In June, several teams of students from PLMGS (Sec) did the school proud by winning Gold and Silver awards in the World Robot Games Singapore 2016, in the "Search and Rescue Robot" Secondary School Category, as well as the Bronze award in the "Line Tracing Robot" Secondary School Category. PLMGS (Sec) was invited to represent Singapore in the World Robot Games International 2016 in Bandung, Indonesia, from 25 to 28 August 2016, against teams from Indonesia, China, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Myanmar.

World Robot Games 2016

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Award	Award Year
	2007	2009	2011	2013	2015
National Arts Education (NAE) Award	Bronze	Bronze	Blaze	Blaze (Click here to see list of awardees)	Blaze (Click here to see list of awardees)

2015 - PL Sec attains the Blaze Award in the National Arts Education Award

Award

Award Year

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

National Arts Education (NAE) Award

Bronze

Bronze

Blaze

Blaze

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Blaze

(Click here to see list of awardees)

The National Arts Education Award (NAEA) is a national arts award for Ministry of Education (MOE) schools. Conferred by NAC, the award affirms schools that develop holistic arts education for their students. The biennial award affirms schools that develop holistic arts education for their students, provides all schools with a framework to guide the development of good arts education practices and programmes

In 2012, PL Sec attained the Blaze Award, the top category of NAEA. The Blaze Award is conferred to schools which have built a vibrant arts culture and advocate the arts. The Blaze awardees are also recognised for championing the arts and contributing to the community.

In 2016, PL Sec becomes one of the few second time recipient of NAEA Blaze Awardees. This is a testimony of PL's effort in nurturing the PL-Lites into gracious women of fine character.

The National Arts Education Award (NAEA) has been discontinued in 2017 in line with MOE’s shift away from awards for schools. PLMGS will continue to provide a rich Arts experience for all PL-Lites.

2015 - Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award

The Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award seeks to stimulate creativity among the young generation and to promote scientific and technological research in Singapore. By organising the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award as an annual event, the Award Committee aims to achieve the following goals:

•    to encourage our youths to use their knowledge and skills imaginatively and with daring innovation;
•    to stimulate creativity among our youths and promote scientific and technological research in the country;
•    to contribute to our talent pool;
•    to inspire our youths to constantly think of new and creative ways of solving problems;
•    to inculcate in our youths an innovative approach to their studies and life.

Our Journey in Paya Lebar Methodist Girl’s School

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Four teams from Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Sec) were selected for the first round interview and two teams made it to the second round interview. We are proud to announce that two of our teams attained the Commendation Awards student category and Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Sec) attained 2nd place under the School Award category.

Environmental Awards

2017 - Sembcorp Go Green Fund 2017 - Secondary School / Tertiary Category
PL(Sec) is one of the eight wining schools to be awarded the Consolation Prize (Green award)

2015 - North East District Environment Award (Schools category)

In October 2015, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Secondary) was awarded the Platinum Award (2nd prize) for the North East District Environment Award (Schools category).

2015 - Keep Singapore Clean Movement - 'Bright Spot' within school
In June 2015, Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Secondary) was selected as a 'Bright Spot' within school as part of the Keep Singapore Clean Movement. 'Bright Spots' are shared spaces adopted by its stakeholders who take ownership of its cleanliness, keep them clean and help to educate and encourage good cleanliness practices. More information on ‘Bright Spots’ may be found here.

Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Award

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has worked closely with the Ministry of Education (MOE) to develop the new BCA Green Mark for Existing Schools, which places stronger emphasis on raising the awareness amongst students and educating our future generation on the importance of environmental sustainability and conservation.

	Award Year
Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Award	Gold (Click here for press release)	Gold	Gold	Gold

Award Year

2011

2012

2013

2014

Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Green Mark Award

Gold

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Gold

School Green Audit Award

The SEC-StarHub School Green Awards (SGA) is a self-audited voluntary environmental programme which serves as a platform for students to develop and showcase their environmental efforts, through customised activities which will help them gain better understanding of the environment. (source: https://www.sec.org.sg/sga/about-sga.php)

	Award Year
	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
School Green Audit Award	Orchid	Lotus	Lotus	Lotus Sustained achievement award	Lotus Sustained achievement award	Lotus Sustained achievement award	Lotus Sustained achievement award	Orchid	Lotus

Award Year

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

School Green Audit Award

Orchid

Lotus

Sustained achievement award

Lotus

Sustained achievement award

Lotus

Sustained achievement award

Lotus

Sustained achievement award

Orchid

Lotus

MOE Masterplans of Awards
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As an autonomous school since 2002, PLMGS(Sec) has attained the School Distinction Award (2007), Best Practice Awards (BPA) for Staff Well-Being (2003, 2007 and 2012), Teaching and Learning (2007 and 2012) and Student All Round Development (2012) and the Outstanding Development Award (Character Development) (2009 and 2012). In the 2012 external validation exercise, the school was accorded the School Excellence Award, the pinnacle award in the MOE’s Masterplan of Awards. The school has also achieved two SPRING Singapore Business Excellence awards, namely, the People Developer Award and the Singapore Quality Class.

MOE has removed the Masterplan of Awards (MOA) from 2014. In view of this, the School Excellence Award, Sustained Achievement Award and the Academic Value-Added awards were removed.

Type of Award	Symbol	Award	Year Awarded
MOE SPECIAL AWARDS		SCHOOL EXCELLENCE AWARD The School Excellence Award is the highest honour awarded by MOE. It recognises the school’s Sustained Achievement in three areas and two Best Practice Awards, one of which is in the area of student all-round development. The school also needs to achieve good or value-added academic performance for at least three years, and the Singapore Quality Class award from Spring Singapore.	2012
		CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT (OUTSTANDING DEVELOPMENT AWARD) The Outstanding Development Awards (ODA) for Character Development recognise schools that have innovative, sustainable and exemplary approaches.	2009, 2012
	Read press release here	‘AUTONOMOUS SCHOOL’ STATUS Autonomous School status was accorded to schools which provides students with quality education. The Autonomous Schools give parents more options in the choice of quality schools for their children.	Since 2002
MOE BEST PRACTICE AWARDS The Best Practice Award (BPA) recognises a school for its effective practices and systems that lead to desirable education outcomes in the academic and non-academic domains.		SCHOOL DISTINCTION AWARD The School Distinction Award gives recognition to schools with well-integrated and sustainable school processes and practices that have provided useful educational and developmental outcomes for the students.	2007
		BEST PRACTICE AWARD (TEACHING AND LEARNING)	2007, 2012
		BEST PRACTICE AWARD (STAFF WELL-BEING)	2003, 2007, 2012
		BEST PRACTICE AWARD (STUDENT ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT)	2012
SPRING SINGAPORE AWARDS		PEOPLE DEVELOPER STANDARD (PDS) The People Developer Standard is a mark conferred by SPRING Singapore, which gives recognition to organisations that invest in their people and have a comprehensive system to manage the development of their people.	2012
SPRING SINGAPORE AWARDS		SINGAPORE QUALITY CLASS The Singapore Quality Class (SQC), launched by SPRING Singapore in 1997, is the certification for the overall organisational excellence.	2012

Sustained Achievement Awards
A Sustained Achievement Award is given to a school who consistently performs well.
From 2014, MOE has stopped awarding Sustained Achievement Award and the Academic Value-Added awards to schools.

Awards	Award Year
Awards	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Sustained Achievement Award (Academic Value-Added) (Express)	8^th Award	9^th Award	10^th Award	11^th Award	12^th Award	13^th Award	-
Sustained Achievement Award (Academic Value-Added) (Normal)	-	-	-	8^th Award	9^th Award	-	-
Sustained Achievement Award (Uniformed Groups)	-	-	-	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded
Sustained Achievement Award (Cherish)	-	-	-	Platinum	Platinum	2^nd award	-
Sustained Achievement Award (Sports)	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded
Sustained Achievement Award (Aesthetics)	-	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	Awarded	-

MOE Special Awards
Organisational Achievements