By: Deepavali Celebration Committee

Relevant Levels: All staff and students

Date and Time of Event: 15 November, Wednesday

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Dear teachers,

The Deepavali Celebration will be held on 15 November, Wednesday. To celebrate this colourful event, we encourage all staff and students to don on the Indian traditional attire on this day.

The celebration consists of recess activities and a concert. Please refer to the slides for more details and instructions.

Thank you!

By: Staff Well-Being Committee

Relevant Levels: (all staff) 

Date and Time of Event: Wednesday 15 November, 2 pm

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Dear colleagues,

See you at our Deepavali lunch next Wednesday! 

Thank you!

By: Partnership Committee

Relevant Levels: Staff

Date and Time of Event: 15 November, Wednesday (1200hr - 1330hr)

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Dear teachers,

The school is celebrating our partnership with various stakeholders at the Pal Rooms this Wednesday. Partners invited include the following:

APPLE (SG)

Church (OLPS)

Dads@SSS

Hao Ren Hao Shi

Morning Star Community Services

SMSA

SSOBA

SSSPARK PV and Parent Catechists

School Council

Target15SG (unable to attend)

If you have worked with any of these partners this year and have no lessons between 1200hr - 1330hr, you are most welcome to join us at the appreciation party. We hope to see you there!

Thank you!

By:    CCE VIA

Relevant Levels:   Primary 1 - 6

Date and Time of Event:  17 Nov, 12pm to 1.30pm

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Dear all,

Use Your Hands Campaign will be conducted on the last day of school, 17 Nov. Please take note that the last 3 periods will be suspended for Cleaning and Reflection Time. 

Please share the set of slides in the google drive, with the objective of having the boys learn to end the academic year by leaving their classrooms as clean, or even cleaner, then when they first inhabited it at the beginning of the year.  

Please return all books/files/worksheets in the classrooms and clear your subject cabinets before 17 Nov, so that the boys can do a better job cleaning up and avoid throwing away resources that you may still need. Announcement will be made for pupils to bring wet wipes/rags. 

Do also take some time to reflect on the way classroom cleaning has been done in Semester 2. If you can think of any improvements you might make to the routine, starting a new year might be the perfect time to make a change!

Deployment can be found in the same link and is subject to changes based on teachers' attendance that morning.  

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z3BOJIWyPN6kGgSPrz-EJQWQDImGQGs_?usp=sharing 

Thank you!

By: Staff Well-Being Committee

Relevant Levels: (all teachers)

Date and Time of Event: 20 to 21 November, 8.30 am to 5 pm

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Dear teachers,

Please note the venue for our Staff Review and Retreat is at Park Avenue Changi Hotel. Complimentary car park coupons will be provided for the two days. However, if you need transport, please indicate in the link below : 

1 for 1 way, 2 for 2 ways. Kindly do so by Tuesday 14 November. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CU2zivY1bbrSVEPVBf_YvnwqY2sdTqgR/edit?usp=sharing_eil_se_dm&rtpof=true&sd=true&ts=654a0272

Thank you!

By: Staff Well-Being Committee

Relevant Levels:  (all staff)

Date and Time of Event:  Friday, 24 November, 9.45am to 2pm

Information Details: 

Dear colleagues,

We will have our staff bonding before we break for the holidays. It will be an amazing race at MBS after which we will adjourn for lunch by department. 

We will meet at MBS at 9.30am before we start the race. Please refer to the slides for details. There will be a briefing on 21 November at our retreat. Team leaders will also be briefed separately. 

Department heads are to decide on a place for lunch with department members. A maximum of $20 per pax will be reimbursed to department heads for the lunch. Please make your claims by December. 

Please access the link below for your grouping:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O5NwafO8NpcuDJQ4j3aA9q_eK-gKSstl/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117166918045857975143&rtpof=true&sd=true

Thank you.

By:    VP

Relevant Levels:   -

Date and Time of Event:  -

Information Details: -

Dear all,

As we wind down the term and begin our end of year reflections, here's something to start us off.

Ravi Shankar was one of the greatest musicians of our era, through his work on the sitar, his depth of music making - improvisation and connection with the listener, a philosopher through tones and rhythm, the raga and the tala.  

We could, as educators and philosophers of our subjects, and the light of our students' lives, learn much from the maestro's music making.  Beginning with an expository raga (melodic scale-pattern/motif), slowly developing it, unfolding it slowly, letting it breathe and vary bit by bit, and then adding in the tala (rhythmic pattern/motif), and then enjoying the developmental variations, that freedom of spirit undergirded by the constancy and intent of the raga and tala, as well as adapting to the mood of the moment, and finally bringing it to a breath-taking climax.

There are 3 videos attached here - a mini-interview and 2 musical performances (audio). There's lots to learn and borrow form the music making of Ravi Shankar, that we could transfer and adapt in parallel ideas/principles to the way we expound our lesson topic, expands and develop our lessons, engage our students, deepen the connection, to the passion and discovery we bring to our students, to our own musings of of subject disciplines, to the potential and development of each of our students, and to our philosophy of life! 

Every lesson of ours in the classroom is a new 'live' performance of sorts, and the possibilities of our lessons and our children are limitless, just like the boundless brilliance in a raga!

Enjoy!