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Innovations
The app (EPP Functional Numeracy App) is available in both App Store and Google Play Store for free. It has a simple interface design for students with special needs to interact with it without much difficulty. It offers solutions to Functional Numeracy topics such as Elapsed Time, Expiration Dates and Money Management skills to make an independent purchase.
Learning how to use the app independently for all 6 modules would help the students to perform some critical tasks at home and in the community without assistance. With this app, students are not required to have a certain level of academic readiness to perform the functional math activities in their everyday lives. As such, it helps the students to become less reliant on their caregivers and empowers them to be more confident in performing the related daily living skills.
Metta School’s project “Project Starfish” promotes a healthy lifestyle in students through a strong partnership between Adapted Physical Education teachers, trainers and parents.
The teachers, trainers, students and parents use WhatsApp, a common communication
platform, to form group chats to extend learning beyond school into the home. Using the platform, videos of exercise routine to carry out at home were sent to parents and students.
Students video oneself doing the exercise routine and send it back to the teachers and
trainers for feedback.
The close partnership between students, teachers, trainers and parents, has empowered
students to adopt and maintain healthier lifestyles!
Metta School’s project “Accessing Health Care Services – Visiting Clinic” use a simulated
learning environment created by virtual reality technology for students to learn to manage
their medical needs by learning symptoms of illnesses and how to visit the clinic to get
medical help.
Our students learn very well when routines are put into place. By breaking the skill into
many steps helps us to train the students in a very structured manner, as well as identify the
student’s exact point of weakness in the skill set.
With the help of staff at Changi Airport Group and Raffles Clinic staff, the students get to do
role‐play at a Raffles Medical Clinic, and apply the knowledge and skills learnt. By going
through the routines of visiting the clinic, allow our students to gain familiarity with the
routines which in turn assist our students to transfer and generalise the skills more
seamlessly into the real environment.
Metta School’s project “Science Learning @ Metta School” won the Innovation Award –
Commendation in 2018. We believe that children are naturally curious about themselves and the environment around them. Learning science will help our students develop an appreciation and understanding of themselves and the world that they live in.
Students learn the practices of science such as observing, comparing, recording, measuring
and inferencing. Feedback from teachers and students have been uplifting as many students
enjoyed the hands‐on activities for Science and allowed them to learn the everyday
phenomenon of the subject.
Metta School’s project “Centre of Excellence for Health & Fitness (MID)” received the MOE‐
NCSS INNOVATION AWARD 2016. This award recognises the school’s efforts in developing a culture of innovation through the implementing of innovative practices that nurture the development of students. Metta School received a trophy, a certificate and a sum of $5,000 to enhance the quality of teaching and learning in the school.
The outcomes of the Health and Fitness programme:
- Students lead Healthy Lifestyle
- Students acquire Physical Fitness for work and living
- Enhancing students’ Emotional Wellbeing
- Promote inclusion by Integration with the community
- Equipped students with Safety Skills while engaging in fitness activities
Metta School seeks to enhance the students’ travelling skills through the use of virtual
reality (VR) technology. The programme comprises of three modules‐ Road Safety, Taking the Bus and Taking the MRT. This programme is made possible with the funding support of Tote Board and MOE Tier 2 ICT funding.
Students are presented with various scenarios which they may encounter in their daily
commute. They are given opportunities to practice decision‐making to gain familiarity with various traffic routines in a safe environment through simulation. Staff are also able to observe and give instant feedback on students’ performance.
This technology proved to be complementary to the school's monthly social competence
outings whereby students will get to navigate real‐world conditions such as taking the MRT
or crossing the road.
