Character and Citizenship Education

Vision

Every student a Confident youth, Concerned citizen and an Empathetic leader.

Mission

CCE in BLS seeks to provide an integrated approach to addressing our students’ development of values, character, social-emotional well-being, and citizenship dispositions in a coherent and holistic way. We seek to equip every student with knowledge, skills and values to develop them into confident leaders of empathy, who are guided by sound values, principles and actively contribute to the school, community and nation.

Structure

BLS has redesigned CCE to be based on CCAs & CCA-cluster by level. The spiral CCE curriculum is conducted by CCAMs in a CCA-Centric Model. With this approach, students get to hear more perspectives during cross-stream (CCA Cluster by levels) or cross-stream, cross-level (by CCAs) discussions.

Key Programmes

The components of CCE comprise of assembly programmes and CCE curriculum content areas (National Education (NE), Sexuality Education (SEd), Mental Health (MH), Education and Career Guidance (ECG), Cyber Wellness (CW) and family Education (FE)).

In the CCE curriculum, students are developed through the formal and informal curriculum with the following outcomes in mind:

To foster in students greater self‑awareness and social awareness;
To develop skills in self‑management, relationship management and responsible decision making;
To assist students to make informed educational career decisions and better life choices;
To develop skills in reflective learning;
To facilitate inculcation of school’s core values: Wisdom, Harmony, Excellence and Respect
To develop emotional intelligence.
To inculcate a sense of rootedness to Singapore

Below are the programmes that BLS offers to inculcate values and develop students’ character:

Components	Objectives	Key Programmes
CCE Lessons	To inculcate values and build competencies in our students to develop them to be good individuals and useful citizens.	Experiential lessons on values and social and emotional competencies, including content areas namely, ECG, SEd, CW, MH, FE.
Education and Career Guidance (ECG)	To allow students to explore education and career options, life skills and an appreciation for the value of all occupations through classroom learning, guidance and counselling and community experiences.	Briefings on Subject Combinations, DSA, PFP, DPP Career Fairs Experience ITE Programme Applied Studies Experience and Industry Exposure Programme Learning Journeys to Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) Myskillsfuture student portal
Sexuality Education (SEd)	To help students make well-informed decisions through the provision of age-appropriate knowledge, acquire social and emotional skills and positive mainstream values and attitudes about sexuality.	CCE Lessons Empowered Teens (eTeens)
Digital Citizenship / Cyber Wellness (CW)	To equip students with life-long socio-emotional competencies and sound values so that they can become safe, respectful and responsible users of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).	Thematic lessons based on Cyber Use, Cyber Identity, , Cyber Relationships and Cyber Citizenship
National Education	To develop a national identity and cultivate a sense of belonging and rootedness to Singapore.	Celebration of NE Commemorative Days Learning Journeys (on Singapore’s culture & history, social and economic aspects)
Environmental Citizenship	To promote environmental awareness among staff and students, and to drive implementation of green activities to inculcate in all respect for our environment and to make the school a greener place.	Green School Modules Environmental Awareness (Earth Hour, Earth Day) Keep Singapore Clean Movement
Values In Action (VIA)	To develop students, through learning experiences, to be socially responsible citizens who contribute meaningfully to the community, through the learning and application of values, knowledge and skills. The following are some of the organisations that BLS has been working with: -Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES) -Down Syndrome Association (Singapore) -Fei Yue Community Service -Green Schools @ South West -MINDS - Whispering Hearts Family Service Centre	CCA-Centric VIA programme