RGS wants to get to know Braddell

It is moving to new campus on Oct 21, and aims to reach out to community, schools in area

RGS is retaining a 1979 mosaic mural found at the former school site that depicts about 15 landmarks of Singapore. It is now up along the campus boundary fence in Braddell Road so the public can view it. The new Raffles Girls' School campus in Bradde
The new Raffles Girls' School campus in Braddell. It will have an open-air 2,000-seat amphitheatre for school events, a four-storey performing arts centre with an 860-seat auditorium and a 208-seat black-box theatre, a three-storey library and an indoor sports hall, among other facilities. ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
RGS is retaining a 1979 mosaic mural found at the former school site that depicts about 15 landmarks of Singapore. It is now up along the campus boundary fence in Braddell Road so the public can view it. The new Raffles Girls' School campus in Bradde
RGS principal Poh Mun See (left) and Ms Goh Lee Kian, the school's director of planning and infrastructure, in the old Anderson Road campus. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
RGS is retaining a 1979 mosaic mural found at the former school site that depicts about 15 landmarks of Singapore. It is now up along the campus boundary fence in Braddell Road so the public can view it. The new Raffles Girls' School campus in Bradde
RGS is retaining a 1979 mosaic mural found at the former school site that depicts about 15 landmarks of Singapore. It is now up along the campus boundary fence in Braddell Road so the public can view it. ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
Amelia Teng
Education Correspondent
Updated
Oct 21, 2019, 07:14 PM
Published
Oct 13, 2019, 05:00 AM
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Raffles Girls' School (RGS) is moving into the heartland on Oct 21 and it wants to be a good neighbour.

All 1,600 students and 180 staff will start school at its new Braddell campus, which has been seven years in the making.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on October 13, 2019, with the headline RGS wants to get to know Braddell. Subscribe

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