2024 Term 3

Dear Parents/Guardians

It is now the second school semester, and we hope the June break has provided you and your family an opportunity to enjoy some quality family time.

Term 2 was an exciting term of National School Games, Festival of Arts, Life Skills Programme and Global Classroom Programme. The students’ learning beyond the classroom was varied and experiential, and together we hope that the rich learning will help our students broaden their world view while they gain a deeper insight into their strengths. Such experiences also took our girls out of their comfort zones and helped to nurture them into adaptive individuals and better team players.

While they gained some rest over the school holidays and got themselves recharged, our students also started the first week of Term 3 with a joyful and meaningful funfair, Carnival Vibrante’2024. Although it was a funfair open only to the internal school community, the class bonding developed through the funfair preparations and the creative-thinking and entrepreneurial skills learnt were invaluable. Tied to our commemoration of Youth Day and Racial Harmony Day, the girls also gained insights into various community services as well as the different cultures and traditions while having lots of fun during the funfair. We would also like to thank the Parents Support Group for your wonderful food stall, which brought the staff and students so much joy and sweet memories with the delightful range of yummy traditional snacks.

As mentioned in our previous letter, all proceeds from this year’s funfair will go towards charity. We are happy to share that through this funfair, we have raised over $35,000 worth of coupon sales for the six identified beneficiaries. [The six beneficiaries are President’s Challenge, ART:DIS@ Bukit Merah, Muhammadiyah Welfare Home, TOUCH Community Services, Sree Narayana Mission (Singapore) and Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped.]

Our girls have just had their Youth Day holiday. Given their exposure and experiences, we trust that our girls understand their responsibilities as our future leaders and are inspired with a sense of agency. Arrangements will be made for our girls to have meaningful interactive sessions with their seniors. Some of our alumni will be coming back to school to share with their juniors their experiences as young leaders and contributors to our community. As our students strive to develop their sense of identity and purpose, we hope that such opportunities to interact with positive role models will help them identify with the qualities needed for them to develop into respected members of society.

In the month of August, we will be celebrating our National Day and our school’s 107th Founder’s Day. Many of our girls will also be involved in the C Division National School Games. Term 3 is thus yet another busy and exciting term, requiring our girls to manage both their academic work and co-curricular activities, while having some celebratory moments as a school. Our teachers will continue to work closely with our students to provide them with the care and support they need. We are also heartened to note that with the concerted efforts to promote positivity, we are seeing our girls’ proactive actions in practising self-regulation and self-care, as well as a growing interest in promoting the growth mindset and initiating efforts to create a supportive environment for everyone.

A big thank you for your trust in us. We value our partnership with you, and together we will provide our girls with a wholesome and all-round education. I wish you more healthy and happy days ahead.

If you have not already signed up for the above seminars, do consider them. Parents who have attended past Triple P seminars have given good feedback that the talks are relevant and helpful. The registration link is http://go.gov.sg/lfs-3psem-c2024. These seminars are all free of charge.

Individual Consultation Sessions

Parents who prefer having individual consultations on parenting or family matters may also register for the Lakeside Family Services – Individual Consultation Sessions.

You may use the link below to indicate your interest.

go.gov.sg/lfs-iiform2024

These sessions are all FREE OF CHARGE and CONFIDENTIAL. 

Please encourage your child’s grandparents to take part in these seminars. This is the registration link: https://www.booking.gov.sg/public/services/LWe3daxG/events/V6N8gMek

We hope that your child's grandparents will join us for a time of fruitful learning of the Triple P grandparenting strategies to help in your parenting journey. 

Summary of online presentation to parents on 20 May 2024.