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History of Nanyang Primary school

Let us review and study the History of Nanyang Primary School so that we know the difficulties the chinese had creating education. 

Tan Chu Nan and Teo Eng Hock founded the Singapore Nanyang Primary School in 1917. The Nanyang Primary history started out as the Nanyang Girl’s High School extension for the primary section. The school first occupied a space at the Dhoby Ghaut shophouse near the Cathay Cineplex but follows Singapore strong policy on its primary education. The Nanyang Primary history adapted the 6 years of primary education regulations. Although Singapore has mixed Chinese language and mother tongue, it became flexible and allowed English as the other language that children learn during their preschool and primary school.

The Chinese language became adequate in their Chinese culture preservation, which the Nanyang Primary history demonstrated by means of their well-understood and continuing promotion for English dominant bilingual education. The Nanyang Primary history reflects a refinement of the Chinese culture in their mixed languages of mother tongue, Chinese, and English to aid a multiracial society in preserving cultural values while learning the English language for its competitive practical solutions. The traditional Chinese education in a bilingual type of school system marked the progress of the Chinese vs.. English educated communities in Singapore.

The Nanyang Primary School 南洋小学 moved to its current address at King’s Road during the year 1927. In the Nanyang Primary history, the primary education age normally begins at six years old. The education system follows the four-year foundation stage and the two-year orientation stage. The Chairman and the Principal, Mr. Lee Chin Tien and Mrs. Liew Yuen Sien, developed the school curriculum, standards, and instructions including the teaching styles to improve the primary students interactive learning environment. This made the Nanyang Primary School a reputable school that produces graduate students who have the capability and the skills to pass the Chinese middle school examinations for admission specifically the Nanyang University college entrance test.

Primary school is the foundation of a child’s knowledge and skills development. In the Nanyang Primary history, the orientation stage gave enrollees the mobility to cultivate learning ability with the match of custom Chinese education streaming system that exposes the children to their linguistic history of Chinese, Mandarin, English, and Singaporean Chinese. The Nanyang Primary history acquired a good reputation in Singapore for its high quality Chinese and English stream of education system.The British Army occupied the Nanyang Primary School as a field office during WWII followed by the Japanese army, which destroyed some of the school’s facilities. The Nanyang Primary history reflects the joint efforts of the administration and students including the alumni to regain the school’s operations when the British colonized Singapore again after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Singapore highly valued the concept of education and the Nanyang Primary history supported its native language of Malaya, Tamil, or Chinese through its bilingual education of English and Chinese stream. The Nanyang Primary School is fourth among the list of primary schools that offer the Primary Gifted Education Programme in Singapore.

Over the years, Chinese language education in Nanyang Primary school has deteriorated and is no longer the bastion of chinese language education due to Singapore government’s deliberate policy of diluting the Chinese language mother tongue. Chinese A and B courses (is a divide and conquer tactic) has further diluted the ecology of Chinese language speaking students. As a result, many SIngaporean of Chinese origin can no longer speak proper chinese language.