Staff and School
Explore the awards and achievements earned by Damai Primary School's staff and pupils, from environmental honours to teaching excellence awards.
2025
2024
2023
Read for Books
Read for Books - a book charity drive aimed at raising awareness of reading and sharing the gift of reading with the less privileged. From 1-31 July 2023, for every 10 people who read for 15 minutes, one book will be donated to selected beneficiaries, for up to approximately 9,200 books.
EdTech Exploration Award
2022
Caring Teachers Award
2021
School Green Award Sustained VANDA MISS JOAQUIM AWARD (Primary) - BEST 3Rs AWARD
Damai Primary School celebrates yet another important milestone in our efforts in the area of Environmental Science Education when the school was awarded the 2021 Vanda Miss Joaquim Sustained Achievement Award (Primary) as well as the Best 3Rs Award (Primary). The SEC-Starhub School Green Awards (SGA) gives recognition to schools for developing and showcasing their environmental efforts, through customised activities to help the students to gain better appreciation for the environment.
Teachers in-charge of Environment Education @ Damai Primary receiving the Best 3R Awards (Primary) from Mr Chan Chun Sing, on behalf of the Principal. Photo was shared by Mr Chan Chun Sing in his FB post
Academy Awards For Professional Development 2021
Associate
Conferred on
Mr Shahizan Bin Ahmad
MOE Service Excellence Award (MSEA) 2021 Winners
Our heartfelt congratulations to Hamim, Gwen and Hadi as winners for MOE Service Excellence Award (MSEA) 2021 from Damai Primary School!
The Most Inspiring Tamil Teachers' Award 2020/2021
Mr Arasan has been awarded the Most Inspiring Tamil Teachers' Award 2020/2021 jointly organised by Tamil Murasu, Singapore Tamil Teachers' Union and the Tamil Language Learning and Promotion Committee to recognise Tamil Language teachers who have made significant contributions to the teaching and learning of the language.
We are proud to share that Mr Arasan was conferred the Most Inspiring Tamil Teachers’ Award (MITT) 2020/2021 award under the Primary category!
Our heartfelt congratulations to Mr Arasan for the stellar performance of in his role in educating and promoting Tamil Language among our students.
"Design For Change Singapore" Virtual Conference Participation
2020
Clean Plate Campaign 2020
Clean Plate Campaign (CPC) is started in conjunction with World Food Day – a global movement to end hunger and reduce food wastage. This year, CPC was done a bit differently compared to the previous years in 2 different ways:
For every clean plate counted, $1 will be donated to FFTH food programme – Project Belanja! Where lower income beneficiaries get to enjoy a hot meal. (Officially, $50000 from sponsors is the amount pooled together for this project.)
Staff from Food From the Heart (FFTH) did not come down to count the clean plates for us. Mr Arasan, Mrs Mak, Shirley and Christine Lim helped to do the counting during the various recesses, together with some students from 6A, 6E and some prefects from Primary 5 level. We would like to thank them very much for their help!
The campaign lasted a week (12/10 to 16/10) and our school counted a total of 1,599 clean plates! However, we are not sure how much contributed to Project Belanja since the official sponsored amount is $50000. The photo below shows the certificate given by FFTH.
Thank you to all staff and students for participating in Clean Plate Campaign 2020.
2019
TOP Vanda Miss Joaquim Award
2017
SCHOOL GREEN AWARD 2016 – LOTUS AWARD
The SEC-StarHub School Green Awards is an environmental programme for all schools in Singapore which is aimed at educating learners on environmental issues such as energy conservation and waste minimisation.
Damai Primary School was awarded the 2016 School Green Award – Lotus Award in November for initiating innovative environment projects carried out by the staff and students of the school. The School Leaders and staff consciously role-model their commitment to manage and reduce the use of electricity, water and paper to the students who in turn are urged to adopt the 3Rs practices.
The school also partnered the Northwest CDC and participated in a community outreach project to promote binning as a shared responsibility to keep the environment clean and green. The objectives of this ‘Live Green, Think Clean’ project are to develop a sense of personal responsibility and ownership for maintaining the cleanliness of the school's surrounding or vicinity in the neighbourhood in our students. This project is significant and it provides Damaiains the opportunities to experience the trials of performing a cleaner’s job and indeed they have a newfound respect and appreciation for workers who perform such services for them.
