Heritage Tour

All the p5 classes did not have their normal classroom lessons on Friday, but instead made their way down to Kampong Glam and Chinatown for their Heritage Tour to learn more about the culture, and heritage of Singapore for these areas...

The weather has been kind to us, and the rains were withheld from us... It was not scorching hot, and neither was it pouring on us.

We left school around 8.30am, and we came before 12.30pm. I myself personally had learnt more about the area... I hope you all have enjoyed it as well, taking it as a short break from the hectic workload.

Take care and enjoy the slide show.

Some instructions while I am away...

Hello all,

Please be reminded of the following:

1) Monday 31 Aug 2009 - Be Yourself Day:

2) Our Theme: Dreams and Ambitions. Come dressed as who you want to be when you grow up. Be creative and daring!

3) Bring donations for charity in red or green packets. Please donate generously to your best ability.

4) Please bring all your Maths worksheets, A Sum A Day, Revision Papers, Non Routine, Heuristic Booklet and Maths Workbook 5B worksheets on Monday. Do filing during my maths class. They are due for checking on Wednesday.

Enjoy yourselves! Have a great Teachers' Day.

Vote for what to wear on Be Yourself Day!

Dear 5.7!

I am so sorry that I won't be there to celebrate on Monday with all of you... I will be away for National Re-service duties... I am going for army training...

As a result, I won't be able to take part in the Be Yourself Day Dress Up Contest with all of you. However, I really would love to see you all put in that effort as a class and make it an enjoyable day for yourselves...

I have put up a voting poll for you all to vote on the themes or topics we can follow to dress up for that day.

If you have a better idea, you may let me know tomorrow!

Please pass this message around to all your friends the moment you read this. Call them! Get them on the class blog and vote! We need to discuss this and decide on this by tomorrow!

Thanks!
Mr Yeoh

Preparing for the Heritage Tour to Kampung Glam & Chinatown

Dear P5.7s,

By now you would have signed the consent forms for the Heritage Tour to Kampung Glam & Chinatown.

I will be collecting the worksheets for both trips from the General Office. Remember, you are there to learn. So, please adopt a positive learning attitude on the day. Let me have a memorable trip with you before I leave for my National Re-Service. Alright?

The programme on Friday will be as follows:

7.30am - P5 pupils remain in the hall after pledge taking for briefing

8.10am - Short toilet & food break before departure to the sites

8.30am - Depart from SVPS to Kampung Glam / Chinatown (depends on your tour guide schedule)

12.30pm - Return to SVPS (Pupils to have their lunch in canteen as the classroom may still be

occupied by the P3s)

Extra information:

a) According to the tour guide i/c, when the rest of the pupils are having break at Maxwell Food Centre, the Muslim pupils will go to the URA Gallery to view some exhibits there. However, if they choose not to fast on that day then they can have some food at the food centre.

b) Please remind one another to behave when you visit the various places of worship or as they walk through the tour. Speak respectfully and politely. Do not mock or make fun of the places or culture!

c) We need 1 PV to follow us on this trip. Please ask your parents!

d) What to bring:

1) Water bottle

2) Writing materials

3) Maths Revision Paper 2

4) Maths homework

5) Calculator & geometry set

6) Sufficient money to eat

7) A small bag to keep the things above.

With love,

Mr Ken Yeoh

26 Aug 2009

Parent Volunteer needed this Friday!!!

This Friday, we will be having another learning journey during our school curriculum time. All of us will be going out from school during school hours.

I will need a parent volunteer on Friday, 28th Aug 2009, from 7.30am till 12plus noon.

I am really in need of a parent volunteer this time round as no teachers will be there to help us... They have their own lessons.

If we do not have a parent volunteer, the whole class can be the only P5 class to stay in school.

So, please open your mouth and do ask your parents politely for help!

Thanks!

Mr Ken Yeoh

Hippy Hoppy Dance!

Here are some pictures I have of class 5.7 when you were having your Hip-Hop classes...

Seriously, the dance classes would be better for you all if you really put in the right attitude to learn from the instructors, and not just waste the 1 hour there just fooling around...

Put in your heart to make the best of that lesson!

Learning Journey to Science Centre

It was a much awaited Learning Journey for class 5.7 in a way, despite the fact that they knew they were going there to learn about Electricity, and it would be a lecture and a lesson for them.

Not so much of a fun-packed day for them, yet they were just as excited and eager to be going there with their dear friends...

Before that, I was at a head loss of not being to find a parent volunteer to go along with the class as we needed at least 2 adults to accompany 40 pupils on an excursion.

I was really glad that when I approached Mr Hafees, he was so willing to help. I really appreciated his help, because if it was not for him, the class would have to postpone the trip until we would be able to find a parent volunteer to go with us...

I really wonder if all the parents of class 5.7 would be so busy until none of them could make it for that day. Or, did my boys and girls even ask their parents about it?

No matter, it was thanks to Mr Hafees for he came to our rescue! Our knight in shiny armour!!!

6 classes of pupils were gathered in the auditorium of Science Centre to learn more about Electricity with many experiments conducted for them to learn more about electricity. We talked about polarity, potential difference, voltage and current. Beyond that, we discussed further on static electricity and lightning, with clear demonstrations of how interesting static electricity worked.

There was this 2nd last experiment where the lecturer experimented with a girl touching the steel spherical ball which would be a source of static electricity to negatively charge up the girl. As a result, her hair ends were all negatively charged up and her hair repelled each other, causing her hair to stand erect!

It was a good laugh for many, and I hoped it was not directed to humiliate the girl, but just for the love and fun of Science.

That day, orders for McDonald's were made, and the pupils got to have their meals at the amphitheatre located just outside the McDonald restaurant... The fries turned soggy as they were kept packed without ventilation for a long period of time. Not to mention that it was not salty at all... A consolation would be the cool cold Coke which was part of their meals. Well, for $4.50, I guessed we had nothing much to complain about!

No doubt it was a short session of the learning journey, I thought some of you brought interesting experience and memories back with you...

Cheers!

Please ask your parents!

Hello dearest 5.7s!

I hope you have enjoyed your weekend. I sure hope all of you have completed your homework!

Anyway, remember last week I asked you to ask your parents to be volunteers during our Science Center Visit? Have any of your parents agreed to come down together with us?

Please ask for me alright?

We need 1 parent volunteers to go with us!

Thanks!

Mr Yeoh

Thank You 5.7s!

I would just like to thank the whole class for your efforts in making such a big birthday card for me... Thank you so much.

It is very nice and I am touched by your efforts. Thank you so much 5.7s!

I hope from now onwards, we can truly live and learn together like a real family, where we show care and concern towards one another freely.

Let there be respect and lots of love in our class...

I really hope I can be a joyful teacher in class without having the need to punish or to scold anyone in the class...

Will you help me with this?

Thank you once again 5.7...

Sometimes... You people can break my heart so badly...

Sometimes... You people just have ways to make me smile and to make my heart melt once again...

Thanks... 5.7 is a cute class...

This is NO JOKE. No humour involved...

Below is a list of pupils who did not hand in their Maths 5B Workbook Practice 3, Percentage of a Quantity, pages 73 to 82.

Names:
1. Hoon Hwee

2. Aqil Luqman *Potential candidate to get an offence form as well...

3. Byron Foo

4. Lam Yisheng *You can get ready to sign offence form since it has been more than over 10 times.

5. Asyraf

If you do not hand in by tomorrow, 12 Aug 2009. You will be copying everything from your workbook on foolscap paper from pages 72 to 82, word by word, picture by picture, and line by line.

Those who have read this, please feel free to warn them by calling them, if you are really their friends...

I am serious.

Important!

Please make sure you have completed all the revision papers and bring them on Tuesday, 11 Aug 2009.

Happy National Day!

It's 9 August 2009. Singapore is celebrating its 44th Birthday.

Singapore found its independence on 9 August 1965, and has come a long way since then to arrive at all it is in the world, a cosmopolitan city.

We changed from a fishing town to be a city renowned for one of the best service industry in the world with the likes of PSA, SIA and service industry...

Yet all these did not come for free... Our forefathers have worked hard together as one nation, one people and one Singapore to come to this point today... Nothing comes for free...

So, are you feeling that you have a part to contribute to safeguard and protect this prosperity and peace, so that it can continue to be passed on to many future generations to come?

I'm kind of affected by some comments people leave on my Facebook wall whereby I've heard negative comments from young pupils about why Singapore is not that good... There is a sense of resentment here for the way Singapore is. For some reasons or another, they are unhappy at certain things Singapore is portraying...

Honestly, if you ask me, there are no perfect country in the world... Like it or not, every country has its own problems, own strengths as well as weaknesses... You can go on searching for greener pastures, but you can come to find none...

At the end of the day, you still have to ask yourself this question: " What is important to you? What are you looking for?"

For me, I would want a safe, and clean country to live in. Never mind the hot and humid weather, never mind that I do not see beautiful sceneries, never mind that I experience rude and horrible drivers on the road... If anyone wants to be negative, everything he or she says will be negative comments only... I choose to be positive... Being born in Malaysia, my family chose to come to Singapore in search for a good education system, and equal opportunities to advance in our career. We seek that security and peace we thought Singapore would have and would be a better choice as compared to where I was born in...

We never regretted that choice made.

Today, I am proud to say Singapore is my home, where I belong.... It is in Singapore that I have found my identity because as much as I can travel to beautiful and fun countries, Singapore is where I received my education, where I found my beloved family and friends...

I can be anywhere in the world in future, but eventually, Singapore is where I will return to... It's a choice of seeing the goodness in something, to be appreciative, rather than to complain about everything in the world...

To me, Singapore is more than good enough for me.

What about you?

VOTE FOR FAITH WONG by 8 AUG 09

Hi 5.7s & SVPS pupils,

Faith Wong from P3.10 is taking part in the Shine Like A Star Competition. You can view her performance and vote for her at

www.epopular.com.sg.

Faith has great potential, a lovely disposition and voice. Let’s lend her a helping hand and bring further glory to South View.

You need to register before you can vote. Here are the steps you have to take:

1. Log on to www.epopular.com.sg.

2. Click on “Contests”

3. Click on “Shine Like A Star”

4. Click on the coloured icon on the left, which reads “Click here to VIEW & RATE videos now”

5. Click on the video thumbnail “Faith Wong”

6. Register your name and email first before you can vote

7. Check your email to activate your account *

8. Log in 1st

9. Click on Faith Wong Studio Audition 1

10. Rate her singing ( I rate her a 5. She deserves at least 4 )

Do support a young talented singer in the budding, and don't let your passiveness drown her talents.

Thank you in advance for your help and support.

Closing date is 8 Aug! So please act immediately!