Best Practices - Crescent Girls' School

Band 1

State Of Art

Crescent Girls' School

Her Former Strength

The Library

Arts Conservatory Platform
Performance Arts

Faraday Lab (Physics)

Language Lab with the latest aids

Communicative Arts Lab
Students see themselves in a forum and the like

Along the Corridor

Impressive Works of Art

Monet Media Lab

Music Lab

Scores computerised

Video Production Lab

Classes conducted in 3D Lab

with latest IT gimmicks

Nintendo wii set (canteen)

Outdoor

Computerised Bicycle Ride set with musical display
after a certain speed is achieved

Great Water Feature

Platform for the Orators

They say a picture paints a thousand words.

I believe those up there say a zillion words.

An independent status, Crescent Girls' school has been given the mandate and right to formulate her own studies for her girls. She received the Best Practice Award 2006 - 2011 and this is proof itself that she is more than capable to be named a future school of the island.

Her emphasis is in tandem with the latest in Singapore - a strong IT base inclining towards the Arts and Communication. Everything is IT savy and Arty and Wireless.

Learning is done both indoors and outdoors obviously student-centred in collaboration with peers and the tablet PCs. The tablets have inking features for purposeful learning through specially-designed software. We were told that more than 95% of the Crescent girls possess the personal tablets and together with the meticulously-planned syallbus prepare them for the O-levels exam.

Fully-funded by the government, students merely pay a monthly fee of $26.oo...but the school is only for the top 2% of the annual cohort of the PSLE ( UPSR equivalent) students of the primary schools. So you have to be very good academically. Not surprisingly, they produce pioneers like Ho Ching of the Temasek Group of Singapore...leaders, innovators, thinkers...and the best.

The strong Alumni and the supportive private sector add further impetus and strength to the good works of the school...the good attracts the good.

I suppose the greatest challenge will be the most difficult to measure - values . How do we inject the right values into young ladies who are already so academically proficient and seem to lack nothing? Helpfulness, compassion, kindness, cooperation, resilience? A daily challenge; and hopefully all that have been provided will see them learning delayed gratification and not only instant gratification.

The best has been given.