Character and Citizenship Education

Department Heads and Members

Key Approach

Frontier Primary School (FPS) adopts a school-wide approach in creating a caring and enabling environment to meet students’ needs. Our school lays the foundation that supports learning by paying more careful attention to relationship building (e.g. the quality of Teacher-Student Relationship, Peer Relationship) in order to build resilience, develop character, citizenship and future readiness in Frontierers.

Aside from building a caring and enabling environment for Frontierers to learn at FPS through relationship building, we aspire to develop Frontierers to be Confident Thinkers, Adaptable Individuals and Passionate Leaders with good character through the CCE fundamental building blocks. Based on the three big CCE ideas of Identity, Relationships and Choices, these fundamental building blocks comprise the learning of core values, social and emotional competencies, and citizenship dispositions. The CCE fundamental building blocks at Frontier include subjects like Form Teachers Guidance Period (FTGP), CCE MT / NTIL, Social Studies as well as learning experiences like commemorating four National Education events, Values in Action (VIA) activities and assembly programmes linked to CCE outcomes.

Key Programmes & Activities

Frontier Footprints 

The Frontier Footprints was constructed in 2022 to enable the school to equip students with an understanding of the history of FPS so as to build a sense of belonging in them. The P1 to P6 Frontier Heritage Explorer immersive learning experiences, which are interactive in nature, centers on the three big ideas of Identity, Relationships and Choices, serves to enrich students’ learning through an authentic learning experience and innovative content. Through a strengthened sense of identity at the end of six years, FPS aspires to empower students to make a difference to the school and community.

Gratitude @ Frontier 

Gratitude is seen as antidote to happiness. The practice of gratitude has entailed a host of benefits which include a greater sense of well-being, better relationships with others and build resilience in the long run. Hence, FPS promoted the practice of gratitude as part of sustaining a positive school culture. Our teachers champion gratitude explicitly via a multitude of teaching modes and themes. Our students are led in numerous interactive ways at the school and classroom level to reflect and express their gratitude.

At the yearly Parent-Child-Teacher Conference (PCTC), gratitude corners are set up in the school on the actual day of PCTC. Parents are invited to partake in one of our gratitude practices by writing gratitude notes to any school staff. The school’s PCTC session thus becomes a more meaningful one that is filled with abundance of appreciation and warmth.

Embrace SG Programme

Embrace SG Programme is a programme catered for Permanent Residents (PR) and International Students (IS) studying in the school. This programme provides an opportunity for the PR and IS to bond with their Singaporean peers and share their perspective of living in Singapore to their peers on how they can make Singapore a home away from home for them. To help students forge meaningful relationships to create a sense of belonging, this programme consists of a comprehensive year-long engagement that includes bonding activities like learning journeys as well as workshops for the PR, IS and their Singaporean buddies.

Internationalisation efforts @ Frontier 

Interacting with children beyond Singapore is an excellent opportunity for character building and each year, a group of Primary 4 Frontierers in FPS are given the chance to be exposed to the global environment and to become culturally savvy. Through our existing partnerships with overseas schools like Santa Laurensia Elementary School, our students have been hosting children from Indonesia. This partnership has continued even during the COVID-19 pandemic through virtual means. Such experiences have heightened their social awareness and develop in them a sense of rootedness to Singapore. The rationale of the programme is to instill a sense of cross-cultural awareness in our students and also to enable them to create good working and social relationships with people of other cultures.