VIA TeamStudent-Leadership:Building Community Spirit (BCS)

Natasya Lim Kai Suen (5 Respect)

Ashley Ng Ching En (5 Integrity)

Lee Yan Long Ian (5 Integrity)

Joshua Fan Yu Herng (5 Integrity)

Ferrancol Josh Elijah Gamboa (5 Integrity)

Ngan Yu Hang (5 Integrity)

Content

• Introduction

• Rationale

• Our project

• Design Thinking Process

• Project results

• Reflections

• Moving forward

• We want to develop motivated learners, critical thinkers and leaders of character who are excited to make a difference to the community.

Introduction

VisionMotivated Learners

Critical Thinkers

Leaders of Characters

MissionTo develop students into life-long

learners and responsible citizens

through a well-rounded education

Core Values

"WEGR2Ow" represents our school's core values in which

we strive to achieve:

Wise . Enterprising . Gracious . Responsible . Resilient . Open

School Mission, Vision and Values

Rationale

Through surveys that we have conducted in our DesignThinking project, we see that there are real needs andproblems in the society and we believe that we canmake a difference to the community andbuild community spirit.

P5 Design Thinking Project Work Process

Surveyed the elderly to find out their needs and areas of concern.

Active Aging Clean & Green

Our Project

Stakeholders Potential Impact

Residents Opportunity to bond and learn from children.

Meaningful and engaging elderly.

Awareness on healthy eating and active

lifestyle

Social interaction with others

Children from PCFs

Elderly at the Wellness

Centre

Our Project

Our External Stakeholders

The objectives of Project BCS

1. Create a platform to build community spirit

2. Foster stronger bonds among participants

3. Raise awareness on current issues

4. Enhance our leadership qualities and interpersonal skills through organising of community-bonding activities

Specific Raise awareness on current issues

Target to have at least 180 participants

Target to achieve 80% or more for satisfaction rate

Measurable We seek to survey around 30 participants to gather their

feedback

Attainable Targets are achievable and realistic

Relevant Targets are relevant to the our desired outcomes

Timely Data will be available when we actualise our project

Target Setting (SMART)

Organisational Targets

Strategic Thrust 2: Personal Effectiveness

• To improve student leadership competencies (Visioning & Inventing)

Strategic Thrust 3: Character Development

• To be responsible pupils who contribute to society

Learning for Life Programme – WHIZZ

• To create opportunities for pupils to actively contribute to the community

P5 Design Thinking Project Work Process:

Used Design Thinking Method, to empathise and ideate on possible solutions

Our Project

P5 Design Thinking Project Work Process:

Design Thinking Method

Our Project

Design Thinking Process: Crafting and Revising Interview Questions

Design Thinking Process:Empathise

• Conducted interviews to find out more about the needs and challenges our end-users face

• Analysed and created a personabased on our interviews

Design Thinking Process: Creating a persona

Design Thinking Process: Involvement of Stakeholder

Type of Stakeholder Involvement in final solution

Internal

Stakeholders

Student

Leaders

Key decision makers

Decided on final solution using criteria setting and prototyping and testing phase

School

Leadership

Team

Advisors

Gave feedback after student leaders presented final solution to school leadership

team

School Staff Advisors

Provided feedback and suggestions on the solution

External

Stakeholders

Parents of

Student

Leaders

Some parents gave feedback and supported in terms of providing resources to

add-on to student leader’s project (e.g. Natasha’s group who needed calligraphy

set for actualisation)

Admiralty RC

Zone 5

Advisors, provided feedback and suggestions on the solution

Advised on how to set-up the venue for public events

Valuable feedback on language concerns as elderly might not understand English

Residents

Elderly

Children

from PCF

Target end-users for outreach

Solutions designed and improve based on personas of the different groups in

mind

Feedback given will be used to improve the next cycle

• Teachers

• School Leaders

Working with Internal Stakeholders

Student leaders presenting to school leaders

Groups presenting to our peers

Design Thinking Process: Ideating

Design Thinking Process: Researching on best practices

Design Thinking Process:Using criteria setting to choose the best activities

Design Thinking Process:Prototyping and Testing Our Solutions

• To test, review and improve on oursolutions

• Similar to the interview phase, webrought our solutions out to obtainfeedback from internal stakeholders(e.g. pupils, teachers, canteen vendors, elderly cleaners)

Design Thinking Process:Analysis of feedback from prototyping

• After a few cycles of testing andre-prototyping, we were satisfiedwith our final solution

Design Thinking Process:Reflection and Evaluation (Self and Peer)

Challenges We Faced And Solutions

Challenge: We suggested many different activities

and could not decide which activities to choose.

Solution: We used criteria setting to find out which

activity was suitable for the event and wrote down

the pros and cons of the various activities.

Challenges We Faced And Solutions

Challenge: When we first started the project, we could

not focus properly and kept talking about irrelevant

stuff.

Solution: We realised that we were going off task and

started to remind each other to put first thing first.

Actualisation at Kampung Admiralty

Anti-

Littering

Games for

the elderly

Actualisation at Kampung Admiralty

Conserving

water!Upcycling

Specific Raise awareness on current issues

o Achieved – participants feedback on post-its

Target to have at least 180 participants

o Achieved – average of 186 participants

Target to achieve 80% or more for satisfaction rate

o Achieved – 98% positively impacted

Measurable We seek to survey around 30 participants to gather their

feedback

Achieved – 49 responses gathered

Attainable Targets are achievable and realistic

Relevant Targets are relevant to the our desired outcomes

Time-based Data will be available when we actualise our project

Linking our results to our targets

Linking Results to Organisational Targets

Strategic Thrust 2: Personal Effectiveness

• Improved student leadership competencies (Visioning & inventing)

• Measured through results from Project Work

Strategic Thrust 3: Character Development

• Are responsible pupils who contribute to society through actualisation of the Student Leadership VIA Project, Building Community Spirit

Learning for Life Programme – WHIZZ

• Actualised the VIA project and actively contributed to the community through Building Community Spirit

Application of several innovative thinking skills to better organise our

activities

Aligned to our school’s Vision, “Leaders of Character”

Achieved Strategic Thrusts 2 & 3, Personal Effectiveness & Character

Development

Met our school’s target for the 3Cs in Project Work

Project Results:Achieving our target (Better Leaders)

Achieved the target of building good neighbourliness

Provided the opportunity for participants to interact with their

neighbours through fun activities

Received positive feedback from participants

Project Results:Achieving our target (Better Community Spirit)

Project Results:Participants’ responses

96%satisfaction for our seniors’ project

97.9%satisfaction rate for our project

98%Felt That the Project Positively Impacted Them

Feedback from Participants

A good show and project by

the primary school students.

Keep it up!

Hope this will be a

yearly activity.

It’s a very good event to promote

cleanliness among our community.

We need a constant reminder about

keeping our city clean

Informative. Thank you

Excellent. Keep it up!

Talking to elderly in a

good way and good in

the plastic bottles station

I will pass this

information to my family

members and friends

Thank you children, for

bringing the community

spirit to life!

It is quite useful and

good

Keeping this in mind, we will share this data for the next team

which is going to plan any community project in the near future

The data reminds us to focus on what the participants want,

rather than what is convenient to us

Sustainability

Sustainability of Project ResultsAchieving our target (Outreach to residents)

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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

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170180

186186

Did not have to apply and use funds under the HDB FFLP

(up to $1000)

Used resources and funds provided during Project Work

Did all of the preparation and printing in school during PW period

Saved money by decorating our booths instead of paying external

vendors to do it for us

Cost Savings

Benefit to stakeholdersType of Stakeholder Benefits

Internal

Stakeholders

Student Leaders High ownership of project

Honed leadership competencies

Actualised VIA community outreach project

School Leadership Team Developed student leaders as part of school’s VMV to

provide a well-rounded education

School Staff Developed student leaders as part of school’s VMV to

provide a well-rounded education

External

Stakeholders

Parents of Student Leaders Clarity on what their child is involved in

Pride that their child contributed to the community through a

student-led VIA project

Admiralty RC Zone 5 Syngergised with RC’s efforts to host events for the residents

Established better relationship and opportunities to

collaborate with RC partners

Residents Participated and interacted with other participants

Learnt more on issues such as “Active Ageing” and “Clean &

Green”

Applied the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1: Be proactive

Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Learned to work as a team and communicate with team-

mates

Achieved self-confidence to communicate with others

Our Reflections

Meaningful to organise activities, so as to bring participants

together, build stronger bonds and better relationships

The experience is fun and exciting

Happy to see the happy faces when the participants interacted with

each other and while learning from the booths we created

Our Reflections

Future outreach is definitely possible

• More outreach at Kampung Admiralty

• Woodlands Health Campus

• National Environment Agency (NEA)

• Town Council

• LTA

To share our Green Initiatives with residents, to conduct engaging active living activities for our residents and to share our ideas on SMART nation.

Moving forward…

Presenting ideas contributed by our participants to Mr Vikram Nair

Q&A