Pasir Ris Secondary School
390 Tampines street 21
Singapore 529400

1th July 2008

Mr Mah Bow Tan
Minister of national development
Members of Tampines CRC


Dear Mr Mah,

Proposal to improve the playgrounds in Tampines


Tampines has been a great living environment for residents of all ages under your expert management.

Recently our school arranged a project for us to work on regarding on playgrounds suitable for the disabled and the abused. Our project is to create a playground to improve the self esteem of these children and allow them to look further in life and have fun. While researching, we came upon many playgrounds with interesting features. While comparing them with the playgrounds in Tampines, they seem plain and uninteresting. Therefore, I propose to you with the following ideas to improve some of our playgrounds here.

Firstly, you could improve the design of the playground making it more attention catching thus, this would invite more children to use the facilities as currently most playgrounds are `deserted ‘.This would be followed up by putting in more new structures such as more see – saws as they not commonly seen around Tampines.

Secondly Singapore has an average temperature of 33 degrees Celsius and you could include more shades to make the playgrounds more cooling thus being more enjoyable instead of sweating and not enjoying themselves. This could also prevent heatstroke thus I find it very meaningful.

Finally, since vandalism cannot be prevented, building a eye-catching and beautiful playground would not make someone vandalize it as they would not are to. I am aware that you are a busy person and I thank you for taking time out to read this.



Yours Sincerely,
Larry