Civics and Moral Education is an integral part of our character development programme, with the aim to nurture students to demonstrate the “Hallmarks of a Tampinesian Pupil”. CME lesson, conducted in our Mother Tongue languages, lends itself naturally to the inculcation of values and traditions. Besides the prescribed syllabus, Amazing Race is another effective avenue where values are taught. As part of our on-going innovation efforts to refine our programmes to better achieve the School Vision to enrich our students beyond limits, and love them beyond measure, the school tapped on its partnership with Confucius Institute and developed a CME – Confucian Teaching package for P3 pupils.

Amazing Race

Amazing Race is an annual activity conducted for our P4 pupils during National Day Celebration. On this day, pupils formed into multi-racial group of 10 and compete with their peers. It is a battle of speed, knowledge and wits. The pupils are to answer questions on the customs, language, food and even games of various racial groups in Singapore. The best team emerged at the end of the race and became the champion!

CME and Confucius Teaching

As part of our effort to achieve our school vision, TPS has deepened our partnership with Confucius Institute (CI) to promote good values. With this aim in mind, the department developed a new curriculum package to infuse Confucian Values into the teaching of CME. The curriculum is designed based on the same principle where the cultivation of good moral values begins in the individual and resonates outwards to the family, community, nation and the world.  This overlapping emphasis on the approach to the inculcation of values in both the CME syllabus and Confucianism opens the possibility for us to explore the richness of the stories and values found in Confucianism to enhance the effectiveness of teaching CME. The new curriculum will be launched in July 2009 and will become an integral component for P3 CL CME syllabus.