Total Defence 2025

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Department: CCE

Leaders: Annie Koh

Members: CCE Team and Benny Koh (Environment)

1.  What was the current need/gap that you were addressing?
The current need we were addressing was the critical gap in students' understanding and engagement with Singapore's Total Defence framework, particularly in preparing the younger generation for an increasingly uncertain security landscape. With students often viewing Total Defence as abstract or irrelevant to their daily lives, there was a pressing requirement to make national defence concepts meaningful and relatable to their experiences as digital natives facing evolving threats from cyber attacks to misinformation campaigns. The programme aimed to transform Total Defence education from passive classroom learning into an engaging, interactive experience that empowers students to recognise their active role in national resilience, ensuring they develop both the awareness and practical skills needed to contribute to Singapore's security and social cohesion as responsible future citizens.

2.  How had it been experimented and enacted?
Programme Implementation: "Together we Keep Singapore Strong" Day 1: 11 February 2025 - Total Defence Launch & Level-Specific Programming Morning Assembly Whole-school context setting by CCE Team in the hall Launch of Total Defence theme for the entire school CCE Period Sessions - Food Security and Sustainable Future for Singapore Secondary 1: Sustainable Food Sources Speaker: City Sprout Hands-on Activity: Growing of Microgreens Secondary 2: Alternative Protein Sources Speakers: Innovate 360 and Altimate Nutrition Hands-on Activity: Blind tasting for teachers on alternate protein sources (cricket) Secondary 3: Security and Sustainable Living Speaker: COL Philip from RSAF Focus: Singapore Security and Sustainable Living Secondary 4: Plant-Based Solutions and Research Speakers: Eat.Plant.Love and Dr Jose (Research Fellow, NIE Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies) Day 2: 12 February 2025 - Total Defence Exercise SG Ready 2025 Food Resilience Preparedness Programme (FRPP) Programme Intent: Raise awareness of Ready-to-Eat (RTE) meals as alternative food sources during crises Prepare students for potential food supply disruptions Encourage adaptability and flexibility in food choices during shortages Classroom Reflection Sessions Day 3: 13 February 2025 - Reflection Form teachers facilitated discussions using structured reflection questions: What is ONE action we can take as a community to contribute to Singapore's food security? How can YOU work with people in your family/school community for a sustainable food future? What would you do differently after this Total Defence experience?

3.  Which group(s) had benefited?
Students (Entire Cohort), All Teaching Staff, All Non-Teaching Staff

4.  What was the positive impact?
Programme Impact: Student Feedback Analysis Overall Engagement 94% of students found presentations informative (strongly agree/agree) Key Learning Outcomes Achieved Understanding Singapore's 90% food import dependency Awareness of 30 by 30 sustainability goals Knowledge of alternative protein sources (insects, microgreens) Ready-to-Eat Meal Experience 85% found the experience meaningful or very meaningful in understanding food security Student Mindset Transformation - Key Themes

5.  What is a future need that this IdEas@work could meet?
The programme successfully raised student awareness about food security challenges, but a critical future need emerges: translating this knowledge into practical community preparedness capabilities. While students now understand that food disruptions can be sudden and catch Singapore off-guard, the next phase must focus on building actionable resilience systems—developing practical skills in food preservation, local production, and crisis response protocols that communities can rapidly deploy when food choices become severely limited. The future opportunity lies in scaling from individual awareness to collective action capability, ensuring Singapore's Total Defence includes tangible, community-level preparedness infrastructure that can respond effectively to sudden food security disruptions.




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