Skipping Up The Skies

Minny Pinny wears her hair in style
Minny Pinny skipping all the while
Here she comes, her day’s beginning
Through the village, always grinning
Minny Pinny with her great big smile
This Tuesday, we finished creating the opening sequence of Minny Pinny – “The Village Awakens” and went on to rehearse the first chorus part.
We discovered that apart from one [...]

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Drum-a-drumming to the market …

Remember the Lion dance troupe from Tuesday class? And how their drumming affected our lessons at Potong Pasir Community Centre?
Well, last Saturday at DSA Bishan Junction 8, it was the other way round. Our 2.30pm class was responsible for the din that must have affected the other people outside; but we didn’t care because we [...]

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New Beginnings

6 year-old Hasif is the newest addition to our 2.30pm class on Saturdays. Today was his second session and here’s Wei Xuan playing big sister to him!

Matthew (above) and Kai Li (below) are also newish members of our group  

When Matt first started coming, he refused to enter the studio. His father tried and tried to get him in. We [...]

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Testing foetus for Down’s is now quicker

An extract from TODAY newspaper, 17 August 2007
“Getting your foetus tested for Down’s Syndrome will no longer be a three-week-long nerve-wrecking wait, thanks to a new technique developed by a group of doctors from Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Unlike conventional methods, such as Karyotyping, which takes up to 21 days to diagnose, the new procedure [...]

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Things people do in the morning…

For our Tuesday class, we continue in our exploration of the opening sequence for Minny Pinny: “The Village Awakens”.
The scene is played to the song, “Sunshine On my Shoulders” by the late Mr. John Denver. And here’s a peek at some of the possible activities of these villagers.
 Joy washing her face… splash, splashing away.
 Ali changing into [...]

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Bucketball & Rumpelstiltskin

Yesterday, in the first class, we played “bucket-ball” and many old games like “What’s The Time Mr Wolf?”, “Crocodile, Crocodile May We Cross the River?” and “Duck Duck Goose”. In the second class, we did a “Let’s Be a Robot” exercise then we ran through the first three scenes of Rumpelstiltskin. It was brilliant. Next week, [...]

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Danny

Danny is another adult with Down Syndrome who sings, paints and performs with Heart & Soul, a London-based theatre group. A little documentary made by his film-maker mother.

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Karen

A documentary interview with Karen, an adult with Down Syndrome.

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Upside of Down

A joyous anthem that was written for the 2006 Down Syndrome World Congress. There are even photos of our very own Jaspreet!

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I Feel The Earth Move!

People with down syndrome generally have weaker muscle tone. Thus, body and movement training has always formed part of our drama curriculum.
Teacher Julius is a genius is devising appropriate exercises for the groups. These range from simple stretching routine to more demanding yoga exercises. Sometimes we simply dance, free-style. The spontaneity of our students and their responsiveness towards [...]

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Up At Mount Faber

Yesterday, drama classes were shifted to SAFRA Mount Faber. This was because DSA held two charity events there and wanted us to be part of the fun and excitement. There were stalls selling all sorts of things from books to toys to health food to fashion, there was a cycling competition where we saw lots of hunky men pushing [...]

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Growing Up

Rajali helping Gabby with her role, Laura 

Arassi reading the script 
Arassi is 14 years old this year and has been with us since day one. This Tuesday, she moved on to join the ”older” class. Another one of our babies growing up and blossoming…
Her sister, Rajali, came along and started straight away helping those with difficulty reading [...]

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