Programme for Active Learning (PAL)

PAL gives Primary 1 and 2 students hands-on learning across arts, sports, and outdoor activities. Find out how this programme builds confidence, curiosity, and social skills.

Last updated 13 August 2026

PAL is an integral part of the curriculum for all Primary 1 and 2 students. The programme offers hands-on and experiential learning through the following four domains: Sports & Games, Outdoor Education, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts. PAL provides opportunities for students to discover new interests, develop character and enables them to develop social-emotional competencies.

Through PAL, students:

Learn to express himself / herself clearly
Develop confidence
Develop a sense of curiosity and positive attitude towards learning
Develop greater awareness of self & others, learn to manage relationships and work in teams
Learn to make responsible decisions

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In Punggol View Primary School, all P1 and P2 students undergo Programme for Active Learning (PAL) modules during school hours. With these modules spread over the two years, we hope to provide our students with broad-based exposure in the areas of Sports and Games, Outdoor Education, Visual and Performing Arts and an avenue for learning values and Social Emotional skills.

The 7 modules offered are:

Four-quadrant diagram showing Sports, Outdoor Education, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts with learning approaches labeled.

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For the Programme Design for PAL, we adopted:

Play-based Storyline Approach to design our lessons, and
Experience-Inquiry Pedagogy to allow students to be engaged in group and individual learning as well as asking questions to evoke their curiosity

Play-based storyline lesson design involves:

Using story books to provide the context and content for learning. Children naturally love to read stories and this is one way to get them hooked-in.
Purposeful play is incorporated to allow the students to explore and engage their five senses as well as to exhibit the SE Competencies and values

We use the experiential-inquiry pedagogy to allow children to learn by doing and asking questions as well as to interact and co-create their learning in a fun and engaging way.

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