Programme for Active Learning

PLAY@PARKVIEW OVERVIEW

Play@ParkView is Park View Primary's unique and exciting implementation of the Programme for Active Learning, or PAL. PAL is an initiative by the Ministry of Education to realise a more balanced curriculum and facilitate the well-rounded development of students. PAL provides children with opportunities for exposure to a broad range of activities so that they can discover their aptitudes and interests.

Play@ParkView is a non-academic programme built into the curriculum for all Primary 1 and 2 students. Students will get to participate in the three domains: Visual Arts, Creative Movements, Sports & Games and Outdoor Education. Play @ Park View is designed in the form of fun modular learning activities where students will develop confidence and creativity, and be encouraged to explore and extend lessons learnt to their daily lives.

The ‘Experience-Express-Reflect' Lesson Model

In order to provide a holistic PAL visual art education, the lessons are crafted based on the three pillars.

They are:

Experience
Express
Reflect

Students will experience ‘hands-on’ activities through discovery and active participation using the ‘EER’ learning model. With the ‘hands-on’ experiences, students are given opportunities and avenues to express their thoughts and creative ideas. Students are encouraged to believe in their own ideas, to be confident and to be imaginative through looking at things from different perspectives. Most importantly, time is set aside for students to share about their learning experiences. As they do so, they will discover more about themselves. They will also learn to better interact with their peers and develop their social and emotional skills.

Visual Arts Module

Visual arts is one of the 3 domains of PAL and it focuses on ‘Doodling’. The aim is to provide students with the opportunity to experience the creativity and imagination involved in the world of cartooning and doodling. Through this module, students have the chance to discover their aptitude and interests, develop their confidence and creativity and hone their drawing and colouring skills through fun learning activities. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is also incorporated in every PAL lesson to promote positive social and emotional development in the students.

Primary 1

Animal Kingdom

The Primary 1 students will be introduced to the basics of doodling and squiggling and the different types of lines, shapes and patterns. They will learn the correct techniques of colouring and colour blends. In addition, students will squiggle, doodle and have fun learning about animals and their characteristics. They will also work as a team to freely expressed and create animal doodles based on a squiggle.

- Animal Cartooning & Doodling
- 3D Animal Parade
- Doodle PAL

Primary 2

Marine Life & Conservation

The Primary 2 students will be challenged to be imaginative and to create marine animals based on a squiggle. Students will also learn to express their thoughts and ideas through group activities. Batik Craftworks will be introduced to them in the module.

- Animal Cartooning & Doodling
- 3D Animal Parade
- Doodle PAL

The school also conducts internal Doodling art competitions to encourage students to express their thoughts through their creative art pieces.

Primary 1 Students at work

Primary 2 Pupils at work

Online Doodle

Gallery E-Book

The objective of the eBook project was to showcase pupils’ group work digitally. The eBook project captured the creative abilities and imagination of our pupils. Pupils were challenged to create scenes (story segment) from 7 fairy tales. Each fairy tale is broken into 6 scenes and pupils worked closely in groups of 5 to express their ideas based on the fairy tale that the group had been assigned.

The pupils had read the story before generating ideas for the illustrations. Two P2 pupils were selected to record the eBook stories on 20/4/2010. The completed works were uploaded into an eBook using the Koolbits software As part of the school’s efforts to nurture talents, 13 pupil talents were identified to work with the trainers on 04/5/2010 to recreate a set of illustrations for the book “Little Red Riding Hood”. They were challenged to illustrate the story scenes based on random squiggles drawn by the trainers. Their creative works were shared with the teachers and the pupils. The eBook is also used as a resource for the school’s reading programme, which caters to weak readers in the lower primary Since 2010, we have moved on and created many interesting eBook stories with our pupils based on different SEL values. Please find out more from our Visual Arts Modules.

Little Red Riding Hood

The Ugly Duckling

The Tortoise and The Hare

Princess And Frog

Outdoor Education Module

In this module, students learn to observe how plants grow and develop a lively curiosity about how nature brings colour and variety to the environment. Basic outdoor skills are also being developed, like preparing for outdoor trips and how to deal with creatures and plants in our environment. They are taken on outdoor trips which are slightly different from the usual learning journeys. These learning activities are designed to challenge students to move out of their comfort zone to the natural environment to enable the appreciation and love for nature. At the end of every lesson, time will be set aside for the students to express and reflect on their learning experiences.

Primary 1

PVPS In Bloom

PVPS in Bloom is Park View Primary School’s PAL Outdoor Education module. Park View Primary’s teachers specially designed this module for their students.

The aims of this module are:

Provide learning experiences for our students beyond the classrooms by going into the community and natural environments.
Make learning more interesting and easier to understand through experiential learning activities in authentic setting.
Develop students’ Social Emotional learning competencies through fun and meaningful learning activities. They not only learn more about their community and natural environment, they also learn about themselves and their friends.

Primary 2

Colourful Nature @ PVPS

Colourful Nature @ PVPS is the PAL Outdoor Education module for the Primary 2 students in Park View Primary School. In Primary 2, students will learn more about insects, birds and fishes.

The aims of this module are as follows:

To engage in fun and meaningful learning activities such as observing insects and birds
To learn more about their adaptations of animals
To plan for an outdoor learning journey
To learn basic survival skills
To work in groups to explore the natural environment around them during their learning journey to Resort World Sentosa SEA Aquarium.
To develop their Social Emotional Learning competencies, environmental awareness and outdoor skills which can be extended to their daily lives.

Sports and Creative Movements Module

Gamesfiesta@PVPS is the PAL Creative Movements, Sports and Games module developed by teachers of Park View Primary School.

Gamesfiesta@PVPS aims to achieve the four PAL objectives:

Students will develop their confidence and enjoy individual and group experiences through participation.
Students will develop a sense of curiosity, creativity and adaptability as a result of their PAL experiences.
Students will become self-directed learners and with a social conscience to want to contribute to society at large.
Students will be able to express themselves and articulate their thoughts and ideas.

In this module, students will experience different movements, numerous sports and modified games. It focuses more on developing students’ SEL competencies. In this module, students are not required to master any skills as one of the objectives of the module is to enable students to have active learning fun. Students are encouraged to work happily as an individual and also in a group.

Park View uses the ‘Experience-Express-Reflect’ learning model for all its PAL modules. In this module, students will activate their creativity to create movements to music, experience handling different sport equipment and working together with others. They will learn to self-manage, relate with others and even make responsible decisions for themselves and for their team members. At the end of every lesson, time will be set aside for the students to express and reflect on their learning experiences.