INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPZHONGHUA PRIMARY SCHOOLZHONGHUA PRIMARY SCHOOL

WE VALUE YOUR IDEASWE VALUE YOUR IDEAS

In ZPS, every idea thought for the improvement of the school community holds the potential to be a good idea. It will usually trigger another better idea, which often leads to the best idea.

WE VALUE YOUR IDEASWE VALUE YOUR IDEAS

Therefore, all ideas can come to the table... no idea is dismissed, and there is a freedom to critique, scrap, and improve the ideas.

WE VALUE YOUR IDEASWE VALUE YOUR IDEAS

Thus, there are no bad ideas in ZPS. Every idea spurs dialogue, launches a discussion and generates thoughtful momentum.

DO YOU DO YOU HAVE AN HAVE AN IDEA TO IDEA TO

SOLVE SOME SOLVE SOME CHALLENGES CHALLENGES

IN ZPS?IN ZPS?

DO YOU DO YOU HAVE A HAVE A

FRESH IDEA FRESH IDEA GROWING IN GROWING IN YOUR HEAD?YOUR HEAD?

DO YOU DO YOU ALREADY HAVE ALREADY HAVE

AN IDEA AN IDEA SWIMMING IN SWIMMING IN

YOUR HEAD?YOUR HEAD?

IDEATE™ in ZPS

Innovator input Innovator input receivedreceived Input discussed and Input discussed and

categorised / categorised / validatedvalidated

FeedbackFeedbackIdea Idea

Feedback sent to Feedback sent to the person-in-the person-in-

charge for further charge for further actionsactions

Go through IDEATE™ Go through IDEATE™ frameworkframework

Envisage & Envisage & CelebrateCelebrate

IDENTIFY AND SHARE!IDENTIFY AND SHARE!

Approach me, yours truly, Mohamed Saddiq, to share your idea or solution to a challenge or problem in school. You can also drop me an email or a simple note on my table… it’s that easy!

We’ll then talk about it over coffee or tea.

SHARE AND COLLABORATE!SHARE AND COLLABORATE!

We’ll become partners and start the adventure together. Through this collaboration, we shall try to make a difference and make ZPS a better home.

Let’s make your idea or solution be realised through the following steps:

DESIGN AND PLANDESIGN AND PLAN

Nothing helps move things along better than a good plan. Effective planning is vital to the success of implementing your idea or suggestion. Planning usually feels like a frustrating delay to action, but the process will saves time, resources, energy and people-power.

EXECUTE AND IMPLEMENTEXECUTE AND IMPLEMENT

After careful planning, we will carry out the plan together. We can also do it with some friends and partners. There might be some teething problems in the initial stages, but together, we can overcome those challenges and learn from them.

ANALYSE AND MONITORANALYSE AND MONITOR

We shall check and monitor the implementation at various stages and study the results. This monitoring and review effort is to ensure that timely interventions, modifications or enhancements can made strategically and as seamlessly as possible.

TRIBUTE, REVIEW AND REFLECTTRIBUTE, REVIEW AND REFLECT

At this stage, we will give tribute to key players in the implementation and learn from their experiences. Through this recognition and a process of reviewing and reflection, we will make any necessary tweaks before implementing it on a larger scale.

Here, the idea is endorsed Here, the idea is endorsed and keyed into the system for and keyed into the system for

records and submission to records and submission to Cluster and HQ. Cluster and HQ.

ENVISAGE AND CELEBRATEENVISAGE AND CELEBRATE

We will then envisage the implemention and celebrate the idea on larger scale. At this stage, we will involve stakeholders affected by the implementation or changes, partners whose cooperation we need, and those who will benefit from the implementation.

IN A NUTSHELL… IN A NUTSHELL… IDEATE™