Craft and Technology

Design and Technology

The Design and Technology Unit adopts the Design and Technology Teaching and Learning Framework, based on the MOE Design and Technology syllabus. The unit aims to cultivate a design-thinking culture among students by emphasising empathy, inquisitiveness, sketching skills, and critical and creative thinking skills through its instructional programmes.

Source: MOE Syllabus document

The Design and Technology Unit uses the Design Process Model as a thinking routine and a vehicle for designing solutions that create positive change. Through this process, students develop empathy, practicality and an understanding of appropriateness in addressing everyday needs and challenges.

Design Process Model

Signature Program - Makers’ Education

Since 2019, the D&T Unit has begun to shift in tandem with the national initiative towards “digital”. As part of the shift, the department has acquired some prototyping capability such as laser cutting equipment, heat press machines, 3D printers and plotter machines. This will “empower” the D&T Unit to gradually incorporate “Makers’ Education” as part of the department’s added focus to expose the students to experiment, prototype and test out their ideas. Such opportunities will allow our students to experience a “real life” approach in problem solving as the students are able to “transform” their proposed ideas from sketches/drawings to actual real life application and or implementation.

“Makers’ Education” as part of the department’s added focus to expose the students to experiment, prototype and test out their ideas

Research and investigate to seek real world problems for designing of solutions to meet target users’ needs.

Use sketching, doodling and any other graphical means to generate, explore, communicate and develop creative and innovative solutions.

Art

The Art Unit adopts the Art Framework based on the MOE Syllabus document for the lower secondary Art programs The unit aims to build students’ capacity to enjoy art, express themselves, communicate, learn about and connect with the community and wider world in and through art.

Key Art Programmes for Secondary 1 - 3

Sec 1 to Sec 3 Art Programme

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Nutrition and Food Science

The Nutrition and Food Science Unit adopts the MOE Nutrition and Food Science Education Framework. The unit aims to empower students to become health-conscious and discerning consumers, enabling them to make informed decisions to manage their lives effectively in the present and future. The programme focuses on how individuals and families can optimise resources such as food, finances and time to meet their physical, mental, social and economic needs.

Source: MOE revised NFS syllabus

The unit adopts the inquiry-based pedagogical approach for the teaching and learning of Food Consumer Education (FCE) and Nutrition and Food Science (NFS).

Source: MOE revised NFS syllabus

This approach focuses on providing students with an authentic problem context that allows students to relate and apply the knowledge gained in real-life situations, aligned with the development of 21st Century Competencies. The teaching of FCE and NFS is a cyclical process where students’ engagement with a question or topic leads to intellectual exploration. This eventually leads to an explanation of the feature or process in the question and further leads to the application of their ideas. This process develops the students’ understanding and involves them in their own learning.

This approach will lead to deeper acquisition of nutrition, meal-planning, principles of food science and understanding the link between diet and health. Students will also be equipped with the knowledge and skills to make informed decisions concerning food and nutrition.

Programmes to enhance learning experiences of students

Sustainable Environment - Organic Farming at PRSS Eco-garden

STEAM Carnival - Sandwich-making

Corteva Learning Journey - Learning and Discovering Science in Food through Experiment

Project Cupcake - Interdisciplinary project between FCE and Art

Sustainable Environment - Organic Farming at PRSS Eco-garden

Urban farming in PRSS

The unit leverages on the revised NFS syllabus to incorporate urban farming as authentic learning experience to understand the importance of Food Security and Sustainability. This will also equip students with new STEM skills/knowledge so that they grow confident in exploring new career opportunities in “High Technology” Farming arenas. Click here to view PRSS Urban Farming infographic.

Enrichment workshop

Secondary 3 NFS students attended ‘Science in your Food’ workshop organised by Corteva agriscience. This workshop enhanced students’ interest in STEM and introduced agriscience’s role in our daily lives. Students prepared their own ice-cream using liquid nitrogen and lots of ice.

Culinary Workshop conducted by a professional Chef to enhance students’ skills in preparing food using new food trends and cooking technique

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Music

At Pasir Ris Secondary School, we believe that our students have the innate ability to express themselves musically. Through our exciting and comprehensive music programmes, we aim to develop them with musical and extra-musical skills such as critical thinking, psychomotor, social awareness, moral and cultural values. All of these skills and values will lead towards the holistic development of a child.

Music Programmes @ PRSS

The Lower Secondary Music Syllabus

1. Secondary One (Express and Normal Academic)

For 1st semester, our students will experience our signature programme, the STOMP Project module. They learn to compose music and perform their creations to their peers and teachers. Students will showcase their composition during their class performance at the end of this module.

For 2nd semester, they will learn to read musical notations and perform familiar tunes on the boomwhackers. In this module, the classes will get to choose a song and perform during our school’s in-house lunch time concert before the end of this module.

2. Secondary Two (Express and Normal Academic)

For 1st semester, our students will learn to play familiar tunes on musical instruments (i.e., ukulele, keyboard, cajon) and collaborate with their peers to perform as a pop band.

For 2nd semester, the students would have learnt the fundamentals of playing the instruments and basic structure of typical pop songs. Hence, it is timely to introduce our students to the Songwriting module. In this module, our students will learn to become better songwriters by understanding fundamentals in songwriting. They will have the opportunity to showcase their learning through an assessment of their playing before the end of 2nd semester.

Uniquely N(T) Music @PRSS

Normal (Technical) Stream

The Music Programme for Normal (T) students is spread over 4 years, with the option for students to take up NT Music elective subject in Upper Secondary.

Secondary One

Our students will attend ukulele and keyboard lessons, where they learn basic playing skills through pop songs.

Secondary Two

Our students continue to build on their instrumental skills as they work with acoustic as well virtual instruments on the GarageBand (available on Apple devices) to arrange and showcase their work in groups.

N(T) Level Music (Upper Secondary)

This subject is offered to our interested 3NT students as their elective subject during the Secondary Two streaming exercise. The programme allow students to deepen their skills in reading, analyzing and reproducing music of different forms, and more importantly, to become active listeners who can readily interact with music of different genres. Where possible, these students will be provided opportunities to showcase their musical creation and improvisation via both physically (Lunchtime concert) or digitally (via youtube).

STOMP Project module

Students collaborate with their peers to perform as a pop band

Our students will attend ukulele and keyboard lessons, where they learn basic playing skills through pop songs.

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