Location: Changi
| Name: | Changi |
| BFPO: | N/A |
| Camp: | RAF Changi |
| Country: | Singapore |
| Type(s): | Infant, Junior, Secondary |
| Notes Schools in Changi are first mentioned in the "Coronation List". This is a schedule of schools that existed in 1952. The Infant school was located on Manston Road....as marked. The Junior school was on Farnborough Road.........500m west of Manston Road. The original Changi Grammar School moved to nearby Selerang and the Secondary Modern moved to Seletar. Military post was conducted through the civil postal authorities.......c/o GPO Singapore. | |
The photographs below are all courtesy of the RAF Changi Facebook page.
Changi Infants School (late 50s/early 60s) located in an Attap hut.
Changi Infants class photograph from 1965.
Changi Infant staff photograph dated 1968-69.
The front of the Junior school and staff carpark.
Frank Willis, Head of Changi Junior School from 1966-71
Break time......with refreshments on sale.
A Changi junior class circa 1966/67.
End of the school day........a significant number of busses were required to take the children home.
Changi Junior School in the foreground with what became the Education Centre in the background.
The Grammar and Secondary Modern schools used the Centre's premises until moving into purpose built accommodation.
The Grammar School - see below, the Secondary Modern to Seletar.
A closer view of the Grammar school premises.
The new RAF Grammar School moved from Changi and was located in nearby Selerang.
An Argosy transport plane flies over the Grammar School.
The first 30 seconds include views of the school.......later scenes are of the married quarters on Wyton Road, Lloyd Leas Estate, which backed on to the school playing fields.