Events

Events

The Parents for RGS Association (PRGS) was established in 2003. We work closely with the school to provide a support network for parents/guardians of RGS students, and organise activities to allow our members to develop and maintain links with the school. We also collaborate with the school in running programmes to facilitate our members’ and their daughters’/wards’ journeys through RGS.

2024/2025 PRGS Activities Highlight Video

Parent & Child Bonding Events

Kickstarting the year was a special talk by best-selling author and international speaker, Andrew Matthews. This was followed by many more parent-and-child bonding workshops held throughout the year to engage parents and their daughters: the Prata Journey, a prata-flipping workshop, the K-Pop Dance Date with your daughter, the Mother’s Day workshop where mothers and daughters crafted their own floral arrangements and painted their own Janice Wong’s Pure Imagination chocolate squares as gifts for Mum, and a Crochet Date with your Daughter workshop. We received an overwhelming response and thank parents for taking time out of their busy schedules to bond with their daughters over these fun activities.

Parenting Talks

PRGS organises numerous talks for parents to equip them with the necessary information as they journey with their daughters over the 4 years at RGS.  One of the highly anticipated events is the annual Breakfast Dialogues with the Principals series, offering tailored sessions for Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 parents. These small-group gatherings provided an intimate setting for parents to engage in meaningful discussions on topics relevant to their child’s year, which they found immensely valuable and insightful.

A new and special series of university admissions talks was launched in 2024 to help parents and their daughters to plan and prepare for university. The first session on US universities (which was also open to the whole Raffles family, including Year 5-6 students and RGS alumnae) received tremendous interest and positive feedback. The subsequent session on Singapore Management University, which included a campus tour, was similarly successful. Parents certainly appreciated the university talks, and PRGS will strive to organise more in future. The talks follow in the tradition of the annual transition talk (from RGS to Raffles Institution), as activities aimed at equipping parents and our girls with ample knowledge for their educational journey toward excellence.

Making a comeback for the second year was a talk on AI, this time focused on generative AI technologies. Many parents attended, wanting to know more to help their daughters leverage technology to aid their schoolwork.

Partnering RGS to Create Holistic Fun for Our Girls

PRGS has always focused on the well-being of both parents and our daughters. While numerous events were held to engage parents, PRGS continued to support RGS in organising fun activities for our girls. 2024 saw SportsFest return to an external venue after several years due to the COVID pandemic. Held at Serangoon Stadium, PRGS produced our very own sports towel for the girls and got the Milo van down! It was certainly a delicious treat for both the girls and RGS staff. We also sponsored Magnolia ice cream, Oreo cookies, gummy bears, healthy cookies, and even procured sponsorship for Jia Jia Herbal drinks to cool everyone down at the end of the event. The excitement and cheers ended Term 2 on a high note!

School reopened in Term 3 after the June break with yet another whole-school event: the annual Racial Harmony Day which PRGS proudly organised with the school to showcase the different cultures in Singapore. Our very own kacang puteh man and women dressed up to serve a tasty traditional mix of nuts and crackers to the girls. Various traditional games like five stones, pick-up sticks, capteh, and gasing (spinning top) gave the girls the chance to enjoy “old school” activities. Enthusiastic parent volunteers also facilitated hands-on experiences such as Chinese lucky knot-tying and interactive appreciation of the aromatics used in bunga rampai. The highlight of the event was definitely the potong ice cream, which the girls relished during the warm afternoon of fun!

As the year came to an end, PRGS continued to deepen its support for the girls. For the first time, a special care pack containing a mini crochet toy with notes of encouragement was lovingly prepared for every girl to comfort and cheer them on as they prepare for the End-of-Year examinations. Both girls and parents were extremely delighted to receive them, and many came forward to express their gratitude.

 The GLOW personal grooming workshop continued to be a staple in the after-exams series of activities. Mothers volunteered to teach a two-hour workshop, which was an especially meaningful woman-to-woman sharing session, facilitating personal grooming advice to the girls.

Tribute to RGS

The school has been an excellent pillar of support in nurturing our girls to be Daughters of a Better Age. As RGS commemorated its 145th anniversary in 2024, PRGS continued to support the school with its annual PRGS award to two deserving girls annually who demonstrated good character and values – Feng Chenyu (S301) and Aurelie Tan (S411). PRGS also supported the school’s Founder’s Day celebration with a dessert table featuring a grand croquembouche tower cake. This delectable and intricately built assemblage received nothing short of rave reviews!

It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and certainly, we can be so proud of how eagerly and selflessly a group of devoted educators and staff rallied around our daughters, working to maximise each girl’s potential. PRGS is especially proud and happy to acknowledge the RGS team for their dedication with the tradition of the Staff Appreciation Lunch Extravaganza. The 22nd PRG Exco wishes to thank PRGS members who made the celebrations possible through their generous contributions of funds. The theme for this year’s celebration was “Around the World”, where RGS staff were treated with the highest level of service from the PRGS Exco (who dressed up as cabin crew). The menu featured an array of main dishes and street food from around the world including Mexican churros and nachos, Middle Eastern kebabs, Indian pani puri, along with a lavish Indian, Peranakan and Western buffet spread. The day’s entertainment opened with parents performing a fast K-Pop dance, followed by the MEP girls who provided more “in-flight” entertainment. Every staff member went home with a prize and a PRGS travel bag, in keeping with the Around-the-world theme.

Ending the year was the annual Farewell Alma Mater (FAM) ceremony, and PRGS gifted each Year 4 student a personalised thermos, along with a generous contribution to the school fund for organising the graduation event.   

2023 Highlights

Sports Fest

2023 Sports Fest was held at the end of term 2. PRGS provided snacks and refreshments to sustain the girls through the day’s activities, helped man some of the games stations, and also participated in the Staff Race, where we successfully defended our title for the 5th consecutive year!

Racial Harmony Day

Racial Harmony Day on 18 July brought lots of fun not just to the students, but for the 54 parent volunteers who helped pack 1,700 individual traditional snacks for the girls. It was an immersive experience where the girls had the chance to learn about traditional games and win $100 worth of prizes sponsored by PRGS, taste popular hawker fare, and try their hand at cooking traditional food items at the huat kueh, burfi and ondeh-ondeh workshops. The girls also enjoyed learning about Peranakan culture and ended their day with delicious potong ice-creams!

Founder's Day

This year’s Founder’s Day saw PRGS presenting the PRGS Award to two deserving girls who demonstrated good character and values – Megan Koh (412) and Rachael Yeo (408). PRGS was delighted to recognise these outstanding students who have demonstrated good character and values. In addition, PRGS also gifted RGS with a pair of balloon sculptures showcasing two students presenting flowers to the school. The balloons were a hit with everyone!

Staff Appreciation Day

PRGS organised a Staff Appreciation Day lunch for all RGS members of staff on 30 Aug 2023. With a theme of “When TV Comes Alive”, the school’s Multi-Purpose Hall was transformed with beautiful décor comprising handmade TV boxes, balloons and other decorative items to thank both the academic and non-academic staff of RGS for their hard work in the school community. The RGS staff certainly rose to the occasion with many decked in outfits from the Hospital Playlist, Despicable Me, Powerpuff Girls, Super Mario Bros, Spiderman, MasterChef and other TV shows. The PRGS Exco made a grand entrance dressed up in Squid Game outfits and showcased an opening performance to the delight of everyone. Every staff member was also gifted a personalised cushion to signify the unwavering support of “parents having their back”.  Whether the staff are on the office chair in school or watching TV at home on a couch, just as the cushion cradles their back, it embodies parents’ pledge to standby them, complementing their relentless efforts in nurturing our daughters. The staff were also treated to a wide variety of Thai, Italian, Chinese, and Indian cuisine, topped with a scrumptious chocolate and fruits fondue !

Staff Appreciation Day summary video

Social Walk to Passion Wave & Marina Bay

Recognising quality time as one of the five love languages, PRGS organised our first Family Walk to Passion Wave @ Marina Bay for families to get together for half a day of fun and bonding. The event not only bonded families but also forged new friendships between PRGS members.

Dance Date with your Daughter

As a post-exam activity, PRGS organised a "Dance Date with your Daughter" session on 14 October 2023 at the school's Black Box. Mothers, Fathers and their daughters, were led by dance instructors from Happi Dance in an hour of joyful dancing and bonding!

Watch the video of the Dance Date here!

GLOW Programme

In partnership with PRGS, the school conducted the inaugural Y1 Glow Programme which aims to guide students to be more self-aware as they build their self-confidence in teen hood.   The content of the programme was curated by RGS teachers and a two-hour session was facilitated by PRGS mothers for twelve Y1 classes.  The students were taught the concept of positive body image and the importance of personal grooming with practical tips to present themselves with confidence.

Farewell Alma Mater

PRGS was also very happy to be able to participate in the send-off for our Year 4 girls at the Farewell Alma Mater event on 27 October 2023, where we gave each girl an RGS hot tumbler personalised with their names and year of graduation.  A practical and meaningful gift to commemorate the girls’ formative years at RGS!

Breakfast Dialogues and Parenting Talks

Apart from these one-off events, PRGS also organised a series of parenting talks throughout 2023, as well as “Breakfast Dialogue with Principals” sessions for each of the year groups. The parenting talks were chosen to address relevant issues, including “Stepping into the era of VR/AR and AI” and, for our Year 4 parents, transitioning to Year 5 in Raffles Institution.

The Breakfast Dialogues with Principals were held across the year, with parents from each year group being able to direct any concerns they had in a small-group setting to Principal Ms Haslinda, the Deputy Principals, and other school leaders. This has traditionally been a very valuable source of feedback both for the school and for parents, and this year’s sessions proved to be no different, with it being very clear from these

Farewell to Principal, Ms Haslinda

As announced by MOE, Ms Haslinda will be stepping down as Principal of RGS on 15 Dec 2023. At the annual PRGS Exco Social Gathering, we bade Ms Haslinda farewell with a specially curated photo collage as a token of appreciation. PRGS Exco also initiated an e-  scrapbook for parents to express their well wishes to Ms Haslinda.