PAVE Alpha Phonics & Reading Program:
Our newest subsidiary, SingaporeLearning.com Pte Ltd, has secured a Master Franchisee in Indonesia to roll out the PAVE Alpha Phonics & Reading Program.

In July 2006, SingaporeLearning.com opened four pre-school centres in three provinces of Indonesia using our Alpha Phonics & Reading Program.

3 Educational Modules for IPOS Intellectual Property (IP) Camp for Primary Schools

b. Effective Presentation Skills (4 hours)
The course will provide students with tips for effective public speaking and how to organise their materials.

c. Introduction to Macromedia Flash and EduWARE / Game Builder for rapid content creation (6 hours)
Students will be taught the essential skills of Flash for creating animation. They will also be provided with the EduWARE content aggregation and Game Builder tools from ASKnLearn, which allows rapid creation and aggregation of multimedia content.

Each participant will get at no extra charge:

• A multimedia CD teaching on the use of Flash, with library of Flash resources
• Licensed copy of EduWARE 3.5.1 (customised with IPOS banner)
• Access to Game Builder software
• Online notes on use of Flash (via ASKnLearn’s portal)
• Printed notes.

Follow up Clinics (1½ -2 hours per team)

• Conducted at school’s premises
• Email guidance with teams

Phonics, Grammar, Writing and Presentation Camp
Mendaki Holiday Camp

Phonics, Grammar, Writing and Presentation Camp

This programme helps to develop children’s self-confidence to assist English language proficiency and clarity in self-expression.
The objectives of the programme are to :

• use Phonics is a reading tool to enable lower primary pupils to decode words;
• link the relationship between letters and the sounds they make;
• increase the vocabulary of pupils
• look at various genres and text types
• focus on grammatical forms grammar points that are often problematic for students;
• work on their own writing and publication;
• build up confidence to speak before an audience.

At the end of the nine hours, children will be able to write and publish an article based on their own areas of interest. They will then present their work to their peers.

• Total training hours: 3hrs x 3 sessions = (9 hours)
• Course venue: School classrooms
• Drinks and light snacks will be provided during the break

*Price quoted is inclusive of course materials
*Price is based on minimum 80 participants
*A PAVE ‘Certificate of Participation’ will be issued

Introduction
In this course, students will develop innovation and planning skills of an entrepreneur and take part in a real life innovation project in partnership with PAVE and Joint Social Services.

Students from Audio and Video Club will be actively involved in the filming of the entire project. The raw footages on balloon sculpture will be edited into a teaching material for as part of their project work.

Students of Primary 5 will be involved in the aspects of implementing the whole project.  The amounts raised will be donated equally to the school funds and to charity.

Mission and Objective

Innovation:

1. Brainstorm for possible design to include in the educational guide.
2. To examine a design problem in various perspective.
3. Explore reusing common objects like balloons in a creative way
4. Applying simple design concepts in creating the items/booth.
5. Applying simple cost planning concepts in pricing strategies.
6. Integrate different communication medias into a integrated marketing solution.

Welfare and Volunteerism:

1. Understand the different roles of being a volunteer
2. Provide a greater insight of Community Work to the students
3. Participate in charity events by organizing balloon sculpture demonstrations/performance with Joint Social Service or Jamiyah home.

Interdisciplinary Project Work
Commonwealth Secondary School

Project Workshops
The Project Workshops will consist of two interactive classroom seminars covering the following topics:-

1. Information Skills (3 Learning Centres)
2. Survey Skills (2 Learning Centres)

Information Course
St Margaret’s Secondary School

PAVE believes that the concept of Problem-Based-Project (PBP) is based on the premise that learning needs to be connected to relevant tasks that focus on students’ abilities. They need to link their experiences to the knowledge and skills learnt in meaningful ways. Thus, this Problem Based programme consists of a series of modules covering a range of important skills for a holistic approach to do PBP - team-building, research methodology, using resources, identifying problems, processing information, and project planning. PBP Workz aims to equip students with just-in-time skills for project work. Each module has a specific desired outcome.

Module 1: Identify information needs (Print Resources) 

• Team Building Activity (I)
• Learn about the various types of information resources
• Differentiate factual information / inferences / opinions
• Determining search strategies
• Systematic note taking strategies from text / audio / video resources

Activity: Document Library Resources

Module 2: Research & Documentation

• Team Building Activity (II)
• Learn how to evaluate information and sieve out bias and /or stereotypes
• Checking the validity of information
• Understand the importance and procedures of documenting projects

Activity: Citing Library Resources

Module 3: Identify Problems

• Team Building Activity (III)
• How to define problem
• Learn how to conduct a basic research by using and organising information resources
• Using graphic organizers: Mind mapping
• Environmental scanning
• Forming a hypothesis

Activity: Making a Project Proposal

Module 4:  Collecting and Analysing Data (I)

• Time management & scheduling
• Using and organising information resources
• Selecting and evaluating information
• Organising and recording information
• Methods of collecting data i.e. Dipstick Survey, One-to-one, Focus Groups

Activity: Making a Project Implementation Plan

Module 5: Collecting and Analysing Data (II)

• Methods of analysing data
• Types of questionnaires
• Designing questionnaires
• Interview techniques

Activity: Design an Interview Questionnaire

Module 6: Writing a Project Report

• Planning stage
• Styles and structures
• Report coverage
• Drawing conclusions
• Presentation tips

Activity: Writing a Report

Notes:

• Each module:  1 hour
• Participants are to work in teams of 4-5 persons per team
• After each module, teamwill be given a task to complete before commencement of next module. Final task to be submitted to instructors for marking. 

Information Literacy Course

Many students are using the Internet to do research for their project works and homework. When sourcing for information from the Net, students are taught to test the reliability and validity of the information and to distinguish between opinions and facts.

In view of these issues, PAVE Education has crafted an Information Literacy Course.  The course was conducted successfully with Commonwealth Secondary and St Margaret’s Secondary School as part of the schools’ ICT skills curriculum. As Internet research is part and parcel of any student’s life, the benefits of the course will certainly be life long.

Course content

• Techniques on doing Internet research
• Honour intellectual property
• Verify the reliability of information sources
• Differentiate factual information, inferences and opinions
• Cite the information sources used in projects
• Write appropriate survey questions and conduct relevant surveys
• Conduct proper interviews

To find out more the Information Literacy Course conducted at St Margaret’s, read the article entitled “Netting Information the Right Way” published by The Computer Times on 7 May 2003.

Interested to conduct this course at your own school? Then contact us today!