Character and Citizenship Education
Discover how our school shapes students into empathetic leaders through its CCE programmes, covering character, citizenship, and social-emotional growth.
At Boon Lay Secondary School (BLS), Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) adopts an integrated approach to nurturing our students' values, character, social-emotional well-being, and citizenship dispositions in a cohesive and holistic manner. Our goal is to equip every student with the knowledge, skills, and values needed to grow into confident leaders of empathy, guided by sound principles, and committed to contributing meaningfully to the school, community, and nation.
In essence: Every BoonLayian – a Confident Youth, a Concerned Citizen, and an Empathetic Leader.
Structure
BLS has redesigned CCE to be based on CCAs by level. The spiral CCE curriculum is conducted by CCAMs in a CCA-Centric Model. With this approach, students get to hear more perspectives during cross-stream (CCA pairing by levels) or cross-stream, cross-level (by CCAs) discussions.
Key Programmes
The components of CCE comprise of assembly programmes and CCE curriculum content areas (National Education (NE), Sexuality Education (SEd), Mental Health (MH), Education and Career Guidance (ECG), Cyber Wellness (CW) and family Education (FE).
In the CCE curriculum, students are developed through the formal and informal curriculum with the following outcomes in mind:
To foster in students greater self‑awareness and social awareness;
To develop skills in self‑management, relationship management and responsible decision making;
To assist students to make informed educational career decisions and better life choices;
To develop skills in reflective learning;
To facilitate inculcation of school’s core values: Wisdom, Harmony, Excellence and Respect;
To develop emotional intelligence;
To inculcate a sense of rootedness to Singapore.
Below are the programmes that BLS offers to inculcate values and develop students’ character:
CCE Programmes
Components | Objectives | Key Programmes |
|---|---|---|
CCE Lessons | To inculcate values and build competencies in our students to develop them to be good individuals and useful citizens. | Experiential lessons on values and social and emotional competencies, including content areas namely, ECG, SEd, CW, MH, FE. |
Education and Career Guidance (ECG) | To allow students to explore education and career options, life skills and an appreciation for the value of all occupations through classroom learning, guidance and counselling and community experiences. | Briefings on Subject Combinations, EAE and Career Fairs Experience ITE Programme Learning Journeys to Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) |
Sexuality Education (SEd) | To help students make well-informed decisions through the provision of age-appropriate knowledge, and acquire social and emotional skills and positive mainstream values and attitudes about sexuality. | CCE Lessons Empowered Teens (eTeens) |
Digital Citizenship / Cyber Wellness (CW) | To equip students with life-long socio-emotional competencies and sound values so that they can become safe, respectful and responsible users of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). | Thematic lessons based on Cyber Use, Cyber Identity, Cyber Relationships and Cyber Citizenship |
National Education | To develop a national identity and cultivate a sense of belonging and rootedness to Singapore. | Celebration of NE Commemorative Days Learning Journeys (on Singapore’s culture & history, social and economic aspects) |
Environmental Citizenship | To promote environmental awareness among staff and students, and to drive implementation of green activities to inculcate in all respect for our environment and to make the school a greener place. | Environmental Awareness (Earth Hour, Earth Day) Keep Singapore Clean Movement |
Values in Action (VIA) | To develop students, through learning experiences, to be socially responsible citizens who contribute meaningfully to the community, through the learning and application of values, knowledge and skills. The following are some of the organisations that BLS has been working with:
| CCA-Centric VIA programme |