SAP or Students Attachment Program is a program conducted in Darul Hikam Integrated School Primary to build strong relationship and cooperation between internal students and students from abroad. After being vacuum for about 5 years due to pandemic Covid-19, Alhamdulillah, this program can be continued to be established in 2024. In the academic year 2023-2024, the students of Primary 5 and 6 were able to go to Malaysia and Singapore to visit some schools and do some amazing activities such as cultural exchange, school tours and of course sit-in program. They stayed in both countries for 8 days with 4 days on each country started from 14th to 21st January 2024. Besides visiting the school, they also visited some historical buildings, landmarks, and educational centre.
Exploring Malaysia
The students’ first destination during this program is Malaysia. Primary 5 students visited Greenview Islamic School while Primary 6 students visited High Impact School. In both of the school, the students do the school tour, cultural exchange and sit-in program. For the school tour, the students not only explored the facility there, but also visited some classes and got introduced to the students from level 1 until level 6. They were really friendly and welcomed us warmly. On the same day, we got some cultural exchange.
They sang and danced some traditional songs from Malaysia. The same with us. Our students performed “Tari Rato Jaroh” and Aklung of “Manuk Dadali”. They were really curious about our cultures as well. On the second day of the visit, we did a sit-in program. In this program the students from DHIS Primary learned together in the same class with the local students. They learned some lessons and made a lot of friends. While on the last day, we had a sport activities together.
Besides visiting the schools, the students also had some city tour. They visited the landmarks of Malaysia like The Petronas Twin Tower, Putrajaya Complex, and Pink Mosque. They also visited the science centre there which is Petrosains and explored a lot of science experiments.
Exploring Singapore
On the fourth day, the students flew to Singapore to continued their journey. In Singapore, Primary 5 students visited Sekolah Indonesia Singapore, while Primary 6 visited Wak Tanjong International School. In both of the school, the students also had a lot of great experiences by having school tour, cultural exchange and sit-in program, just what they did in Malaysia, but of course with different students, cultures and vibes.
Besides that, the students also had a memorable experiences by exploring the biggest mosque in Singapore which is Mesjid Sultan. They learned how Islam and Moeslim people took a big role in Singaporean cultures which is dominated by Chinese and christian cultures. To satisfy their eagerness of exploring new places, they also spent lot of happy time at Universal Studios Singapore and Wings of Time.
The students really made a great memories and learned a lot of new things and experiences. They were able to see and experience by themselves, how people live their lives in other countries. Not only about the educational system, but also the social interaction and rules in public places. Hopefully they can get new insight and able to take the good things to be implemented at our school, DHIS Primary.