Singapore American School

The vision of the Singapore American School is to inspire a passion for learning, encourage emotional and intellectual vitality, and empower students with the confidence and courage to contribute to the global community and to achieve their dreams.


Principal Marian de Groot showed me around her [Elementary] section [Grades 4, 5, and 6] of SAS today. There are 850 children, 39 classrooms, 78 teachers and 43 support staff in the school.

Upon approaching the facility one is greeted by the guard house where an exchange of identity documentation and visitor card is made.

The school buildings house 5 schools – kindergarten, primary, intermediate, middle school and high school. This is the largest International School in the world with 3,800 students across its five schools.

http://www.sas.edu.sg/

One cannot but be impressed firstly, by the facilities and secondly the student focused approach to curriculum. You name it; this school probably has it – very well resourced library, auditorium, specialist teaching facilities for art, music and PE, computer labs, brilliant cafeteria, outdoor equipment/play areas with well cushioned fall areas and ample car parking. The intermediate section of the school also has at least two swimming pools – one with 6 lanes.

A wide range of specialist teachers support curriculum delivery and staff professional development. Teachers begin school at around 7:30 am and go through until about 4:30 pm. They do not have supervision duties; these being carried out by support staff but they are required to participate in scheduled, focused curriculum professional development activities including collaborative projects and ‘professional learning communities’ work.