Shuqun Primary is proud to be the home of WODAC (West 7 OutDoor Activity Centre). As the centre for Outdoor Education, we collaborate with MOE's CCA Branch Outdoor Education Unit, schools like Hougang Primary as well as schools within the W7 Cluster to organise adventure activities for staff and students. Our aim is to leverage on outdoor adventure to challenge students to move out of their comfort zone and discover their innate abilities to lead and make a difference to others like them and to nature.

Since the centre was launched in 2004, we have sent 5 teachers to courses like the Expedition Planning and Management Course as well as to expeditions in Gunung Binchang and other parts of Malaysia. We hope to make use of resources like the WODAC Endurance Challenge Wall housed at our school and equipment like the GPS (Global Positioning System) to organise more activities for our students. A key activity we are planning to organise include a West District Orienteering Experience for primary students from different schools.

Outdoor Lessons

Shuqun Primary believes in engaging students in authentic learning experiences or real life learning encounters. As such, we have set a aside two days per level for each term for students to learn outdoors. Since the beginning of 2005, our teachers have organised learning adventures to places like the Science Centres, Zoo, Chinese Gardens and Sungei Buloh Nature Park. The difference between these adventures and normal excursions is that these lessons are multi-disciplinary and involve students doing activities which help them to learn against the backdrop of natural environment. Some examples of such learning adventures like trails.

To facilitate these trips, we have organised our classes into clusters of 3 to 4 classes. This enable a team of teachers to work together within the framework of the cluster to plan outdoor lesson activities. Hence for example, there are three clusters at P1 level. P1A cluster will consist of 4 classes - P1A1, P1A2, P1A3 and P1A4. Whenever they go for outdoor lessons, these four classes will try to go as a cluster and have activities across between the four classes wherever possible. The advantage is that there will be better supervision of activities by the team of teachers and mixing of students - different abilities and different racial groups - can be achieved.