By:    Chor Kheng

Relevant Levels:   All Teachers

Date and Time of Event:  9 October

Information Details:  

Dear teachers,

Attached is Staff Preference Form for 2024.  There are changes in committee scopes, so do take a look and state your preferences. We will try to match your preferences but we seek your understanding if school requires you somewhere else. Here is the link: 

 https://go.gov.sg/sss-staffpreferenceform

Please submit your form by Monday 9 October. 

Thank you!

By:    IP Heads

Relevant Levels:   P3, P4 and P5

Date and Time of Event:  23 October to 3 Nov

Information Details: 

Dear all,

Please see attached schedule for End-Year-Examinations. 

Please note the following:

1. For Maths Papers on 1 Nov, P2 will have their recess in class. 

P2 YH and FTs, please inform your pupils.

P5 YH and FTs, please inform your pupils that their recess will be at 9.30 to 10 a.m. in the canteen.

There will be a mass at the end of the day.

2. Collection and return of papers - Conference Room

3. Please read the notes in the document.

Thank you!

By: Year Heads 

Relevant Levels:   P1 to P6

Date and Time of Event:  Term 4, Week 5 to Week 6 

Information Details: 

Dear Colleagues,

WHAT: 

• Selection of Star Stephenian Award for semester 2. Please read the powerpoint slides for an overview, procedure of nomination and timeline of programme.

WHY: 

• To recognise outstanding Stephenians in each class who exemplify the school values.

• To encourage positive behaviours and good learning attitudes among the students. 

HOW: 

• Use the link below for the nomination form.

Star Stephenians Nomination Form (Semester 2) 2023 (google.com)

Thank you.

By: P6 Level

Relevant Levels: Primary 6

Date and Time of Event:  9 October to 16 November 2023

Information Details: 

Dear All,

The P6 boys have completed their PSLE this week and we would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all for helping to maintain a conducive environment for the boys while they were sitting for their examination. With the examinations over for them, they will be moving on to the Post PSLE Activities. Attached is the tentative schedule for your reference. 

Thank you!

By:    VP

Relevant Levels:   -

Date and Time of Event:  -

Information Details: -

Dear all,

Happy Children's Day again!  And as we now enter the 2nd half of Term 4, post PSLE and pre EYE, and dig in with our classes in prep towards the end of year examinations, let us continue to keep faith and serve in our passion towards the joy of learning - bringing the wonders of the world to our children and inspiring our children to make their positive difference to the world.

Here is a good heartwarming inspiring anecdote from the news reports, in a way reminding us of the possibilities of youth and children, to dare to dream, dare to inquire, dare to find out, dare to make a difference.  

What's inscribed on the ancient Singapore Stone? 18-year-old gets a step closer to revealing its secrets - TODAY (todayonline.com) 

And this anecdote in a way illustrates 3 of our Stephenian Outcomes:

• seeks truth, appreciates beauty and leads a healthy, meaningful life. (Living in Faith)

• is a caring and concerned citizen. (Leading in Service)

• is an inquirer - a curious, critical and creative thinker. (Learning as a Community)

Love for Reading, Spirit of Curiosity & Connecting with Friends

Interestingly, the featured 18-year-old perhaps had his beginnings of curiosity and discovery in his love for books and reading in his younger days, perhaps through the imagination of worlds and lives - something there for us teachers in cultivating the love for reading and quest for knowledge in our boys from young.  Even more interestingly, his curiosity in the Singapore Stone was first sparked by the story-telling at the Primary 5 NE Show! And finally, he actively asked friends for their inputs on aspects he needed help in.

In a way, his story embodies what this year's WPS shared about enhancing the 21CC Framework (la Swiss Roll) with greater emphasis on adaptive & inventive thinking, communication and civic literacy, for students to become creators, connectors and contributors.  (If you would like to find out more, you could refer to email from MOE Engagement Unit: [MOE Engage] Schools WPS 2023: Shaping the Future of Learning, dated 25 Sept.)

Never Too Young 

Of course, some of us may be tempted to say that an 18-year-old is a young adult, our boys are too young. Or that he is a prodigy exceptional student from the specialised NUS High School of Math and Science.  But from a different angle, the featured young adult could also be considered by some to be too young in the world of archaeology and history. And every child has the right and ability to be curious and to find out things, to imagine, to improve. 

The truth is, all science, discoveries and advancement come from Man's perennial questions - Who am I? Why am I here? What is it? Why is it so? What next? And no one is too young to ask these questions, to be curious, because that spirit of curiosity is innate in all of us, particularly more so in children, our boys. Or more evidently so in the way our boys will always ask us 'Why' regardless - then perhaps we could harness this and direct their 'Whys' to the pursuit of knowledge and learning.

Credere et Servire

As our school motto goes, Credere et Servire - To Believe and To Serve, and we must always believe in our children's ability to believe in possibilities, and guide them to proactively take their many steps of knowledge curiosity.

Let us always be encouraged to see our boys as unique individuals, unpolished stones that could one day be diamonds of different cuts, shapes, sizes and brilliance, and help the shine in their own ways.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Credere et Servire!