Pick with Us by NIEC-NP Diploma in Early Childhood Education

Pick with Us! by NIEC-NP Diploma in Early Childhood Education

Main Aims

To raise awareness about the foreign worker community in Singapore.
Encourage preschoolers to perform acts of kindness to appreciate the foreign workers in their midst.

Preschool children from Green House Preschool

Applied the knowledge learnt in school and designed art activities and take home kits for the children to complete at home with their parents.
Before project execution day, the team visited the children to educate them on the foreign workers and the scope of their work.
Scaffolded craftwork activity; engaged children in their thought process as they made the appreciation cards.
Preschool children were involved in litter picking at the void deck near their preschool.
Sparked conversations between the preschoolers and foreign workers.

Timeline

May: Liaise with Town Council and preschool/ purchase of materials

15th July: Visit to Little Green House at Seng Kang - gave a talk to the children

30th July: Project execution

All children were participative and actively involved
Project managed to raise children’s awareness towards foreign workers and their job scope.
Foreign workers were touched by the children’s efforts.