Student Development Team

Find out how North Spring Primary's Student Development Team shapes students' character, wellbeing, and leadership through the G.E.M. programme.

Last updated 11 May 2026

Student Development Team

Our Purpose

The Student Development Team (SDT) works closely with all departments to customise and implement the school’s student development programmes for our students. This is to ensure that the school programmes cater to the various needs of different profiles of students and provide a structured curricula that promote the development and well-being of all North Spring Primary students.

Our People

School org chart showing Principal leading HOD, Year Heads, and SH Student Management, all connecting to Case Management Team.

With School Leaders as the advisors, SDT is oversee by the Year Heads who work closely with HOD CCE, SH Student Management and Case Management Team members which comprises of the School Counsellors and Allied Educators (Learning and Behavioural Needs). The team is also supported by the Form Teachers to ensure holistic development of students in our school.

Our G.E.M Programmes

Character and Citizenship Education, the bedrock of G.E.M programme, has guided teachers to deliver a coherent and customised experience that helps our students be grounded in a core set of values while developing new 21st century competencies that will prepare them for the future.

G.E.M Character

Under G.E.M Character, we look into aspects on students’ social emotional learning. Some of the activities that we have organised are as follows:

Orientation Programme at start of the year “I AM A GEM”
Values Talks during Structured Assembly and Pre-Assembly programme
Periodical Year Head Talks
Character Development Programme

Two children's hand-drawn worksheets on compassion and punctuality, with a colorful display board above.

G.E.M Connect

For G.E.M Connect, we aim to connect staff, parents and students through the programmes below:

Form Teacher Guidance Period
Peer Support Programme
Year Head @ Recess
Professional Development for Staff Training
Professional Learning Communities
Parent-Child-Teacher Conference

Parent Teacher Meeting
‘Every Parent, a Supportive Partner’, with this in mind, we focus on building strong partnership with parents through effective engagement, such as Parent-Teacher Meeting and Parent-Child-Teacher Conferencing sessions so as to support students in their holistic development.

A woman with glasses speaks with a mother and young boy at a table in a school gymnasium during a meeting event.

A teacher speaks with three adults and a child seated around desks in a classroom with colorful wall displays.

G.E.M Leadership

For G.E.M Leadership, we aim to build student leadership capacity through various programme as stated below:

P1 to P5 M1NDgem Programmes
Prefect Leadershp Programmes

P1 to P5 M1NDgem Programme
A cluster-funded programme that uses cognitive strategies in Habits of Mind to help the students to habituate the intended habits over time.

Through this programme, students are able to demonstrate joy in learning while displaying self-management and self- responsibility in learning.

A teacher speaks to a circle of young students in blue uniforms in a classroom with a projector screen.

Teacher stands before a projected slide titled "We as a LISTENER" while students sit at desks in a bright classroom.

Children in blue uniforms play an activity game in a classroom with a "Fire, Hunter, Earthquake!" slideshow on screen.

Four smiling children in blue and red school uniforms stand near a table with books and papers in a classroom.

Student Development Team