By:     CCE

Relevant Levels:   P5 and P6

Date and Time of Event:   27 April to 26 June 2023

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Dear P5 and P6 Form Teachers,

Sexuality Education (SEd) in schools is about enabling students to understand the physiological, social and emotional changes they experience as they mature, develop healthy and rewarding relationships including those with members of the opposite sex, and make wise, informed and responsible decisions on sexuality matters. SEd is premised on the importance of the family as the basic unit of society. This means encouraging healthy, heterosexual marriages and stable nuclear family units with extended family support. The teaching and learning of SEd is based on respect for the values and beliefs of the different ethnic and religious communities in Singapore on sexuality issues.

In Term 4 during CCE (FTGP), P5s and P6s will be having their SEd Programme. Parents have been informed through Parents Gateway and they will need to fill in the opt out form by 26 June if they do not wish their son/ward to be part of the programme. Do track the PG Announcement that all parents read it and the remind them if necessary. 

The lesson plans and resources can be found in: S:\@DEPT_CHARACTER AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION (CCE)\Subcommittees\Sexuality Education\Sexuality Education 2023

Thank you!

By: CCE - Student Leadership Team

Relevant Levels: P1-P6

Date and Time of Event: T2W7-T2W10  

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Dear colleagues, 

Please find the time to have a face to face review with all your student leaders under your charge during FTGP/any other time when available.

You may share with them:

1. Strengths in carrying out their leadership duties in class and/or CCA etc.

2. Areas for Growth you have observed in term 2.

For P5 and P6 Form Teachers, please do remember to intentionally spend 5-10 minutes at the start of every FTGP period going through the students' leadership notebooks with regards to their goals and habit trackers (Students may rate their 7 habits each over 5 points). 

Frequency develops habits!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1llfuu1pUyrMnvrvfjXZwFQ-kruYdLf0xMTqCTsWFAGU/edit#gid=478005966  

Thank you!

By:     Data Management Committee

Relevant Levels:   All levels

Date and Time of Event:   End of Term 2

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Dear colleagues, 

See attached documents for the latest on Assessment and School Cockpit deadlines, as well as the staff responsibilities. 

Thank you!

By: CCE - Student Leadership Team

Relevant Levels: P1-P6

Date and Time of Event: NIL  

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Dear colleagues, 

Let's log into the LeaderinMe website at least once to see the resources that they can offer.

There are numerous videos, printable worksheets, slides etc. with regards to the LeaderinMe / 7 Habits.

leaderinme.com

Username: ___@schools.gov.sg

Password: 123456789000

Thank you!

By:  VP

Relevant Levels:   -

Date and Time of Event:   -

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Dear everyone,

1) NSG and CCAs - our boys have been going places in their CCA pursuits and NSG competitions, and this is an opportune vital time to harness the Think Win-Win and Synergise habits for them:

• Our boys have shown great tenacity, grit, teamwork and quick/strategic thinking on the field, in the courts and on the track; they have tasted successes and undergone challenges through the trainings and the actual games, putting in lots of hours (recall Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000-hour theory), and furthering their passions.  

• These success habits/ factors are very transferrable to the boys' other life aspects, including academic pursuits, and not just for the boys in the CCA/NSG, but also for the rest of the class when results are announced. The cognition / thinking development in class is also very transferrable to the CCAs/NSG too, for brain and brawn are both required to really take the win.  

• Therein lies the Think Win-Win and Synergise that we can explicitly point out to our boys and encourage them to transfer; boys in general could be quite literal and direct-thinking, so that pointed direction could be necessary for them to learn to transfer. And at our end we see CCAs/NSG not as taking time away from academic pursuits, but as a vital part of the boys' total and lifeskills/character development that when harnessed and transferred across domains/disciplines could reap multiplier effects.

• And finally, we as CCA and academic teachers could further Synergise in sharing information and encouraging the same boy(s) through a concerted interest and effort to bring the best out of the boy(s) - know them well including their pursuits, and when they know we are interested in them as individual persons, they will also reciprocate and work for you in return because there is that trust and bond built.

• That is why we became teachers - not just teaching an academic discipline, but touching lives and transforming futures, Let us continue to together help our boys and ourselves to Think Win-Win and Synergise, for our boys' good holistic development. :D

2) This is one of the latest Schoolbag series articles that came in our CES mail, on how schools (pri and sec) have harnessed AI. 

• While some countries and educators elsewhere have looked at ChatGPT AI as a bane, a threat, an impediment or an outright evil to education, we in Singapore have looked at it as a resource of potential and a technology-development here to stay and which we should then learn to harness and fear. 

• In a way it demonstrates Think Win-Win and Synergy in action. Do take a look at this article and get further nuggets and ideation ahead.  Impossible becomes I M Possible, indeed. 

• Teacher talk: AI is our new classroom tool and we are learning to draw the best from it (schoolbag.edu.sg) 

Enjoy this break-read!

Many cheers,

Edwin