Co-curricular Activities
The school is noted for its strength in the aesthetics: the performing arts; music and art, having won national and international awards for Chinese dance, Malay dance, Indian dance, as well as winning national awards for their band and choir. The dance programme was cited by the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during the National Day Rally 2010. The dance also performed in the Singapore Day@Shanghai in 2011.
Their brass band was also the first of its kind set up in Singapore by Mr Simon Ng; The Original Dancing Band. The band won five consecutive Gold awards at the Singapore Youth Festival from 1990 to 2000 and performed at events and functions. The band have been invited to perform in countries such as Australia, USA, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The school also won the inaugural National Arts Education Award or NAE (Silver) for primary schools in 2005. The silver was the highest level award given to primary schools in 2005. Subsequently, it went on to be the only primary school to be awarded the NAE (Gold) award in 2009.http://www.nac.gov.sg To date, the school has achieved three Sustained Achievement Awards in Aesthetics.
In 2006 the school won the School-Based Excellence (PSE) award from the Ministry of Education for its aesthetics programme, in particular dance. . It has managed to sustain & renew her PSE status since then.
The school also has strong uniform groups, namely the Brownies and Red Cross. The Red Cross are winners of the Excellent Unit Award (Gold) and Community Service Award (Gold). The Brownies are Puan Noor Aishah – Gold winners for the past 5 years. The school also has strong rugby teams who usually come in in the top 4 in West Zone.
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