Citizenship Education

The Citizenship Education Committee has a staff strength of 11 teachers. The department is led by Ms Khairunisa  who is the Subject Head/Citizenship Education. The Citizenship Education Sub-committee in Greenridge Sec also consists of Values in Action (VIA) and Internationalisation.

The CE committee aims to develop and implement programs that develop students to be concerned citizens who are anchored in sound values and exhibit a sense of national identity.

The Citizenship Education journey starts with the belief that the programs implemented by the committee must bear in mind the head, heart and hands approach so as to holistically develop Greenridgeans to be Gracious and Dynamic citizens who are also active contributors to the community as well as the nation.

Guided by the above goals as well as by MOE’S Character and Citizenship Education Outcomes, the committee plans a variety of programs that will aid in the achievement of our goals. Different platforms and strategies, which take into consideration the diverse learning style and abilities of our students, are implemented. The committee also incorporates timely assessment to monitor students’ progress and to enable us to review our processes and fine tune our programs.

Programmes organised by Citizenship Education Committee

• Assembly Programs and Lesson Packages for Core NE Day Events such as Total Defence Day International Friendship Day
• Racial Harmony Day
• National Education Ambassador Training Programme.
• Citizenship Education Packages for CCE lessons
• Overseas Trips, for instance, Service Learning Trip to Cambodia since 2005; Study Trips to China
• Hosting of Foreign Visitors
• Annual VIA Day
• Level VIA Programme
• CCA VIA Programme

NE Events

NE Committee organizes four core events annually for students to celebrate and commemorate significant events that happened in Singapore

Values In Action

Objectives

To Train a core group of NE Ambassadors  who are

• Active citizens of Singapore
  • Active citizens are concerned citizens anchored in sound values and who exhibit a sense of national identity(school vision)
  • Active citizens have empathy towards others and will participate responsibly and sensibly in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious society (SS objective)
  • While the objective is aligned with the Social Studies syllabus objective, the Ambassador program seeks to differentiate from the SS syllabus by focusing more on interaction and harmony instead of economic and defense policy of Singapore
  • Development of active citizens also lead to the cultivation of national instincts among students
    • Awareness of facts, circumstances and opportunities facing Singapore, so that they will be able to make decisions for their future with conviction and realism
    • Sense of emotional belonging and commitment to the community and nation through having their opinions reflected in NE events
• Able to influence their class and school mates to become active citizens of singapore
  • Sec 1: Create and maintain class NE spirit
  • Sec 2: Classroom mediation
  • Sec 3: Mentor new Sec1 NE ambassadors
• Capable of planning and facilitating school-based National Education events
  • Sec 1: Provide input for school NE programme
  • Sec 2: Facilitate school NE programme
  • Sec 3: Lead the implementation of 1 school NE programme

Our NE Ambassadors 2012

Contributions

The NE Ambassadors and Champions played an integral role in the planning and execution of the Core NE events in the school. Other than brainstorming ideas for the events, they also took up the key roles in the smooth running of the event through tasks such as researching questions for the Total Defence Day game show and recording of videos for National Day.

The Ambassadors and Champions also represented the school in various external events in the cluster and in the community.