Programme for Active Learning (PAL)
Overview
Students in P1 and P2 are engaged in PAL lessons which offer them fun hands-on experiential learning through a broad range of activities in 4 PAL domains. It provides students opportunities to discover new interests, develop character and cultivate social-emotional competencies. In particular, PAL aims to nurture curiosity, confidence and cooperation skills in students.
At Pei Tong, PAL lesson activities are meaningfully designed and facilitated by our teachers with 5 learning characteristics at heart:
- Focus on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and values
- Experiential in nature
- Learning in creative ways
- Opportunities to create
- Fun and enjoyable
P1 and P2 classes rotate to experience thematized modules of the different PAL domains throughout the year:
PAL Domain |
Outdoor Education | Performing Arts | Games & Sports | Visual Art |
---|---|---|---|---|
P1 | Nature Discovery | Stories Alive! (Drama) | Let’s Play Together | I’m the Artventurers |
P2 | Nature Harmony | Music Fantasia (Music) | Let’s Work Together | We’re the Artventurers |
Big Idea | Students explore the elements of nature and the outdoors in P1 and extend their learning to living harmoniously with nature and the outdoors in P2. | Through popular children's stories, P1 students are engaged in drama activities. In P2, music activities are built on each other for students to present a music finale. | In P1, students learn and play a wide variety of games with their new friends. In P2, they learn to work with their peers in playing and creating games that involve more teamwork. | P1 students grow in self-awareness through art creation and expression. They then nurture their relationship management skills as they collaborate in group art projects in P2. |
Visual Art
Group sharing and group work
Some of their art creations
P1 Drama
Drama Characterisation
Exploring actions
Creating their own monster with masks and mouth puppets
Games and Sports
Playing games
Making their own sports equipment
Outdoor Education
Shadow Play
Learning about light and colours
I spy! - Exploring the school
Creating a mini-raft
Sand Play
P2 Music
Making Music as a group
Using Boomwhackers