小探险家：幼年时期的户外探索
在学前班和幼儿园一年级，孩子们通过直接的动手实践体验学习效果最佳。“小探险家”®项目全年提供精心规划的户外学习机会，旨在培养孩子们在这个重要发展阶段的好奇心、运动能力和探索精神。
每次户外活动并非偶尔为之，而是与课堂学习紧密结合，通过真实世界的体验帮助孩子们加深理解。无论是观察植物和昆虫、探索自然中的形状，还是数数和分类自然材料，孩子们都能以有意义且难忘的方式接触和理解概念。
主要亮点：
- 与课程紧密结合的有目的的户外体验
- 培养好奇心、探究精神和动手发现能力
- 发展身体技能、协调性和空间意识
- 建立自信、协作能力和环保意识
通过“小探险家”®项目，孩子们积极探索、提问并与周围世界建立联系，将最初的想法转化为他们可以亲眼看到、亲手触摸和亲口讲述的体验。
X探险：小学阶段的实地学习
“X探险”®项目通过精心设计的三阶段旅程，为小学阶段的学生提供课堂之外有意义的学习体验。每个阶段都承接上一个阶段，帮助学生在引人入胜的真实世界情境中发展个人、社会和文化理解。
学习始于团队建设体验，以加强协作、沟通和信任。随后，学生们通过社区服务拓展学习，他们以有意义的方式做出贡献，并开始理解自己在产生积极影响方面的作用。这项体验以将他们与新加坡文化、环境和遗产联系起来的活动作结，从而加深他们的归属感和全球意识。
除了这些沉浸式体验，与课程相关的实地考察以及与ACRES和NParks等组织的合作，帮助学生将所学知识与实际行动联系起来，使他们的体验既有意义又难忘。
主要亮点：
- 结构化的三部分旅程：团队建设、服务和本地探索
- 培养协作、韧性和沟通能力
- 培养同理心、责任感和社区参与度
- 将学习与现实世界和当地环境联系起来
通过Xpeditions®项目，学生们从认识自我走向与他人和更广阔世界的互动——以有意义且持久的方式将课堂学习融入生活。
Week Without Walls: Immersive Learning for Middle Years Students
Week Without Walls provides Middle Years students with an extended, immersive experience beyond the traditional school setting. Designed to challenge and inspire, the programme places students in unfamiliar environments where they learn to adapt, collaborate, and grow both independently and as part of a team.
Key Highlights:
- Extended learning experience beyond the classroom
- Encourages adaptability, independence, and resilience
- Strengthens teamwork and collaboration skills
- Builds confidence through real-world challenges
Week Without Walls empowers students to take ownership of their learning, helping them develop essential life skills that extend far beyond the classroom.
Field Trips: Curriculum-Linked Learning Across All Years
Field trips across all year levels are designed to extend and enrich classroom learning through real-world experiences. Each trip is carefully integrated into the curriculum, with students preparing beforehand and reflecting afterwards, ensuring that learning remains connected, purposeful, and meaningful.
These experiences allow students to deepen their understanding by engaging directly with concepts, places, and people. In the Primary Years, many field trips also include opportunities for community involvement and environmental learning, often in partnership with organisations such as ACRES and SPCA Singapore.
Key Highlights:
- Directly linked to curriculum and classroom learning
- Includes pre-visit preparation and post-visit reflection
- Enhances understanding through real-world experiences
- Promotes community awareness and environmental responsibility
Through these thoughtfully planned trips, students are able to connect what they learn in class to the world around them, making learning more relevant and impactful.
What Your Child Gains Over Time
Research shows that students in bilingual programmes often make strong gains in both language development and overall learning. In this programme, students not only learn two languages, but also learn through both languages—using them to think, communicate, and solve problems across subjects. This strong bilingual foundation prepares students well for the IB Middle Years Programme.
By this stage, your child will have spent years reading, writing, discussing, and interpreting increasingly complex ideas across subjects in two languages, developing both academic proficiency and confidence.
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亲身体验
参观XWA校园，会见负责这些项目的老师，并了解户外与体验式学习如何融入您孩子在学校的成长之旅。
FAQs
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XWA's Early Years students take part in outdoor learning experiences regularly across the year. Primary students take part in field trips throughout the school year, with experiences planned around what they are studying in class, and Middle Years students participate in the extended Week Without Walls programme.
Each programme is connected to learning at that stage of school. In the Primary Years, field trips and Xpeditions connect to current Units of Inquiry and community action. In the Middle Years, Week Without Walls is intended to develop independence, collaboration, and adaptability through shared experience.
These experiences run across the school in age-appropriate ways. Little Xplorers begins in the early years, Xpeditions and Field Trips support learning in the Primary Years, and Week Without Walls sits within the Middle Years experience.
Yes. We partner with organisations including ACRES, NParks, and SPCA Singapore in connection with community action, environmental stewardship, and service learning at XWA.
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