellence in a wide spectrum of student and staff processes.

In 2013, Dunman High School was awarded the President’s Award for the Environment for its sustained and tireless commitment to the environmental cause.

Ms Clara Lim Shu Qi was awarded the President’s Scholarship as well as the Lee Hsien Loong Award for All-Round Achievement.

The school was also re-validated for the National Arts Education Award (Blaze) in recognition of its commitment and contribution towards Arts Education.

The school celebrated its 60th Anniversary with a Homecoming Dinner on the school campus on 10 July with more than 1800 invited guests.

On that day, the school also launched the DHS e-Heritage portal, an electronic platform that archives the achievements and stories the school and its members have shared over the past 60 years.

In late 2016, DHS also welcomed a new principal, Mr Low Teck Eng Tony 刘德荣.

Ms Ong Si Hui, Olivia did the school proud by being awarded the President’s Scholarship as well as the Lee Hsien Loong Award for All-Round Achievement. This was the second consecutive year that a Dunman High student had clinched both these awards.

DHS was awarded the Lotus Award by the Singapore Environment Council, under the School Green Awards 2017.

Student Ong Jia Wei Isaac was awarded the Grand Prize Winner in the international 2017 Google Code-in Open Source Competition. He was the first Singaporean student to clinch the top prize in this international competition

MOE announced that DHS would participate in the Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE) from 2019, as part of the Ministry’s efforts to encourage more diversity in schools. With this move, all IP schools in Singapore would admit GCE O-Level students into their JC levels.

DHS signed a memorandum of understanding with Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Institute (ZJU-UIUC), and became the first Singapore school to collaborate with ZJU-UIUC for undergraduate recruitment.

DHS will henceforth act as the recruitment centre for all applicants from Singapore, who are not Chinese nationals, for application to ZJU-UIUC.