Special Class System
Most Schools in Singapore use numbers or alphabets such as 1A and 1B or 1/1 and 1/2.
Unlike other schools, Seng Kang Primary School has names for each class. The classes are arranged from the class where the top students are put to the students not doing so well in their studies. First to the last with first being the where top students go: Faith, Hope, Joy, Courage, Kindness, Patience, Charity, Confidence, Dilligence, Harmony, Honesty, Integrity and Nobility were known classes since 2007. As of 2011, a new elite class of size 20 pupils, Resilience, was created for the Primary Six cohort only.For 2012, a class of Resilience have been proposed for Primary 4 and 5.
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