Called Crest Secondary School, it will provide a customised curriculum for these students, allowing them to obtain both the GCE 'N' Levels and one ITE Skills Certificate (ISC).
The first intake will consist of up to 200 students.
The school hopes the majority of students will eventually go on to the Institute of Technical Education.
In designing the curriculum, principal Federick Yeo said the school has taken the existing Ministry of Education syllabus into account while ensuring that lessons are practice-based.
"While ISC trains vocational skills, there're a lot of soft skills that the child needs to pick up, such as oral communications, being able to write simple notes, even in the case of numeracy, understanding ratios, percentages, proportions," Mr Yeo said.
"These are the things we need to know so that when it comes to the math subject, we'll be able to emphasise the applied learning angle as well, as opposed to teaching it as an academic content area," he added.
The school said all students with a pass in PSLE and who are streamed into Normal (Technical) may apply, but PSLE scores will not be the main consideration.
Instead, the school will take into account teachers' recommendations and assess applicants based on their suitability for a more practice-based and hands-on education.
-CNA/ac/wm
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