Experiential Learning Week 2025
Explore the highlights of ELW 2025 at Maha Bodhi School, where students built real-world skills through coding, arts, and community activities.
Experiential Learning Week (ELW) 2025
Experiential Learning Week (ELW) 2025 at Maha Bodhi School was a joyful and meaningful week designed to engage students in authentic, hands-on learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom. Rooted in the school’s objective of nurturing compassionate and motivated problem solvers, ELW provided opportunities for students to develop real-world competencies while deepening their sense of care, creativity, and collaboration.
Each level experienced a specially curated series of activities. Our Primary 1 and 2 students explored themes of empathy, responsibility, and teamwork through buddy gift-making using upcycled materials, Pu Ti Zhang, and a problem-solving challenge to solve challanges and design inclusive playgrounds. They also experienced GEM week dress-up activities and learned basic block-based programming using Coding Awbie.
At the Primary 3 and 4 levels, students solved subject-integrated puzzles through a multi-disciplinary Problem Solving Challenge. They explored career options at ECG booths and talks, took part in VIA activities such as classroom clean-ups, and expressed their appreciation to the community's unsung heroes. Highlights included coding sessions with Ozobots in the Makerspace, designing with 3D pens, and going on learning journeys to the National Gallery and Ubi Grove.
Primary 5 students developed their communication, creativity, and computational thinking through music lessons using the ukulele and Code for Fun programming sessions using Sphero. They also engaged in team-based classroom activities that strengthened social bonds and problem-solving skills.
Throughout the week, students also had the opportunity to take part in Chinese cultural activities and competitions that promoted joyful engagement.
ELW 2025 was not only a celebration of joyful learning but also a purposeful platform for students to build 21st-century competencies such as collaboration, adaptability, digital literacy, and empathy. By encouraging students to explore, reflect, and contribute meaningfully to the world around them, ELW remains a key initiative in shaping confident, caring, and future-ready Maha Bodhians.
Collage of school children doing activities on Experiential Learning Week Day 1, 19 May 2025.
Collage poster for Experiential Learning Week 2025 Day 2 showing students in costumes, doing challenges, and visiting an art gallery.
Flyer for Experiential Learning Week 2025 Day 3 showing students doing gift making, ukulele playing, and a field trip.
Collage of primary school students doing hands-on activities for Experiential Learning Week 2025, Day 4, on 22 May.
Key Highlights of ELW Activities
Three young children in school uniforms sit on a wooden floor, focused on a tablet in an Osmo stand.
P2 Students attending coding Awbie sessions
Eight children in traditional Chinese hanfu clothing stand in a classroom, performing a bow gesture in front of a projected screen.
P1 Students dressing up and learning about etiquette during Chinese Cultural Lessons
Two smiling school children use colorful 3D pens with filament coils on a classroom desk, with instruction sheets nearby.
P4 3D Pen Drawing Experience
Young children in white and blue uniforms practicing archery with wooden bows in an indoor gymnasium.
P2 Wushu Experience
Four young students in a classroom holding out small colorful clay figurines they made, with a projector screen behind them.
P2 Clay Making and Buddy Gift Making
Primary 3 students experiencing Ozobot session in school library.
P3 Ozobot Sessions
Students in white and blue uniforms gather around a large colorful blue and red geometric outdoor structure.
P4 Ubi Grove Learning Trail
Two young students shake hands in a classroom while a teacher watches, with a Malay language lesson projected behind them.
P3 Conversational Malay Programme
Five schoolgirls in blue and white uniforms smile while wiping windows with cloths in a school corridor.
P3 Values in Action (Cleaning up our school)
Two men receive a pink gift bag and a thank you card from four smiling children in a classroom.
P4 Values in Action (Appreciation to our unsung heros)
Several school children in uniforms sit on a wooden floor holding ukuleles during a music class.
P5 Music Programme (Ukulele)
Six young Pupils from Primary 2 in white and blue PE attire standing before a whiteboard reading "Our Inclusive Playground."
P2 Problem Solving: Designing an inclusive playground
Two school boys in white uniforms arrange small green wooden blocks during Maths Learning session on a desk in a classroom.
P4 Math learning with puzzles
Pupils learning coding through Coding Awbie in iPads on ways to direct Sphero robots.
P5 Code For Fun Programme
Six children in costumes including Captain America, a dinosaur, pilot, Minion, Ranger of the lost Ark, and Cat in the Hat pose outside their classroom.
GEM Week Character Dress Up
Primary 1 children in Problem Solving Challenge dress in PE attire sitting on floor building colourful geometric structures using plastic straws and connectors to cross a river.
P1 Problem Solving Challenge (Building a tool using Strawbees to cross a river)
In Message in a bottle session. Five primary 1 students in white and blue PE attire smile while holding their decorated plastic bottles outside their classroom.
P1 Buddy Gift: Message in a bottle