OUR DISTINCTIVENESS

Our signature programmes add distinctiveness to Woodlands Secondary School. These include our Integrated Curriculum, Learning for Life and Applied Learning Programmes that make the all-rounded Woodlander, ready to serve society.

Applied Learning Programme

Our school’s Applied Learning Programme (ALP) started in 2015 in Food Science and evolved over the years to the current ALP, Real Food, Real Science, extending beyond not just Food Science but also to encompass computational and logical thinking to keep up with the times.

The structure of the ALP modules is such that students learn through authentic, hands-onactivities where they have opportunities to exercise 21CC competencies such as Critical and Inventive Thinking, Collaboration, Communication and Information skills.

In Secondary 1, students learn molecular gastronomy techniques and practise Design Thinking to create attractive and healthy mocktails in a Drinks-making Competition. In Secondary 2, students experience the fying of drones using iPads and programme fight paths for drones using basic computational logic and block-based programming in various ways.

Since 2017, WDL collaborated with our industry partner, Takasago Pte Ltd, to provide enriching hands-on Learning Journeys to allow our students a never-before peek into the world of Food Science and Technology, allowing students to have authentic insights into the industry and what goes on in their laboratories. Regrettably, these have been put on hold in recent years due to Safe Management Measures. Nevertheless, students are still exposed to real-life applications through Education and Career Guidance sharings in school, selected Elective and Advanced Elective Modules, and Learning Journeys to the Science Centre, where applicable.

Since 2020, programmes for Secondary 1 and 2 have been integrated into the lower Secondary Science curriculum to make learning more relevant and meaningful to students.