Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As we bid farewell to 2024 and welcome 2025, I hope this letter finds you refreshed after an enjoyable year-end break with your children.

Reflecting on my first year at FMS(P), I'm filled with gratitude for the warm welcome and support from our wonderful community. Your unwavering support and understanding have made the teachers’ work even more meaningful and learning experiences for your children even more enriching.

2024 has been an exceptional year for FMS(P)! Our Primary 6 cohort achieved outstanding PSLE results, with 99.6% of students advancing to secondary education. The mean PSLE score for students taking 4 standard subjects is 15.2, and 16.3 for all students. We heartily congratulate the 2024 Primary 6 cohort and wish them the very best in their next educational chapter.

Beyond academics, our focus on 'Laying Strong Foundations' (Luke 6:47-48) has yielded remarkable results in character development and co-curricular achievements. Our Fairsians have performed beyond our expectations; they have demonstrated perseverance, resilience and teamwork, and achieved outstanding outcomes. The following are just a few examples of our students’ achievements, with some being a first for us.

During the inaugural Sophia Blackmore: Our Acts of Kindness (OAKS) programme, our students contributed to, packed and presented care packs to our non-teaching staff, recognising their contributions to the school. Student empowerment reached new heights with our students exercising ownership and voting, for the very first time, for student leaders to represent them in the Prefectorial EXCO elections. During the new Fairfield Townhall initiative, Fairsians expressed their views and made decisions over matters such as school cleanliness. Our Peer Supporters programme flourished, and for the first time, a group of them won first prize in a national Cyber Wellness poster competition.

In co-curricular activities (CCAs), Fairsians excelled across the board. Highlights include the Volleyball Senior Girls' 3rd place in the Nationals, the Concert Band's historic Distinction at the Singapore Youth Festival, and outstanding performances from our performing arts and uniformed groups. The Boys' Brigade earned the Lim Siong Guan Challenge Trophy and James Milner Fraser Award, while the Girls' Brigade and Red Cross unit secured silver and gold awards respectively.

Our students have done well, and the teachers have been instrumental in guiding them through a vibrant and holistic school life. Our staff’s commitment has been recognised through various accolades, including teachers winning the Caring Teacher Award (national and school level), our teaching and non-teaching staff achieving the 2024 MOE Service Excellence Award and MOE Innergy Award, recognising their outstanding service and creativity in pedagogy and work solutions. Our staff have role modelled lifelong learning and striving for excellence.

We thank God for His protection and faithfulness to FMS(P), enabling us to perform well in 2024. We look forward to 2025, with anticipation and hope. The school theme for 2025 is ‘Love is in the sunshine’, taken from our school song and the theme verse is 1 John 4:19 “We love because He first loved us.”. This phrase ‘Love is in the sunshine’ is inspiring and hopeful, very apt for a time when the world is full of trouble and uncertainty. In alignment with the theme, we want to continue to strengthen a school culture that is loving and caring so that every student finds the school a safe and happy place to learn and play in and every staff member feels cared for and supported in their work. We also want to nurture every student to do their part in loving and caring for others and the environment. This theme also reminds us we can look forward to another good year because we are confident of God’s love and He will continue to protect, guide and bless FMS(P).

Before I end off, I would like to share staff movement for 2025. For staff who are leaving FMS(P), we want to express our heartfelt thanks for their many contributions to the school and wish them all the best in their future endeavours. For new officers who are joining us, we extend a warm welcome to our Fairfield community, and we look forward to working with them.

Staff leaving our school:
1. Mdm Cindy Wong
2. Mdm Jeanne Teh
3. Ms Leelavathy Balakrishnan
4. Mr Md Khairuddin Bin Sahlan
5. Mdm Ng Pei Yoong
6. Ms Nurhanifah Bte Hassan
7. Ms Suria Bte Md Shafiee

We would like to wish Mdm Cindy Wong a happy retirement and congratulate Mdm Jeanne Teh on her appointment as Vice-Principal in Anglo-Chinese School (Primary).

Staff joining our school:
1. Ms Amelia Goh
2. Mrs Angie Chng
3. Mrs Doris Lim
4. Mrs Joy Malik
5. Ms Jocelyn Yee
6. Mdm Kaylan Huang
7. Mrs Melissa Timmer
8. Mrs Michelle Tan
9. Ms Sieow Je Yun
10. Mr Tan Hue
11. Ms Tiffany Ong
12. Mdm Zhang Luyao

We would also like to welcome Mr Tony Kng Wee Beng who has joined us on 15 December 2024 as Vice-Principal (Education). Prior to his appointment in our school, Mr Kng was the Deputy Director (Media Design for Learning) in MOE.

Please take time to read through the information shared in our Term 1 NewsLink issue so that you can support your children better in having a good school experience. Thank you once again for your support and we look forward to building an even stronger home-school partnership in the new year.

My staff and I would like to wish you and your family a very Happy New Year filled with Love, Peace and Success.

Serving with you,
Mrs Soh Mei Foong
Principal