Zhenghua Primary School
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| Motto | The Best That We Can Be |
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| Established | 1989 |
| Type | Government, Double |
| Principal | Koh Chin Thong, Martin (Mr) |
| School code | 1240 |
| Colours | add |
| Locale | Bukit Panjang, Singapore |
| Enrollment | 2000+ |
| Website | www.zhenghuapri.moe.edu.sg |
 Republic of Singapore |
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Zhenghua Primary School is a Government primary school in Bukit Panjang, Singapore.
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[edit] History
Named after the historic Cheng Hwa Public School which was closed in 1985, Zhenghua Primary School was established in 1989 with an initial cohort of 560 students and 28 teachers. Classes were held at Keming Primary School until the school building in Bukit Panjang was completed in November 1989.
The school premises has recently completed PRIME.
[edit] School and academic
The school has over two thousand students and a hundred staff. The principal is Koh Chin Thong, Martin who took over from Lee Tee Choon on 15 December 2005. It is a double-session school, with a portion of the pupil population (Primary 1 and 2) attends classes in the afternoon, while the remainder (Primary 3 to 6) attends classes in the morning. Co-curricular activities are held on Thursdays and Fridays.
The school's nearest stations are Choa Chu Kang MRT Station and Fajar LRT Station.
[edit] Co-curricular activities
The school is noted for its strength in the aesthetics: music and the performing arts, having won national awards for Chinese dance, Malay dance, Indian dance, as well as winning national awards for their brass band and choir groups. It garnered a total haul of a Gold and 4 Silver awards in the Singapore Youth Festival in 2004. The school improved on the performance in the 2006 Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging when it achieved 2 Golds and 3 Silvers. The Gold recipients were the Chinese Dance Troupe and the Choir. The school achieved the inaugural National Arts Education Award or NAE (Silver) for primary schools in 2005. The silver was the highest level award given to primary schools in 2005. [1]
The school followed the 2005 successes and achieved the School-Based Excellence (PSE) award from the Ministry of Education for its aesthetics programme, in particular dance. [2] Zhenghua Primary School will receive a recurrent grant of up to $100,000 per year from 2006, so as to further raise the quality and outreach of her DArE@zhenghua programme.
Other success for the school includes rugby and soccer, where the school has attained the highest achievement at national level. For instance, the rugby team was west zone champion (junior) in 2005 and 2006, and national runner-up in 2006.
