Design & technology

Explore how the D&T curriculum builds students' design thinking and problem-solving skills through hands-on projects and real-world challenges.

Last updated 29 July 2026

Our Approach

Our D&T curriculum includes a variety of learner-centred activities for our students to better understand concepts. There is a progression from teacher-controlled structured projects at lower secondary to pupil-driven open-ended projects at upper secondary.

For our lower secondary curriculum, students will get to learn the skills required through specially crafted "Design-and-Make" projects. These projects are guided by the design process which entails identifying design needs from real-world experiences. Emphasis is being placed on the development of students’ freehand sketching skills and students are also taught the techniques to generate ideas. Students will acquire related knowledge and develop skills to turn ideas into reality which makes their learning meaningful.

For the Secondary 3 level, the students will embark on project tasks which are pupil-driven open-ended project. Through the projects, students are required to conduct their own research and consolidate findings to solve real-world ill-defined problems.

Our D&T curriculum aims to help our students to grow the confidence in sketching and making to create and innovate. They will acquire the necessary skills to explore real world design opportunities and develop ideas to solve problems.

Students display handmade projects: lit acrylic animal signs, a cardboard robot sculpture, a wooden guitar, and a cardboard costume.

Design and Technology department staff and designations

Name	Designation
Ms Lee Y-Lyn, Wendy	Subject Head (D&T)
Mr Poh Wei Khim Chris	Teacher
Mr Zaid Rudy Mohamad Taib	Teacher
Mr Abdul Jalil Bin Kasman	Stem Instructor
Muhammad Zulhusni Bin Abdul Rahman	Stem Instructor

Highlights

D&T Awards

Our alumni Sharmaine See (Class of 2023) whose O-Level D&T project "Droplets of Nature" had won the D&T Award 2024 (Creative Adaptation) organised by MOE, NIE and DTES. The D&T Award recognises and celebrates outstanding achievements of students who demonstrates adaptive and inventive thinking in the design of their D&T prototypes. "Droplets of Nature" focus on sustainability issue, designed to collect rainwater to water plants in 3 aesthetically pleasing mushroom-shaped pots, utilising an adapted watering system. Well done Sharmaine!

A student stands beside white mushroom-shaped pots with blue flowers used as a rainwater watering system.

STEM Challenge

Our D&T students displayed their creativity and problem-solving skills by participating in the STEM Playground Challenge organized by Singapore Science Centre and the James Dyson Foundation (JDF).

A group of students holding small wooden stick structures, with close-ups showing a stick bridge model supporting a metal weight.

Design Thinking – Working on Authentic Problem Situations

The Sec 3 students also applied design thinking skills as they crafted their own design brief and worked on solving real-life problem situations.

Students working on design sketches, presentations, and project demonstrations in a classroom setting.

Bridge-Building Competition

Three students display wooden popsicle stick truss bridges, with close-ups showing the models being load-tested.

Students applied the concepts that they had learnt in class to design and make a model bridge that can satisfy a given set of criteria. The competition offers the students a “real-world” experience and they got to witness how their bridges fared during the testing process.

Two students drawing on digital devices, with geometric 3D block sketches shown below on paper.

Embarking on digital sketching with students’ personal learning devices (PLDs) for the Lower Secondary D&T students.

Two masked students drawing on tablet screens with styluses at desks.