School Identity
Discover the beliefs, values and aspirations that shape our identity and guide the growth of every Hai Sian.
School Identity
About HSC
Hai Sing Catholic School was founded in 1959 by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) Sisters as Hai Sing Girls' High School. Back then, many of the families living in the Serangoon and Punggol areas were very poor and the daughters of farmers could neither read nor write. The girls did not have the opportunity to go to school as they had to spend time taking care of their farms and live stocks. Following the teaching of Jesus to care for the less fortunate families, Sister Magdalena Chenti (Theresa Tsang) and Sister Margaret Hiang started two classes of Chinese Secondary level in classrooms provided by Holy Innocents’ Chinese Girls School in Serangoon.
What started as two classes gradually grew into one school as the school thrived and achieved its mission. In 1990, Hai Sing Girls’ High School moved to Pasir Ris, which heralded two other significant changes in the school. The school became co-educational and its name shortened to ‘Hai Sing High School’. At the same time, the school became multiracial, accepting students from other races too. The last batch comprising only girls completed their secondary education at the new school in Pasir Ris in 1992.
In 1999, the school changed its name to Hai Sing Catholic School to emphasise its Catholic values. Consequently, the school’s emblem was modified as well.
Over the years, Hai Sing Catholic School has modernised, embracing the technologies of the present, introducing STEM to the programme, and computers into the classrooms. The school’s mission has grown: not only to lead through service, but to teach students to do the same, and to find joy in learning and their purpose in life.
Our Vision
ONE.Home.School.Community:
One in Truth and Charity, HSC is a Home where hearts belong, a School where students shine forth, and a Community that leads, cares and serves.
Our Mission
With God in our presence, we guide our students to seek their true purpose in life, we imbue them with school values and we equip them with the hearts and minds to live out their purpose to be a positive force in the world beyond.
Our Motto
Ad Veritatem Per Caritatem
To Truth Through Charity
Our Values
Virtues: Integrity, Graciousness, Compassion
Performance Values: Confidence, Independence, Adaptability
Desired Student Outcomes
Purposeful Students
HAIsians are happy to be in school.
Students feel a sense of belonging and have positive teacher-student and student-student relationships.
HAIsians seek to be their best self.
Students build self-esteem and exercise personal and social responsibility.
Lifelong Learners
HAIsians have a growth mindset.
Students make continuous improvements and progress towards their aspirations.
HAIsians can excel.
Students can adapt and surpass their own boundaries to thrive in the future.
Caring Leaders
HAIsians are leaders.
Students positively influence their peers and others to put graciousness into action.
School Crest
Elements of the school crest:
Star
A sense of purpose – to guide the ship (our students) through their decisions in life
Ship
Our students – to be purposeful navigators of their lives
Colour
‘Hai Sing Blue’ – resemble the colour of the sea, endless possibilities
Motto
Ad Veritatem Per Caritatem
To Truth Through Charity
School Song
灿烂海星 皎洁无双
雄视狮城 照彻新邦
五育施教 示我康庄
泽及南洋 化被四方
坚贞名节 真理宣扬
英才蔚起 国运日昌
Come on Hai Sing, let us go,
Upward, onward, never looking back
Striving always with resilience
Excellence in all that we do
Let our motto be Truth & Charity
Hai Sing shine forth
For all to see
School Hymn
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury your pardon Lord
And where there's doubt true faith in you
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness only light
And where there's sadness ever joy
Oh Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving of ourselves that we receive
And in dying that we're born to eternal life
Mascot
The mascot combines two aspirations that we have for Haisians: SHINEE
First, we hope HAIsians become captains of their own journey, by taking control of the decisions they make as they navigate the seas of learning and life.
Through this, we hope that students discover their ‘ME-ssion’ – their personal mission in life – such that it becomes as clear as a gem.
As HAIsians uncover their unique strengths, we hope they also find a ‘WE-sion’, that is a vision for how they can shine forth and help the people around them.