Pasir Ris Secondary School
390 Tampines Street 21
Singapore 529400

21 Jul 2008

Minister Mah Bow Tan
Minister of National Development, Member of Tampines GRC
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Dear Minister Mah

Feedback about the playgrounds in Tampines and suggestions to improve them

I am a student from Pasir Ris Secondary School and I am writing this letter to give some feedbacks and suggestions on how to improve our current playgrounds in the Tampins neighborhood to meet the special needs of children. Under your expert leadership, Tampines has been a good place for living. There are lots of facilities close by like the MRT, shopping districts and good schools. As a child, I have always looked forward to the playgrounds. The playgrounds here are very colourful but I am writing to you to propose that you build a new playground meant for the special need kids here in our friendly neighborhood.

Our secondary two express students have just recently done a project whereby we create our own playground to cater to the special needs of different children, for example children who are diagnosed with terminally ill but non-contagious diseases. This is why we are proposing to you to consruct a playground as we are aware that there are alot of children who are diagnosed with such illnesses and thus we are to cater to their needs. The model of my group's plaground is cater to the above mentioned children and also based on the book Bridge to Terebithia which is a fantasy story.

Here are some of the ideas that we have come out with and that i think would be relevant for children in this neighourhood. One of the ideas is to construct the playground as a treehouse so that the children can get a feel of how its like to have a playground considering that we are not able to construct treehouses in Singapore. Another idea is to make a ball pit at the end of the slide so that the children will not fall hard on the ground and hurt themselves. It may seem a little dangerous as children might tend to crowd on the ball pit, so it can be replaced by a rubber mat. This way, they might not get hurt. You might also consider of making a giant trampoline with a netting around it so that the children will not fall off when playing. The purpose of the trampoline is so that the children can build their leg muscles by jumping on it with the knowledge that the children will not get injured when playing.

I hope that these suggestions are enough for you to consider making a new playground in our neighborhood for the children. Thank you for taking time off to read my letter.

Yours truly
Dayana bte Adly Esmadi
Student of Pasir Ris Secondary School

This is our literature blog for our Sa1 project. We are supposed to design and create a playground for the Non-contagious but terminally ill children. This blog has to be kept updated with research materials that have been done for the project or any latest drawings or sketches that had been done. Thank you and have a nice day. :D




Muhd Khalis (leader)
Nurul 'Adilah (secretary)
Kelly Lee (research i/c)
Dayana (builder i/c)
Nur Khaliesah (design i/c)
Arkar (presenter i/c)






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