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Chai Chee Secondary School (1969 - 2010)
1968 •	The first principal of the school was Mr. Albert Tan and 804 students from Sec 1 to 3 became the pioneers of the new school

1969 •	The new school was headed by Mrs. Ann Chee and was officially opened by Encik Sha'ari tadin, then Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Culture on 22nd May 1969. •	In November the same year, the very first batch of students sat for the Singapore Cambridge School Certificate Examinations.

1970 •	In June, the school was renamed Chai Chee Secondary School on the recommendation of Encik Sha'ari Tadin, member of Parliament for Kampong Chai Chee and since then the name has remained. •	On 4 August, the school's first sports meet was officially held followed by its first speech and Prize-Giving Day on September 4. The school was headed by Mr. Benjamin Khoo.

1977 •	The very first parents-meet- teachers session on August 12 was successfully launched. It was aimed at promoting greater awareness among parents with regard to changes in educational policies.

1978 •	Chai Chee Secondary School celebrated its 10th Anniversary on the 26th of August. It was also an eventful.

1979 •	The school welcomed the new leadership of Mrs. Ursula Quah in January. It also extended a warm welcome to Mr. Wong Hen Fatt as the new vice principal and Dr Goh Soon Khiang as Chairman of the school advisory committee

1980 •	The year marked the change in leadership once again from Mrs. Ursula Quah to Mr. Leong San Nam

1981 •	Mr. Harold Mathieu became the school's 6th principal with the leaving of Mr. Leong San Nam and Mr. Wong, the vice-principal. •	A food and fun fair was held to raise funds for a language laboratory and air-conditioning facilities for the library.

1983 •	The language laboratory was completed and the school's library was finally air-conditioned. •	The school had also re-organised itself into eight academic departments, each with a head-in-charge.

1984 •	Mr. David Wong Mei Hsiong became the next vice-principal and thereafter its 7th Principal in the following year.

1987 •	Mr. Mohammed b Hj Apandi was appointed as the school's third Vice-Principal in November

1987. •	Renovation and air-conditioning of the Resource Room was completed.

1989 •	The school celebrated its 20th Anniversary on 20 July 1989. A series of activities were held as part of its celebrations.

1990 •	Mr. Tng Hia Seng took over as the school's eighth Principal in December 1989.

1993 •	The school was placed among the 'Value-Added' schools for the Normal Stream in the ranking of Schools. •	The counselling room and career guidance room were completed. •	Two art rooms were converted into compute Labs. •	Two Design & Technology workshops were completed for the Upper Secondary Programme.

1994 •	The school celebrated its 25th Anniversary bearing the theme of 'Chai Chee -My School' •	The school had its first enrolment of 2 classes of Normal Technical students. •	Mr. Mohammed, the Vice-Principal, left the school and was replaced by Miss Doreen Ngo. •	The school was placed among the 'Value-added" schools for the Express Stream in the ranking of schools. •	An outdoor Physical Fitness Station, a commerce and a 2nd Home Economics Kitchen were the new facilities provided to the school.

1996 •	The school welcomed visitors from Haguro High School from Japan. •	The Career Corner was officially declared open by Mr. Cheong Heng Yuen, the Deputy director of the PCCG branch, MOE.

1997 •	A member of the East One Cluster Schools •	The school was reviewed by the External Appraisal Team from the Ministry of Education. In the EastOne Cluster Swimming Meet, the school was overall champion. •	We say good-bye to Mr. Tng Hia Seng as he left Chai Chee to become Principal of Woodlands Ring Secondary School.

1998 •	Mr. Mohd Said Ja'afar took over as the School's ninth principal in January. •	The school went through renovation and painting. •	In the EastOne Cluster Swimming Meet and the Combined Schools swimming Carnival, the school was the overall champion. •	In softball, the school was champion for "C" Boys in the East Zone Softball Tournament.

1999 •	The school celebrated its 30th Anniversary for the whole year and ended with a Dinner on 31 August. •	School swimmers emerged as champions at the EastOne Cluster Swimming Meet & Combined Schools Swimming Meet. •	WITs Team awarded a bronze at the National Quality Circle Convention. •	School received Trim and Fit Silver Award and Fitness Grade 'B'. •	NPCC Unit won bronze award. •	Awarded NKF Gold Award for Fund Raising. •	Mrs. Heng Gay Lee posted to Loyang Primary School as Vice-Principal.

2000 •	WITs Team awarded Silver Award at QCC. •	Achieved more than 10% increase for 5 GCE 'O' Level Passes in 1999. •	Top 40 schools in Value Added for GCE 'O' Normal Course in 1999. •	In softball, the school was champion for Boys 'B' Division in the East Zone Softball Tournament. •	Trim And Fit Silver Award

2001 •	Chai Chee Secondary adopted Learning Organisation practices. •	GCE 'O' 2000, Best MTL Results - ML & CL in % of distinctions and MSG. •	Scouts : Frank Coopre Sands Award 2000 - Silver Award. •	Basketball 'B' Division Boys East Zone Tournament - Runners -up. •	Basketball - Hui Guorong selected as Combined Schools player. •	Swimming - EastOne Cluster Schools (Boys), (Girls) and Overall Champion 5th Year. •	Softball East Zone 'B' Boys - 3rd 'C' Boys - 3rd. •	TAF 'B' band - silver award for 5th year •	Malay Language Club won 1st prize in EastOne Cluster Poetry Competition and 2nd prize in Creative Writing Competition.. •	30 members of ELDDS went to UK for EL/Literature and Drama study activities.. •	School band went to Perth for educational/performance tour 30 May to 5 June. •	Staff WITs team won 2 bronze medals at NQCC. •	Soccer: Bedok South Neighbourhood Centre 7-A-Side - 2nd

2002 •	Chai Chee Secondary adopted Learning Organisation practices. •	Scouts : Frank Coopre Sands Award 2002 - Silver Award. •	Basketball 'B' Division Boys National Tournament - Champion •	Basketball 'B' Division Boys East Zone Tournament - Champion. •	Swimming - EastOne Cluster Schools (Boys), (Girls) and Overall Champion 7th Year. •	Softball East Zone 'B' Boys - 4th •	Softball East Zone 'C' Boys - 3rd •	TAF 'B' band - silver award for 6th year •	Staff WITs team won silver awrd at NQCC. •	Mr. Loke Kay Khee took over as the school's tenth Principal in December 2003

2004 •	Harmony Challenge Day was organized to tie up with Racial Harmony Day to promote both religious harmony and racial harmony. •	Creativity Day was organized to encourage creative thinking among students. •	Project Spark was implemented in an effort to spark Innovation and Enterprise journey. •	Invention week and Bazaar Day as part of the Project Work Programme, were conducted to spearhead the 'Young Enterpreneurs' spirit. •	The school received a Silver Award for the Trim & Fit Programme.

2005 •	Project Spark continued as part of CCSS effort in the I & E journey. The Invention Week and Solar Cooking Competition took place as part of Project Work for lower secondary students. •	Project Solar was kicked off to allow students to learn beyond the classroom in a creative environment. It was also to enhance student awareness and promote their understanding of Solar energy as an alternative source of energy. •	The school was awarded the People Developer Standard. Cherish Award (Silver), Choir (Silver) and Band (Bronze), TAF (GOLD) Hibiscus Award in Green Audit Award in 2005. •	Fashion Show Design during Clean and Green Week (Merit Award), Hong Kong International Youth and Children Choir Festival (Silver) and Band International Competition (Genting Highlands) (Bronze).

2006 •	The School extended a warm welcome to Mr Noah Ong as the new Vice Principal. •	The Minister of Education, Mr Tharman Shanmugarathnam visited the school. •	The Australian Band visited the School. •	The School was awarded the Character Development Award. •	TAF (GOLD), Hong Kong International Youth and Children Choir Festival (Silver), School Video Awards (Merit)

2007 •	TAF (Gold) for the 3rd time. The Scouts, Guides & NPCC were awarded Silver for Best Unit Competitions. Choir and Dance received Bronze Awards for the 2007 SYF. International Choral Festival 2007, Choir received Gold and Dance was awarded Silver. C Division Softball Boys' team was placed 4th in the East Zone Competition. •	The School received the Green Audit Lotus Award from the Singapore Environment Council and 31 students received the NYAA Silver •	Foreign visitors: HKMA David Li Kwok Po College, Hong Kong; Chang Su Foreign Language School & Jiang Su Zhen Ze Sec School; Shigaku Kyokai, Japan; Master-in-Education participants from Beijing/Hebei and hosted attachment for 4 participants. •	Our school had a twinning programme with Ji Nan Shi Li Cheng (Er Chong) 2nd Middle School in Shandong Province, China. •	School Digital Media Awards 2007 (Silver)

2008 •	MOE Trim & FIT (GOLD) •	MOE Level Two Awards for Uniformed Groups (Sustained Achievement Award-Uniform Groups) •	Moe Level Two Awards for Physical Health (Sustained Achievement Award-Physical) •	Puan Noor Aishah Award (Scouts-Silver) •	Frank Cooper Sand Award (Scouts-Silver) •	NPCC Unit Overall Proficiency Award (Silver) •	NCC Unit Overall Proficiency Award (Silver) •	Cherish Award (Silver) •	OVERSEAS TRIPS •	Shandong Trip -   20 students were selected for the trip. Highlights of the trip and their accompanying objectives follows : •	Interaction with the students of Li Cheng No. 2 Secondary School and got to understand their high motivation in learning foreign languages. •	Learning Chinese Calligraphyand how to play the drum and Erhu as well as attending a Beijing Opera in Jinan Opera Theatre and learning to make dumplings from a Chinese-Muslim helped the students to understand China's culture. •	Climbed the Tai Shan Mountain, visited the Yellow River and picked fresh apples from an Apple Farm also helped to widen the students' horizons. •	Guizhou Trip - The purpose was to build a library in a school in Guiyang's Liu Pan Shui. Duties include constructing book shelves, categorizing the books according to their content and decorating the walls with pictures. Camaraderie and relationships were built with the local students as a result of these tasks. •	The students also visited theHuangguo Waterfall as part of the trip. •	CIP ACTIVITIES •	Milk Run -  Milk Run 2008 was organized by Beyond Social Services and MILK (Mainly I Love Kids). in lieu of National Youth Day and to raise funds for the less privileged children. This is basically a charity marathon. •	Collection of Old Newspapers -   The students collected old newspapers from the residents near our school. The money collected from the sales of the newspapers was to help the victims of the earthquake in Sichuan. •	CELEBRATION AT BEDOK COMMUNITY LIBRARY •	The school put up a concert at the library at the BCL's Performing Room for the public. Items include choir, solo singing and instrumental performances. There was also a story presented entitled "Hope for the flowers". •	The theme of this year's Teacher's Day Celebration was "Chai Chee Got Talent". Performances range from acapella singing to elaborate dance routines. Students from the dance team accompanied some teachers in a dance as well. •	Mr. Ang Hwee Khoon took over as the school's eleventh Principal in December 2008.

2011 •	Chai Chee Secondary School merged with Bedok Town Secondary School on 1 Jan 2011.