Student Work Attachment Programme

In line with the national movement of SkillsFuture where skills mastery goes beyond having the right paper qualifications and being good at what you do currently to having a mindset of continually striving towards greater excellence through knowledge, application as well as experience, in JWSS, we offer varied opportunities for our students to develop their potential to the fullest as articulated in our school mission.

One of Jurong West Secondary School's signature programme under Higher Education and Career Guidance (ECG) is the Student Work Attachment Programme (SWAP). The SWAP seeks to expose students to real work environments where they can discover their passion, learn about specific industries and how the workplace deals with challenges whilst developing their interpersonal and communication skills.

It is imperative for our students to have a sensing of how the knowledge and skills they acquire in school is relevant to and can be applied in the work environment. More specifically, the objectives of this programme are to enable students to

SWAP is available to our upper secondary students during the school holidays in the months of June and November yearly. The length of the attachment is typically from five to ten days, depending on the industry or organisation.

Students will be informed of the opportunities available with our partners in the various industries and they can select which company they would like to be attached to based on their interests and would need to submit an application and write-up to the school.

Participating organisations and the school work very closely together to draw up an attachment plan for the student participants, including the specific areas of work during the attachment and the working hours. A liaison person or mentor from the organisation together with teachers would take care of the learning as well as the well-being of our students during the work attachment period.

Upon completion of the work attachment programme, each student will submit a reflection about his or her work experience in the organisation to the school and share their experience with the student body.

Student participants will also be awarded a certificate, jointly signed by the Principal and a nominated representative from the organisation where the student was on work attachment.

Since 2019,

We have partnered with: