Sr. Angela Ng has become so much a part of the life of St. Anthony’s Canossian Primary School, that it will be difficult for the children and staff to say “Good-bye” to her. But I am sure that they will always remember her serene smile, loving care and gentle ways and she will still have a special place in their hearts. 

        We are deeply grateful to Sr. Angela for her twenty-seven years of dedicated and loving service as an educator and leader of SACPS. She joined the staff as a young teacher in 1971. Responding to God’s call to a life of total commitment to make Jesus known and loved as a Canossian Daughter of Charity, Angela decided to enter the convent in 1975. After three years of religious formation, she was happy to be posted back to SACPS, where she continued to teach with greater passion and zeal. She was given the opportunity to exercise her leadership qualities when she was appointed Vice-principal in 1981 and Principal in 1987. When the school shifted to its new premises in Bedok North at the end of 1994, Sr. Angela worked tirelessly and creatively towards its development and growth. Since then, the school population has nearly tripled: from an enrollment of 800 pupils in 1995 to 2020 in 2001. Under her able leadership, the school grew as a community built on love: where each child is considered special and is given the love and care she needs to grow up happily and at the same time learn to be other-centred. 

        Sr. Angela has focused on developing staff and pupils through programmes that centre on the formation of both the head and the heart. This has built up a strong Catholic ethos and culture of care and support within the school community, as well as nurturing leaders and teachers, so that pupils can be given the best in terms of pastoral care and academic performance. She also worked very closely with parents, many of whom are collaborating with the school as volunteers. 

        She even pioneered the setting up of Primavera Student Care Centre in 1997 in collaboration with Fengshan Citizens’ Consultative Committee to provide before 

and after school care for needy students from the school and the surrounding neighbourhood. As an educator, Sr. Angela has a very positive vision. She says: “The school is like a garden, the pupils are flowers growing in life’s garden and God provides the sunshine for them to blossom.” 

        There is no doubt that Sr. Angela is much loved for her inspiring leadership as Principal of SACPS, but she will be stepping down on 31 Dec. 2001, so as to share her precious experience in education and pastoral care with more people, both Sisters and lay. Sr. Angela, who has been appointed Provincial Councillor by our Superior General as from January 2000, will thus be able to dedicate her energies more to the needs of the Canossian Province in Singapore as a whole. 

        For a start, in January 2002, Sr. Angela will be responsible for the co-ordination of the Canossian Eduplex. She will journey with the Heads of the five sectors (Canossian Convent Primary School, Canossian School for the Hearing Impaired, Magdalene’s Kindergarten, Canossaville Children’s Home and Canossa Convent), consolidating the vision and mission of the Eduplex and looking into the proposal of the setting up of an overarching body to see to its future development. Sr Angela will also move in the direction of strengthening the pastoral and formative presence of our Sisters so as to work in creative partnership with the laity in our various institutions. She will study together with a team to implement a programme for the formation of the laity in the Canossian spirit and charism, which inspire and animate all our services. Another area, which Sr. Angela will develop, is the value formation and religious education of children. 
Thank you Sr. Angie, for the valuable contribution you have given to SACPS as a Canossian educator and leader, and for your availability to share your experience and expertise in the field of education, pastoral care and catechetics to a wider circle of Sisters and laity in the years to come. We praise and thank God for the beautiful person you are, above all for your 

By: Sr. Janet Wang

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