Craft & Technology
Department Vision
A dynamic department providing engaging programmes to prepare future ready learners
Department Mission
To equip and develop self-directed Broadricians with essential skills that are relevant to their passion and rooted in values.
Art Unit
To provide a holistic education that enables every Broadrician to be able to perceive, communicate and appreciate art.
Signature Programmes:
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Enrichment Programme on Mixed Media Arts
Mixed media refers to a visual art piece that combines various distinctive traditional visual art mediums. By using mixed media, students can achieve many interesting effects, and often recycled objects are used as raw materials. At the end of the programme, students are able to apply the acquired knowledge and skills of using different elements of traditional art mediums with recycled materials to create their own art piece. -
Learning Journey to NUS Museum
NUS Museum is a comprehensive Museum for teaching and research. With a distinct focus on Asian regional art and culture, students learn more about the traditional art form in this part of the world.
Learning Journey to NUS Museum
NUS Museum is a comprehensive Museum for teaching and research. With a distinct focus on Asian regional art and culture, students learn more about the traditional art form in this part of the world.
Singapore Youth Festival 2018 Art Exhibition
What We Are Now, And What We Will Become, created by Adam Bin Jumaat (4R6, 2017), was selected for the on-site exhibition at National Gallery Singapore.
Design & Technology Unit (D&T)
In D&T, students learn through design-and-make projects guided by a design process. The design process entails identifying design needs from real-world experiences, generating and developing ideas, and prototyping the design solution, with research carried out when necessary. In doing so, students acquire related knowledge and develop skills to turn ideas into meaningful and purposeful artefacts as well as cultivating values like mindfulness, empathy, and sensitivity in the areas of social, cultural and environmental domains.
Signature Programmes:
- Applied Learning Programme (ALP) (Design Thinking)
The D&T Unit supports the school’s ALP programme by equipping lower secondary students with the required Design Thinking skills in terms of empathising, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing of their problem identification and solution making process. Hence, students have the opportunity to actualize their proposed ideas. In addition, these skills are applied when they participate in the various national competitions or make presentations to VIPs, for example during the 2018 Tech Saturday (Upsized) organised by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
- Broadrick Digital Intelligence (DI) Programme
The D&T Unit also supports the Broadrick Digital Intelligence (DI) Programme in developing our students to be competent digital natives. The school partners with IMDA to train Secondary Ones on the use of ‘Code For Fun’ programming to design a meaningful product using the micro: bit. The main objective of this programme is to equip a new generation to be creative with technology and take advantage of the opportunities in terms of careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- Learning Journey to East Zone Center of Excellence
The D&T Unit organises an annual learning journey to the East Zone Center of Excellence to enrich students’ learning experience in D&T.
- Coaching Students from Partner School in the Application of Design Thinking
Students from the Upper Secondary level have the opportunity to coach and mentor a group of Primary Five students from Haig Girls Primary School on how to make use of the Design Thinking process to identify and solve authentic problems.
Learning Journey to East Zone Center of Excellence
The D&T Unit organises annual learning journey to the East Zone Center of Excellence to enrich students’ learning experience in learning D&T.
Coaching Students from Partner School in the Application of Design Thinking
The students from the upper secondary level have a chance to coach and mentor a group of P5 students from Haig Girls Primary School on how to make use of the Design Thinking process to identify and solve authentic problems.
Nutrition and Food Science Unit (NFS)
To empower students to make informed decisions as discerning consumers
Signature Programmes:
- Lower Secondary – Supermarket Tour
Secondary Ones take a guided tour through the supermarket aisles with FCE teachers to discover various tips in making economical and healthy food choices. - Lower Secondary – In-Vend My Meal!
The NFS unit collaborated with Chef-in-Box (JR Vending) to promote a greater awareness in Food Innovation and Technology. The objective of this programme is to nurture our students to be future-ready learners. Hence, as part of their alternative assessment, FCE students are tasked to design and create a healthy fusion dish that is suited for dispensing from vending machines.
Ensure this caption is together with the pic: Chef Kim Dong Suk, an international award-winning from Seoul, Korea was invited to share the process in making a signature Korean dish, Bibimbap. The students had a light-hearted dialogue session with the chef to learn more about what it takes to be a successful chef.
- Lower Secondary – Ice-cream making workshop
Secondary One NT students are engaged in an ice-cream making workshop as part of their enrichment programme. Through this hands-on activity, the students have fun while learning the process of ice cream-making as well as the effects of impurities during the freezing process.
- Upper Secondary – Food Science and Sensory Evaluation workshop
Secondary Three Express students attend a 3-hour workshop in Temasek Polytechnic (School of Applied Sciences) to discover more about common food starches. They experimente with different food starches and observe its thickening and freezing properties under different conditions. They also conduct a sensory evaluation of the various starch formulations in the sensory evaluation room.
- Upper Secondary – Molecular Gastronomy workshop
Secondary Three Normal Academic students attend this workshop to acquire the basic molecular-gastronomic techniques, such as spherification, emulsification and powderisation, using new technologies and natural texturing agents to deconstruct desserts and cocktails. With this knowledge, students are able to combine their newly acquired skills in the areas of food science and culinary arts.
- Upper Secondary – Elective Module: Culinary and Pastry & Baking by SHATEC
Secondary Three Normal Academic and Normal Technical students enrol in this programme which is designed to provide them with basic pastry and baking skills and knowledge. They also have the opportunity to use Food & Beverage industrial equipment as well as have interactive sessions with the trainers, who are former chefs from renowned establishments.