LEARNING FOR LIFE PROGRAMME

Learning for Life Programme (LLP) in Woodlands

Secondary is about ‘paying it forward’ to the community. This project focuses on our approach to raising Community Youth Leaders (CYL) through Values in Action (VIA). The VIA programme engages students in community problem solving and instils in them the school values (GR2EAT): Growth, Respect, Resilience, Empathy, Appreciation and Trustworthiness. Leveraging the servant leadership model, the school provides curated authentic experiences in community initiatives that serve to inculcate leadership qualities. A spiralling approach from secondary one to four is taken in designing lessons, using design thinking processes. The processes include building empathy and understanding the needs of the community, ideating projects to serve the community, prototyping ideas and refning them before implementation and refection.

Our students’ efforts have beneftted the immediate community in various ways. Secondary 1 students engage in contributing to the school community. Secondary 2 students have adopted blocks 3 and 4 in Marsiling, and provide each elderly resident a personalised goodie bag that includes food items and handmade gifts. Pre-COVID, our Secondary 3 students head to an ASEAN country like Cambodia and Vietnam where they learn to interact and teach basic literacy and numeracy to the primary students. Due to COVID-19, our students continue to pursue the cultural exchange programmes with Cambodia, Vietnam and New Zealand virtually. Having gone through three years of LLP, the graduating students advocate for global environmental issues. In recent years, there has been a greater need to create a sustainable future through environmental conservation. In line with this, the graduating cohort embarks on an advocacy project to identify and choose a cause based on the theme, ‘Conservation and Sustainability’.