Principal's Foreword

Greetings and welcome to reading up on Yio Chu Kang Primary School (YCKPS)! In YCKPS, we believe in developing our students holistically through the ‘head’, ‘heart’ and ‘hands’ as espoused by our school’s vision, ‘Empowering Mind, Engaging Heart and Extending Hands’.

Apart from building a strong foundation in students’ literacy and numeracy skills, our focus in YCKPS is to provide a school experience to develop every child into a confident, adaptable and resilient student, ready for secondary school when he/she graduates in Primary Six. This includes opportunities for students to engage in exploration and co-construction of ideas with peers facilitated by teachers; meaningful creation of learning artefacts; and effective communication with peers and teachers. Importantly, students should discover their strengths, passion and interest through the course of learning. Through the school experience, students derive the motivation to learn and value the importance of pursuing life-long learning.

The total curriculum in YCKPS also encompasses our signature programmes, namely our Applied Learning Programme (eSTEM@YCKPS) and our Learning for Life Programme (CREATE@YCKPS). eSTEM@YCKPS integrates environmental and sustainability concepts into the learning of Science, Technology, Environment and Mathematics, thus creating a greater appreciation of how the learning through STEM can be translated into an impactful appreciation of and positive act on the environment as well as life in context. CREATE@YCKPS provides students with a contrasting developmental experience to benefit from arts education; appreciation of the arts; inculcation of strong values; development of social and emotional competencies; and translation of learnt skills to contribute to the community. I would like to express my appreciation to my predecessor, Mr Ng Aik Boon (former Principal, YCKPS), who has led and guided the staff in creating and designing these programmes and learning experiences for the students.

Moving forward, the curricular experience will be progressively tweaked to facilitate the learning and development of the emerging 21 century competencies (e21CC) of our students which is key in student development as highlighted by our Education Minister Chan Chun Sing in September 2023. Educational technology will be one of the key enablers to support the learning of our students.

Above all, aligned with the school’s motto, “Youth of Character, Keen to Serve”, strong values remain critical and will be inculcated through the learning experience for students to develop good character and a strong sense of mission to serve actively in school and in adulthood as citizens of our nation. Interestingly, the first letter that made up the words in the school’s motto form the acronym “YCKS” which represents ‘Yio Chu Kang School’ of which YCKPS and her motto first originated from in 1950 when the school was first founded and situated along Yio Chu Kang Road. 2025 marks the diamond jubilee year for YCKPS as she will be celebrating her 75th anniversary as an educational institution that has journeyed to develop generations of students over her 75 founding years. We look forward to hearing from you if you are an alumni and ex-staff of YCKPS or YCKS and would like to re-connect with you. As we journey into this new season as a school community, we continue to look forward to working in synergistic partnership with our parents and key stakeholders as we move forward in tandem to develop our YCKPS students holistically!

Ms Poh Hwee Thing

Principal