Greenwood Primary School

Healthy Elderly, Happy Hearts (Gotong Royong) Carnival

Our Members• Mobile Bus: Dian Irdina Binte Bahar, Lee Sheng Yong, Ong Li Heng, Siak

Keng Hou, Tok Ying Mabel,

• Health Check up: Chen Yixun, Gareth Tan Jun Wei, Justin Choong Kim

Wee, Lee Wee Kang, Theodore Wijaya,

• Skit on Anti-alcohol: Chester Wong Wei Hao, Chew Rui Han Theophilus, ,

Jolene Chong Jie Lin, Lucas Wong Zuo Xuan, Ng Yu Hang, Liang Li Yee

• Up-cycling: Lee Xin Bei, Stefanie Poh Qiao Hui, Wang Luo Xuan, Xia Yuan

Jun , Ye Zhao Yi,

• Healthy Eating: Lagui Arwen, Leong Hann Ru, Li Zixuan, Yasmin Clarissa,

Yasmin Fatin, , Zheng Xinning

• Anti-Mozzie Dance: Gisele Soon Min En, Leong Xin Lin, Ling Jia Ci, Sammy

Tan, Vanesse Leong Sum Yu

About us

• Our project comprises of 6 teams of Primary 6 pupils.

• We had been chosen based on our project ideas we had come up with during last year’s Design Thinking Project Work.

• Our projects were selected as they met the needs of our users and the criteria set.

Needs: Bored at home and difficult to travel.

Proposal: -Mobile community and health centre for the elderly.(Comprises of a gym, healthcare centre, salad bar, computer centre.)

-Wisdom park with shuttle bus

Actualisation: Gotong Royong Event bus to bring the community centre to the elderlies. Skit, line-dancing, computer workshop, fruits bar. Bus moves from estate to estate. (With PA and AAC in 2016)

How was Gotong Royong actualised?

- Innovative idea

- Meet the needs of the users

- Feasible for outreach

How were we selected ?

School Vision WHIZZ Design Thinking

Motivated

learners

Critical

thinkersLeaders of characters

We are thinking,

inventive and zealous

kids

We contribute to the

community

Empathise with the user’s

needs to solve the

problem

Criteria 1: Innovative

Idea

Criteria 2:

Meet the needs of the

users

Criteria 3: Feasible

The table below shows how the criteria are linked to the school Vision, Life Long Learning Programme, WHIZZ and the Design Thinking Method.

The teachers used a checklist to select the projects and the list of potential projects were sent to People Association (PA) to seek possible collaboration.

Our Target for our Carnival• To achieve our school’s vision and LLP, WHIZZ

(We are tHinking, Inventive and Zealous kidZ)

-We must be able to make a difference to the community in terms of serving the elderly and keeping our environment Clean & Green

-Able to actualise our prototypes and achieve at least a B grade for our Project Work 3Cs (Curiosity, Cooperation & Confidence) competencies

-At least 95% of the elderly should be satisfied with our project

The flow chart shows how our project achieves the

vision, mission and values of our school through

WHIZZ.

VisionMotivated Learners, Critical Thinkers and Leaders of Character

WHIZZWe are thinking, inventive and zealous kids

WHIZZWe serve the community

Healthy Elderlies, Happy Heart(Gotong Royong)

Carnival

• Gotong Royong carnival gave us the opportunity to actualise the ideas from both the scenarios

• Pupils engaged the elderly in a number of activities pertaining to healthy living and Clean and Green Singapore .

Partnership with PA (AAC & ACE the Place)

and KTPH

Our Design Thinking Approach

• Quoting from Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, “Design thinking is a human-centered problem solving with an emphasis on collaboration, creativity & empathy. The key to the process is empathising with the user’s needs to solve the problem”.

Making a difference

2015 Project Work Theme

Contributing to the Community

• Surveyed the residents in May 2015 to find out their areas of concern.

–Clean and Green, Singapore

–Active Aging

Knowing The Community

The following is a graph that shows thepercentage of votes for each of the problemsidentified by the residents, based on the May2015 P5 students’ survey with the community:

Clean and Green, Singapore

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Littering Obstruction of corridors Unwanted mails Pets droppings Mosquitos

The graph below shows the result of the May 2015 P5 students’ survey done with the senior residents in the community, highlighting their areas of concern:

Active Aging

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

Healthy living Accessibility Recreation/Enrichmentactivities

Facilities Active contributions

Empathising Stage :Understanding the users by conducting surveys & interviews

Our Process

Defining Stage:Finding root cause by using Clustering and Fishbone

Our Process

Ideation Stage( Solution finding):Design and Invent-Brainstorming and Clustering

Our Process

Ideation Stage (Solution finding ) :Researched on other countries

Our Process

Ideation Stage (Solution Selection) :Criteria Setting and Grid Analysis

Our Process

Ideation Stage (Solution Selection) : Evaluation of solution based on criteria

Our Process

Our Process

Prototyping: To check if needs are met

Testing : We tested on the users.

February

• The teachers informed us that our projects were selected from the Primary 5 Design Thinking Projects to be presented at a carnival and asked if we are keen to take part.

• We discussed some possible directions that we can take to refine our project to meet the objectives of the carnival.

March

• We decided how we can improve the current activities we had to suit our elderly’s needs.

• We created our prototype.

• We tested it on the elderlies to get their inputs.

• We refined our ideas based on their inputs.

• Some of us seek help from external partners.

April

• We presented our ideas/ prototype to school leaders for their inputs.

• Then we further refined our ideas.

• Our ideas were also shared with the Active Aging community

• Then we further refined of our ideas based on the feedback.

• We prepared the material and resources and teachers purchased things that we needed.

• We worked with the mother tongue language department teachers to translate our materials to the various language.

• Actual implementation of project

What we did to implement Gotong Royong?

Stakeholders Type People

Involved

Involvement

Internal Teacher mentors - Provided ideas/feedback for improving our ideas

Internal School leader - Provided ideas/feedback for improving our ideas

Internal Attendants/

Grandparents

- Took part in our Survey

- Contributed ideas/feedback on our project and

activities that we planned

External Active Aging

Community and the

People’s Association

- Gave us feedback on our ideas

- Gave us permission to use the open area under

the blocks

- Arranged for the Gotong Royong Bus

External KTPH - Dietitians gave us advise on healthy eating

- They came to do the health check up and taught

us some simple procedures we could carry out.

Description of how each team member was involved in the implementation of the solutions.

• Each of us had an important role to play during the process and during the carnival.

• We gave ourselves different roles in our various groups based on our strengths.

• During the planning stages all of us worked together to get our booth item ready but on the actual day we took specific roles.

• For instance, for the healthy meal group, two of us took on the role of presenters to present in both English and our Mother Tongue. Some of us did the demonstration.

Our Healthy Elderly, Happy Hearts (Gotong Royong) Carnival

Mobile Bus Team

To bring the community centre to the elderly to make it more accessible to them.

To promote the event; To gather feedback about the event

Anti Mozzie Dance

To educate the elderly on the 5 steps Mozzie Wipeout and to promote healthy living.

To share the 5-Step Mozzie Wipeoutthrough healthy dance steps

Skit on Healthy Lifestyle

To drive the message about healthy lifestyle and the ill effects of alcohol to the elderly.

To put up a skit about healthylifestyle and the ill effects of alcohol.

Healthy Meal

To promote good eating habits with the elderly.

To share good eating habits and healthy recipes through posters and demonstrations.

Up-cycling

To share upcycling messages in a fun way and create opportunity for bonding

Conduct a workshop for the elderly to promote bonding and to educate them on upcycling.

Health Check up

To promote healthy living among the elderly.

To help in carrying out health checks

Our Survey QuestionsSchool

VisionWHIZZ

Design

Thinking

The programme organised by GWPS is

interesting.

The information obtained from the

session is useful to me.

I enjoy the interaction with the pupils.

I feel happy to take part in this event

I would like to take part in similar event

in future.

Our Survey questions are aligned to the

school vision, LLP and design thinking goals

Results from our Survey

s/n Description Strongly Agree Agree DisagreeStrongly

Disagree

1The programme organised by GWPS is

interesting.75% 25% 0 0

2The information obtained from the

session is useful to me.74% 26% 0 0

3 I enjoy the interaction with the pupils. 71% 29% 0 0

4The duration of the session is

appropriate.54% 44% 2% 0

5The session was held at a suitable time

and venue60% 40% 0 0

6 I feel happy to take part in this event 75% 25% 0 0

7I would like to take part in similar event

in future.77% 23% 0 0

Targets Met

• Achieved our school’s vision and LLP, WHIZZ (We are tHinking, Inventive and Zealous kidZ)

-99% of the elderly were satisfied with our project

-We made a difference to the community in terms of serving the elderly and keeping our environment Clean & Green

-We actualised our prototypes

Achievement

Personal Growth

•Good innovative thinking skills

• Zealous in our approach

• Contributed to the community

•More confident speakers

Achievement PW OVERALL THINKING SKILLS C1: CURIOSITY C2: CONFIDENCE C3: COOPERATION

Percentage Grade Percentage Grade Percentage Grade Percentage Grade Percentage Grade

72.52 B 79.68 A 78.55 A 71.45 B 78.65 A

Results• We had an average of A grade for

thinking skills, curiosity and cooperation skills

• We also obtained a high B for confidence skills

Our Reflections

“when we saw the elderlies taking part in the activities we had planned, such as the mass dance and having fun as we taught them about the ill effects of alcohol and healthy living, we changed our minds and learnt we could create a positive difference."

Paving the way for future outreach

National level: Clean and Green carnival

Paving the way for future outreach

• National level: Clean and green carnival

• KTPH Wellness Centre: 2016 P5 and beyond

• Care Centre: In discussion

• Active Aging Carnival: In discussion

Future outreach is definitely possible

• Positive results from our projects.

• A great curriculum

• A great team of teachers