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Find out what's new on ST website and app. Primary 5 pupil Freya Edenette Moniaga (left) taking a photo of the group work to post on the Singapore Student Learning Space online platform during science class in Yew Tee Primary School on July 22. SINGAPORE - Stepping into Madam Nurhida Sapiie's science lesson at Yew Tee Primary School, it is a flurry of activity. Seated in groups, her pupils are discussing how to complete a task she has given, experimenting with materials from a kit to replicate the human circulatory system. Some are on their feet with iPads, capturing images of their group's handiwork to upload on the Singapore Student Learning Space (SLS) – an online platform. Others are trying to persuade their group mates that there is something amiss with the way they have connected the panels representing the heart, lungs and other parts of the body using the red and blue strings, which represent the blood vessels. 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