The Story Behind Rest Papers

You picked up a paper that looks like an exam script. It isn't one.

Children in Singapore spend a good part of their childhood buried in practice papers and Ten Year Series – we’ve all been there. According to a 2024 CNA survey of parents, 85% reported that their children were stressed about PSLE, while 64% admitted to feeling stressed themselves.

Rest Papers takes the most stressful object in a child's school life and flips it.

Same familiar format, but opposite purpose. No marks, no model answers, no stress — just permission to pause, breathe and recharge. Because a rested child focuses better.

Rest Papers is an initiative by CARE Singapore, brought to life with help from our friends at TBWA\Singapore, who lent their creative minds to this campaign.

This is one paper that you're allowed to help with. Do a page together and share it on Instagram with #Restpapersg.

If you're an educator and wish to secure some copies of Rest Papers for your students, contact Jemin at jemin@care.sg.

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