History of the New Zealand Services/Force Schools Work commenced at Woodlands School in late December 1973 to prepare the necessary specialist and secondary classrooms in Blocks A to D. later in the first term 1974 work commenced at Seletar to prepare the building which had been used as a married quarters ex-change shop for occupation as a school. The four ANZ Schools closed on 10th May 1974, after having been operating for 2 years and nine months, and the majority of equipment was moved during the vacation. On the 27th of May 1974 three New Zealand Services Schools opened: NZ Services School Woodlands opened in the former ANZ complex with a roll of 464 primary and 219 secondary students. Under the new system it became an area or composite school catering for the wide range of pupils from new entrants to Form 5 and some Form 6 pupils studying by correspondence. With the final withdrawal of British Forces during 1975 and the re-location of NZ families at Tengah, Nee Soon and Woodlands further changes to the education system followed. On the 19th of December 1975 Seletar School was closed and from February 1976 all children attended either Woodlands or Tengah Schools thus saving a great deal of travelling time. In 1980, the primary school at Tengah was closed down leaving Woodlands as the only Primary and High School for NZ Defence dependants and the school was now named NZ Force School, Sembawang. New Zealand Force remained in Singapore until 1989. This was to be the end of the Australian, New Zealand and the United Kingdoms long occupation in Singapore.