Programme For Rebuilding and IMproving Existing schools

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A new school building at Aljunied, being constructed under PRIME.

Programme For Rebuilding and IMproving Existing schools (PRIME), is a programme initiated by the Ministry of Education in 1999 to upgrade and rebuild existing school buildings in Singapore to provide a conducive learning environment for the students.

Launched in May 1999, estimated to cost $4.5 billion, this programme is implemented in phases. As of 14 February 2007, 235 schools have been included in the earlier eight phases of PRIME. Of these, 203 schools have completed their upgrading. To date, $2.374 billion had been spent on this programme.

8 more schools will be upgraded from 2008 to 2010 under phase 9^[1].

Kong Hwa School
Tampines Primary School
Cedar Girls' Secondary School
CHIJ St Theresa’s Convent
Shuqun Secondary School
Saint Hilda's Secondary School
Tampines Secondary School
CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School

1 Flexible School Infrastructure (FlexSI)
2 Implementation of PRIME
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Flexible School Infrastructure (FlexSI)

Under this framework, school infrastructure is made more flexible to support teaching approaches that better engage students, thus giving schools more room to innovate in teaching and learning.

For example, the schools could have modular classrooms that can be opened up for larger group lectures, or partitioned for smaller group discussions; special-purpose rooms could be designed such that multiple usage of such rooms can be made possible; common areas such as corridors and study areas could be designed such that they can be expanded learning spaces.

[edit] Implementation of PRIME

[edit] On-site Rebuilding & Upgrading

Where feasible, a school will remain on-site while construction work is carried out for either upgrading or rebuilding. Otherwise, a school will move to a temporary holding school while upgrading or rebuilding is carried out at its present site.

[edit] Relocation

Where a vacant site is available, the new school will be built on this site. The school will relocate to the new site once the school building is ready.