Character and Citizenship Education

Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) develops Bowenians' character, values and social-emotional competencies, preparing them to become responsible, resilient and active contributors to the community.

Last updated 23 August 2026

Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) is at the heart of education in Singapore. Through CCE, students learn values, social-emotional competencies, and develop character and citizenship dispositions that enable them to grow holistically and learn for life.

To help our students adapt to disruptions in a rapidly evolving world, the knowledge, skills, and values taught in CCE need to remain current and relevant. CCE 2021 has been developed with this in mind, to help our students navigate the realities of their time.

Goals of CCE 2021

Four labeled panels showing Good Character, Resilience and Social-Emotional Well-Being, Active Citizenship, and Future Readiness with descriptions.

The Enactment of CCE

A holistic approach to CCE involves explicit teaching, and reinforcement and application of learning. Multiple learning platforms are tapped on to help students internalise values, social-emotional competencies, and citizenship dispositions. These platforms include CCE Lessons, key Student Development Experiences, and school-based initiatives. Key Student Development Experiences include Co-Curricular Activities (CCA), Education and Career Guidance (ECG) experiences, National Education (NE) commemorative days, outdoor adventure learning cohort camps, student leadership development programmes and Values in Action (ChANgeMaker pgm).

The Bowen Experience (B.E) Map

Black square frame with bold text BE. over pink and teal watercolor splash, tagline BE BOLD . BE WELL . BE YOU below.

The B.E. Map brings together greater coherence and alignment in the programmes and activities that contribute towards the holistic development of our students to achieve the school’s vision of Every Bowenian – a passionate Learner, Leader and Champion of character and life. It was centred on the values of the respective levels and had broad themes to guide the spiral approach of some programmes/activities.

The programmes/activities were split into 3 Tiers:

School-wide
Cohort-wide
Programmes/Activities for selected group/streams of Students

Bowen Experience Map cohort values and themes by secondary level

Cohort Focus	Sec 1	Sec 2	Sec 3	Sec 4/5
Values	Respect Responsibility	Compassion Teamwork	Teamwork Resilience	Resilience Excellence
Theme	Explore and Embrace		Empower & Elevate

The Content Areas in CCE

CCE content areas and what each refers to

Components	What is refers to
CCE Lessons	Teaching of values, knowledge and skills for Character & Citizenship
School-based CCE	Values In Action (VIA) Commemoration of National Education Day (Total Defence Day, International Friendship Day, Racial Harmony Day and National Day) Assembly Programme anchored on the school values Environment Awareness Efforts (Recycling and Keep Your School Clean daily area cleaning programme etc.) Care and Inclusion Week Cyber wellness Talks Anti-Drug/ Anti-Bully Talks Mental Wellness Talks
CCE Guidance Modules	Education and Career Guidance (ECG) Sexuality Education (SEd) Cyber Wellness (CW)
New Content Areas (w.e.f 2021)	Mental Health Family Education