North View Secondary School
North View Secondary School | |
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Location | |
Yishun, Singapore | |
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Type | Private school, school that decides the rules/school hours by themselves |
Motto | To allow students to watch football matches |
Established | 2 Jan 1988 |
Session | 3 to 4 hour sessions |
School code | 3602 |
Principal | Mr James Ong |
Enrolment | 0 |
Colour(s) | Various |
Website | none (removed in November 2012) |
North View Secondary School a.k.a. NVSS (Singapore) is a private secondary school located in Yishun, Singapore. Officially started on 2 January 1988, classes were held at the school building located at Yishun Ring Road.
The school does not have a Principal and Vice-Principal in 2013 as the Principal and Vice-Principal has died in 2012 as their heart failed to work due to a loud crash made by a car in a fatal accident. Their bodies were recovered by the school staff and were buried at the Bukit Brown Cemetery. Mr James Ong, head of the school land management committee and his brother Mr David Ong replaced them as Principal and Vice-Principal respectively in 2014.
The current school building will be demolished to make way for Yishun Neighbourhood Shopping Mall in April 2013. Lessons from January to April 2013 will begin at various times determined by the times which football matches in the Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and many various football tournaments that are held from 12am-6am on weekday mornings to allow the students to watch the matches. Should Premier League telecasts end at 2am on Monday mornings, school will commence at 10.25am on Mondays, with lessons commencing at 11.00am and ending at 5.30pm. If telecasts end at 3am, school will commence at 11.25am on Mondays, with lessons commencing at 12 noon and ending at 6.30pm. Should a football match kick off after 2am on weekday mornings, the school will be closed for the day. Constructions will begin in mid-2013 and expected to be completed by 4th quarter 2014. Students studying in this school will be forced to drop out of the school and will be given an option to do part-time jobs in the neighbourhood from May 2013 onwards. The school building will not be relocated to another location as there are not enough land to build a new school building.
The school must follow the above or a group of people who are construction workers and football fans will destroy the school building by burning it using fire and using hammers to break the building and force it to be collapsed.
Management
- Principal: Mr James Ong
- Vice-Principal: Mr David Ong (Younger brother of Mr James Ong)
- Teachers: Randomly selected by Mr James Ong and Mr David Ong. Teachers would be given daily/weekly/monthly contracts to be signed, also randomly selected by Mr James Ong and Mr David Ong. Once a teacher's contract expires, he/she would be fired from the school immediately and is not allowed to sign a new one.
Achievements
- Least favourite school award (2010, 2011, 2012)
School Vision
1. Students who watch football matches
2. Students who are football/sports fans
3. Respecting the football matches
4. Subscribe to SingTel mio TV Sports Pack (Students who do not subscribe will be barred from studying in the school)
Achievements
The school did not receive any awards as it is a weakest school in Singapore.
Appearances on television
The school was the filming location for School's In (TV Series) for seasons 11 & 12 (2011-2012). School's In was televised on Events Channel E from 2001. Season 12 was the final season of School's In on Channel E and was replaced with sports and dramas shown on weekdays from 7am-1pm.
The school also organized concerts and competitions which were also televised on Channel E in 2011 and 2012. The performances were usually judged by students who usually would press their buzzers (similar to America's Got Talent) if they did not like the performances (an X would be given once a judge pressed his buzzer) and would give comments and sometimes the judges criticized the performances for lack of talent/teamwork/creativity etc. The performances were terminated if three buzzers were pressed by the judges. Viewers who watched the show could vote by calling a toll-free telephone number or by SMS. Viewers usually had two or four hours to vote at the end of the show, depending on the type and number of performances. The performances were notably "talentless" and most of them were usually criticized by the judges. Most performances were X'ed out by the judges. Sometimes, all the performances in a particular concert/competition in the school were all X'ed out by the judges. Viewers are still allowed to vote for the act that has been X'ed out. Also, sometimes an act continued their performance even when being X'ed out by the judges, and this required staff and crew members to shout the word "stop!" or even going up to the stage to ask the performers to get down and stop their performance, signifying that they must end their performance and have the judges comment/critique on their performance.
The school organized a cohort camp for its Secondary 3 students on 26-28 March 2013. It was telecast live on Channel E. However, Channel E viewers complained that the telecast took up the entire day and that the cohort camp was not interesting at all. Channel E planned to show highlights on future cohort camps instead of showing it live the entire day.
Barclays Premier League Results
Monday 30 December 2013
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
Tottenham 3-0 Stoke City
Sunday 29 December 2013
Cardiff 2-2 Sunderland
Newcastle 0-1 Arsenal
Everton 2-1 Southampton
Saturday 28 December 2013
West Ham 3-3 West Brom
Man City 1-0 Crystal Palace
Norwich 0-1 Man Utd
Aston Villa 1-1 Swansea
Hull 6-0 Fulham
Friday 27 December 2013
Man City 2-1 Liverpool
Thursday 26 December 2013
Hull 2-3 Man Utd
West Ham 1-3 Arsenal
Chelsea 1-0 Swansea
Tottenham 1-1 West Brom
Everton 0-1 Sunderland
Cardiff 0-3 Southampton
Newcastle 5-1 Stoke City
Norwich 1-2 Fulham
Aston Villa 1-2 Crystal Palace
Tuesday 24 December 2013
Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea
Monday 23 December 2013
Sunday 22 December 2013
Saturday 21 December 2013
Liverpool 3-1 Cardiff
Man Utd 3-1 West Ham
Fulham 2-4 Man City
Crystal Palace 0-3 Newcastle
Stoke City 2-1 Aston Villa
Sunderland 0-0 Norwich City
West Brom 1-1 Hull City
Barclays Premier League Fixtures
Wednesday 1 January 2014
Swansea vs Man City 8.45pm mio TV Ch 102 / StarHub TV Ch 227
Southampton vs Chelsea 11.00pm mio TV Ch 102 / StarHub TV Ch 227
Liverpool vs Hull 11.00pm mio TV Ch 103 / StarHub TV Ch 228
Arsenal vs Cardiff 11.00pm mio TV Ch 104 / StarHub TV Ch 229
Fulham vs Everton 11.00pm
West Brom vs Newcastle 11.00pm
Thursday 2 January 2014 (school closed)
Man Utd vs Tottenham 1.30am mio TV Ch 102 / StarHub TV Ch 227
Notes
All football matches listed in this article indicate live matches only. It does not include repeat telecasts or matches which are not televised.
Please do not remove any fixtures from this article. Any fixtures removed will be added back to the article. The fixture list is to force the school to adjust the school hours so that students can watch football matches till the wee hours at night and have enough sleep for school. The school must not open if a football match kicks off in the wee hours to allow students to get up and catch them.
Fixtures and results may not be available for certain fixtures.
Matches with Ch ? indicate that the broadcast channel for the particular match is unknown as of now, the channels will be added when the matchday is closer.
Warning: The school must start at 11.25am on 13 and 20 January 2014 and be closed on 2, 14 and 21 January 2014. Failure to do so may lead to school destruction by construction workers or the school can only open two days a week, namely Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Also, the school must only open from 3 January 2014 (Friday) or it will also be destroyed. It must not open on 2 January due to football matches.
School closure dates due to football matches
January 2014
Thursday January 2
Tuesday January 14
Tuesday January 21
Reasons for school closure: football matches telecast on SingTel mio TV.
Note: Opening of school during these listed dates is NOT ALLOWED.
Penalties would be given to the school if this rule is not adhered to.
School closed means the school is closed for the day.
School starts at 10.25am or School starts at 11.25am means school starts late due to a football match telecast earlier ending after midnight.