Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA)’s
Tuesdays to Fridays 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
FROM AUGUST 2024 THERE WILL BE A LATE SCHOOL BUS FOR ECA STUDENTS WHO ARE REGISTERED DAILY SCHOOL BUS USERS.
FOR THE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR THIS WILL BE PROVIDED AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO REGISTERED DAILY BUS USERS.
COST PER ECA (excluding swimming) IS $30 ($32.70 including GST) AND IS PAID FOR BY THE TERM.
Sports
Basketball club aims to allow students to learn fundamental skills of playing basketball in terms of technical and tactical skills. Other than knowledge of basketball, students will also get to know the importance of fair play, honest competition and good sportsmanship amongst team members and opponents.
ONLY FOR YEAR 5 - 10
Venue: Court @ Blk 108 Jalan Bukit Merah off campus across the road
Fitness should be an integral part of every child’s daily plan and the Fitness and Cardio Workout ECA will have every child moving in a way that they feel comfortable, while ensuring their fitness levels increase each week.
Cardio workouts are vital to strengthening kids' hearts and lungs — making sure oxygen effectively reaches cells as they develop.
Venue: KBH School Hall
This ECA is designed for intermediate swimmers. This group will learn stroke correction, breathing techniques and increase stamina through sustained lap swimming. Only children who have confidence in water and are no longer considered beginner swimmers may join this ECA. Swim coach from Delta will teach the children stroke, breathing and aqua safety.
Venue: Delta Swimming Complex (900 Tiong Bahru Road)
Students of all ages will enjoy this ECA. Students will develop soccer skills including dribbling, kicking, heading and goal shooting techniques.
Open to boys and girls of all ages who love the beautiful game.
Venue: Court @ Blk 108 Jalan Bukit Merah
Floor Gymnastics club is for our younger students. This club aims to boost students bodies overall fitness, improving agility, flexibility and muscle strength. Open to all ages.
Venue: KBH Campus (Einstein Hall)
Badminton is a fun, active sport which is an easy game to practice with minimal rules. Badminton boosts your muscle strength and improves blood flow rate which is good for your heart. Apart from physical health benefits there are mental advantages of playing badminton too. Apart from all the health benefits, badminton is a fun game to learn to play!
Venue: Community Hall at Sprout Hub 102 Henderson Rd
The health benefits of yoga are well known. Taking time to listen to your body in a calm environment gives kids the opportunity to de- stress through physical movements that strengthen body and mind.
Children will learn poses such as Volcano pose, Mountain pose, Growing flower pose and the Feather activity.
Venue: KBH Campus
Art, Culture & Music
KBH's Music Club focuses on cultivation of musical talent and an interest in music playing and singing. Students will participate in various musical activities throughout the term and develop a rich array of musical skills. The Music Club will become an integral part of KBH and the students in this club will be called upon at school concerts and performances where performing groups are required to sing or perform.
Music Club is inclusive as no prior music experience is required - you just need to be able to keep the beat and enjoy singing.
Venue: KBH Campus
Art provides students with a dynamic platform for creative expression and exploration.
Through various mediums such as painting and sculpture, students delve into their imagination, honing their artistic skills and nurturing their unique perspectives through the use of paint or oil pastels.
Venue: KBH Campus
Creative Fingers Craft Club gives our students the opportunity to develop their creativity and explore the world of craft and craftsmanship.
Students will learn the techniques and hand-making skills required to create practical and decorative objects in materials such as wood, clay, textiles, metal and stone. Students will gain an understanding of why it’s important to retain traditional craft skills, and how new technologies, techniques and materials are evolving these traditions, ensuring they remain relevant in the modern world.
Venue: KBH Campus
These days, most children have used a camera or taken a photograph with a mobile phone. By setting up a photography club, we will teach our students how to take amazing pictures. They will capture things that interest them outside of school and share them with the group.
Students must be able to bring a device for taking photos and be prepared to walk the local area to capture amazing images.
Venue: Meet in the cafeteria -then depart KBH for various local locations (walking) for photo taking sessions.
Superheroes are super popular with children. As part of a comic book ECA children will create their own characters and bring them to life by drawing them. It gives them a fun way to express themselves and develop literacy talents in a fun way.
Venue: KBH
Drama Club is designed for students interested in learning more about performance. Drama club includes learning stage terminology, working on acting skills, set building, costumes/makeup design and creating props as well as acting and performance.
Venue: KBH Campus
Coding & Technology
Developing hand-eye coordination with Minecraft and engaging our creativity. The focus is on creating projects that run over multiple weeks.
We will be using the Minecraft education version.
We will also have challenges, for example. We are building real-life structures in the Minecraft world. Open to all ages.
Venue: KBH Campus
BBC micro:bit programming will help students learn coding with MicroPython.
More specifically, students will use the BBC micro:bit, a microcontroller that contains external LEDs, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, and three tactile push buttons to write programming codes.
Students will build futuristic projects from A to Z, developing valuable coding skills as well as fostering creative thinking.
Venue: KBH Campus
Science, Languages and Learning Support
The Youth Chinese Test (YCT) is an international standardized test of Chinese language proficiency. It assesses young foreign students' abilities to use Chinese in their daily and academic lives.
In 2025, hoping to emulate our 100% pass rate of 2024, we will again be entering KBH students into the YCT examination series.
Venue: KBH Campus
Created in 2006, SASMO is one of largest math contests in Asia. It has expanded from 155 local participants in 2006 to more than 20 000. KBH will be entering SASMO for the first time ever in the SASMO competition series in the first quarter of 2025. Spend a lesson a week learning how to read the examination questions and be examination ready! SASMO is open for all students aged Y1 - Y10. This group will focus on Y7-10
Examination fee NOT INCLUDED
Created in 2006, SASMO is one of largest math contests in Asia. It has expanded from 155 local participants in 2006 to more than 20 000. KBH will be entering SASMO for the first time ever in the SASMO competition series in the first quarter of 2025. Spend a lesson a week learning how to read the examination questions and be examination ready! SASMO is open for all students aged Y1 - Y6
Venue: KBH Campus
The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is an international standardized test for Chinese language proficiency. HSK is the world' s third-largest language test brand after IELTS and TOEFL. HSK scores have become a requirement to prove Chinese language proficiency for international students to apply for admission, graduation, and scholarship in China.
Venue: KBH Campus
Phonics ECA is for our younger learners. It is designed to enhance early reading skills. Students will strengthen their phonemic awareness and develop a strong foundation for reading. This ECA is catered towards students who need extra phonics support, or for EAL students who are new to reading and writing in English. We will start with the core sounds, moving on through the phases of Jolly Phonics.
Venue: KBH Campus
The Science Club aims to develop in its members a keen interest in the subject and encourages investigation, curiosity and inquiry into deeper scientific knowledge. Through hands-on experiments students will develop a love of science and confidence in thinking scientifically.
Venue: KBH
The Environmental Science Club aims to nurture students' knowledge and thinking about scientific and environmental issues.
The club aims to develop a growing understanding of aspects happening on our planet, through creative projects, that highlight how, with good management, the planet can be managed successfully.
Hands on activities will include:
*Construct a Balloon Car
*Investigate the Oil Content in Potato Chips
*Extract DNA from Strawberry
*Scientific Communication: A Peer-to-Peer Sharing of the Results from the recent Climate Crisis COP Conference
*The Science of Celebration: Make Ice-cream
*Construct a Cardboard Chair using recyclable materials
This club is designed for Japanese children who already have a working knowledge of Japanese. It is a 3 day a week club so that Japanese mastery can be achieved.
The students work from the textbook “Let’s say and Write Japanese Words” and use the Conversational Japanese Language for Beginners. Depending on how advanced each student is Mr Keng teaches from the appropriate syllabus.
Assessments at the end of the term form part of the process of gaining an understanding of how much progress has been made over the term
Venue: KBH Campus
Basketball club aims to allow students to learn fundamental skills of playing basketball in terms of technical and tactical skills. Other than knowledge of basketball, students will also get to know the importance of fair play, honest competition and good sportsmanship amongst team members and opponents.
ONLY FOR YEAR 1 - 4
Venue: Court @ Blk 108 Jalan Bukit Merah off campus across the road