Raffles Girls' Primary School

Raffles Girls' Primary School 莱佛士女子小学 (Láifóshì Nǘzǐ Xiǎoxué)
Knowledge Begets Success
Location
Hillcrest Road
Information
Type	Government Primary
Established	1844
Session	double
School code	1073
Principal	Mrs Yue Yoke Mun
Enrolment	Approx. 2700
Colour(s)	Green, black, white
Website	http://www.rafflesgirlspri.moe.edu.sg//

Raffles Girls' Primary School (Abbreviation: RGPS) is a primary school for girls located in Singapore. It offers the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) to Primary Four to Primary Six students. Despite its name, RGPS is not considered part of the Raffles family of schools, which consists of Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College. It also bears no affiliation to Raffles Girls' School (Secondary).

The five values of RGPS are Learning, Creativity, Graciousness, Responsibility and Integrity, and the school motto is "Knowledge Begets Success".

They have 3 GEP classes, namely P, Q and R, for Primary 4-6. They are currently on Mount Sinai Road due to upgrading.

History

Raffles Girls' School was established on 4 March 1844 with six boarders and five scholars. It started off as a moral development and vocational training school. The school was co-located with Raffles Institution at Bras Basah Road. However, the two schools separated in 1847; by 1881, RGPS was conducting its own classes.

In 1928, the school moved to Queen Street but was forced to vacate the premises during the Japanese Occupation in World War II. The building was occupied by the Kempeitai as its headquarters during the war years. After the war ended in 1945, the school was re-opened and temporarily housed in St. Anthony's Convent. In 1946, it returned to its Queen Street building.

After the war, afternoon classes for primary school students were started. At the time, there were only nine primary school classes, with Mrs Ambiviagar as Principal. In 1959, the secondary school classes became Raffles Girls' Secondary School, which moved to a new building in Anderson Road. The primary school classes were renamed Raffles Girls’ Primary School, and remained at Queen Street. Morning classes were started with V Pestana as the principal of the school. Ida Goh was the next principal from January 1960 to November 1969.

In 1979, RGPS moved to bigger premises at Holland Grove Road to cope with the increasing number of students. The principal then was Lim Soo Noi. In 1984, it was one of the two primary schools initially selected for the Gifted Education Programme. Lim retired in 1985 and her position was taken over by Koh Mei Ling until 1988. The next principal was Nanda Bandara, who was succeeded by Ms Tan Siok Cheng in 1999. Ms Tan Siok Cheng retired at the end of 2008 and was succeeded by Mrs Yue Yoke Mun.

In November 1999, Raffles Girls’ Primary School moved to Hillcrest Road, which was built to accommodate more than 2700 pupils in two sessions. Primary One and Two students study during the afternoon session, while the upper primary students study during the morning session.

In 2014, they moved to the current campus at Mount Sinai.

The School Rules

1. Be punctual

2. Be dressed neatly in the school uniform

3. Be courteous and helpful to everyone

4. Walk quietly within the school building

5. Queue up in a straight line at the food center and observe table manners

6. Keep your class, personal spaces and self clean

7. Look after your belongings and school property diligently

etc. etc.

For Security Reasons (rules)

• No jewellery except for simple ear studs or small loop earrings
• Pocket money should be limited
• Should not talk to strangers

School song

The School song was composed in the 1960s. The Headmaster requested that all teachers think of the lyrics for the School Song, and Patricia M Tan’s set of lyrics was adopted. The score was composed by Ng Chiau Kong.

The 4C's

Courtesy co-operation (clap thrice)

Carefulness consideration (clap thrice)

Good behaviour through the school

That will be our golden rule (clap thrice)

Repeat twice

Uniform

The uniform of RGPS is a knee-length navy blue pleated pinafore over a white, round-collared blouse and shorts. Prefects wear an additional green prefect tie over the pinafore. A different attire is worn during physical education classes — a white t-shirt with a coloured band (either red, blue, yellow or green) on the sleeves indicating the house and navy blue shorts under the pinafore.Pupils can also wear the house T-shirt for physical education,it is a plain shirt(red, blue, yellow, or green) with words and a picture at the back. The name tags come in 6 colours according to year, white, red, blue, yellow, green or orange.

External links

• Official website

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