{"id":11456,"date":"2021-01-21T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/21\/one-world-international-school-to-launch-new-fully-digital-campus-in-punggol\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T09:35:00","slug":"one-world-international-school-to-launch-new-fully-digital-campus-in-punggol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/21\/one-world-international-school-to-launch-new-fully-digital-campus-in-punggol\/","title":{"rendered":"One World International School to launch new, fully Digital Campus in Punggol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               This 3rd campus for OWIS in Singapore, which offers International Baccalaureate curriculum, has enrollment capacity of 1500 students from Preschool to Grade 12, and will commence classes from 2023.                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 21 January 2021 &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.owis.org\/\">One World International School (OWIS)<\/a>, which has&#13;<br \/>\nestablished itself as<b> <\/b>one of the&#13;<br \/>\nfastest-growing IB schools in Asia, has announced plans to launch a brand new&#13;<br \/>\ncampus in Singapore amid high demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/119022\/school.jpg#image-119022\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new&#13;<br \/>\nOWIS Punggol Digital Campus will begin construction in the next 2 months and is&#13;<br \/>\nscheduled to be completed by end of 2022. The Digital Campus will offer&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Baccalaureate curriculum to international students in the K-12&#13;<br \/>\nsector at a moderate fee point regulated by the Economic Development Board&#13;<br \/>\n(EDB) of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new&#13;<br \/>\ncampus, which has received all regulatory approvals and is scheduled to&#13;<br \/>\ncommence operations in 2023, is designed to accommodate 1,500 new students from&#13;<br \/>\nPreschool to IB Year 2 (Grade 12). It will have a built-up Gross Floor Area of&#13;<br \/>\n20,000 sq meters, and many other facilities for the holistic development of&#13;<br \/>\nstudents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our&#13;<br \/>\neducation philosophy believes in the mindful use of technology, underpinned by&#13;<br \/>\nvalues of kindness, and aims to provide holistic education to students to&#13;<br \/>\nencourage them to be open-minded, global learners,&#8221; said Mr Julian Whiteley,&#13;<br \/>\nAdvisory Board Member of Global Schools Foundation (GSF) which is the parent&#13;<br \/>\nbody of OWIS. &#8220;This model promotes creativity and collaboration among students&#13;<br \/>\nin a tech-savvy environment that will play a key role in their learning&#13;<br \/>\njourney,&#8221; added Mr Whiteley, an educationist who was the former CEO of UWCSEA&#13;<br \/>\nand has extensive experience in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OWIS&#13;<br \/>\nprovides international education to students in a values-driven programme&#13;<br \/>\nunderpinned by Kindness. It has two other campuses in Singapore, one in the&#13;<br \/>\nwest called Nanyang Campus and one in the city area called Mountbatten campus,&#13;<br \/>\nwhere 1500 students of 70 different nationalities study.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new&#13;<br \/>\ncampus will be a state-of-the-art premises which will incorporate latest&#13;<br \/>\napproaches to Digital pedagogy in its design, aimed at providing accelerated&#13;<br \/>\nlearning to students. Mindful use of technology alongside personalised learning&#13;<br \/>\nsystems will promote creativity and collaboration among students allowing them&#13;<br \/>\nto play a key part in their own learning and are encouraging them to be&#13;<br \/>\ninquisitive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The new&#13;<br \/>\ncampus facilities will include fully digital classrooms, skills and art&#13;<br \/>\nstudios, sports stadium, libraries, multipurpose halls, fully-equipped indoor&#13;<br \/>\nand outdoor auditoriums. Multidisciplinary laboratories and science labs will&#13;<br \/>\nalso be included to impart the latest knowledge on robotics, Artificial&#13;<br \/>\nIntelligence, IT, Innovation, Design Technology etc on students. It will also&#13;<br \/>\nincorporate performance analytics in its pedagogical offerings to benefit&#13;<br \/>\nstudents academically as well as in their extracurricular pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Besides&#13;<br \/>\nstate-of-the-art technology, the OWIS Punggol Digital Campus will be&#13;<br \/>\nenvironmentally friendly, with emphasis on making good use of natural light and&#13;<br \/>\nbreeze, as well as investing in renewable energy for reduced carbon footprint.&#13;<br \/>\nSchool design also includes large pockets of green for learning and play.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Sports&#13;<br \/>\nfacilities will include indoor and outdoor arenas, a fully-equipped gym, a&#13;<br \/>\n200-metre running track, a stadium grandstand, outdoor basketball courts,&#13;<br \/>\nadventure parks, and a multi-purpose hall for six badminton courts, 2 indoor&#13;<br \/>\nbasketball courts &#8212; all fitted with TV screens, videos and projectors.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Students&#13;<br \/>\nwill enjoy highest safety standards with Its safety and security features will&#13;<br \/>\ninclude attendance via facial recognition, digital access controls for&#13;<br \/>\ncampus-wide facilities, and cashless transactions at book shops and cafes.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\nbelieve the schools have to adapt to the needs of Generation Alpha who are&#13;<br \/>\nheavily device dependent and impart them with skills to learn that will be&#13;<br \/>\nrelevant for the next 20 years. Our new campus will enrich students to overcome&#13;<br \/>\nchallenges of the future,&#8221; said Kotaro Tamura, Advisory Board Member of GSF.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/62021#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 3rd campus for OWIS in Singapore, which offers International Baccalaureate curriculum, has enrollment capacity of 1500 students from Preschool to Grade 12, and will commence classes from 2023. 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