The Elementary School at Overseas Family School is an exciting and vibrant educational environment. We have approximately 800 students from around 70 countries and 90 teaching staff from over 20 countries. The diversity in our student and teaching staff makes OFS a truly international school. It is my pleasure to lead a community of dedicated and caring teachers who support our school’s master policy in providing and maintaining a happy, safe and effective school for our students and families. Our highly qualified and experienced teachers have a student-centered approach where all students receive support and guidance in developing their intellectual, social and emotional well-being.
We offer the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) to students from Grade 1 to Grade 5, a comprehensive curriculum consisting of many rigorous, engaging and globally relevant Units of Work. Each thematic IPC Unit of Work is designed around a clear process of learning with a student-led enquiry approach and students are taught to make connections across various subjects, through multiple perspectives.
Apart from receiving instruction in Language Arts, Reading and Mathematics, our students have weekly specialist lessons in Art, Music, PE, Coding, Chess and ICT/Library. Students also have the opportunity to undertake one of five Foreign Languages or one of our 15 Mother Tongue Languages. For students new to English, we offer a Study Preparation Program (SPP) which supports their English acquisition while maintaining their progress in other subjects. Our After School Program (ASP) encourages a high level of participation in sports, ECAs as well as Enrichment activities, which helps our students to further develop skills that positively impact their social and physical well-being.
OFS has a wonderful sense of community and parents are welcomed to participate in the various activities in their child’s school life. It is our belief that parents have a crucial role to play in the education of their children and we value a parent-school partnership in creating a successful educational experience for their child. In this open partnership, we see our parents as the senior partner in having the final say in decisions affecting their own child's learning.
We look forward to you joining the OFS community.
Penny Liew
Elementary School Principal
Overseas Family School (Elementary) offers the International Primary Curriculum to students from Grade 1 to Grade 5.
The International Primary Curriculum at Overseas Family School is a comprehensive curriculum for students 6-11 years old, made up of many exciting, engaging and globally relevant thematic IPC Units of Work, designed around a clear process of learning.
The Elementary School students celebrate our cultural diversity with various events such as the Internationalism Day celebrations and Global Concerts.
Club and sport activities allow students to engage in their area of interests.
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