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Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School

Experiential Learning Activites @ AIPS

Explore how AIPS brings learning to life through hands-on activities for Primary 1 to 4 students, from farm visits to ice cream making.

Last updated 5 August 2026

Experiential Learning @ AIPS

Our school believes in providing students with a rich learning experience. Students in different levels engage in various hands-on activities and learning journeys where they learn by doing. Such experiences deepen their understanding and help them make connections between what they learn in the classroom to real-world situations. These shared experiences provide both the context and content for students to practise the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Primary 1:

  1. Mooncake Making

Tied in with the Stellar unit ‘Mid-Autum Festival’, students work together with others while listening to and following instructions to make their own mooncakes.

A teacher in blue demonstrates with flour, water, and a scale to uniformed school children at a red cafeteria table.
Two school children in white uniforms make pink mooncakes at a foil-covered table in a school canteen.
Woman in hijab and glasses holds a mooncake mold tray with pink mooncakes while children watch at a table.
Two young primary school students in uniforms hold white plates each displaying a pink mooncake.

  1. Visit to Hay Dairies

After reading their big book ‘Mrs Wishy-washy’, students learnt vocabulary related to and identified farm animals during their visit to Hay Dairies.

Young children in red shirts feed goats at a farm facility, with a group seated on bleachers nearby.
Young children in red school uniforms feed hay to goats through a fence at a farm.

Primary2:

  1. S’mores and Hipster Prata Making:

Students tried their hand at making s’more and hipster pratas after the Stellar units ‘A Day in The Kitchen With Grandma’ and ‘Roti Prata’. Students later used vocabulary learnt to write personal recounts of their experiences.

Students making their own hipster prata and s'mores:

Young students in red and white uniforms eating and preparing food at colorful tables in a school cafeteria.
Two young girls in red shirts wearing plastic gloves prepare food with pancakes, bananas, and corn flakes at a school cafeteria.
Four young students pose with an adult in a school corridor; four students eat snacks at a red cafeteria table.

Learning Journey to S.E.A Aquarium:

Children from Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School look up at fish and sharks during an aquarium field trip.
Groups of young children posing in front of large glowing blue aquarium tanks during a school field trip.

Primary 3:

Visit to Gardens by The Bay

Students learnt about and saw carnivorous plants like the pitcher plant, venus flytrap and butterwort at Gardens By The Bay. The experience deepened their learning of the Stellar unit ‘Unusual Plants’ and also helped to cement concepts about plants taught during science lessons.

Children in red uniforms on a school field trip listen to a guide and use tablets near tropical plants.
Students in red uniforms explore a glass greenhouse, one photographing a plant on a tablet, others posing by a large wooden horse.

Primary 4:

  1. Ice Cream Making:

Our P4 students made their very own ice cream during their English Language lesson! Through this authentic learning experience, our students made the procedural text of ‘Making Ice Cream’ come alive. They followed the steps in the text, worked together and made their own ice cream. Great teamwork and patience paid off with them enjoying the sweet treat at the end.

Young students in school uniforms working together on hands-on activities with materials at tables in a canteen.
Two groups of children in red shirts sit at school canteen tables doing a hands-on activity with cups and materials.

  1. Jurassic Mile @AIPS:

Students took part in and English Language Escape Room activity, Jurassic Mile@AIPS in August. This activity is an extension of what students had learnt in the STELLAR Unit, ‘Dinosaurs Exist’. Besides reviewing the vocabulary and grammar structures learnt, students were also challenged to use their communication and problem-solving skills.

Students in school uniforms interact with a realistic dinosaur model and do crafts at tables in a colorful school hall.