NEWSLETTER FOR PARENTS

St Hi lda ’s Pr imary School Establ ished in 1934

A dynamic learn ing communi ty that nur tures loyal c i t izens wi th g lobal out look and Godly character .

PSLE results & Edusave Award-ees

2

School & Staff Achievements

3

PERI project 4

MOE & School initiatives

5

School Strategic partners & Up-dates

6

Inside this Issue

Dear Parents

Happy New Year! I hope that the first week of school is go-ing well for your child and he / she has set-tled into the rhythm of school.

2015 has started well for the school as we are back in our Tampines upgraded premises. With the completion of the PERI Upgrading project (2013—2014) there are more classrooms to accommodate all the six levels of stu-dents. The school is now a single session school with 1759 stu-dents (53 classes) having their lessons at the same time.

Having a single ses-sion, the school has also creatively put to-gether the school’s distinctive pro-grammes for P3 to 6

Term 1 / 2015

Any update on your contact information? Kindly drop us an email

at shps@moe.edu.sg.

Term 1 School Events

* Meet-the-Parents ses-sions (P5 & 6) 16 Jan,

Fri

*Meet-the-Parents ses-sions (P2—4) 23 Jan,

Fri

* Student Leaders” In-

vestiture 5 Feb, Thu

* Comemoration of Total Defence Day 13 Feb,

Fri

* Talent Fiesta—12

March

levels. Four key are identified to develop skills and competencies for the 21st century Hil-dans. They are: Ap-plied Learning, Learn-ing for Life, ICT / Cyberwellness and Val-ues in Action (VIA).

The Primary 1 and 2 students are not left out as they will be intro-duced to a new pro-gramme called Pro-gramme for Active Learning. Please see Page 5 for more details.

On the first day of school for all levels we had our Fathers group championing the “Back to school with dad” pro-gramme. Thanks to all our fathers for making time to join your child in starting the school year. This is an annual event for the first day of school.

I hope that all our fa-thers will continue to take time out to bring your child to school on the first day.

As partners of the school, I seek your prayer support in the following:

- Hildans will enjoy school and forge good friendships

- Teachers will teach well and build good rapport with each child

-School programmes including the distinc-tive programmes both in the academic and non-academic sub-jects will achieve the student outcomes.

I look forward to your continuous support for the school.

Kew Mee Ying

Principal

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Well done to all our P6 /2014 stu-dents! They have all been promoted to various secondary schools. May our Lord’s favour be with each one of them as they continue in their journey of lief-long learning.

PSLE National SHPS

% Passes 97.6% 100%

Express

Stream in Sec

Sch

66.4% 77.2%

Normal Academic 20% 15.4%

Normal Technical 11.2% 7.3%

Subject National SHPS

English

Language

97.1%

99.5%

Chinese

Language

96.6% 95.5%

Malay

Language

97.4% 97.1%

Tamil

Language

97.7% 95.0%

Mathemat-

ics

85.3% 93.3%

Science 90.0% 93.7%

Higher MT

(CL)

98.5% 100%

Higher MT

(ML)

97.8% 100%

Higher MT

(TL)

98.7% 100%

Congratulations to our students who were awarded the various Edusave awards! The details are:

No. of Students

Edusave Scholarships 63 (P5 & 6)

Edusave Merit Bursary 379

Good Progress Award 151

EAGLES (achievement) 48

EAGLES (Leadership) 32

EAGLES (Service) 13

Edusave Character Award* 34

Edusave Character Award is launched in 2012. The eligibility criteria include:

> Singapore citizen

> Student must demonstrate good conduct and values on a consistent basis

> Student must show a high level of civic responsibility and qualities associated with resilience.

For more details on the Edusave awards, please refer to the Student’s Handbook.

2014 EDUSAVE AWARDEES FOR STUDENTS

2014 PSLE RESULTS

Mrs Eleanor Goh ( Subject Head / Character Education was one of the re-cipients of the National Day Long Ser-vice Award for displaying irreproacha-ble character and completing at least 25 years of service.

Each year, the National Day awards are presented to honour civil servants who have excellent performance in their field..

Mrs Josephine Tan ( former Vice-Principal) was a recipient of the National Day Commendation Award.

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ST HILDA’S PRIMARY SCHOOL - MICROSOFT MENTOR SCHOOL

As part of the Microsoft Partners in learning community, 50 of our 2014 P5 students currently in P6 are working in groups of 5 to pitch their entrepreneurial skills in a Global Enterpise Challenge. This chal-lenge is organised by Broadclyst Commu-nity Primary School from United Kingdom.

During the Challenge, 1000 students across 20 schools in 20 countries connect to run ten international companies compet-ing with each other to become the most successful company globally.

Our students are involved in conducting on-line research, sampling at a dragon den’s presentation, conducting prototype survey, trading, accounting, report writing as well as making their final presentation. Let us

2014 NATIONAL DAY AWARDS

pray that our Hildan teams will emerge suc-cessful as they enter into their final round of their challenge with the schools globally.

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Praise God that the whole PERI upgrading project has been completed. We are thankful to God for overseeing to the safety and provision for the whole project.

On 3 Jan 2015, we have started school in our Tampines premises for P4 to 6 and on 5 Jan for P1 to 6. With the additional facil-ities, the children get to have their own classrooms and have more spacious library, school hall and playground.

I like to thank all our par-ents and students for ac-commodating the incon-

PERI UPGRADING PROJECT (COMPLETION)

veniences caused by hav-ing to put up with smaller classrooms and lesser facil-ities at the Bedok holding site. Two years passed very quickly and now we are able to enjoy the full fa-cilities provided by school.

Also, with all the parents’ and stakeholders’ support, the total funds raised for the upgrading is $1.35 million over the past few years. On behalf of the staff and students, I like to thank all our faithful supporters for your generous donations and love gifts for the pro-ject.

PURCHASE OF PER-FORMING ARTS THEA-TRE SEATS

To date, we have sold 137

of the 350 seats in the Per-forming Arts Theatre at $1,000 per seat.

For those who are still inter-ested to purchase a seat to leave a legacy for the future generations, you could still do so. I am appealing to our Primary One parents to con-sider supporting this good cause. In fact, we have a number of parents who had purchased a seat for each of their children. Kindly make cheque payable to St Hilda’s Primary School indicating that the payment is for the purchase of seat as well as the name to be inscribed on the back of the seat. A tax-exempt receipt will be is-sued for this.

TERM 1 / 2015 PAGE 5 NEWSLETTER FOR PARENTS

2015 UPDATE OF MOE & SCHOOL

INITIATIVES

1. Implementation of the

new Character and Citi zenship Education (CCE) curriculum for Primary 3 to 6 levels. The CCE Textbooks and Activty Books will be used by the teachers.

2. School Distinctive Programmes *

⇒ Applied Learning Pro-

gramme (ALP) ⇒ Learning for Life Pro-

gramme (LLP) ⇒ Life skills (Leadership, ICT,

Cyberwellness) ⇒ Values in Actions (VIA) * For more details, please refer to our school letter dated 5 Jan.

3. PAL (Programme for Active Learning) This is a MOE initiative which SHPS is introducing in 2015 for Primary 1 and 2 students. The objective of PAL is to realise a more balanced curriculum and facilitate the well-rounded devel-opment of students. PAL pro-vides children with opportunities for exposure to a broad range of activities so that they can dis-cover their aptitudes and inter-ests. PAL is a non-academic pro-gramme built into the curriculum. Students will get to participate in four domains: Visual Arts,

Performing Arts, Sports and Outdoor Education. Lessons have been designed in the form of fun modular learning activities where students will develop confidence and crea-tivity, and be encouraged to explore and extend lessons learnt to their daily lives. Our PERI upgraded facilities have provided additional PAL rooms for conducting the les-sons.

4. P3 –6 SMILE booklets S.M.I.L.E. stands for Support, Motivate, Inspire, Love, Eve-ryone. This SMILE booklet is specially designed by our Art teachers to encourage Hil-dans to reflect and capture what they have learnt during the school assemblies held

weekly as well as to live out the 5 school values through the activities de-signed for them.

5. BE A GREEN ACTIVIST MOVEMENT SHPS will Go green from aware-ness to actions by getting all staff and students to: Cultivate green habit Practise green behav-iour

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MORNING DEVOTIONS

Theme for the year — THE YEAR OF JUBILEE Theme verse: EXODUS 14:15 (GOING FORWARD IN FAITH DESPITE CHALLENGES) THEME SONG : 10000 REASONS

SCHOOL STRATEGIC PARTNERS

PARENT SUPPORT GROUP (PSG) Com-mittee

The new PSG Chairperson is Ms Adelina Ko who is a mother of two boys in the school. The school would like to thank Mr Roger Lee who was the Chairperson till end Dec 2014 for all his years of dedication , service and leadership in the PSG.

The new PSG Committee comprises the following:

Adelina Ko – Chairperson

Emma Zsoldos – Vice

Chairperson & EL HARP Co

-ordinator

Tina Yap – Secretary & EL

HARP Co-ordinator

Rosabel Quek – RIFP Co-

ordinator

Caroline Cornelius – EL HARP Co-ordinator Cherina Teo – CL HARP Co-ordinator Alicia Tan – Praying Par-ents Co-ordinator

Fathers@SHPS

The Fathers@ SHPS Com-mittee comprises: Timothy FONG Yee Tien Group Leader, Events Exe-cution and Treasurer.

Winson LOW Siew Jin Group Leader and Events Ex-ecution. Samuel GOH Chee Meng Group Co-Leader and Events Execution. Joshua Marcus WEE Ben Jin Group Co-Leader and Events Execution. TIO Chong Heng Adviser and Helping Hands Eric CHAN Fook Cheong Adviser and Helping Hands LIM Kok Cheng Adviser and Helping Hands

The Committee has put together a video montage to capture all the 2014 Father-Child programmes organised.

The link is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_kcmlO_9lU&feature=youtu.be

I like to encourage our Fa-thers@ SHPS Committee to continue their good work in strengthening the father and child bond as well as impacting the fathers in making a differ-ence in their children’s lives.

Flexi-Adjunct Teachers

Mdm Rosalind Thor (EL) Ms Teo Shuh Yi (CL) Mrs Subbiah Chu-lotchana (TL)

Congratulations to our staff who are recently married. They are: Mdm Sri Asilah Mrs Marilyn Koh Mdm Huang Pei Wen

Church partner-Chapel of Christ the Redeemer (CCR) School Chaplain—Rev Andrew Raman Chaplain assistants— Geraldine Chow Wai Keng

WELCOME TO THE HILDAN FAMILY

Here are the new staff that have joined SHPS namely: Mr Ang Wei Teck—Vice-Principal Mrs Susana Lim (EL) Mdm Natila ( Math) Mdm Jasmin Soh (EL) Ms Adeline Boon (EL) Mr Luqman (EL) Ms Ushanthini (Science) Ms Liew Weiling (EL) Ms Clara Khoo (Music) Mdm Shi Rui ( CL) Mdm Diana Lim (PE)

SCHOOL STRATEGIC PARTNERS

SCHOOL COMMUNICATIONS — SNAC

Since 2013, the school has been using SNAC (Real–time web-to-mobile device communication channel) to communicate with our par-ents. To date, we have the following take-up rate:

Primary 1 : 91.6% Primary 2 : 95.9% Primary 3 : 89.9%

Primary 4 : 90.8% Primary 5 : 88.2% Primary 6 : 85.3%

The school has received very positive feedback from the par-ents regarding this medium of communication and I would like to encourage all parents to come on board. For those parents who are inter-

ested to sign up, please do so soonest possible so that you will not missed out on the important messages from the school. If you need as-sistance, do contact our SNAC sup-port Email: snac.support @apptitude.sg or vis-it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/apptitude.connectingyou.

SCHOOL UPDATES SEMESTER 1 (Term 1 & 2) The Semester 1 School calendar is enclosed for your attention.

Date Day CA/SA/Activities Levels

Back to School P4 - P6

Parents Orientation P4 GEP

Back to School with Dad P1 - P3

Parents Orientation P1

16-Jan Fri Meet- the- Parents Session P5 - P6

19-Jan Mon Photo-Taking for Student Smart Card P1 & P6

23-Jan Fri Meet The Parents Session P2 - P4

05-Feb Thu Student Leaders' Investiture P1 - P6

2 Feb - 4 Feb Mon - Wed Social Studies Learning Journey P6

Total Defence Day P1 - P6

CA1 English Language & Mother Tongue Language P1 P6

18-Feb Wed Chinese New Year Celebrations cum Total Defence Day Programme P1 - P6

19 Feb - 20 Feb Thu - Fri Chinese New Year (Public Holiday) P1 - P6

CA1 Higher Mother Tongue Language P2 P5

CA1 Higher Mother Tongue Language P1 & P2 P6

CA1 English Language P2 P5

CA1 English Language P2 & Listening Comprehension P6

Meet- the- Parents Session P4 GEP

CA1 Math P1 & P2 P5 - P6

Mother Tongue Language P2 P5

Mother Tongue Listening Comprehensive & P2 P6

CA1 Science P5 & P6

CA1 Chinese / Higher Chinese Common Test 1 (P2) P6 GEP

04-Mar Wed English Common Test 1 P6 GEP

05-Mar Thu Science Common Test 1 P6 GEP

06-Mar Fri Math Common Test 1 P6 GEP

10 Mar - 12 Mar Tue - Thu Social Studies Learning Journey P4

12-Mar Thu Talent Fiesta P3 - P6

23 Mar - 6 Apr Mon - Thu School Health Visit P1 - P6

01-Apr Wed Math Common Test 2 P6 GEP

02-Apr Thu Founder's Day P1 - P6

03-Apr Fri Good Friday (Public Holiday) P1 - P6

6 Apr - 9 Apr Mon - Thu Social Studies Learning Journey P3

10-Apr Fri International Friendship Day P1 - P6

14 Apr - 15 Apr Tue - Wed English & Mother Tongue Language (Oral) P6

14 Apr - 16 Apr Tue - Thu Social Studies Learning Journey P5

16-Apr Thu Social Studies Common Test P6 GEP

English & Mother Tongue Language (Oral) P3

Math Common Test 1 (PT2) P4 GEP

SA1 Chinese Language P3 (Oral) P6 GEP

SA1 English Language P4 (Oral) P6 GEP

21-Apr Tue English / Mother Tongue Language (Oral) P5

24-Apr Fri SA1 English & Mother Tongue Language (Oral) P4

27-Apr Mon SA1 English & Mother Tongue Language P1 P3 - P6

29-Apr Wed Math Common Test 1 (PT3) P5 GEP

Social Studies & Current Affairs Quiz P1 - P5

Current Affairs Quiz P6

27-Feb

24-Feb Tue

Thu26-Feb

Fri

Tue03-Mar

Fri

* Dates indicated below will be dated same as the school newsletter. Any changes will be notified in a separate letter

02-Jan Fri

MARCH

APRIL

02-Mar Mon

20 Apr - 21 Apr Mon - Tue

Thu30-Apr

17-Apr

13-Feb Fri

SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR SEMESTER 1 (2015)

JANUARY

05-Jan Mon

FEBRUARY

Date Day CA/SA/Activities Levels

JANUARY

01-May Fri Labour Day (Public Holiday) P1 - P6

05-May Tue SA1 Higher Mother Tongue Language P1 & P2 P5 - P6

Chinese Language P1 & P2 P6 GEP

Chinese Language & Higher Chinese Language Common Test 1 P1 & P2 P4 - P5 GEP

English Language Common Test 1 P4 - P5 GEP

English Language P1 & P2 P6 GEP

Social Studies Common Test 1 P4 - P5 GEP

SA1 Higher Chinese Language P1 & P2 P6 GEP

Higher Chinese Language P1 & P2 P6 GEP

Math Common Test 1 (PT 1) P4 GEP

Math Common Test 1 P1& P2 P5 GEP

SA Math P6 GEP

Science Common Test 1 P4 - P5 GEP

SA English Listening Compre P3 P6 GEP

SA Science P6 GEP

14-May Thu English Listening Compre & P2 P3 - P6

SA1 Math P3 - P4

SA1 Math P1& P2 P5 - P6

18-May Mon Mother Tongue Language Listening Compre & P2 P3 - P6

19-May Tue SA1 Science P3 - P6

20 May - 26 May Wed - Tue NAPFA Tests P 4 & P6

27-May Wed NAPFA (Retest) P 4 & P6

29-May Fri Meet -The-Parents P1 - P6

30 May - 6 June Sat - Sat Beijing Immersion Programme P5

30 May - 3 June Sat - Wed Taiwan Immersion Programme P4

30 May - 29 Jun Sat - Sun School Holiday P1 - P6

01-Jun Mon Vesak Day P1 - P6

22 Jun - 24 Jun Mon - Wed Holiday Supp Class P6

11-May Mon

07-May Thu

08-May

* CA - Continual Assessment ; SA - Semestral Assessment

JUNE

12-May Tue

15-May Fri

MAY

06-May Wed

Fri