Pathlight students from the Violin and International Dance groups were honoured to participate in Teck Ghee’s National Day Celebrations on Saturday, 11 August 2018. During the street parade, our violinists played familiar tunes such as “Home” and “One People, One Nation, One Singapore”, while our dancers danced to upbeat Korean hits, livening up the celebratory mood. Our students also got to meet and perform for Guest-of-Honour Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong! We are grateful for the opportunity to celebrate with and contribute back to the community!
On Friday, 3 August 2018, 25 students from Pathlight Running Club took part in the Inclusive Sports Festival at the OCBC Arena and Aquatic Centre. Aimed at raising awareness of the different para-sports available and to encourage persons with disabilities to maintain a healthy lifestyle, our students got to try various modified sports, such as wheelchair basketball and sitting table tennis at the event. Another objective of the event is to foster greater inclusion among people with different abilities through sports. It was an inspiring day as our students learned that a disability should not stop someone from exercising and enjoying sports, because sports is one of the best ways to unite and bring people together from different walks of life.
As part of the Combined Schools Choir who performed at the True Colours Festival in March, the Pathlight Primary School Choir were invited to the Istana on Thursday, 2 August 2018 for a tea reception.
The Choir had the opportunity to step into the Istana and learn more about its history and structure. The tea also presented a chance for them to reunite with friends they had made during the Festival and sing together again. They were also most excited to meet President Halimah Yacob, exchange a few words, and perform for her as well.
The experience made us feel deeply honoured, and filled us with gratitude. We hope that this experience will spur our students to advocate more for those with special needs through their talent.
Pathlight students were among some 300 participants who took part in the first Singapore Sports School Para Games at its premises on Saturday, 30 June 2018. The Para Games aim to enable persons with disabilities to be more competitive in their sporting journeys. The six sports featured at the inaugural Games were athletics, badminton, powerlifting, swimming, table tennis and bowling. Pathlight students walked away with 24 medals: 8 bronze, 8 silver and 8 gold! Congratulations!
Last Friday, our students participated in the Haw Par Youth Swimming Championships organised by the Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC). The competition aims to create opportunities for disabled persons to swim at a competitive level and as a platform for SDSC to scout for new talents to join the National squad in representing Singapore at international competitions. Pathlight’s students made a good showing at the competition, walking home with 14 Gold, 7 Silver and 9 Bronze medals in all. Our students have done us proud!
Pathlighters kick-started the month of July with a week-long Learning Festival. Aimed at bringing to life, lessons learned in English, Mathematics and Science, the festival provided opportunities for our students to engage in active, applied and authentic learning outside the classroom.
Various game stations were set up to provide experiential learning for our students to exercise their skills in the respective subjects. These games did not just depend on individual prowess but also required teamwork with their peers. As part of the learning festival, our students also visited KidzAmaze at SAFRA Toa Payoh where they used their senses to observe and identify the shapes used in KidzAmaze’s tangram structure, as well as practised civics with none other than our beloved Singa, the Courtesy Lion and his friends!
To top it off, students made their own “slime” in class: an eye-opening application of their scientific know-how. All in all, it was a great week of learning and experimentation for our students!
2018’s Racial Harmony Day celebration was all about instilling the importance of racial harmony in Singapore. Our students from various tracks celebrated the occasions through class-based activities, sampling of traditional food, as well as exciting traditional games and hands-on activities. Students were also encouraged to come dressed in traditional costumes of Singapore’s various ethnic groups. Through these, they learnt to embrace the uniqueness of the different cultures, as well as to respect and celebrate diversity. The celebration truly reinforced the importance of maintaining the beauty and harmony that characterise the island we call home.
Pathlight’s very own Mohamad IIhan Bin Rossli was invited to conduct a talk at the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) themed “Artist and Citizenship”. The event, held at The National Gallery of Singapore on 21 July 2018 drew a crowd of both tourists and local audiences.
IIhan showed his painting of small turtles climbing on top of a lion-turtle hybrid and explained the symbolism behind it. The turtles symbolise different nationalities in Singapore coming together to create the lion-turtle hybrid that we all call home. After the talk, IIhan had fun teaching his audience to create their own hybrid creature.
Good job Ilhan! We are so proud of you!
This year’s graduating students gained some exposure to the aerospace industry through a visit to Safran Landing Systems, the world’s largest manufacturer of aircraft landing gear. The visit started off with an informative presentation on Safran Landing Systems and the aerospace industry. Our students then participated in a quiz, where they won various prizes. A plant tour around the factory followed, where they learned about the various equipment and its purposes, functions of landing gears, the physics of flying, as well as overhaul and repairs of aircraft.
With this tour, our graduating students were exposed to one more industry to consider venturing in!
On Friday, 29 June 2018, over 600 students and staff from Secondary School and Vocational track, along with invited guests from Eden School, participated in the “I Shine - Youth Day & Sports Carnival” in Pathlight School Campus 2 Annex.
The students raced through the campus in the Spartan Race and participated in fun and enriching activities such as combat aerobics and percussion. They also enjoyed the activities at the Sports Carnival run by student-teachers from the National Institute of Education (NIE), as well as grooved along to the teachers’ performances during the mass concert. Special characters from the Star Wars film series dropped by for the celebrations too, taking the fun to levels out of this world.
Not only did our students have fun, they also proved that they could shine in whatever they set their hearts and minds to!
Pathlight School is the first autism-focused school in Singapore to offer the national curriculum together with life readiness skills. It caters to students on the autism spectrum with related conditions, aged 7 to 18 years, who are cognitively able to access national curriculum but require additional support such as smaller class sizes, special accommodations and teaching staff trained in autism.
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