Citizenship Education and Social Studies
Discover how Jurong Primary School brings Citizenship Education and Social Studies to life through events like Total Defence Day, International Friendship Day, and heritage trails.
Citizenship Education
Total Defence Day
15 February marks the day that Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942 during World War II. The commemoration of this day serves as a reminder to Singaporeans of our collective responsibility to defend our nation, and that Singapore is defensible and is worth defending.
On 15 February 2022, Jurong Primary School commemorated Total Defence Day. It was the intention of theme of this year's commemoration, "Together, We Keep Singapore Strong”, to encourage students to play a greater role in Total Defence and to highlight the different ways they can contribute.
Students went through a series of learning activities both in their CCE lessons as well as on SLS prior to Total Defence Day, highlighting the pillars on Social and Digital Defence. This learning was further contextualised through an interactive presentation in the hall on the actual day. As part of the event, some of our teachers and School Leaders were interviewed on their recollections of their time in National Service.
Students were also tasked to demonstrate Social Defence in practice and “Care Forward” where they actively find ways to demonstrate graciousness towards their environment, family members, friends and even strangers.
Through this event, students acquired greater sensitivity to those around them and were more conscious of their actions and their respective impact on others. They were empowered to step forward and contribute, because they now know they can.
International Friendship Day
The International Friendship Day 2022 event was commemorated on the actual day on Friday, 8 April. In a shift in form from how the event was conducted in the last two years, the one this year saw the students and staff congregating in the school hall for the first time since the start of the pandemic in two separate batches for the assembly programme Adhering to this year’s theme ‘Singapore in Asia’, the organising committee hopes by recognising the importance of connectedness between our neighbouring countries, our youth can play an active role in fostering people-to-people ties, and thus celebrate the region’s diversity and vibrancy and promote the spirit of friendship and collaboration. Besides the assembly programme with interactive elements, students also had classroom discussions and written reflections on current affairs of the world as well as a post-video presentation quiz on specific ASEAN countries done online. For individual work, students were encouraged to submit a graphic presentation of Cambodia based on resources found in issue 2 of the Kindsville Times / A-Ok! magazine to complete their learning objectives from this event.
Racial Harmony Day
The National Heritage Trails aim to provide a rich outdoor learning experience for the Primary 4 and 6 students by infusing selected learning outcomes from the Social Studies, English Language, the Arts as well as National Education syllabus. The trails provide an opportunity for students to explore and learn how life used to be like in the past.
Social Studies
P3 Learning Journey to Singapore Discovery Centre
As part of their Social Studies curriculum, the Primary 3 students attended a workshop titled ‘I am a Town Planner’ in Singapore Discover Centre.
During the workshop, the students learnt about the importance of how town planning helped solve Singapore’s land scarcity challenges and use of alternative energy sources for a more cleaner and greener Singapore.
