Overview

Overview

Aim

The IPVI aims to:

• provide secondary education to VI students through integration in a mainstream school.
• enable VI students to study alongside sighted peers to promote mutual respect and appreciation.
• provide support and facilities to enable VI students to complete secondary education.
• impart skills and knowledge to VI students to prepare them for future pursuits.

Approaches

The school adopts the following approaches:
i. Integration: VI students study together with sighted peers.

• Students are placed in appropriate streams based on their PSLE score.

• Students will attend mainstream classes for all subjects, except art, Food and Consumer Education, Design and Technology and P.E. Non-Malay students are exempted from taking Mother Tongue.

ii. Inclusion: Activities are planned to ensure that VI students are included to promote mutual respect and appreciation.

• Students will participate in CCA, Community Involvement Projects, Sports Carnival, Outdoor Learning Experience and other school activities and functions.

• All Sec 1 students will embark on a learning journey to Dialogue in the Dark to understand the plight of visual impairment and to foster empathy for their VI peers.

iii. Accommodation: Special arrangements are made to ensure that VI students are able to meet course criteria through

• offering alternative subject, e.g. Music, Elements of Business Skills
• Modification of course content

Support

Students receive individual guidance and assistance from

• Resource teachers who facilitate their learning through provision of lesson materials in Braille, subject coaching, instruction in special skills and counselling.
• Subject teachers who conduct extra lessons in addition to individual attention in class.
• Teachers and School Counsellors who provide emotional support.
• Buddies who assist VI students in moving around school compound and following lessons in class.
• Exam Committee who plans for special arrangements and extended time for exams

Enrichment Modules

Training modules are conducted to enhance students’ learning, physical well-being and character development. These include:

• Daily Living Skills module
• IT training
• Skills workshops, e.g. First aid
• P.E. and sound ball

Facilities

Special facilities are put in place to support VI students and their learning.

• Resource Room

  • to which VI students proceed to receive support and assistance from Resource teachers.
  • Which is furnished with amenities for life skill training
  • provides students with a conducive place for learning.

• Assistive technology devices which include

  • Electronic talking/magnification software devices, Braille machines, computers, etc.

• Braille materials

  • Textbooks, lesson materials, etc.

Collaboration

The school leaders and staff work closely with the following to support VI students

• MOE – Special Education Branch, Singapore Examination and Assessment Board, Psychological Services Branch
• Parents/Guardians
• Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped and other VWOs
• Study groups from learning institutions
• Media