Middleton International School in Singapore has been selected as a Top 3 finalist for the 2024 World’s Best School Prizes in the Supporting Healthy Lives category. Competing with two other outstanding schools, Avanti House Secondary School (UK) and Istituto Galilei-Costa-Scarambone (Italy), Middleton is proud to receive this prestigious recognition on the global stage.
Middleton International School is the first school from Singapore to be featured in the 2024 World’s Best School Prizes. This recognition is part of the prestigious awards established by T4 Education, in partnership with Accenture, American Express, and the Lemann Foundation. The initiative aims to highlight schools that are transforming lives both within and beyond their classrooms, sharing their best practices to contribute to the improvement of education worldwide.
Middleton International School, which is part of the EtonHouse International Education Group, is the first school from Singapore to be a finalist for these esteemed awards. This honour underscores the school’s commitment to nurturing a holistic environment where well-being, academic excellence, and social-emotional learning thrive together. As the flagship school for the US-based Contentment Foundation in Singapore and Southeast Asia, the school is also championing well-being in education on both national and international levels.
The World’s Best School Prizes, established in 2022 in the wake of COVID-19, recognize schools that excel in various categories, including Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives. This year, the winners in each of the five categories will be announced in October, with a shared prize fund of $50,000. Both the winners and finalists will be invited to the World Schools Summit in Dubai, UAE, on November 23-24, where global education leaders will come together to inspire and transform educational practices worldwide.
Vikas Pota, Founder of T4 Education and the World’s Best School Prizes, said, “Unless the world takes urgent action, it is set to miss UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 of universal quality education by 2030. The global education crisis is multifaceted and so must be the solutions. That’s why we must look to the grassroots, to our schools at the coalface, for answers. To exceptional Singapore institutions like Middleton International School, whose work should make governments around the world sit up and take notice. By spreading its innovations far and wide, we can inspire change where it’s needed most”.
