Pasir Ris Secondary School
390 Tampines Street 21
Singapore 529400
21st July 2008

Minister Mah Bow Tan
Minister of National Development
Member of Tampines GRC

Feedbacks and suggestions to improve the playgrounds in Tampines

Dear Mr. Mah,

Tampines being a place surrounded by families need to have facilities like playgrounds to cater to the need of the children. Under your expert leadership, Tampines has thrived and more and more families are moving here.

Being a neighbourhood surrounded by families with children, we should also have playgrounds that are built specially for terminally ill children so that they will not feel left out and lonely when the other children are playing as the parent of the children might not want the terminally ill children to play with their children as the are afraid the terminally ill children will pass on their “disease” to their own child.

Therefore, my group and I have come up with a model of a playground that are built especially for the terminally ill children to cater to their needs and to also brighten up their lives and make them happier. The playground model that my group has come up with is filled with a variety of bright colours to cheer up the children and also to attract them to the playground.

As safety is our first priority, the materials we have chosen to make our playground are all safe and soft so that it will not hurt the children, like for example the floor of the playground could be made of rubber instead of concrete as it increases friction so that the children will not fall and hurt themselves when they fall on the rough and hard concrete floor it will also not injure the children when they fall as it is soft.
Thank you for taking some time off to read my letter. I hope you will consider my suggestions for the improvement of the playgrounds here.

Yours truly,
Loong Yun Xian
Pasir Ris Secondary School

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