News
By Methodist Preschool Services Communications Team
Bedok Methodist Preschoolers
‘Build the Change’ with LEGO M
ethodist Preschools collaborated with the LEGO Group (Singapore) to run
the international ‘Build the Change’ pilot programme with the theme: Biodiversity and Climate Change at Bedok Methodist Preschool in May 2022. The pilot programme is the first of its kind for preschools in Singapore. Mrs Patsy Wee, Principal of Bedok Methodist Preschool said, “One of our core values is to nurture our children to have caring hearts. Caring for our environment has always been a part of our curriculum. When the LEGO
Champions of the LEGO Build the Change programme
pilot programme was mooted to us, we felt it
Mrs Wee shared that the collaboration with
resonated with our core value.”
LEGO added a different dimension to the children’s learning. It allowed them to delve
Twenty children were invited to create
a little deeper and broader into caring for our
solutions to minimise the effects of climate
environment and to be the change agent.
change using LEGO bricks. They enjoyed an
While their solutions may not be fanciful or
enriching and exciting 11-day programme
even workable, being able to represent their
with lessons on various animals and insects,
thoughts and solutions in concrete structures
their habitats and how they are threatened
is a huge achievement for them.
by climate change. They were inspired to put on their thinking caps to come up with
Riley Beth Su Qin En, a K1 student, said, “I like
imaginative solutions to environmental
LEGO because I love to build. I learnt to build
challenges and express their ideas through
something comfortable and protective for
creative builds using LEGO bricks.
both animals and people, because what affects them will affect us.”
The programme’s grand finale involved the young innovators building their LEGO solutions
The ‘Build the Change’ programme is LEGO’s
in response to the challenge question: Create
global initiative for children to use their
an idea to help minimise climate change that
imagination to express their hopes and dreams
affects all species. During the show-and-tell
for the future with LEGO bricks and other
session, the preschoolers presented their
creative materials through a learning-through-
creation and answered questions from an
play approach. After the success of the pilot
audience of peers, teachers and facilitators. The
programme at Bedok, it will be progressively
young builders of change were duly honoured
rolled out to other Methodist Preschools' K1 and
with a personalised certificate of completion.
K2 children with a six-hour programme. July 2022 Methodist Message 3
