Uniqueness
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Anglo-Chinese Primary School (ACPS) is a shining example of the adage "the whole is more than the sum of its parts". We cannot look at the school's academic or sporting performance without first eduacting ourselves on its background.

In order to understand how the school manages to produce top quality students year after year, students who have made their mark in politics, business and sports and in society in general,we need to view the boys'academic and sporting excellence in the larger context of the school's educational philosophy. Only when we understand what the school believes in and how it managed to surmount the various obstacles over the years, will the uniqueness of the school that is ACPS be appreciated.

Since 1886, when the Rev William Oldham founded ACS at 70 Amoy street on the first of March, the school has been through many transitions, among them the growth from one shophouse to five school units that has branched out into other premises - ACS Junior, ACS Primary, ACS Independent, ACS Barker Road and ACJC. ACPS itself was originally part of a full school until 1927 (when the secondary classes moved to Cairnhill) when it became a lower school unit sub-divided later into the Primary and Middle School.

This affiliation and attraction was not due just to the school's strong academic performance. Indeed, the top PSLE aggregate seems to improve each year. The percentage of ACPS students entering the special/express streams has always been well above the 80% mark.

However, strong academic preformance is not the only reason why parents send their children to ACPS. The school with its long history of sporting excellence and strong choir ensures that equal opportunity is given to all its pupils to be good in at least one sport or other activity. Participation in at least one co-curricular activity (CCA) is encouraged and the school offers a wide range of CCAs so that every boy has a chance to participate in what he is interested in. To date, it has 12 sporting CCAs, 12 clubs and socities and 2 uniformed youth organisations.

It can thus be seen that if the education in ACPS were to be written as an equation, it would go something like:

Academic + CCAs + Charity + Christian sprit
= ACS all-round education
= A scholar, an officer and a gentleman