Cognitive

Explore the cognitive CCAs at Anchor Green Primary School, where pupils build critical thinking, creativity, and digital skills through Chess, New Media Arts, and STEM Innovators.

Last updated 3 August 2026

Cognitive

Chess Club

The Anchor Green Primary School Chess Club was set up with the objective of promoting intellectual games as well as bringing together enthusiastic chess players. It aims to introduce basic chess skills to members and help them develop their interest in playing chess for recreational purpose. Through learning and playing chess, members develop critical thinking skills and become agile and resilient learners. They are also optimistic learners with the growth mindset, always ready to face challenges while playing friendly matches with different members.

Three photos of young boys in green uniforms playing chess at blue tables in a classroom.

Members sharpen their skills and develop their ability to focus on creative problem-solving opportunities and decision-making situations through playing chess. Playing Chess also instills good sportsmanship.

New Media Arts

New Media Arts CCA offers Anchorlites a unique opportunity to explore and engage with the rapidly evolving world of digital and interactive media.

Focusing on the core Art principles, tools, and techniques of immersive media development, Anchorlites have an opportunity to learn to tell stories, prototype new worlds, and explore creative workflows that will help shape the future of design using both technology and art principles.

This CCA aims to provide a foundation in the design and development of experiences in the exploration of human connection and interaction through visual arts, media and technology. Furthermore, there is collaboration with Infocomm Media Authority of Singapore (IMDA) as our P5 and P6 students are taking part in their learning road map. Students are taught in areas of podcast. videography, photography as well as simple coding applications like PICTOBLOX.

Competitions / Events taking part in:

Schools Media Design Award (SDMA)
Our Schools Our Stories
New Media Podcast Competition

Anchorlites are introduced to Procreate app. Working with Procreate allows Anchorlites to be more digitally literate, which is increasingly important in today's world. Other modules include podcast, videography, photography as well as simple coding applications.

P6 CCA members gives back as they serve as Arts Advocates to a group of Indonesian students during a school immersion programme.

Our P4 members show the students from MK@AG their process work as they create their characters for the upcoming Claymation project.

STEM Innovators

STEM Innovators in AGPS provides students with an array of experience. The CCA aims to apply Science, technology, engineering and Mathematics to real-life context which engages Anchorlites in problem-solving and coming up with creative and innovative solutions to problems. Anchorlites will be trained in the different technology aspects – coding, 3D designing and programming in creating robots, games and prototypes. This is to provide Anchorlites the experience and empowerment to be creative and innovative in their creations that can be used to solve real-world problems.

Competitions / Events taking part in:

• IDE Robotics Competition
This competition is to design robots to solve a myriad of real world climate change crises. Our teams are expected to adapt their robot build and code to the rules on the competition day based on a pre-programed robot.

• National Robotics Competition
The teams need to design, construct and program an autonomous robot that can solve specific challenges on a field based on the theme “Green City”.

• National Thinkers Challenge
This challenge allows opportunity for students to explore how AI can improve our way of life so that they can be active contributors to our society and the community through solving authentic real worlds issues.

Four children in school uniforms kneel on the floor around a large space-themed mat with a small robot on it.

Students preparing for IDE competition

Three young students in school uniforms watch a robot on a colorful competition mat labeled PF009 at an indoor robotics event.

Our participating team completed a mission at the NRC Competition

Two masked students in blue uniforms work on laptops showing coding and game interfaces at a green classroom table.

Students working on MakeCode to create their games.