NYGH Experiential Learning Team

08/01/2020

A great way to start our Nature Society in 2020! We had a great time watching (and commenting) the oriental pied hornbills' rendezvous at our backyard garden!

07/04/2017

Harvesting coconuts from our backyard and having fun with random art lesson!!

01/12/2016

Hi Nanyang!
Do you have containers like these at home that you have no use for? You can now donate them to family bakery Sistersfield which will use them to sell their Chinese New Year snacks! Give these containers a second life and reduce waste of resources!

Simply drop them off at the Backyard Cafe any time during the December holidays. Note: just the small containers will do, not the large ones. Thank you for your support!

04/11/2016

Sharing a project that our students are organizing. Activities are designed for 4-7 yr old. Please feel free to share and hope to see you and your kids on 12 Nov.

"We are a group of students from Nanyang Girls' High School who are organising an event at our school's very own Backyard Cafe and Garden. We would like to invite you and your children to join us for a fun-filled morning! The aim of the event is to connect children with nature, and hence we have planned fun activities to engage the children with the outdoors. Please refer to the attached flyer for more details. You can also check out our page at https://www.facebook.com/nybackyard/

This event will take place on the 12th of November, from 8.30am to 10.30am.

If you are interested in joining us for the event, do sign up on the google form below.
https://docs.google.com/a/nygh.edu.sg/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSda3pBc1rbwWZDSVH2gepd5udLlck_3BlvWT1oQUXOZPEGyFw/viewform

Feel free to contact us if you have any further enquiries at [email protected]. Thank you, and we hope to see you there!"

03/11/2016

Our new environmental advocates. Check them out in NYGH next year! We are playing our part for the environment. Will you join us? Ground-Up Initiative (GUI)

25/10/2016

And finally the first in the garden emerged today.. Many more to come..

12/10/2016

Caterpillars of the Painted Jezebel butterfly spotted in our garden. The eggs are laid on the Common Malayan Mistletoe plants, which are hemiparasites (parasitic plants which derive water/nutrients from the hosts and are photosynthetic themselves). The Mistletoe plants are growing off the stem of the Mulberry plant.

10/10/2016

They take their own cutlery, containers and water tumblers when they go out.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

31/08/2016

Our backyard garden celebrated our 3rd birthday today. Not an easy road ahead but we know as long as our hearts are connected, we will continue to celebrate the many years ahead of us! Happy birthday backyard!

31/08/2016

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153968217666523&id=22159071522

21/07/2016

"She credits her love for nature to her mentor, an experiential learning specialist at Nanyang Girls’ High School. To get materials to build a student-run experiential learning cafe, the teacher single-handedly sourced for chopped wood and enlisted the help of students to build the cafe together."

Xiao Tong is one of the founding members of the backyard project. So proud of her!

SINGAPORE — At the tender age of 12, Sujay Thakur was already poring over his father’s published research papers lying around the house even though he “never really understood anything because they were PhD-level material”. Still, he was drawn to how the papers presented creative and new ways to tac...

13/06/2016

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/learning-to-care-share-and-compromise

Things went slightly awry earlier this year for some Nanyang Girls' High School students on their way to Little India on a school excursion that they had helped to plan.. Read more at straitstimes.com.