Rainbow Centre Schools

Locations

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School
Area: Queenstown
Address: 501 Margaret Drive, Singapore 149306

Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School
Area: Yishun
Address: 15 Yishun Street 61, Singapore 768548

Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School
Area: Sembawang
Address: 21 Admiralty Lane, Singapore 756944

Telephone no.

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School: 6472 7077
Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School: 6482 2592
Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School: 6817 9300

Email

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School: rcmds@rainbowcentre.org.sg
Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School: rcyps@rainbowcentre.org.sg
Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School: rcahs@rainbowcentre.org.sg

Website

https://www.rainbowcentre.org.sg

Special needs catered for

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School: Multiple disabilities, autism spectrum disorder
Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School: Autism spectrum disorder
Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School: Autism spectrum disorder

Age range

7 to 18 years old

Curriculum offered

Customised

School mode

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School: Double session
Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School: Double session
Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School: Double session

Services offered

• School bus transport
• After-school student care

School fees

Visit the school's website for more information.

Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School

• Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
• Time: 3pm to 4.30pm
• Format: Virtual

Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School

• Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
• Time: 9am to 11am
• Format: Physical
• Venue: 21, Admiralty Lane, Singapore 756944

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School

• Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
• Time: 2.30pm to 4pm
• Format: Physical
• Venue: 501, Margaret Drive, Singapore 149306

Contact information 

• Contact person: Jaizah HJ Embek
  Tel:  6817 9410
  Email: school.admission@rainbowcentre.org.sg

How to register

• Email or register online between Thursday, 15 February to Monday, 1 April 2024.

Primary 1 (2025 cohort)

• Application deadline (Singapore Citizens):
  • Phase 1: 15 June 2024.
    

    Application opens from 1 February 2024. Priority given to applications from the Rainbow Centre Early Intervention Programme.

  • Phase 2: 30 September 2024.
    

    Application opens from 16 June 2024.

• Start of school (Singapore Citizens):
  • Phases 1 and 2 applicants: January 2025.
  • Applicants after Phase 2: From first week of February 2025.
    

    Subject to vacancies.

• Application deadline (Permanent Residents and international students):
  • No deadline.
    

    Application opens on 1 February 2024 and is ongoing throughout the year until all vacancies for 2025 intake are filled.

• Start of school (Permanent Residents and international students):
  • From the first week of February 2025.
    

    If your child is assessed to be suitable and there is available vacancy.

Other levels (2025 cohort)

• Application deadline: No deadline.
  

  Applications for Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents and international students can be submitted throughout the year until all vacancies for 2025 intake are filled.

• Start of school: Varies.
  

  Placement date will depend on the suitability of your child’s profile for the school’s programme and availability of vacancies.

Junior Programme

The Junior Programme focuses on building foundational knowledge and skills for self-care and self-management, and better access learning for the future.

Middle Programme

The Middle Programme focuses on developing pathways for discovering self, and for exploring the wider community.

Senior Programme

The Senior Programme focuses on forming a sense of personal agency in making choices and interdependence with community for transition to adulthood

Therapy Services

The school adopts a collaborative approach to service delivery that includes parental involvement, learning experiences that are both school-based and work-based, use of community-based resources and services and supports such as psychology, social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language, and music therapy services.

Good Life Transition Planning (Holistic approach to acquiring Quality of Life)

Good Life Transition Planning is Rainbow Centre's person-centric transition planning programme which facilitates development of students’ post 18 goals on being engaged, independent, safe, healthy, connected and included and heard.

In-Curricula Enrichment (ICE) and Co-curricular Activities (CCA)

Rainbow Centre Schools carry out In-Curricula and Co-curricular activities in and outside of school curriculum hours respectively to expose our students to various sports and arts activities.

Family Empowerment Programme

Family Empowerment Programme is an intensive one-on-one parent coaching programme which aims to increase parents’ coping ability, self-confidence and resilience by equipping them with skills and strategies to manage their child’s behaviours and strengthening their support network.

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School

Primary / Junior / Middle

• Daily Living
• Language & Communication
• Social Emotional
• Physical Development
• Numeracy
• Vocational: Work Habits

Secondary / Middle / Senior

• Daily Living
• Language & Communication
• Social Emotional
• Physical Development
• Numeracy
• Vocational

Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School

Primary / Junior / Middle

• Functional Academics: Literacy; Numeracy
• Action: Physical Development in School and Near school community
• Community: Daily Living Skills
• Creativity: In-curricular exposure to various arts form
• Work: Work Habits

Secondary / Middle / Senior

• Functional Academics: Literacy; Numeracy
• Action: Physical Development in school, near-school and near-home community
• Community: Community Engagement, Mobility Training in Community
• Creativity: In-curricular exposure to various arts form
• Work: Learning spaces, Internship

Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School

Primary / Junior / Middle

• Functional Academics: Literacy; Numeracy
• Action: Physical Development in School and community-based involvement
• Community: Daily Living Skills
• Creativity: Art and music
• Work: Work Habits

Secondary / Middle / Senior

• Functional Academics: Literacy; Numeracy
• Action: Physical Development in School and community-based involvement
• Community: Daily Living Skills, Community Engagement, Mobility Training in Community
• Creativity: Art and music
• Work: Work Habits, Work Skills

Rainbow Centre Margaret Drive School

• Athletics
• Badminton
• Creative Movement
• Gymnastics
• In-line Skating
• Kayaking
• Soccer 
• Swimming
• Percussion
• Robotics
• Sensory Art
• Visual Arts

Rainbow Centre Yishun Park School 

• Creative Movement
• Cycling 
• Dance
• Futsal
• Gymnastics
• Swimming
• Choir
• Chinese Drum
• Stop Motion
• Visual Arts

 Rainbow Centre Admiral Hill School

• Bicycling - Cycling
• Creative Movement
• Equine-assisted learning
• Gymnastics
• In-line Skating
• Batik Painting
• Percussion 

Chai Chang Xun Alumni (Graduated in 2019) Chai Chang Xun graduated from RCYPS in 2019. He and his family started the Good Life transition planning sessions with the school team from 2018. The experience has provided the family with insights and possibilities about Chang Xun’s future pathways. Through these sessions, Chang Xun expressed his dream to be a pianist, which started with Beautiful Mind Music Academy talent scouted him in a school’s audition. Since then Chang Xun has developed such love and passion for music which led him to pursue his music training leading to his current pursuit of ABRSM Piano Grade 8 examination. The school continued to open up opportunities for Chang Xun to perform at internal and external community concerts, his music captivated many hearts which landed him a part-time job at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) cafe playing the piano during lunch hours. Chang Xun is very loved and cared for by the KTPH personnel who saw his potential and good work attitude, and thus offered him part-time work at the kitchen. He works with a buddy to prepare food and deliver them to the surgeons, doctors and nurses. He has established a strong bond with the KTPH community who admired his tenacity and commitment to work. Through attending the Community Connect Fair in 2018, the family was pleasantly surprised to find out that Chang Xun has also a keen sense of fashion and they signed him up with the Singapore Fashion Runway course. He participated in fashion shows walking the runway with much confidence, and this may be another possible career option for him.

Nuralysya Binte Abdul Hamid Senior Programme Alysya is a bright student who has an ability to think and work independently. She is a fast learner and is very meticulous in her work. Her creative and inquiring mind as well as positive learning attitude illuminates her all rounded achievements. Not only is she performing well academically, she is very accomplished in the area of visual arts with several exhibitions under her belt. She has sold many artworks during the art exhibitions and auctions. Alysya aspires to be excellent in Sports especially in Badminton, despite her physical limitations. During Play Inclusive Badminton training sessions, Alysya and her unified partner from ACSI displayed good teamwork. Her team shone during the competition and was awarded the bronze medal. Alysya displayed courage and perseverance during the school’s outdoor education water-based instruction programme (Kayaking). Due to her small stature, she faced difficulties engaging in the adapted activities. Despite that, she rose to the challenge, went out of her comfort zone and attempted the activities bravely. As part of her vocational training, Alysya was in the Laundry Programme in 2019 and is currently doing administrative work in school. She is a trustworthy and reliable worker who will be there to guide her peers and take charge when needed. She is able to learn quickly and execute the task with great precision.

Woodlands Campus – Recess Reimagined Recess time is a perennial favourite everywhere, and at RC’s Woodlands campus, students sound like primary school children everywhere, with laughter and shrieks of delight as they learn, play, explore and experience real life scenarios, all covered in fun. Alumni-run stalls Supported by RC’s Micro Business Academy in basic business planning, creating a structured stall set up to maximize their participation, and job coaching, some of our RC alumni run a snack shop and a bookshop to serve students with snacks, drinks, fruits and stationery. One of the great intangibles is the interaction between current students and their big brother or sister in the stalls. These SPED graduates give students the opportunity to practise buying and transacting in a safe and welcoming, yet realistic environment. Student Perry (name changed) would at first take a snack and simply walk off, unable to understand the concept of a transaction. But with a social story and visuals, along with patience and understanding from the alumni, he was soon able to understand the idea of paying for a snack. Prized playcourt After buying and consuming their snacks at recess, our students love to explore the fauna in the garden. They also enjoy a playcourt with a floor mural creatively and lovingly painted by school staff together with an artist and some volunteers from inclusive art movement SuperheroMe. The mural’s numbers, letters, colours and animals allow students like Darren (name changed) to learn as they play, and also gives them something creative and fun to use during Physical Development lessons. Says a teacher: “Darren, who usually doesn’t like physical activities, actually runs/walks around the court following the sequence of the letters. He makes sure to ask teachers or peers accompanying him to read out each letter as he walks past them.”