Pillars

Explore the 8 pillars driving Limitless Learning at GESS

Discover our commitment to quality teaching and learning through our Limitless Learning pillars

Our 8 Limitless Learning Pillars

From community feedback involving our board members, senior leadership, students and parents, 8 areas of strategic focus have been identified, enabling us to:

Increase the number of opportunities for our students to pursue their passion and develop new skills

Better support and nurture our students, ensuring there is no limit to what they can achieve

Elevate teaching and learning standards, improving students' learning outcomes

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High Quality Teaching and Learning

Better learning outcomes for our students are at the very core of the Limitless Learning Plan. GESS will achieve this by using a data-driven approach to better understand our students…

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Student Wellbeing

GESS will strategically invest in the pivotal domain of social-emotional learning. Over the next five years, substantial resources will be dedicated to the development of innovative pastoral care curricula, robust mentoring and coaching initiatives, proactive programmes and enhanced student support…

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Languages

A key factor in our students’ academic success is proficiency in the core languages of instruction. Over the next five years, GESS aims to increase our students’ proficiency in the core languages of English (IB Curriculum) and German (Deutsches Curriculum) through greater language support resources, enhanced language teaching and innovation…

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Culture

GESS remains a proudly inclusive, holistic school that celebrates all our students’ talents and abilities. Through the Limitless Learning Plan, we will professionalise and expand the subject and co-curricular programmes offered, allowing our students to discover their talents and pursue their passions to the highest levels in a large range of interests…

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Future Pathways

The additional resources and investments in the Limitless Learning Plan will lead to our students being better informed and more prepared for future opportunities from an earlier age…

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Student First Campus

The Student First Campus envisions whole school infrastructure improvements in student learning spaces to provide the foundation for the success of the many pillars of the Limitless Learning Plan…

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Parent Services

Aligning with our school’s fifth guiding statement of being a true partner for your family, GESS will invest time and resources to better support and partner with our parents for non-academic matters and school operations…

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Best Employer

Underpinning the success of the Limitless Learning Plan is to ensure that GESS attracts and retains only the best educators and professional staff to drive our vision of being one of the best holistic schools in Singapore…

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GESS – A Great Place To Work

Our teachers and staff are the pillars of support to ensure all students at GESS are empowered to…

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GESS BeyondClassrooms Programme Presents… International Women’s Day Fireside Chat

On 14 March 2024, GESS hosted a fireside chat featuring extraordinary women who’ve carved paths of impact in…

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GESS Parent Academy – Helping Parents Grow Lifelong Readers

As part of our GESS Parent Academy series, our teacher and advocate for literacy Shameer Bismilla presented to…

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GESS BeyondClassrooms in CASE Currents Magazine

The GESS BeyondClassrooms Programme won a Silver Medal in Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)’s Circle…

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GESS Parent Academy – Digital Coffee Morning: A Parent’s Guide to the Gaming World

More than 30 GESS parents convened on 11 March to hear about how big the video game industry…

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GESS Parent Academy – SafeTALK Workshop

In end February 2024, our Head of Student Wellbeing, Ms Shakila Omar, conducted a morning workshop for parents…

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Launch of GESS Parent Academy (GPA)

Parents have been an integral part of our GESS community, playing an active role in what we do…

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Student Wellbeing Through the Eyes of Cara Lucas, Lead Counsellor

The GESS Student Wellbeing Department was restructured in 2023 to better serve our community through new initiatives and…

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Hear from our Principal on GESS being A Great Place To Work

Our teachers and staff are the pillars of support to ensure all students at GESS are empowered to…

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Limitless Learning Plan – Join our Principal on this journey!

GESS’ strategic 5-year Limitless Learning Plan is an embodiment of our commitment to fostering boundless growth, enabling learners…

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Introducing… the GESS Limitless Learning Plan

In 2024’s first edition of GESS Magazine, we took the opportunity to refresh everyone’s memory of our commitment…

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GESS – A Great Place To Work

Our teachers and staff are the pillars of support to ensure all students at GESS are empowered to…

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Training & Upskilling Our Educators – Visible Learning and Suicide Prevention

In December 2023, GESS conducted training as part of our continual professional development for educators. We focused on…

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GESS – A Great Place To Work

Our teachers and staff are the pillars of support to ensure all students at GESS are empowered to…

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GESS – A Great Place To Work

Our teachers and staff are the pillars of support to ensure all students at GESS are empowered to…

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Recruiting the Best Staff for Our Students

How does a Strategic Recruitment Project impact our students and community? In more ways than we think. We…

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Enhanced Whole School Events

One of best parts of life at GESS is our signature whole school events, which foster a warm…

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Swim Programme – The Next Phase

Our GESS swim team and programme have been very vibrant, but this is hardly the end! Anticipate more…

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Improvements to Football Field Infrastructure

Our GESS football field is highly utilised and supports many student and partner activities. As part of ongoing…

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Sheltered Outdoor Fitness Zone

Our purpose-built campus constantly goes through spatial review, to better utilise and refresh existing spaces. One of our…

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