Secondary

Finding Purpose

Teacher’s Day: Burning questions from educators answered by a four-decade veteran principal

PETER TAN is a four-decade veteran educator who has served as a principal for 24 years across schools like ACS (Junior), ACS (Barker Road) and Queensway Secondary School. Peter, who is also legally...

Surveys & Reports

Grades do not define you, excellence does

Prior to going full-time in church, I was a teacher in ACS (Barker Road) where I had the privilege of working under a principal who is such a spiritual giant.  Mr Peter Tan is a principal whose...

Secondary

A good education isn’t about grades

Ahead of this month’s Thir.st Youth Night that’s all about education, we sat down with PETER TAN, a four-decade veteran educator who has served as a principal for 24 years across schools...

Secondary

Go church? I need to study!

“It’s just two weeks! Missing two weeks of church to study wouldn’t hurt!” my mother used to tell me during the examination season. I was stumped whenever she said that. It was as if God was...

Mental Health

Losing all my friends in a single quarrel, the depressive thoughts began

TW: There is mention of self-harm and suicidal thoughts in this article. Anxiety gripped me. I couldn’t breathe properly. My heart hurt. The turmoil was overwhelming. I knew that it was all my...

Secondary

5 ways to make the most of your school holidays

It’s the holidays!  Can’t wait to sleep past noon and catch up on Netflix? Prefer to pack your calendar to the brim with internships, meeting people, working part-time and preparing for...

Secondary

“I am with you always”: How I encountered God in shot put

The Lord has taught me many things throughout my nine years of being an athlete. But if I had to use one word to sum up my experience, it would be “faithful”. Growing up, my size as a...

Post-secondary

A Millennial walks into a room full of praying Gen Zs … and leaves full of hope

I thought I was young until I talked to someone born in 2003 … and realised that I was 30 (but still 29) this year. I remember the days when I was 20 … and when I blinked, I was suddenly...

Post-secondary

Meet the team behind Thir.st Youth Nights

A place for youths, by youths, to be reignited for Christ. That was the vision that Pastor Amos Pang (Bethesda Bedok-Tampines Church, BBTC) shared with eight youths from Poly Revival, Praying...