Punggol Green Primary School began operations in 2013 under founding principal Mrs Seah Lay Tin. Built at 98 Punggol Walk to serve the Punggol West community, it added a new primary school beside Punggol Sapphire and Punggol Ripples.
The school’s own Art & Crafts account records an official opening in 2015. Pupils made pottery for an exhibition and silent auction at that event. The start of school operations and the opening celebration are separate historical milestones.
This Punggol Green Primary School history connects the school’s founding, its educational design background and the pupils’ contribution to its opening. It also follows the principal transitions recorded in the school’s official historical account.
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The official school history explains that the new campus was built under norms supporting the Primary Education Review and Implementation Committee’s recommendations, commonly called PERI.
Mrs Seah had previously been principal of Ang Mo Kio Primary. In 2019, Mr Hanafi B Asmore, formerly principal of Punggol Primary, became Punggol Green’s second principal. Mdm Chua Pei Pei was appointed its third principal in 2026.
The leadership sequence belongs to Punggol Green’s own institutional history. Punggol Primary is a separate school, even though a principal’s career connects the two.
The school’s Art & Crafts Club record supplies a distinctive detail about the 2015 ceremony: members created pottery pieces, displayed them in an art exhibition and offered them in a silent auction to raise funds.
The same account describes members making appreciation tokens for Annual Awards guests through 2019. These examples preserve pupils’ contributions alongside the more familiar dates and principal names.
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Historical interpretation: A school opening is also a story of participation. Pottery provides tangible evidence of children helping shape an event, rather than appearing only as an audience for an adult ceremony.
That perspective makes school heritage easier for pupils to investigate. A surviving artwork, programme or family photograph can connect an institutional milestone to someone’s own experience of making, rehearsing or attending.
When documenting the 2015 event, retain the date, maker and purpose of any object if known. An unsigned piece should remain unattributed until a reliable record or firsthand account identifies it.
