Come August, Singapore will be home to the new permanent campus for the Stamford American International School, to be located at Upper Serangoon Road.
The school was built by Cognita, one of the world's largest education providers, with 58 schools across the UK, Europe and Asia.
The $300 million it cost is the heftiest investment in a K-12 education facility in the Asia-Pacific region. It will house 2,500 students from two to 18 years of age, and from diverse racial backgrounds spanning 40 nationalities.
K-12 is a designation for education from kindergarten, for four to six year-olds to twelfth grade for sixteen to nineteen year-olds, and is used in the United States, Canada and occasionally Australia.
The school boasts an interactive learning environment supported by technology - each student will be given an iPad where information can be easily shared, for one.
Students can also watch guest lecturers giving talks and lectures onscreen, as well as teachers giving lessons 'on-site', for example, a lesson on Ancient Egypt while standing at the pyramids.
There will also be facilities for performing arts, computer laboratories, and sports facilities like swimming pools with ionised water, indoor basketball courts and an outdoor field.
The school will also have Singapore's first fully computerised system where students are dropped off or fetched by their parents - they will scan their card on a reader, and their name will appear on a board before they enter or leave the premises.
Mr Malcolm J. Kay, superintendent of Stamford explained the school's extensive use of technology in learning: 'We want to teach our children through a rigorous process of enquiry - and to do so, they must have constant access to a wealth of global information and be taught to use it effectively.'
The school is the first in Singapore to offer both education by American standards and in the International Baccaleaurate (IB) framework, and will also provide much employment when it is opened.
Mr Brian G. Rogove, chief executive officer of Cognita's Asia branch, put down their choice of Singapore over her competitor Hong Kong to the 'much greater availability' of spaces for expatriates here.
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