WEEK'S UP - 26th AUGUST 2016

Courtesy of The Middle Ground - CY Kong

HAZE POLICY - In light of the current hazy weather, we would like to inform our parents of the policy regarding this as conveyed by the Ministry of Education. 

You are well advised to monitor haze conditions particularly if your child has any respiratory ailments.  We will be talking to the Sports programme provider, to discuss a contingency plan, should sports be cancelled due to the 3-hour PSI reading.  To find out more, please access the following links: 

http://www.haze.gov.sg/

https://www.ecda.gov.sg/PressReleases/Pages/Haze-Management-Measures.aspx 

HEALTH POLICY - The following is an extract from our Handbook:

QUOTE:

09 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, PARTIALLY RECOVERED CHILDREN AND MEDICATION:

Children who contract an infectious disease must obtain a certificate of fitness issued by a registered medical practitioner in Singapore, before resuming school. Also, please keep us informed if your child has contracted an infectious disease, as we are obliged to maintain a proper record of such.  Your timely advice in this regard will also enable us to alert parents of other students to be on the lookout for signs of the disease contracted so the spread of infection could be contained.  Please be considerate and do ensure that your child is completely recovered and is past the infectious period prior to sending him/her back to school.

We cannot medicate your child at school, so if your child is receiving medication, please ensure he/she is kept at home and properly treated before resuming school.  You are advised against medicating your child at school.

Note - we are under instructions from the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education to report cases of most communicable diseases. They include Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Chicken Pox, Rubella, Mumps and Avian Disease. Please call us if you require clarification in this regard and we also invite you to visit the following website for further information. The school should be notified immediately, therefore when children contract these diseases, so we can do the needful.  Please note that medical practitioners are also required to notify the authorities in the above circumstances. 

FIRST FULL WEEK - In the following pages, the teachers have given you a gist of the week we had.  They were able to achieve their plans for the children and we will be resuming written work for the older children.

PARENT VOLUNTEERS -  Reading with children resumes on Monday, 29 August 2016.  We have been informed that some of our parents could not open the response form that we sent out last week.  We are appending the link again so you could sign up, to volunteer to be a reading parent and/or to assist us at our events.

'DROP 'N GO' and 'PICK 'N GO': Many thanks for helping us with this arrangement.  We do have some “teething” issues and aim to eventually handle the traffic along Broadrick Road in the most efficient manner.  We have give you car decals to identify vehicles driven by our parents.  Please do display them prominently on the top left of your windscreen.  This is essential to our operation.  We are aware that some of you have to receive these decals and we are pursuing the matter with the printers.

PARKING: Within our premises, should only be done in the demarcated spaces that are parallel to Mountbatten Road. Please do not park parallel to Broadrick Road (in our compound) nor within the yellow boxes and before a 'Fire Assembly Point'.  

We request that you respect the directions we have posted and assist us in keeping these areas clear. 

FRIDAYS: We have assigned every Friday as ‘Rag’ Day, with the last Friday of the month, declared as; ‘Glam-up’ Day.  We invite you to encourage your children to be creative and wear 'rags' or 'glams'  (national and ethnic outfits included) as they please on the days allocated.  

NEWS:

• While waiting for their friends to finish their lunches, the children, ‘Aunty May’ have been spending some time every day, reading interesting news articles and stories to the children.
• The Hindi Milap has a new space upstairs (SRAM).  The Ruby Room, on the lower floor, will serve as the music room and studio, for the cultural events scheduled for the term

MONTESSORI  EDUCATION IN THE CLASSES

Busy at work!

Exercises of Practical Life:

• Reinforcement of classroom routine - greeting, being respective, using the toilet, etc.

Sensorial:

• Puzzles - Parts of a tree
• Colour Tablets Box 1 and 2 - Pairing
• Touch Boards
• Cylinder Blocks - Pairing
• Tracing the Sandpaper Globe

MANDARIN

Talked about mid-Autumn festival

Talked about land and water

Rhyme: The White Bunny

Songs: Mid-Autumn Festival songs

EXTENDED-DAY

  Language - News Period (Olympics)

  Math - Long Bead Chains

  Sensorial - Colour Tablets variation and Coloured Cylinders variation

  Exercise of Practical Life - Folding clothes : a dress, t-shirt and a pair of socks

  Book - The Clever Cat and the Clown

The Mid-Autumn Festival practices have commenced!

BIAN DANG BAN

· Talked about the Mid-Autumn Festival

· Poem: The Colours of Autumn

· Songs: Mid-Autumn Festival songs

· Practice: (see photo) Mid-Autumn Festival performances practices

HINDI MILAP

Group discussion - भारतीय स्वतंत्रता दिवस, राखी, श्री कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी

Songs - 

भैया मेरे राखी के बंधन को निभाना। 

 फूलों का तारों का सबका कहना है । 

Story Time - बातूनी कछुआ 

INFANT COMMUNITY
The new children are gradually settling in the classroom and we 

look forward to a productive session in the coming week.

Presentation: Arranging Flowers, Gluing, Objects and cards: 

Sea animals

Songs: Good morning to you, Hello Children

Walking slowly in the classroom

Noteworthy!

We celebrate Dr. Maria Montessori's birthday on 31 August 2016.  Please click on this link to read more about this brilliant individual who gave the world so much and left a gift that continues to give.

Also, the Malaysian National Day falls on 31 August 2016.  Nope, it is not a public holiday here!

Staff Birthdays (past) in August!

Preeti Ephrem (shown here with her
daughter, Grace)

....and with that,