Articles

How can Student Leaders Successfully Plan for Secondary 1 Orientation?

For Broadrick Secondary's student leaders, the close of end-of-year exams signalled the beginning of a months-long leadership journey. Over the following months, Kingmaker partnered with them to build the leadership foundations they would need to adroitly plan and execute the 2026 Sec 1 Orientation for their incoming juniors. After a thorough consultation to understand the…
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Can You Survive a Digital Detox?

Will you be able to survive if the Internet and your devices were to simply disappear tomorrow? Should such an event occur, it could possibly make us panic, given how reliant we are on our devices. And yet Singapore schools are already living through a mini Digital Detox! The phone ban implemented at the start…
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Safer Internet Day 2026 – AI Aware: Smart Tech, Safe Choices

Safer Internet Day 2026 Theme - AI Aware: Smart Tech, Safe Choices This Safer Internet Day, dive into a Post-AI World with us as we navigate the effects of artificial intelligence on our daily lives - both in school and at work. Click on the video thumbnails below to check out our skit-series, featuring our…
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‘First our minds, now our hearts?’ – Is AI finally taking over?

Featured Image by The Portola Pilot This article is written by our intern, Riddhimaa Rampuria, an aspiring psychology and mass communications student. After a year that was taken by storm by viral ‘Gen Alpha' slangs, one would least expect ‘parasocial’ to trump ‘six-seven’ as 2025’s Word of the Year. And yet Cambridge Dictionary found this…
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Developing Student Leaders Through The Leadership Challenge (TLC) Framework in Singapore Schools

The Leadership Challenge (TLC), also known as the Student Leadership Challenge (TSLC), is a widely adopted student leadership framework in Singapore schools.  At Kingmaker, we design student leadership programmes in Singapore that translate TLC principles into meaningful, age-appropriate experiences. In this article, we spotlight two schools (primary and secondary levels) to show how leadership training…
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Young Changemakers: Design Thinking for Primary School Students

"Children do not move, think or speak in a straight line, and neither does imagination nor creativity." In October, Kingmaker Consultancy had the privilege of partnering with Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School (Primary) to conduct a 2-Day Design Thinking and Presentation Skills Workshop for 40 Primary 5 students. Designed and led by our Director of…
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