Mayflower Primary School

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**Mayflower Primary School**
Motto	Service Before Self
Established	1979
Type	Government, Double
Principal	Zainal bin Sapari
School code	1152
Colours	Navy, White
Locale	Ang Mo Kio, Singapore
Enrollment	2000+
Website	Link
Republic of Singapore

Mayflower Primary School is one of the oldest primary schools in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. It was founded in 2 January 1979, with 77 teachers and nearly 2400 pupils.

1 History
2 Staff awards
3 Facilities
4 External links

[edit] History

Mayflower Primary School started functioning on 2 January 1979 with Madam Chua Soo Huang as the pioneering principal. The school began with 77 teachers, 56 classes and 2395 pupils. The following year on 4 July 1980, the school held its official opening officiated by Mr Yeo Toon Chia, the then Member of Parliament for Ang Mo Kio.

Mr George Goh became Principal when Madam Chua resigned at the end of 1983. The school became known for its Science Room and Garden, and membership for the School Advisory Committee increased and an annual Games Day was held under his leadership.

In June 1988, Mrs Mary Lim assumed the role of a principal of the school when the former was appointed an Inspector for Schools by the Ministry of Education. Information technology was introduced in the school and some teachers were sent for training. Speech and Drama classes were initiated in both English and Chinese, computer classes were organised for the pupils during the school holidays and abacus classes were introduced. In 1991 a Food-and-Fun-Fair raised money for school improvement projects including the air-conditioning of the Music Room. The school also saw a change in the school uniform to its current design.

The school became a single session school in 1993 when it took over the premises of the former Ang Mo Kio Primary School building. However, with the growing enrolment of the school, it had to revert to double session in 1996. December 1996 saw Mrs Lim transferred to Woodlands Primary School, and Mrs Mary Teo took the leadership for a year.

Miss Ngeow Ah Cheng was appointed principal of the school in 1998 and the school shifted to a new school building at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 in March 2000. Ngeow stepped down in December 2004 and Mr Zainal bin Sapari has been the principal since then.

The school has won a number of awards at the Singapore Youth Festival. This includes, Chinese Orchestra, Malay dance, Indian dance, string ensemble, Chinese dance and choir.