Outram Secondary School

There was a plan to start a training school as enrollment in the school at Cross Street increased to meet demand. This plan, however, did not go as planned for some reason. The Governor of Singapore, Sir John Anderson, officially opened the Outram Road School on February 26, 1906. The school was constructed on Outram Road. The word "Road" was removed from the school's name by Gazette notification in 1939, changing it to Outram School. The primary school setting at Outram School was. Pearl's Hill Standard One students transferred to Outram Standard Two through a feeder school. Similarly, Outram served as Raffles Institution's feeder school. While the working arrangement between Outram and Raffles Institution ended with the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the one between Pearl's Hill School and Outram School lasted until January 1953. Boys from Outram competed with other students from Government Primary Schools for spots in Government Secondary Schools after the war. Outram School's 1941 principal, Mr. SG Mohamed Ghows, was required by the Education Department to send all of the school's records to the Pasir Panjang English School for storage. Then, during the Japanese War, this school was directly bombed, and all of Outram's prior records from 1906 to 1942 were lost. Outram stopped being a primary school and became a four-year secondary commercial school on January 1st, 1954. This secondary school program lasts four years and leads to the School Certificate of Commercial Education of the London Chamber of Commerce. The school's motto was changed from "ON TO SUCCESS" to "LABOR OMNIA VINCIT" — Labor Conquers All — as a result of the conversion. The crest of the school was also modified.