Singapore Field Trips
Quest is able to leverage the flexibility of its schedule to allow for opportunities throughout the year to go off campus for experiential learning. Students are able to spend a day (or a series of days) exploring an issue in-depth and apply concepts and skills being learned in class to real-world application off campus. This is one of the incredible benefits of the Quest program, with courses being taught interdisciplinarily with an emphasis on project and problem-based learning (PBL).
exploring singapore's rich cultural and natural heritage
Exploring & investigating singapore's natural world
Above: Quest students (2022-2023) hiking through Clementi Forest and conducting a biodiversity study. Students continue to work on their sampling techniques, including use of a transect line and quadrat. This is part of their Unit 1 study as students grapple with what should be the fate of Clementi forest, which is zoned for housing development: should Singapore preserve Clementi or develop it?
Cultural Exploration, Tours and museum visits in singapore
Toa Payoh Neighborhood Exploration & Instagram Challenge
The 2017-2018 Quest cohort were given the opportunity to do the flight simulator and learned how difficult it is to fly a plane. After years of traveling it was a great learning experience knowing what happens behind the scene.
GEYLANG Neighborhood Tour
Service-Learning opportunities built into the school day
Each year in Quest, there are opportunities for service-learning, that are incorporated into at least one of the units.
Above: an example, in the 2020-2021 school year, during Unit 4, which focused on "the State of the World", students spent time with Ground Up Initiative (GUI), learning about the importance of sustainable agriculture. Students studied the soil, conducted fieldwork for their science and math coursework, attended workshops from beekeeping, aquaculture, and composting, participated in a woodworking workshop to construct garden planter boxes out of upcycled shipping pallets, for use for the SAS campus' rooftop garden that Quest students were designing, and spent time working on the farm preparing garden beds for the next crops to be planted.
Above: another example of service-learning being incorporated into the school day was in the 2017-2018 school year, during Unit 3 focused on service learning. Regularly adults have to jump in, figure out how to help, and really get to know someone whose world view maybe different from their own. This is the benefit of service learning. The students worked every other day with organizations like ACRES, which helps animals, Willing Hearts, which feeds people, Ground-Up Initiative (GUI), which focuses on learning through interaction with nature, and Touch Home Care, which feeds the elderly. It promises to yeild more lessons than we can fit inside a classroom.