Location: Seletar
| Name: | Seletar |
| Camp: | RAF Seletar |
| Country: | Singapore |
| Type(s): | Primary, Secondary |
| Notes Seletar school is first mentioned in the "Coronation List". This is a schedule of schools that existed in 1952. The map pin shows the location of the Secondary school. Military post was conducted through the civil postal authorities.......c/o GPO Singapore. The BFES/SCE Association is grateful to Steve Tennant and Lynne Copping for their assistance. | |
A map of RAF Seletar.......the primary (smaller rectangle) and secondary schools are marked with a red rectangle.
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Map courtesy of Gordon Claughton of the RAF Seletar Facebook Group.
RAF Seletar had a Primary School which unusually split into Infant & Junior settings.
Seletar Junior School playground.
A class at Seletar Junior School in 1964.
A class from 1967.
RAF Seletar Secondary Modern School provided education for those not selected for RAF Changi Grammar School.
The Secondary Modern school was located on Mornington Crescent (location courtesy of Steve Tennant).
Image courtesy of the RAF Seletar Secondary Modern Facebook Group.
The children travelled to the school by Service coach.
RAF Seletar closed at the end of March 1971.
The Secondary school was inspected by HMI in 1966.
Not everything in the report was positive.
RAF Seletar Secondary Modern.......House Captains and Prefects 1968/69.
The site was demolished in 2017..........image courtesy of Chris Smith and John Philips of the school's Facebook Group.
It would appear that the Primary school was demolished with the building/widening of Aerospace Drive.
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