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Social Studies (Primary) and 21st Century Competencies To help our students thrive in a fast-changing world that is becoming highly digitalised, the Ministry of Education has identified competencies that have become increasingly important in the 21st century.
Updated as of January 2020 this contains the latest syllabus of the teaching and learning of social studies for primary school students in Singapore. It also includes information on social studies education in Singapore and modes of assessment.
Jul 9, 2019 · Primary school students will be introduced to subject-based learning where they will learn subjects such as languages, mathematics, science, art, music and social studies. Learn more about the syllabus taught in the classroom.
The Social Studies curriculum helps students to grow in knowledge, develop skills and learn values through examining issues that are of concern to our society and the world in which we live. The Social Studies syllabus aims to develop informed, concerned and participative citizens.
- Purpose of Social Studies
- Philosophy of Social Studies
- Curriculum Aims of Social Studies
- Syllabus Design
- Cluster 3: Appreciating Singapore, the Region and the World We Live In
The Social Studies curriculum spans the primary and secondary levels. This subject helps students to grow in knowledge, develop skills and learn values through examining issues that are of concern to our society and the world in which we live.
At the heart of the Singapore Social Studies Curriculum (refer to Figure 1) is the preparation of our students to be efective citizens by helping them to beter understand the interconnectedness of Singapore and the world they live in, and appreciate the complexities of the human experience. Drawing on aspects of society that are of meaning and inte...
As informed citizens, students will: understand the rights and responsibilities of citizens and the role of the government in society; understand their identity as Singaporeans, with a regional and global outlook; understand the Singapore perspective on key national, regional and global issues; analyse and negotiate complex issues through evaluatin...
A thematic approach, structured along the key themes1 of Identity, Culture and Heritage and People and Environment, is adopted to frame the Social Studies Primary (SSP) syllabus. The syllabus is organised into three broad clusters as described below: Cluster 1: Discovering Self and Immediate Environment Students would explore who they are and the ...
Primary One: Knowing Myself, Others and My Surroundings Students will learn about themselves, people around them and their immediate environment. Students will explore who they are in relation to the people and places around them. Through examining the different roles they play, students will understand how their actions can affect the people and p...
The Social Studies curriculum spans across the primary and secondary levels. The curriculum aspires towards the educative growth of the Social Studies learner as a reflective inquirer who is also an informed, concerned and participative citizen at the end of a full course of Social Studies education.
The syllabus begins in Primary 1 by examining the pupils’ immediate environment, the school, and moves on to the neighbourhood, the society, the country and finally ends in Primary 6 with the study of Singapore’s Southeast Asian neighbours and other countries. Figure 1 – The Expanding Environment Approach. Pri 6.
