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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
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