School and Academic
The school has 100 staff. The principal is Mdm Rita Rajlal who took over from Mr Koh Chin Thong, Martin on 15 December 2011. Mdm Rita Rajlal is the fourth principal of the school when she assumed principalship in 15 December 2011.http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/files/2011/10/annex-a-principal-appointments-2011.pdf
The school achieved numerous awards in recent years. Since 2005, the school achieved the Character Development Award (2007–13), National Education Award (2008–12), Partners Award (2010), Cherish (2006–11), People Developer Standard (2006, 2010), National Art Education Awards (2005, 2007, 2009–11), Sustained Achievement Awards (2007, 2009, 2011) and Green Audit (Lotus) awards (2010–11). The school also became more popular among the residents and some pupils have to undergo ballot to enrol in the school from 2009.
It is a double-session school, with a portion of the pupil population (Primary 1 and 2) attending 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. A few pupils have so far entered the Gifted Education Programme.
The school's nearest stations are Choa Chu Kang MRT Station and Fajar LRT Station/Petir LRT Station.
Read more about this topic: Zhenghua Primary School
Famous quotes containing the words school and, school and/or academic:
“Bodily offspring I do not leave, but mental offspring I do. Well, my books do not have to be sent to school and college, and then insist on going into the church, or take to drinking, or marry their mother’s maid.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal.... No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1907–1960)
“If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)