Performing Arts

Performing Arts (PA) Programme

Our Purpose

The Performing Arts Programme at EFPS is our Learn for Life Programme (LLP). It nurtures confident individuals and gracious collaborators through a progressive, experience-rich arts education journey from Primary 1 to Primary 6. As a key domain under the EDGE Curriculum, PA empowers students to express themselves, connect with others, and embrace the arts as a way to grow in resilience, empathy, and confidence.

Through music, dance, and performance, students develop 21st Century Competencies (21CC), values, and social-emotional skills that prepare them to thrive in an interconnected and dynamic world.

Our Programme Progression

P1: Rhythm and Dance

• Students develop body awareness, self-confidence, and rhythm through simple, fun dance routines.

• Highlight: Showcase for parents with joint student-parent dance segment.

• Focus: Confidence, self-expression, and resilience.  

With every step, we grow in confidence, unity, and purpose

Through dance, we connect hearts and celebrate the joy of family

P2: Dancesport Extravaganza

• Students learn Latin-inspired partner dances such as the Cha-cha and Tango.

• Highlight: Showcase with parents as dance partners.

• Focus: Respect, collaboration, and performing with poise.

P3: Ethnic Dance

• Students explore and appreciate Singapore’s cultural diversity through ethnic fusion dance incorporating Chinese, Malay, and Indian elements.

• Highlight: Level-wide performance.

• Focus: Cultural literacy, collaboration, and community awareness.

P4: Hip-hop Dance

• Students engage with the global language of Hip-hop, including self-curated moves in small groups.

• Highlight: Combined showcase with P5 performance modules.

• Focus: Expression, teamwork, and social awareness.

With every gesture, we express strength, discipline and the importance of being fully present

With every movement, we express who we are — focused, grounded, and growing a “We” culture together

P5: Performance Arts Choice Modules

• Students are given a choice to choose from Angklung and Kulintang, Global Drumming or Sing and Strum

• Highlight: Combined showcase with P4 Hip-hop Dance.

• Focus: Musicality, peer collaboration, and performance discipline.

In every strike of the mallet, we blend precision with passion — making music that connects cultures and hearts

Creating harmony through unity, tradition and shared rhythm

With every strum of the ukulele, we find our rhythm, build our confidence and create harmony together

In every beat, we build rhythm, resilience, and the power of performing as one

P6: Graduation Ballroom Dance

• Students learn progressive Waltz in pairs and demonstrate ballroom etiquette.

• Highlight: Final Graduation Ball performance.

• Focus: Confidence, respect, and future readiness.

Our Learning Approach

The Performing Arts experience at EFPS is grounded in these principles:

• Ipsative Growth: Students reflect on their own development over time — building confidence, resilience, and performance discipline.

• Collaborative Learning: Each performance is a team effort where every student contributes and learns to support one another.

• Family Engagement: Parents are invited to perform alongside their children in early years, deepening school-home partnerships.

• Cultural Awareness: Students are exposed to diverse global and local art forms, broadening their perspectives and empathy.

Our Impact

Through PA, students:

• Build confidence in presenting themselves

• Learn to collaborate and communicate with empathy

• Develop resilience through sustained rehearsal and refinement

• Grow in cultural understanding and appreciation

• Celebrate their own and others' achievements

From their first beat in P1 to their final waltz in P6, students in the PA Programme live out EFPS’s vision, “Lives Empowered, Lives Touched.”