Applied Learning Programme (Innovation and Enterprise)
Focus Area: Innovation and Enterprise
Using the inclusive design thinking approach in our ALP to foster in our students the value of empathy and resilience, students learn to be innovative and design creative solutions to real world problems which meet the needs of people in the process of ideation, experimentation and problem-solving. The approach is an amalgamation of the culture of care and innovation, and is a process that develops values and skills in our students and staff through human-centered techniques to solve real-world problems in creative and innovative ways for diverse groups of people.
Design Thinking effort in PEPS is feature in the media, click https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/design-is-not-just-a-job-its-a-way-of-thinking-lawrence-wong and Stories on Transformation of Education to find out more.
Maker Enrichment effort in PEPS is featured, click https://www.instagram.com/p/CcyrT7rvYqk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= to find out more.
ALP Programme:
- Learning Our Values through Empathy (LOVE) Experience (PAL): P1 and P2
- Learning Our Values through Empathy (LOVE) Experience (Project Work): P3 to P5
Using Design Thinking approach, students interview their peers, school attendant, the canteen vendors or community members to find out more about their needs. Through this, students learn to empathise with their users and thereafter create interesting prototypes in order to meet the users’ needs.
This enable students to connect classroom learning with real life-applications and evoke their curiosity in learning.
Electives and Other MakerEd Activities:
Students sign up for the various enrichment programme offered by the school such as 3D pen crafting, strawbotics, sewing, coding and others. Through these electives, students will be able to pick up a new skill and thereafter, make a prototype for a good cause.
Additionally, students could be self-directed and complete the selected MakerEd Activites of their choice.
