Staff Bulletin 2022T3W1
published on Saturday 25 June 2022
About our SSS Staff Bulletin: This weekly Staff Bulletin is our "virtual" print version of a weekly Staff Contact Time. All staff are expected to read each issue in full and be aware of all the vital aspects of upcoming programmes and processes. The accompanying files/slides for each news item are for your downloading. and reference.. PLUS: Please do continue checking our CES outlook emails daily, for any direct communication as well as urgent / immediate matters.
Principal's Update
Dear Colleagues,
As we begin the new Term, I hope you had a restful holidays. I though I'd start the term with the poem by Robert Fulghum, 'All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten'
All I really I need to know I learned in kindergarten.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life, learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup, they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if all the whole world had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.
Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Don't forget to spend some time reconnecting with your boys and have a great start to Term 3!
Keep Believing and Serving,
Timothy Goh
Generation Of Letter Of Employment via HRP
By: Tan Yong Seng
Relevant Levels: All Staff
Date of Event/Programme/Item: N.A.
Information Details:
Please find attached the steps to generate Letter Of Employment via HRP. For easy reference in case you need to generate Letter Of Employment.
Generation Of Letter Of Employment via HRP.pdfTemperature-Taking Exercise
By: School Safety
Relevant Levels: Primary 1 to Primary 6
Date of Event/Programme/Item: 29 June, Wednesday
Information Details:
Dear colleagues,
We will conduct a temperature-taking exercise on Wednesday, 29 June from 7.15 am onwards.
Do help to remind the boys to start bringing the thermometer from Monday onwards to ensure that they would have a working thermometer for Wednesday.
Do look at the attached document for more details regarding the exercise.
Sem 2 Temperature Taking Exercise 2022.docxTerm 3 Discipline Tone & Expectations
By: Discipline Committee
Relevant Levels: All
Date of Event/Programme/Item: Monday, 27 June, Assembly
Information Details:
As we start Term 3, do continue to ensure that we "Start It Right" and enforce all Class routines and Classroom Management Plan.
Please take some time to have that chat with your pupils who need the extra support and encouragement. Engage their parents regularly and do reach out to the Well-Being team (CMT), Counsellors and/or Discipline for a holistic approach to their character development. Do report cases into the Discipline portal via this link: FormSG
The Discipline Reps for your level will share important reminders for about 10 mins during the assembly/ FTGP period on Monday.
Enclosed are the Discipline Referral Process & Discipline Guidelines for Offences and Consequences as reference.
"The young should be able to see the wisdom in you on how they should behave" ~St John Baptist de La Salle.
Credere et Servire,
Discipline Committee
SSS Discipline Consequences 2022.pdfDiscipline Referral Process_2022.docxTerm 3 Check-Ins
By: CCE and Year Heads
Relevant Levels: Primary 1 to Primary 6
Date of Event/Programme/Item: 27 June to 8 July
Information Details:
Dear FTs,
At the start of every term, we will do a Check-In Lesson Activity with the pupils during FTGP and this is to be completed by Week 1 (or latest by mid Week 2). The slides for the respective levels have already been parked in the CCE/Subcommittes/FTGP shared drive.
The lesson activity is designed to:
- Gather students' sentiments towards Term 3, including providing the opportunity for students to articulate what they are excited and worried about and
- Guide students to develop skills and knowledge to help them thrive in Term 3:
o Lower Primary (Pri 1-2): Establish routines to ensure students’ well-being
o Middle Primary (Pri 3-4): Manage time and identify students’ locus of control
o Upper Primary (Pri 5-6): Manage expectations and increasing demands
In addition to the Check-in Activity that is conducted by the teachers during FTGP, the pupils will also be doing a Check-In Survey via SLS.
Do inform and remind the boys on Monday. This survey is open to the boys from Monday 27/6 to Fri 01/7.
The survey is designed for teachers to obtain a sensing of students' readiness for school after the long break, as well as to discover students' concerns and stress points. The survey can also help teachers identify students who may require greater support. Thus, do also refer to the Check-In Survey responses and monitor the well-being of the pupils.
May we have a good, fulfilling Semester 2
CCA Lunch and Dismissal
By: CCA Comm
Relevant Levels: P3-P6
Date of Event/Programme/Item: Semester 2
Information Details:
Dear Teachers, please refer to the attached slides for updated information regarding CCA lunch and dismissal plans. Please ensure that at least 1 CCA teacher from each CCA is on duty at the foyer for dismissal on their respective CCA days (1st 3 teachers to look after traffic for the safety of the students).
Let's work together to ensure a smooth lunch and dismissal plan for our students. Credere Et Servire!
Semester 2 CCA Lunch and Dismissal 2022.pptxStudent Leadership Investiture
By: Student Leadership Team
Relevant Levels: P1-P6
Date of Event/Programme/Item:
29 June - 6 July: Morning Assembly
1st July 0735-0830: Student Leadership Investiture and Launch of Stephenian Leadership Challenge
Information Details:
Dear Colleagues,
There will be morning pre-assembly sessions on Student Leadership from 29 June - 6 July. The student Leadership team will be speaking about various leaders with the theme and focus being on child/youth leaders such as Greta Thunberg and William Kamkwamba. The concept of "leadership" will be further unpacked for the students to follow.
To provide opportunities for Stephenians to embark on their respective personal leadership journey, there will be a launch of the Stephenian Leadership Challenge where Primary 5 students who wish to join to will embark on a journey to fulfill the schools Vision of Living in "Faith", Leading in "Service" and Learning as a "Community" through various purposeful programs of their choosing. Students who excel and are able to achieve this will be eligible for the Terence Tng Leadership Award in Primary 6.
Please note that timetable will be suspended from 0735-0830hrs on 1st July, Friday. The primary 5s will assemble in the parade square (hall if it rains). We will carry on with the same zoom link from the assembly session. FT and Co-FT can decide among themselves and plan for rotation in the classroom during this period. Classes without Co-FTs will have a 2nd teacher attached to them for the day. Please refer to the attachment for teachers deployed. Thank you
FT of classes for Leadership Investiture.xlsxStudent Leadership Week
Leadership Day SLIDES.pptxUse Your Hands Campaign and We Love Our School Movement
By: CCE - VIA
Relevant Levels: P1 to P6
Date of Event/Programme/Item: 27 June 2022
Information Details:
Dear colleagues,
As shared in Term 2, we will be suspending the first period on the first day of school for all pupils and form teachers for Use Your Hands Campaign, to prepare and tidy up the classrooms for the Semester. Please remind your pupils to bring their wet wipes. Do also take some time to reflect on the way classroom cleaning has been done in Semester 1. If you can think of any improvements you might make to the routine, starting a new semester might be the perfect time to make a change. Continue with the second page of the reflection sheet which you had done in Term 2 Week 10. The boys can keep the reflection sheet after you had taken a look at their thoughts.
A softcopy of the worksheet can be found in: S:\@DEPT_CHARACTER AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (CCE)\Subcommittees\Values-in-Actions\School-Wide Programmes\UYHC\2022
For Assembly, we will be talking to the boys about the We Love Our School Movement. Please join the Zoom ASAP for assembly.
https://moe-singapore.zoom.us/j/88440812329
Meeting ID: 884 4081 2329
Passcode: CCE
Ethics and Catechism SOWs
By: CCE - Ethics PLT and Catechism & Lasallian Celebrations Committe
Relevant Levels: P1 to P6
Date of Event/Programme/Item: Every Tuesday, 0735 to 0800
Information Details:
Dear Ethics and Catechism Teachers,
Thank you for imparting values and sharing our ideals of a Stephenian Gentleman being men of integrity and men for others during the Ethics and Catechism lessons.
Ethics SOWs for Term 3 are in the sharing folder: S:\@DEPT_CHARACTER AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (CCE)\Subcommittees\CCE (FTGP) & Ethics\Ethics\2022.
Hard copies of the pupils' worksheets will be left on your tables by Week 1.
Catechism SOWs are in the Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11BfMx4SXYqf8LNMU4b8rQ0eNIOrAmwOV.
Mother Tongue Language Fortnight 2022
By: MT Department
Relevant Levels: All
Date of Event/Programme/Item: Term 3 Week 1 & 2
Information Details:
MTLF 2022 will commence on 27 Jun (Monday) and span over two weeks. The theme for this year is "Traditional Games". Most of the activities will take place during the MT periods, facilitated by the MT teachers. During the recesses, station games will be opened to all, from 28 Jun (Tues) to 1 Jul (Fri), at the various venues (PAL Room, Field, Sandpit, iGROW Hub etc.). Please refer to the slides for information.
There will be a Launch + Briefing session for all students on 27 Jun (Mon) via zoom during the Assembly period. Pls log in by 12.50pm using the link below. Before the briefing, we will be playing a mentimeter game with all students to guess the theme of the year. Please do not reveal the answer to them.
Topic: MTLF 2022 Briefing
Time: Jun 27, 2022 12:30 PM Singapore
Join Zoom Meeting
https://moe-singapore.zoom.us/j/81799329224
Meeting ID: 817 9932 9224
Passcode: MTLF2022
Thank you.
MTLF 2022_Updated (24Jun).pdfNE Show 2022
By: CCE - NE
Relevant Levels: Primary 5
Date of Event/Programme/Item: 16 July 2022, Saturday
Information Details: Dear teachers, the NE Show for Primary 5 pupils is back this year. It is an opportunity for all pupils to have an opportunity to watch the parade live.
On top of the P5 form teachers, we would like to invite teachers to be chaperones to the Primary 5 boys during the NE Show. We will manage the pupils' discipline and wellbeing to the Floating Platform and back to school.
Reporting time for staff to school: 1400
Reporting time for pupils to school: 1430
Estimated dismissal of pupils from school: 2130
If you would like to join the pupils on this once in a lifetime NE Show, please put your names down in the Google Sheet.
NE Show - 16 July 2022Stephenians
Living in Faith,
, Leading in Service and
Learning as a Community,
for the Glory of God.