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Compassvale Secondary School

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Explore how CVSS equips students with STEM skills through hands-on problem solving, enrichment programmes, and real-world sustainability challenges.

Last updated 10 September 2026

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

(STEM x Sustainability)

The STEM x Sustainability programme at CVSS aims to develop in our students competencies in critical, adaptive and inventive thinking. They will also be spurred to become more curious about how different things work and be provided with the skills to allow them to find out more about the world around them. Through the Craft and Technology, Mathematics and Science subjects, students will participate in the problem solving process, allowing them to work with their peers to identify the problem at hand, come up with possible solutions and test their solutions before providing their recommendations. These will be done through various curricular lessons, enrichment programmes and the school’s Applied Learning Programme, providing students with authentic contexts and real-world problems undergirded by the theme of Sustainability for them to explore and discuss

Group photo of Compassvale Secondary School Science Department staff in red polo shirts, 2025.

Science Department

Group photo of Compassvale Secondary School 2025 Mathematics Department staff in matching red polo shirts.

Mathematics Department

Group of 14 staff in red polo shirts posing indoors for Compassvale Secondary School Craft and Technology Department 2025.

Craft & Technology Department

Science

Key Programmes

For all students:

  • Environment education efforts - talks to deepen students’ understanding of environmental concerns, and activities and competitions to promote conservation effort

  • Inquiry-based activities and problem solving tasks

For selected groups of students:

  • Talent development through competitions (e.g. Science Olympiads, Elementz Science Research competitions)

  • Promotion of specific science disciplines through enrichment programmes and learning journeys

Mathematics

Key Programmes

For all students:

  • Develop confidence and competence in students to be problem solvers for everyday living

  • Students will experience solving problems in real world context; they will develop computational thinking to solve any given problem

For selected groups of students:

  • Learn heuristics and problem solving capabilities through participation in competitions and specialised training sessions such as Math Olympiad training and participation in Math Challenges

  • Students will also have opportunities to learn coding skills and participate in competitions

Craft & Technology

Key Programmes


For all students:

  • Incorporation of Sustainability in curriculum through coursework and projects to deepen environmental awareness

For selected groups of students:

  • STEM Project for D&T S1 (Common Curriculum)

  • Applied Module for Secondary One (Common Curriculum)

  • Talent development through competitions (Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award, Temasek Engineering Olympiad, etc)

  • Learning journeys to deepen awareness of sustainability

Aeronautics Applied Learning Programme-ACES

Highlights and Achievements

Science

Science department staff and students awards

Staff

Students

  • 2022 Outstanding STEM Teacher Award - Mrs Preeti Kulkarni (SH/Biology)

  • 2023 Associate of AST Award (Facilitator of Workshops) - Mdm Fazleen bte Mahmud (ST/Biology)

  • 2023 International Elementz Fair / Elementz Science Research Competition Upper Sec - 2 Silver Lower Sec - 1 Gold, 1 COC

  • 2023 Singapore Junior Biology Olympiads - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

  • 2023 Singapore Junior Chemistry Olympiads - 1 Bronze

Mathematics

Mathematics students awards

Students

  • Mathematics Challenge 2023 by Ngee Ann Polytechnic - Team Winner for α Blast (the Kahoot quiz) Challenge

  • Singapore Mathematics Olympiad 2023 (Junior) - 1 Bronze and 3 Honourable Mentions

  • Singapore Mathematics Olympiad 2023 (Senior) - 1 Bronze and 1 Honourable Mention

  • National Digital Explorer 2023 - Secondary Level (Emerging Technologies Track) by ICDL Asia National Round - Certificate in Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology and Artificial Intelligence – 1 Gold, 1 Silver

  • National Digital Explorer 2023 - ICDL Asia Digital Literacy Day by ICDL Asia International Round - Silver

Four students in school uniforms present a cardboard prototype with electronics to seated classmates in a classroom.
Student wearing goggles and blue gloves dips probes into a beaker of liquid near a multimeter in a lab.

Students working on their projects for the International Elementz Fair

Two masked students in uniforms sort plastic bottles into a blue bag labeled Category 1 and 2 Plastic outdoors.

Students participating in “The Plastic Solution”, an inter-class plastic recycling competition

Students wearing masks gather around a humanoid robot with a screen at the TP-HRG Robotics Innovation Centre.

Students working intently on problem solving in the Math Scene Investigation - Escape Room activity

D and T Learning Journey to Temasek Polytechnic’s Robotic Innovation Centre