Applied Learning Programme (Innovation and Enterprise)

Students use design thinking to solve real-world problems and build empathy, resilience, and innovation skills. Explore the programmes and activities on offer.

Last updated 10 July 2026

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 and environment 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.

Circular diagram of Inclusive Design Process with Share, Frame, Imagine, and Make stages, plus Age, Gender, and Ability factors.

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 (opens in new tab) and Stories on Transformation of Education (opens in new tab)to find out more.

Maker Enrichment effort in PEPS is featured, click https://www.instagram.com/p/CcyrT7rvYqk/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= (opens in new tab) to find out more.

ALP Programme:

Learning Our Values through Empathy (LOVE) Experience: Primary 1 to 5
I LOVE (Learning Our Values through Empathy) Gaia: Primary 1 to 6

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.

Collage of masked school children doing classroom activities including prototyping, drawing, and holding handmade cards.

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.

Students in uniforms sit at wooden desks with Minecraft open on laptops, facing a teacher presenting slides.

Four masked children at a paint-splattered table drawing with markers on paper plates in a classroom.

Young students in uniforms and face masks build with colorful bricks around a round wooden table in a bright classroom.

Two masked primary school students assemble a model car kit at a wooden table in a makerspace classroom.

A young boy wearing glasses assembles a small model kit at a wooden table with tools and instructions nearby.

Two masked students build a colorful 3D town model using foam, cardboard tubes, pom-poms, and markers.

Four geometric structures built with wooden sticks and green clay connectors, shown from different angles on orange tables.

A masked boy uses a 3D pen to create purple letter sculptures on a table in a classroom.

Six masked primary school children in uniforms proudly display badges and sticker cards inside a classroom.

Four photos show students in uniforms building crafts and listening to a presentation in a classroom.