skip to Main Content

Contact Us

APSN Education Services Ltd.

Address: 900 New Upper Changi Road, Singapore 467354
Phone: +65 6479 6252
Email: enquiry@apsn.org.sg

APSN Chaoyang School

Address: 10 Ang Mo Kio Street 54 Singapore 569184
Phone: +65 6456 6922
Email: cys@apsn.org.sg

APSN Katong School

Address: 900 New Upper Changi Road Singapore 467354
Phone: +65 6643 0300
Email: ks@apsn.org.sg

APSN Tanglin School

Address: 143 Alexandra Road Singapore 159924
Phone: +65 6475 1511
Email: ts@apsn.org.sg

APSN Delta Senior School

Address: 3 Choa Chu Kang Grove Singapore 688237
Phone: +65 6276 3818
Email: dss@apsn.org.sg

APSN Ltd.

Address: 11 Jalan Ubi Block 2 #02-12 Singapore 409074
Phone: +65 6479 6252
Email: enquiry@apsn.org.sg

APSN Centre For Adults

Address: 11 Jalan Ubi Block 4, #01-31 Singapore 409074
Phone: +65 6346 2425
Email: cfa@apsn.org.sg

APSN Learning Hub

Address: 11 Jalan Ubi Block 6, #01-51 Singapore 409074
Phone: +65 6708 9867 / +65 8388 6252
Email: apsnlearninghub@apsn.org.sg

APSN Student Care Centre

Address: 10 Ang Mo Kio Street 54 Singapore 569184
Phone: +65 6637 9812
Email: scc@apsn.org.sg

For APSN's whistle-blowing policy and reporting channel, kindly click here.

APSN Allied Professionals Calm The Sea Storm Of Changes During HBL

APSN Allied Professionals Calm the Sea Storm of Changes during HBL

A mountain load of changes greeted APSN students, parents and staff alike when mandatory Home-Based Learning (HBL) was announced to be implemented in early April. These developments came in the form of the revised modes of communications, routines, learning methodologies and even who taught whom.

Ms Gan Hui Hoon, a social worker at APSN Katong School (KS), and the rest of the Allied Professional (AP) team made special arrangements to meet the different needs that emerged.

For the students without caregiver support who were in school, the APs supported them by:

  1. helping students to transit to unfamiliar teachers and adapt to new routines besides ordering their meals; and
  2. briefing teachers on how to support these students, what homework each student had, as well as the strengths, weaknesses and risks/trigger points of each student.

The AP team also supported the school’s HBL efforts through the making of online resources (social stories, visual schedules, fine motor skills craft for occupational therapy, sensory kits, speech exercises and more).

“The whole AP team worked very hard during HBL: we continued counselling/therapy sessions through Microsoft Teams or WhatsApp video calls, and this went on even during the school holidays,” Ms Gan says.

Some parents experienced anxiety because of the social isolation resulting from the stay-home regulations and having to cope with the change of learning mode and routines. Part of the first week of HBL was spent on giving emotional support and teaching caregivers and students how to use Microsoft Teams. “As a social worker, I helped parents to be emotionally stable. When the parents were able to manage themselves, they could better manage their children.”

The AP team stepped in to continue to provide emotional support to parents, and shared with them self-care tips, community resources such as helplines, and a virtual care pack.

The social workers supported needy families with additional meal and transport subsidies, loan of laptops and SIM cards donated by Temasek Foundation and NEU PC Plus applications to have the laptops and Internet access for online learning.

Ms Gan affirms, “The AP team and I are glad that we could accompany the parents and students who went through this tough and special journey together. We survived the storm because we held on to each other throughout.”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Back To Top