Advocating for Sustainability (ActS)

Objective

We hope WSSS students will be confident advocates of sustainability issues through the effective use of media and collaboration with the community.

Sec 1 2024

Focus - Environmental Advocacy focusing on sustainability within the school community

Sustainable School Challenge – “How might we reduce food waste in West Spring Secondary School?” This was the Design Challenge that Secondary 1 students undertook for the Applied Learning Programme this year. Using the Design Thinking framework, the students developed innovative solutions to encourage students, teachers, and canteen vendors to minimise food waste. They documented their Design Thinking journey through infographics and presentations. Additionally, students participated in an eco-learning journey to Edible Garden City and Tzu Chi Humanistic Centre to gain insights into sustainability practices in Singapore.

Area of focus - Reducing food waste

Key Skills - Critical, inventive, adaptive thinking skills, collaboration, communication, media literacy

Sec 2 2024

Applied Learning for Geography cum ICT Project Work Lessons

Our students learn the importance of identifying sources and to be literate in media information presented to them. There is a study to check reliability of sources to assist them further. All these are needed as they develop key media literacy products through interviews, research and content analysis. This is to allow our students to apply skills learnt to convey a particular message based on a given theme. This provides opportunities for students to work in groups to complete a media-related performance task and most of the collaboration done are done via Google. However, during this Covid-19 period, more collaboration had to be done virtually. This programme is done mainly by Humanities teachers. There is a 10-week workshop where vendors are engaged to teach our students media literacy skills.

For more information, please email us at westspringss@moe.edu.sg.