P1

PARENTS’ BRIEFING

DAY 2

Parent Seminar (Day 2)

Time Item Venue

11.30am to 11.35am PE makes you Happier, Healthier and Smarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6nnRte5M70&t=55s

Hall, Level 2

*Parents to wait in

canteen for pupil

dismissal after

session

11.35am to 12.00pm P1 Sports and Health Experience

12.00pm to 12.20pm P1 Information Communication Technology (ICT) Experience

12.20pm to 12.35pm P1 Aesthetics Experience

12.35pm to 1.00pm BREAK

1.00pm to 1.15pm Creative and Inventive Thinking

1.15pm to 1.30pm P1 Character Development Experience

YouTube Video: PE Makes you Happier, Healthier and Smarter

P1 Sports and Health

Experience

Agenda

• Programme for Active Learning (PAL)

• Sports Exposure Programme – Talent Management

• Healthy Meals in School Programme (HMSP)

• School Health Visit

Programme for Active

Learning (PAL)

What is it about? • Balancing Knowledge with (Soft) Skills & Values

• Emphasise non-academic programmes within curriculum

• Part of Efforts in Holistic Education

• Learning Outcomes: – PAL hope to nurture in children

• Confidence, Curiosity, Cooperation skills (3Cs)

• Socio-Emotional Competencies (SE Competencies)

– Self Awareness

– Self Management

– Social Awareness

– Relationship Management

– Responsible Decision Making

What is it about? • 5 Characteristics of PAL:

– Experiential in Nature

– Encompasses Learning in a Creative Way

– Provides Opportunities for Children to Create

– Incorporates Values Education and Social-Emotional Learning

– Fun and Enjoyable

• 4 domains – Sports and Games

– Outdoor Education

– Visual Art

– Performing Art

The PAL Experience

P1 Music Outdoor

Education

Sports and

Games

LEGO Creative and

Inventive

Thinking

ICT Touch Typing

P2 Dance Visual Art DRAMA

LEGO Creative and

Inventive

Thinking

ICT PowerPoint

Sports Exposure

Programme

What is it about?

• Collaborative partnership between Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and the Ministry of Education (MOE)

• Aims to advocate the importance of sports education, encourage sports participation in schools and increase sporting opportunities for the young

What is it about?

• Using sport as a strategy for Cedarians to have a healthier and better life through the impactful experience of Sport.

(Sport Singapore - Vision 2030) • “ … to enjoy a lifetime of active, healthy living.”

(PE Syllabus 2013)

What do we do?

•Exposure to Dance Sports •Experts and Professionals who has been in this area for many years as Vendors. •After School Hours (In Term 3) •50% of the cost is borne by school

Talent Management

Our Talent Management Model

Why we do it?

• To realise the potential of our pupils

• Create a strong portfolio for pupils to apply for Direct School Admission (DSA) through Sports/Aesthetics

• http://tinyurl.com/2017TalentManagement

Healthy Meals in School

Programme

Energy Balance

Why we do it?

According to HPB, the number of overweight and severely overweight children are projected to increase from 66,000 in 2012 (11.5%) to 75,000 (14%) in 2020.

Why we do it?

•Decreased physical activity. Increased use of technology and labour-saving devices

•Easy access to unhealthy, high-energy food and drinks

•Sedentary lifestyles. Hours of sitting down (TV, electronic games, Internet)

Why we do it?

• Eating right

gives us energy

helps us grow

protect us from illnesses

• Grow well and stay healthy

How we do it?

• Set meals

– 1 serving of rice &

alternatives

– 1 serving of meat &

alternatives

– 2 servings of vegetables

and fruit

HMSP Characteristics • Inclusion of wholegrains

• 20% of brown rice/wholemeal noodles

• Wholemeal/wholegrain bread

• Skinless poultry and lean meat

• No deep-fried, pre deep-fried and preserved food

• Ingredients used for food preparation are low-fat and with Healthier Choice Symbol

• Commercially prepared food must have the Healthier Choice Symbol

• Drinks sold contain less than 6grams of sugar per 100ml

HMSP Details • Price of set meals

• Small: $1.20

• Medium: $1.50

• Large: $1.80

• Food sold at the rice and noodle stalls will not be sold ala-

carte

• Rice

• Stir fried spinach

• Curry chicken

– 2 dessert spoon of

curry when requested

• A slice of apple

• Noodles

• Soup

• Potato patty (Begedil)

• Tauge

• Chicken slices

• A slice of apple

Parents as Partners • Preparing lunchbox following My Healthy Plate guidelines

• No birthday cakes, sweets and candies as gifts during birthdays – We recommend that you inform the Form Teacher and he/she will

sing a birthday song for your child.

– Should you want to have small gifts, please do give a simple yet useful gift for a P1 child (e.g. stationaries, educational toys)

• Continue to inculcate your child to eat healthy at home. – Always a balanced meal at home (Healthy Plate)

• Make visits to fast food eateries less frequent (once a month – preferably lesser).

Parents as Partners • 5 minutes Class Snack Break

• Between 12.00 – 12.30pm

• Dry finger food only

• Purchased earlier during recess or brought from home

• Not a replacement for lunch

What’s recommended

What’s not allowed

School Health Visit

Purpose • Detect common health conditions among

the school-going population through health screening.

• Reduce illness from communicable diseases among the school-going population through immunisation.

P1 Health Screening • Height and weight

• Eye test

• Hearing test

• General body checkup

• Immunisation • MMR booster 1 (against measles, mumps and rubella) if they have

not received during pre-school

• Oral Sabin 2nd booster (against polio)

Health Screening Schedule • 20 – 26 March 2017

• Letters and information booklets about health screening and

immunisation will be given to parents in Term 1. • Ensure that you have your child’s health booklet ready. Should you not

have them, do purchase them from the nearest polyclinic.

• International Students please do bring any medical forms that you may have to show the nurses.

• Your child’s Form Teacher will be collecting the health booklet at the end of Term 1.

• Online consent form for immunisation via https://childconsent.hpb.gov.sg , login via Singpass

Health Screening Schedule • School health team will print out a computer generated health

report of the student.

• If a student miss the health screening or there are problems detected in the student during the health screening, a referral letter will be given to the parents, for the student to visit the Student Health Centre, Health Promotion Board, for further assessment and management.

Useful Links • https://childconsent.hpb.gov.sg

• National Immunisation Registry

• https://www.nir.hpb.gov.sg

• HealthLine – 1800 223 1313

ICT @ Cedar Primary

Our key ICT Programmes for P1

•PAL Programme (Touch Typing, Basic Computer Operations)

•Home-based Learning Days

•Cyber Wellness Lessons (During Form Teacher Guidance Periods)

•Cyber Wellness Week

School Policy on the use of ICT

•Not required to bring phones or smart devices

•Not allowed to be used during lessons

•Payphones available

Our IT Resources

•Apple iPads

•School Laptops

•Chromebooks

Travel Declaration

•Visit our website at www.cedarpri.moe.edu.sg

P1 AESTHETICS

EXPERIENCE

YouTube Video: How playing an instrument

benefits your brain

MUSIC

TERM 1

• National Anthem

• School Song

• Lunar New Year Songs

• Introduction to Percussion Instruments

• Beat VS Rhythm

MUSIC

TERM 2

• Music Around the world (Mexico)

• Eurhythmics (Music and Movement)

• Solfege and hand signs

MUSIC

TERM 3

• National Day Songs

• Resonator bars

•Composition of Rhythmic Ostinato

MUSIC

TERM 4

• Children’s Day Songs

• Instrumental Ensemble • Combining percussion and resonator bars

ART

TERM 1 to TERM 4

• Make use of the drawing to share their imagination • Effective Communicator

• Create Visuals to show learning from student artworks

ART

TERM 1 to TERM 4

• Talk about what they see using art vocabulary.

• Present simple self reflection in the portfolio.

• My Achievements Folder

Creativity and Inventive

Thinking Programme

•To develop lifelong learners who are able to think creatively while striving for academic excellence

6-Year Programme

Community problem solving

Tinkering (Semester 2) Problem solving (Semester 1)

A-B-C

Analyse the problem

Build your ideas

Carry out your plan

Idea generation Building of prototypes from the available construction tools and

recycled materials Focusing tools

Idea generation

Focusing tools

Brainstorming CEDAR Idea Generator

(SCAMPER) Attribute

Listing/Morphological matrix

Force fitting

Evaluation matrix Paired comparison analysis

ALoU

Combine

Eliminate

Deconstruct

Reverse

Adapt

6-Year Programme

Building of prototypes from

the available construction tools

and recycled materials

P1- Lego marble maze/Science toys P2- Marble run P3- Energy in motion [strawbees) P4- Catapult (StrawBees) P5- StrawBees & MakeDo

6-Year Programme

Kingdom 1

Tinkering Sessions

Tier 2 – Future Innovators’ Programme

Pay it Forward Initiative

• Our graduating cohort also helped

produce teaching materials and

other products for their younger

school mates, in a Pay it Forward

initiative, to make their school

experience even better.

House Keeping Matters

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018

• 7.15 am

• Form Teachers in class

• Teachers on duty will bring them to class

• Before 7.15am stay in the canteen. Play at

parade square.

• Please do not walk your child into the school.

• Release them at the school gate or the car

porch.

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018

• Dismissal

• 1.15pm

• SCC – Has got their own arrangement with

their children. Do not enter the school to

fetch your child during dismissal. The SCC

Personnel will send your child out.

• Should you need your child to leave earlier,

please do liaise with the SCC personnel.

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018

• Dismissal

• Parents/Helpers - Please wait patiently at

the school gate. Teachers will bring your

child to the gate.

• Siblings – Siblings will fetch them from the hall

and bring them home. From week 2 onwards

your elder sibling should fix a place for your

younger one to meet him/her.

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018

• Dismissal

• School Bus – Pupils will still be dismissed from the

school hall. Week 2 onwards the school bus

operators will start to fetch them from the back

of the canteen. Teachers will fetch them there.

Please do help to ensure that your child knows

which bus to take.

• Should there be any changes in dismissal

arrangement please do inform the Form Teacher

via an email, prior to the date.

• Class and House Allocation

• By tomorrow after school

• Please do check the orange file

• You may start to purchase tomorrow after

school from

• Mon – Wed: 1.45pm to 2.30pm

• Thu and Fri: 1.15pm to 2.30pm

• Please sign in and out at the security post.

• Name tags – order at the bookstore

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018

• Recess and Snack Break

• Bring coins for them to purchase food from the

canteen.

• Should you pack for them, please do have a

balanced meal in mind. Healthier Choice logo is

a must.

• Parents are not allowed to purchase food from

our school canteen vendor.

• Snack break will be between 12.00 and

12.30pm.

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018

• Thermometer and Temperature

Taking Exercise

• Your child will be issued a thermometer on 5

January 2018.

• Every thermometer will be personalised.

• Do practice with your child, at home, to

learn on how to take their temperature.

Day 3 and 4 4 and 5 January 2018