Only in Singapore that we can't find time to change.
One uniform for classroom and PE at Hong Wen
Ong Dai Lin
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PHYSICAL education classes just got easier for Primary 3 pupil Tan Hui Yi — thanks to a new school uniform.
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“I don’t like to change in and out of my school uniform when there are PE lessons. It’s very troublesome,” the nine-year-old from Hong Wen School said.
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Those days are over though for Hui Yi and her school mates at the Special Assistance Plan school as it now has a uniform that can be used for PE classes as well.
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Beige in colour, it is made from Dri-Fit material to ensure that the uniform will dry fast after PE lessons. The top incorporates a mandarin collar and a cheongsam button for a traditional touch. Boys wear brown shorts while the girls wear brown culottes — shorts shaped to look like a skirt.
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“Sometimes lessons are disrupted because students have to queue up in the toilets to change and that eats into lessons times,” Mr Ngoh Choon Ho, Hong Wen’s principal, told Today.
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“The younger students in lower primary sometimes forget and ... leave their uniforms lying around after they change out of it.”
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Since the start of last year, the school had allowed students to wear PE attire throughout the day on days when they had such classes. But that resulted in a lack of uniformity in the school, said Mr Ngoh.
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In designing the new uniform, discussions were held with teachers, parents and alumni. Students were also asked to try on prototypes.
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Mr Ngoh said: “It is also more convenient for parents as they don’t have to remember which days their child is having PE lessons and prepare the attire for them.”
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Due to a delay from its uniform supplier, only about 400 to 500 students are now wearing the new uniform.
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The rest of the school’s 1,300-strong population will switch over in a year’s time.
Ong Dai Lin
[email protected]
One uniform for classroom and PE at Hong Wen
Ong Dai Lin
[email protected]
PHYSICAL education classes just got easier for Primary 3 pupil Tan Hui Yi — thanks to a new school uniform.
.
“I don’t like to change in and out of my school uniform when there are PE lessons. It’s very troublesome,” the nine-year-old from Hong Wen School said.
.
Those days are over though for Hui Yi and her school mates at the Special Assistance Plan school as it now has a uniform that can be used for PE classes as well.
.
Beige in colour, it is made from Dri-Fit material to ensure that the uniform will dry fast after PE lessons. The top incorporates a mandarin collar and a cheongsam button for a traditional touch. Boys wear brown shorts while the girls wear brown culottes — shorts shaped to look like a skirt.
.
“Sometimes lessons are disrupted because students have to queue up in the toilets to change and that eats into lessons times,” Mr Ngoh Choon Ho, Hong Wen’s principal, told Today.
.
“The younger students in lower primary sometimes forget and ... leave their uniforms lying around after they change out of it.”
.
Since the start of last year, the school had allowed students to wear PE attire throughout the day on days when they had such classes. But that resulted in a lack of uniformity in the school, said Mr Ngoh.
.
In designing the new uniform, discussions were held with teachers, parents and alumni. Students were also asked to try on prototypes.
.
Mr Ngoh said: “It is also more convenient for parents as they don’t have to remember which days their child is having PE lessons and prepare the attire for them.”
.
Due to a delay from its uniform supplier, only about 400 to 500 students are now wearing the new uniform.
.
The rest of the school’s 1,300-strong population will switch over in a year’s time.
Ong Dai Lin
[email protected]
