NE VIA TIE

Discover how Juying Secondary students build character and global awareness through National Education, VIA programmes, and overseas community service trips.

Last updated 31 July 2026

Vision

JYian to Lead With Empathy, A Heart of Gratitude, Passion and Compassion to Improve the Lives of Others as a Gracious Community.

Goals

To help students develop and demonstrate character and citizenship attributes through serving the school, community and nation.

National Day Celebration 2021

Photo collage shaped like Singapore's map with students in red, on a red background, reading Happy National Day.

People in uniforms and masks stand spaced apart on a courtyard during a Singapore flag-raising ceremony.

Standing tall for National Day Observance Ceremony 2021

A group of masked uniformed people stand outdoors holding the Singapore flag in a school courtyard.

Reciting the Singapore pledge.

Three masked students give thumbs up at an outdoor table with papers, in front of a building labeled Integrity.

Our compares for the National Day Observance ceremony.

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National Day Observance Ceremony

Staying rooted as a gracious intergenerational community, Juying Secondary passionately collaborated with Nanyang Community Club for our National Day Observance Ceremony 2020. We helped out with warmly welcoming guests and engaging them at the activity booths where our student councillors and game station masters shared important historical knowledge on famous and impactful characters like Sang Nila Utama, Mr Yusof Ishak, Mr SR Nathan,

Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Singa, who have shaped our cosmopolitan country of today.

Our Uniformed Group cadets in NCC (SEA) were proud flag bearers in the flag party while their comrades in NCDCC

showcased their creativity and precision in executing their fancy drill to enthrall the audience. Our performing arts students also displayed their talents with zest on stage - flashy Hip Hop dance routines by our dance club members, as well as soulful melodies belted out by our Choir members.

It was a beautiful commemoration with our Nanyang community that evening and we hope we will have many more wonderful years of partnership to show the love we have for our dream city and country, our dear Singapore.

A group of youth in navy blue uniforms with red belts and black berets marching in formation on a stage.

Six young cadets in navy and red uniforms salute outdoors, with a crowd in red seated behind them.

Singapore NCC cadets in camouflage uniforms and black berets saluting during a flag-raising ceremony outdoors.

Young cadets in camouflage uniforms and berets carry the Singapore flag during an outdoor ceremony with a crowd watching.

A group of dancers in black shirts perform on an outdoor stage with a colorful LED screen backdrop and crowd watching.

Several young women perform on an outdoor stage, three holding microphones, wearing red and white outfits.

A cheerful group of students in yellow uniforms holds small flags and colorful star wands at an outdoor celebration.

Six smiling people hold Singapore flags at an outdoor celebration with colorful bunting overhead.

Five teenage boys smile together in costumes in front of a cardboard backdrop with a green paper palm tree.

Nine students in white uniforms pose smiling under a House of Knowledge banner with red and white balloons.

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VIA (Values-In-Action)

Orange panel listing five E-words: Explore, Enrich, Engage, Empower, Excite, each paired with a red descriptor phrase.

The VIA Programme seeks to challenge JYians to be concerned citizens and active contributors by engaging them in deep conversations in current affairs, experiential and authentic learning as well as giving them opportunities to advocate for a good cause. The students embark on an investigative journey that leads to a spark for a concern before they take action to make a difference to a social / global issue.

Objectives
1. To provide an opportunity for our students to work together as a class towards fulfilling a common goal.
2. To provide an opportunity for students to interact with children from a different culture so as to deepen students' global awareness and cross-cultural skills and sensitivity.
3. To inculcate the school R2IGHT values in students by providing a meaningful platform.

Sec 2 R2IGHT Camp (VIA/TIE Trip)

This year, Juying Secondary redirected its focus on our Sec 2 VIA/TIE trips to increase the level of student ownership and involvement in the VIA/TIE process. Thi also as to better achieve the objectives of the VIA/TIE trips:
During the June/October holidays, our Secondary Twos and Threes were involved in the Trips for International Experience (TIE) in various countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

The objectives of the trip are to develop our students in the 21****st Century Competencies of Global Awareness and Cross-Cultural skills. Through their experience in serving the needs of children in orphanages and schools and also tackling environmental issues such as water pollution, our students have definitely grown in their self-confidence and self-directedness as well as developed into more concerned global citizens and active contributors to handle social issues around them.

Objectives of VIA TIE Trip

1. Develop in our students the 21st Century Competencies of global awareness and cross-cultural skills and sensitivities;
2. Expose students to Asia, especially South East Asia, and sensitise them to Singapore’s place in the world; and
3. Deepen students’ commitment and rootedness to Singapore.

To plan for the trip, our Sec 2 students go through the following steps:

Processes

Stage 1
Identify a social issue that they want to learn more about.

Stage 2

Conduct online research on how that issue is being tackled in Singapore.
Select a country that has done well in tackling that issue to visit and learn from.

Stage 3

Craft their desired learning outcomes from their VIA/TIE trip.

Stage 4

Work with their form teachers to plan the trip itinerary and select the trip vendor.

A large group of smiling young people in yellow shirts pose outdoors near trees and a concrete wall.

Building a well in Bintan.

Large group of students and adults posing with a banner reading Juying Secondary School Trip for International Experience.

A group photo after a VIA experience in Bintan.

Group of children and young adults in red shirts sitting around a table with coloring pages, smiling and making peace signs.

Hanging out with children at an orphanage

Following their VIA/TIE trip, the Sec 3 classes all shared with the school what they had experienced and learnt during their trip. Feedback from the students, the teachers, and even the staff of the places visited by the students during their VIA/TIE trips, was very positive. Students shared that they had benefited from the programme tremendously.

As a follow-up to the VIA/TIE trip and to give the students an opportunity to further develop themselves and apply what they have learnt, the Sec 3 classes will be planning their own VIA activity to tackle the social issue they had chosen, but in Singapore’s context. Through this programme, our students have definitely grown in their self-confidence and self-directedness, as well as developed into more concerned global citizens and active contributors to tackling social issues around them.

Large group of students in yellow and teal uniforms posing with a school banner inside a Thai classroom.

Sec 3T1 on their VIA trip to Hatyai, Thailand

Secondary 1

PASSION Modules & Advocacy Projects (SPARK! Day)

Students presenting advocacy projects to parents, teachers, principal, superintendent, and 200 primary students during Spark! Day.

Secondary 2

Trips for International Experience / Values In Action (Care for the Environment & Underprivileged)

Slide showing TIE/VIP objectives text surrounded by photos of students in green shirts on group trips abroad.

A group of people planting mangroves together on muddy shores and sandy beaches in multiple outdoor photos.

Flyer titled Safe Water Garden Project at Bintan showing three photos of volunteers building garden sanitation facilities outdoors.

Secondary 3

Care for the Elderly

Multi-story teal and white building with a sign reading "Health Nursing Home" surrounded by trees under a blue sky.

We partnered with the nursing home near our school to conduct various activities such as music-making, exercises, sensory boards and life story documenting for the residents of the home weekly. Before embarking on planning the activities, our students learnt more about the needs of the elderly from a sharing conducted by the staff of the home. As we would like to respect the privacy of the residents, no photographs will be featured here.

Secondary 4/5

Care for the Environment

Large group of people in blue shirts posing together on grass in a park with palm trees and a pavilion.

Together with our partner, Lions Club, three classes jointly conducted a beach cleaning. After the cleanup, the students gathered their observations and conducted an advocacy campaign to create awareness to the juniors and peers. The topics covered range from litter people throw, the negative impacts caused by these litter and how we can play our part via platforms such as BeAConz talk, posters and sharing via social media platforms. The other classes also embarked on environmental advocacy projects.

Volunteers in blue shirts collecting trash in black bags on a sandy beach with trees nearby.

Environmental Sustainability Education

School Wide Sustainability Awareness & Education

Students in uniforms stand in a hallway, reading and writing on papers pinned to a green display board.

A speaker presents on a lit stage to a large seated audience in a school hall with a projected screen.

Two hyperlinks side by side: NParks Biodiversity Exhibition In School and Waterways Watch Society Talk on World Water Day.

Eight students in school uniforms pose around a table with craft supplies in a classroom with curtained windows.

A large group of students in blue uniforms pose together indoors, holding small plants, with a colorful wall display behind them.

Two hyperlinks in red and blue text reading "Upcycling DIY Activities" and "Terrarium Making Workshop with Terra SG"

Students in blue Andes uniforms sit on the floor listening to a presenter standing near an electric car display.

Bright classroom with round wooden tables, small stools, a whiteboard, and a green chalkboard reading "d.ex corner."

Text listing two school activities: Learning Journey to Energy Efficiency Centre and Green Corner food collection campaign.

Juying DREAM Garden

Five masked people hold red letters spelling DREAM behind rows of potted flowering plants outdoors near a building.

Launch of our Juying DREAM garden.
Our commitment to sustainability education and Singapore’s 2030 Green Plan