Old-school schools

Posted by noelbynature under Buildings and Monuments, Reflections
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Jerome thinks that they don’t build schools like how they used to and points to this set of buildings, whom many would not know was an old school complex. What school was it?

Here’s some hints:

The school was one of the first four “emergency” schools that were built in 1950, under the supplementary education scheme launched to provide schools to absorb the growing population of school going age children, who had had no schools to go to. Many had ended up working as juvenile hawkers which was creating a potential social problem and with the realisation of this, the then colonial government put forward the scheme which involved building “emergency” schools and also the training of more teachers to cope with the tens of thousands of school children that the schools were being built to house. The other of these first four schools were Monk’s Hill Boys’ School, and schools at Duchess Road and McNair Road. These days, schools are no longer what they used to be like, simple in form and in execution. It would be good to see some of the old schools such as this one at Anthony Road, kept as they were built to be, as a reminder of how it once was in Singapore.

There’s a clue in the passage, but you can find the answer in Jerome’s post, They don’t build schools like they used to.