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Gan Eng Seng School

Values in Action

Find out how GESS students serve their community through Values in Action, from tutoring children to engaging the elderly.

Last updated 25 July 2026

Vision

To nurture Gessians into active citizens who serve with compassion and who love Singapore.

About us

VIA is a valuable student development experience that GESS provides for our students to nurture them into active citizens with the heart to serve others in the community with compassion.

Besides the activity alone, GESSCares encourages student ownership and initiative, providing a platform where students reflect on their experiences, the values they have put into practice, and how they can contribute meaningfully to impact the people they interact with. We adopt the 3P (People, Places, exPeriences) approach when planning the VIA activities to allow students to interact with different people from all walks of life and visit different places to learn.

Key VIA activities include:

  • GESS Clean: keeping our environment clean (cleaning of our school premises, beaches and neighbourhood),

  • GESS InterAct: interacting with the elderly and residents at Thong Kheng Senior Activity Centre, Thye Hua Kwan Senior Activity Centre and Boon Tiong Residents’ Committee,

  • GESS Read: reading to the Primary school students (kidsREAD programme with Gan Eng Seng Primary School & Read Well Programme with CDAC),

  • GESS Excel: tutoring the primary school students in their Mathematics (Math Tutoring Programme with Alexandra Primary School & Math Tutoring for our Sec 3 students),

GESS Serve: Serving and supporting community events such as Henderson Dawson National Day Observance Ceremony and Fairprice Share-a-Textbook.

Sec 2 Cleaning the Neighbourhood during Founder's Day

Three boys in school uniforms and blue gloves hold a trash bag as one uses tongs to pick up litter.

Maths Tuition Programme with ALPS

Students in white uniforms sit around a blue table, writing and using tablets in a school canteen.

KidsReads Programme with GESPS

A teen girl presents "A Donkey Reads" on a projector screen to young students in a classroom.

Engage with Elderly at Thong Keng SAC

Students in black shirts present to seated elderly people in a room decorated with red Chinese New Year lanterns.

Carnival by Student Leaders at Henderson-Dawson CC

People gather around a red-covered table with purple cups and cards at an indoor community event.

FairPrice Share-A-Textbook 2024

Students in yellow shirts sit on a floor sorting through piles of books and magazines surrounded by cardboard boxes.