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Innova Primary School

Learning for Life Programme @ IPS

Discover how Innova Primary School blends community service with active learning to build character and leadership in students.

Last updated on 14 September 2026
Innova Primary School students posing with decorated recycling bins and gift bags in two community service photos.

Purpose of Learning for Life Programme @ IPS

  • Combine community service with structured opportunities for students to be engaged in active learning

  • Provide relevant and meaningful service in the community

  • Provide leadership opportunities

Diagram showing Innova Primary School LLP Programmes split into School-wide Programmes and Differentiated Activities with bullet points.
Innova Primary School slide showing school-wide programmes with photos of students cleaning, playing, and interacting.

School-wide Programmes

Use-your-Hand Campaign

  • Objective: To inculcate the importance of maintaining school cleanliness and taking care of school property 

  • Rationale and intent:

    • ♦ Cherish and be grateful for what we have

    • ♦ Appreciate the efforts of school’s Operations Support Officers

    • ♦ We want and can learn in a clean and conducive school

    • ♦ Everyone is responsible for the cleanliness of our school

Two Innova Primary School students in a hallway, one bending to pick up a red bucket.

Tri-generational Learning @Innova (3G @ IPS)

A programme where Innova Primary School conducts monthly visit to seniors residing at different Homes to foster friendships and to interact with the seniors

  • Rationale and intent:

    • ♦ Forging tri-generational bonding between the students, teachers and the seniors

    • ♦ Promoting active living by enhancing mental and social well-being among seniors

    • ♦ Improving public perception and attitude towards ageing

A large group of volunteers in orange and white shirts assist elderly and wheelchair-bound individuals at red tables indoors.

Active Recess Programme

  • Objective: To provide students with opportunities for both positive play and experiences in learning to work and to play with their peers

  • Rationale and intent:

    • ♦ Resolve conflicts

    • ♦ Provide leadership opportunities

    • ♦ Take responsibility for loaned sports/game equipment

Two school children stand at a picnic table indoors, while a group of children play jump rope outdoors on a path.

Differentiated Activies

Innova Primary School slide showing differentiated programmes for Primary 1 to 6, with student photos and activity descriptions.

Primary 1-3: Lead Self

"I'm a Responsible Child" Card

Two cartoon children sit together, one holding a red book and the other displaying a blue paper with a smiley face.

  • Objective:
    ♦ To develop a sense of responsibility among student

  • Rationale and intent:
    ♦  Inculcate independence and competency in carrying out one' own responsibilities/duties

A colorful children's responsibility card booklet showing tasks to complete at home and in school.

Primary 3-5: Lead class to serve the community

Care for the Environment: School and Community Needs

  • Objective:
    ♦ To help support some of school and community needs 

  • Rationale and intent:
    ♦  Initiate environmental projects such as 'Anti-Littering' in school and the community
    ♦  Learn important environmental messages and share with their family members
    ♦  Be adaptable, innovative and able to communicate well with others

Cartoon girl with green hair clips resting chin on hands at a wooden desk, wearing a blue top and red shoes.

(Pri 3 & 4) Care for the Environment: School Needs

  • Adopt the Canteen
    ♦ Each class will be responsible for the cleanliness of the canteen for a week

Students in white and orange uniforms sweeping and cleaning a school canteen with brooms and dustpans.

(Pri 5) Care for the Environment: Keep Singapore Clean Movement

Young boy standing beside a blue recycling bin filled with plastic bottles, arms at his sides.

  • Project Titles:
    ♦ Keep Singapore Clean through Colourful Bins
    ♦ Colourful Recycle Bags Today, A More Beautiful Singapore Tomorrow
    ♦ Bright Spot programme with NWCDC

Four photos showing schoolchildren in uniforms holding artwork, decorated bins, and blue recycling bags outdoors.
Infographic about Innova Primary School's "I Am A Responsible Child" program covering home, school, and community responsibilities.

Primary 4-5 Student Leaders: Lead by Example

Care for the Seniors: Intergenerational Bonding and Learning

  • Objective:
    ♦ To encourage intergenerational bonding by involving students and seniors in a group learning environment

Three cartoon scenes: elderly woman at computer, two people dancing, and a woman trimming a green bush.

  • Rationale and intent:
    ♦  Develop values and character as students learn from and share knowledge with the seniors
    ♦  Enable students to learn and apply both leadership and communication skills
    ♦  Develop a sense of empathy for others and respect towards the older generation

Three panels show students in orange-white uniforms marching, using a tablet with an adult, and tending a garden bed.

♦  Students to teach the seniors in an identified area of interest/skill, learn leadership and communication skills and pick up values like respect for seniors
♦  Programme forges intergenerational solidarity and promotes social cohesion

Three school scenes: children in a gym, kids using a tablet with an adult, and students gardening in raised beds.

Primary 4-6: Lead the school through Action

Care for the Underprivileged: Donation Drive

Cartoon boy holding a grocery bag full of canned goods next to the text Food Collection.

  • Objective:
    ♦ To instill the value of compassion and empathy towards others who need additional support

Three scenes showing children and adults preparing and distributing large red gift bags at a community event.

  • Rationale and intent:
    ♦  Reach out to the less fortunate through a food and stationery distribution programme
    ♦  Share passionately with needy families
    ♦  Understand social issues and needs at a deeper level

  • Examples of Donation Drives:
    ♦  Food Donation Drive (Pri 4 & 5)
    ♦  Stationery Donation Drive (Pri 4 & 5)

Children in white and orange shirts distribute colorful toys and items to a group of kids in a classroom.

Last Updated: 03/2020