Our K2 students had an opportunity to learn simple coding through a fun collaborative activity with Blangah Rise Primary School (BRPS). Junior Primary Year Head, Mdm Kimberly Koh, taught our pre-schoolers how to use the Scratch Junior app on the iPad. As part of the school’s Applied Learning Programme (STEM), we introduce all our students to coding — the process of creating instructions for computers using programming languages.

Our pre-schoolers were fully attentive during the session, they learnt how to tap in the commands to get their character to move forward, jump, dance and even sing! This is the first of a number of activities planned for our K2 pre-schoolers as part of our unique BRLC K2 Transition programme, which gives our MK pre-schoolers a taster of distinctive BRPS programmes.

The pre-schoolers listened carefully to the instructions given and held their iPads carefully. These were part of rules they had to exercise when using the iPad. Over two days, our pre-schoolers were eager to program their “pet” to move in different directions and “speak”.

Student Seo El said, “It is fun, the dog can “talk” and move!” and Mohammad shared, “I can get the dog to talk.” Our MK teachers facilitated the two sessions and observed how easily our pre-schoolers picked-up coding skills. Teacher Candice reflected, “The session had indeed engaged the pre-schoolers meaningfully in learning a new skill.”

This memorable experience was captured in their K2 Transition Journal so that our pre-schoolers can share them with their parents.

Click here to know about our Applied Learning Programme (ALP).

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