About FOS, Secondary

Introduced in 1990, the Friend of Singa (FOS) programme began with the purpose of cultivating desirable behaviours and values in students. FOS Secondary programme is a year-long programme that is open to secondary, special education schools, madrasahs, and international schools.

FOS started out in schools to cultivate desirable values and qualities in students and to champion kindness in the school community. Students from participating schools are tasked to identify issues and they must implement a kindness campaign on campus to promote kindness within their school and community. It is intended that at the end of the campaign, participants will recognize the importance of their role in informing and encouraging desired behaviours; therefore making a difference.

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FOS Programme Timeline

Project implementation period: April - August

January

FOS Registration:
(2 January - 31 January 2024)

Register your interest to start a kindness campaign in your school. By registration, your school indicates their commitment to deliver at least one kindness campaign (maximum three) to be recognised as a FOS School at the Kindness Awards Ceremony.

Each school can gather up to three groups of students (with no capacity limit per group) to run their Kindness Campaign(s).

28 February

FOS Workshop (Optional)
28 February 2024 (Wednesday), 2pm-5pm

Schools can sign up to attend the optional workshop to learn the basics of implementing a campaign. Registration for workshop slots is on a first come first served basis.

Mode of delivery: In-person workshop (3 hours)

FOS Proposal Submission: By 31 March 2024
Participating schools are required to submit at least one FOS proposal (maximum three) with a focus on any of the chosen themes below:

  1. CyberKindness

  2. Neighbourliness

  3. Inclusion

Each school would be able to receive funding of up to a total of $200 for the implementation of their F0S campaign(s) of which no more than 40% should be used for giveaway items or prizes.

April - August

Campaign Implementation
(April - August 2024)

Upon approval of proposals, students and teachers may embark on their campaigns between April to August.

Campaigns should:

  • Seek to address the chosen kindness theme and seek to make an impact on graciousness in school (advisable to be school wide).

  • Be well documented with photos and videos.

  • Strive to be cost efficient and sustainable.

31 August

Report and Claims Submission
(By 31 August 2024)

Reports and claims are to be uploaded via the school's unique OneDrive link, which will be shared with teachers during registration.
*Teachers are welcome to submit reports earlier than the stipulated date.
**Late submissions will not be considered.

January 2025

Kindness Awards Ceremony
(January 2025)

All participating students, teachers and schools in the FOS Secondary programme will be recognised during the Kindness Awards Ceremony 2025. See your school's kindness project(s) featured in our Kindness Awards Ceremony video, which will be released in January 2025. Your school will be invited to hold your own Kindness Awards Ceremony in January 2025!

Featured Projects

SSTand United, Be Greater
School of Science and Technology

This social media campaign highlighted the problem of casual racism between students in school, which caused tension and unhappiness between friends. It educated students about the issues casual racism can cause, and encouraged everyone to stand united against casual racism together.

The campaign ran across the school’s social media platforms – on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. It explained what casual racism is, gave clear examples of casual racism that occurs in school, and motivated viewers to be more accepting, understanding and inclusive of people of different races.

Students who participated in the campaign received an orange ribbon, which showed that they are willing to take a stand and say no to casual racism.

The campaign was a great start in the fight against casual racism. 70% of students stated that they now understand what casual racism is. 74% also shared that they have not witnessed any more acts of casual racism among their peers.
Thanking the People Behind the Scenes
Crest Secondary School

This was a school-wide project to thank non-teaching staff, like the admin staff, librarians, technical support staff and cleaners, for their hard work.

The New Media Club created a music video to make Crestans aware of these staff’s sacrifices to make the school a conducive place to study and a comfortable home away from home. They rewrote song lyrics to express their appreciation and celebrate the staff’s contributions to the school.

In addition, every class prepared a 30-minute appreciation session for one or two non-teaching staff. Examples include games, parties, singing a song of appreciation and more. Throughout the school, all members of staff were appreciated.

The project helped Crestans bond with non-teaching staff, and helped everyone feel a stronger sense of love and belonging as one Crest Family.
Be a Bucket Filler, Be Greater!
Raffles Girls' School (Secondary)

Students filled up “buckets of happiness” by spreading kindness. Since everyone at school loves the Harry Potter books, the project adopted a fun Harry Potter theme.

Care for Magical Gaia  – Students immersed themselves in nature and learned ways to care for the planet.

Expecto Appreciation  – Students wrote post-cards of appreciation to those around them.

Kindness Publicity Posters – These featured snippets of kindness from the Harry Potter books, using everyone’s favourite characters to convey the magnificence of kindness.

Friends of Singa Workout – Exercise is a wonderful form of self-love. This routine featured Harry Potter-themed stretches and songs promoting self-love and confidence.
Be Greater!: The Web-Series
Anderson Secondary School

This web-series aimed to show how different challenges can be resolved with kindness. The school voted on three topics close to their hearts – jealousy, stress and peer pressure. The Kindness Ambassadors then produced a series of three videos that showed how a little kindness can help solve our problems, and goes a long way to making our lives better and brighter.
 
The series received overwhelming support from not only the students but adults too! They praised it for its creativity and innovation in spreading the word about showing kindness to one another.
 
3M – MOBILES, MIND AND MEANING
Tampines Secondary School

This project aimed to promote cyber kindness and proper netiquette among Tampinesians. Students shared cyber kindness messages, stories and netiquette tips on Instagram. While they were already aware of basic netiquette, they also learned new things, such as not to share pictures of others online without their permission.

The project also included a humourous yet eye-opening video that showed how mean comments made on social media can be just as hurtful as comments made in real life. The social media content engaged the whole school population, inspiring everyone to show kindness both offline and online.
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