Character & Citizenship Education

Character & Citizenship Education

Character & Citizenship Education

Vision

Leaders of Character,  Gracious and Active Citizens

Mission

To nurture every student to be caring, gracious and discerning

Tagline

I Care, You Care and We Care

Rationale

We strive to nurture our students to be:

  • Leaders of Character who seek to exemplify our school values of R3ICH, enabled by Social-Emotional Competenciesand 21st Century Cross Cultural Civil Literacy Skills.
  • Active Citizens who are caring and gracious, committed to do their bit to build a better nation for all; as well as discerningand grounded as they navigate through the challenges and influences encountered along the way to flourish and live fulfilling lives as individuals, family members, friends and citizens of Singapore

Our Programmes:

We strive to enrich learning platforms and opportunities for students to understand who they are and who they can become. Our programmes are planned such that  every student, by the end of six years in JYPS,  is able to:

  • Distinguish right from wrong
  • Take responsibility for choices and actions
  • Be caring towards others and form healthy friendship with them
  • Be resilient when faced with challenges
  • Have a good sense of gratitude and appreciation
  • Develop a strong sense of love for our nation

Through the following programmes conducted during curriculum time, we aim for our students to be equipped with  knowledge, strengthened in moral and civic values, coached in social and emotional competencies to develop good character and citizenship dispositions.

  • CCE Curriculum      

    Inculcate R3ICH values and coach social-emotional competencies such as self-awareness and management skills, social-awareness and management skills and responsible decision-making skills

    • CCE (FTGP)
    • CCE (MTL)
    • PAL (P1 & P2 only)

  • National Education Events

    Foster a strong sense of belonging, reality and hope to motivate our students to be active citizens

    • Total Defence Day (TDD)
    • International Friendship Day (IFD)
    • Racial Harmony Day (RHD)
    • National Day Celebration (ND)
    • National Education (NE) Show (P5 only)

  • Values In Action

    Develop students to be active and socially responsible family, school and community members through demonstrating the values they learn to contributing meaningfully at home, in school and community

    • Whole School Programme
    • VIA Level Projects

  • Education and Career Guidance (ECG)

    Raise awareness of the different education and career pathways that are suited to students’ values, interests, personality and skills

    • Career Talks (P6 only)
    • Transition to secondary school talks (P6 only)
    • Myskillsfuture Portal (P5 & P6 only)

  • Sexuality Education (SEd)

    Understand the physiological, social and emotional changes experienced as students mature; and the importance of developing healthy and rewarding relationships

    • Growing Years Series (P5 & P6 only)

  • Social Studies (SS)

    Grow in knowledge, develop skills and learn values through examining issues that are of concern to our society and the world in which we live

    • Field-based learning journeys & cohort learning journeys

Please click for more information about Character and Citizenship Education and Social Studies.

RECOGNITION & REWARDS:

We strive to affirm and acknowledge the graciousness, kindness and resilience shown by our students and celebrate their goodness·       

  • Caught Doing Right
  • Class Model Student
  • MOE Edusave Character Awards (ECHA)
  • JYPS Character Awards

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