Another eight schools have been scheduled to get more classrooms and be fitted with new or upgraded facilities including media resource libraries, IT learning resource rooms and pastoral care rooms.

Three of them are primary schools while five are secondary schools.

The primary schools are: Dazhong, Guangyang and St Anthony's Canossian.

The secondary schools are: Chung Cheng High (Main), Jurongville, Juying, Montfort and St Anthony's Canossian.

They will also get an indoor sports hall as part of the upgrading plan.

The PRIME programme was launched in May 1999 to upgrade all schools to the latest standards so as to provide a conducive learning environment for our students.

Estimated to cost $4.5 billion, this programme is implemented in phases. To date, 243 schools have been included in the earlier nine phases of PRIME. Of these, 207 schools have completed their upgrading, said a press release from the Ministry of Education.