Pasir Ris Secondary School 390 Tampines St 21 Singapore 529400
3 July 2008
Mr Mah Bow Tan Minister of National Development Member of Tampines GRC
Dear Mr Mah
Re : FEETBACK ABOUT THE PLAYGROUND IN TAMPINES
I am a student from Pasir Ris Secondary School. The purpose of writing this letter to you is to notify you feedbacks and suggestions about the playgrounds in the neighbourhood in Tampines to improve them. I strongly felt that the playgrounds in the Tampines district area should be equipped with enhanced and advanced facilities to cater to the residents’ requirements.
Recently, we did a project based on playgrounds.For our project, we were supposed to design a playground for the children with emotional scars. Before doing any other thing, we did a research on these children first; we did research on what causes children to have emotional scars, the special needs of these children and the ways we can help them when designing the playground. Through our research, we found out that a child who suffer from emotional scars is due to the abuse he or she had which emotionally affected him or her. Emotional abuse is defined as the systematic "tearing down" of another human being. It attacks the child's psyche & self-concept, the victim would come to the point where he or she sees themselves as unworthy of love & affection. For these children, they will really need as much care and love they can receive, the sense of security and also to be taught with values. Towards these needs, we design a colourful, close to nature and fairytale-liked structures of the playground to let them feel the warm of Mother Nature which can replace the love that they missed. Not only that we also design a corner within the playground where they can learn their values and this serves the playground as a outdoor classroom.
During the project, we visited some of the playgrounds in Tampines and we found out some common between the playgrounds. The playground in Tampines, in my opinion, was actually quite original and plain, nothing impressive to attract the children’s attention and we had also neglected the children with emotional scars. In my opinion, the playground should be colourful, fun-loving and attractive, this environment’s main objective should be making the children forget their sorrows and relax and enjoy themselves. This specially designed playground should be effective in healing their emotional scars and eventually aid them in many different ways. The playground should also consist of special facilities, such as unusual spiral slides or rides.
Though it spends a lot of money on designation, it is all worth while when you see the smiles on the children’s’ faces. I hope that you will take my suggestions into consideration and that my feedbacks have help in designing the best playground for the children in Tampines. Thank you.
