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The school emphasises co-curricular activities, and students take a new one every five weeks.

Most activities are based on teachers' hobbies, which include baking, Lego building, storytelling and scriptwriting.

All pupils go on one overseas trip a year. Primary 1 and 2 students, for instance, took a day trip to Muar, Johor, this year, where they saw rubber-tapping and visited a padi field.

North Vista Primary

Parents are encouraged to stay in the school from 7.30am to 8am, so they can have breakfast and chat with their children and other parents.

From 8am to 8.30am, pupils and teachers discuss what happened the previous day or hash out other topics concerning the children.

Literature is introduced at Primary 3.

The school has a holistic physical education programme that teaches nutrition.

Innova Primary

The school caters to pupils with varying abilities in maths. Pupils who need more help are placed in smaller classes, and those who can progress faster are challenged.

Bukit View Primary

The school's co-curricular activity programme offers non-traditional sports such as hip hop dancing and cup stacking.

Mayflower Primary

Pupils are encouraged to pick up a musical instrument, which the school believes can motivate them.

Beacon Primary

All pupils, including those in Primary 1, use a tablet PC to write compositions.

The school, identified as one of five 'future schools' where technology spearheads learning, has wireless Internet access and has plans for a virtual laboratory to simulate science experiments.

Choa Chu Kang Primary

The school will infuse robotics into its curriculum by letting pupils design robots during art lessons and find out more about how they work during science class.