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SCHOOLS
Dover Campus | 1207 Dover Road
East Campus | 1 Tampines Street 73
6775 5344 | uwcsea.edu.sg
UWC South East Asia (Dover Campus)
Mairead and Shane Gill, Irish;
Jake (17), Aisling (15), Caitlin (12) and Shannon (10)
In August, our children will enter Grade 12, 10, 7 and 5 respectively. We’ve lived
in Singapore for 17 years, and our son spent four happy years in his first school.
However, the attraction to a not-for-profit, truly international, long-established
school that has a diverse student body made up of both fee-paying students
and scholars, was hard to ignore. We also received this advice from two sets of
parents, independently of each other: If you send your child to UWCSEA, even for
one year, it will make an incalculable difference to the rest of his life.
Communication between school and parent is very important, but rarely perfect.
UWCSEA tries to remedy this through regular principal forums, which lead to
invaluable sharing of information, opinions and concerns between the educators
and parents.
Jake has benefited from the multitude of trips on offer, including hiking in
Ladakh, sea-kayaking in Malaysia, and a Grade 11 student-led trip to locations
across Southeast Asia. These trips have given him long-lasting life skills and
independence. Aisling has enjoyed the wide variety of subject choices, ranging
from drama and sports studies to economics and math.
Caitlin loves the sports and outdoor education trips, while Shannon is eager to
become more involved in the myriad of services and global concerns.
UWCSEA is a great fit for our family. When your children berate you about
missing school days due to extended family holidays, or are reluctant to stay at
home when ill, you know that your choice of school was a very good one.