Primary One Orientation 2019
Transcript of Primary One Orientation 2019
AGENDA
1) Introduction of school key personnel & teachers
2) Preparing Your Child for Primary 1
3) School Rules & Expectations
4) Traffic Matters
5) Parent Volunteer Group
Introduction of School Personnel
Vice Principals (Curriculum)
- Mrs Tan Mei Chuen
Vice Principal (Administration)
Mr Lim Boon Teck
Administrative Managers
- Mdm Zarina Amir
- Mdm Adelene Chan
Operations Manager
Mr Loh Chin Boon Lewis
Key Personnel
Name Designation
Mdm Yue Siew Poh Year Head P1/2
Mdm Janice Yeo Year Head P3/4
Mdm Wong Liang Ming Year Head P5/6
Mrs Luwena Ngoh HOD English
Ms Joyce Ong HOD Mother Tongue
Mrs Goh Wai Choo HOD Math
Ms Loo Ching Yee HOD Science
Key Personnel
Name Designation
Mdm Wang Huiwen HOD Character & Citizenship Education
Mdm Jane Woon HOD Discipline, Guidance & StudentLeadership
Mdm Serene Chan HOD Aesthetics
Mdm Sharifah Maznah HOD PE & CCA
Mrs Elaine Chong HOD English GEP
Mr Phan Wai Mun HOD Math GEP
Ms Chiam Lee Lee HOD ICT & Data Management
Mr Vincent Chia School Staff Developer
P1 Form & Co-Form Teachers (Tentative)
CLASS FORM TEACHER CO-FORM TEACHER
1A Ms Joyce Tan Ms Farhani
1B Ms Carolina Tan Ms Cheng Suk Mung
1C Mrs Clara Chin Mrs Claresta Chee
1D Ms Elaine Mok Ms Ng Beiyu
1 E Mdm Junaidah Mrs Heng Meng Tee
CLASS FORM TEACHER CO-FORM TEACHER
I F Ms Angeline Yeo Ms Selvi
1G Ms Eng Lik Boon Ms Vivian Sim
1H Ms Cassandra Quek Ms Wong Wei Yuan
1I Ms Joyce Tiang Ms Shahedah
AIMS OF PRIMARY EDUCATION
• Lay a strong foundation
• Nurture well-rounded individuals
and passionate lifelong learners
• Prepare the child for the future
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DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Strengthening efforts to nurture well-rounded
individuals
Moving away from over-emphasis on grades
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SCHOOL HOURS
Time Mondays – Fridays
7.30am Sing National Anthem & Pledge-taking
8.30 – 9.00 am Recess (P1E – P1I)
9.00 – 9.30 am Recess (P1A – P1D)
11.30 – 11.45am Snack Time
1.25pm School Dismissal
School Hours
7.25am to be in school
Assemble in the hall
Mondays & Fridays - Morning assembly in the hall
Tuesdays – Thursdays – Form teachers will take the students back to class by 7.10am
Mon – Wed : Bring an English story book
Thurs – Fri : Bring a Mother Tongue story book
Dismissal is at 1.25pm
Write your child’s pick-up point on name tag
B – If your child is taking school bus
C - If you are driving in to pick up your child at canteen
pick-up point
G – Gate 1 if you are picking your child at the gate
** Do not change pick-up points
Recess & Snack Time
30 min recess
P1E – P1I : 8.30 am to 9.00 am
P1A – P1D : 9.00 am to 9.30 am
** Thursdays – 1 hour recess
Snack time - 11.30am – 11.40am
Pack a dry healthy snack for your child to eat in class (eg fruits, cereal, sandwich, biscuits).
They are not allowed to go to canteen
Pupils’ Well-Being & Safety
Pupils’ well-being & safety are utmost important
Unwell children
- Keep the child at home if she is unwell
- If your child is unwell in school, parent will be informed.
She will wait in the Sick Bay in General Office for parent / guardian / helper to pick her up. Do make arrangements to pick your child once informed by office.
Submit a copy of the medical certificate to the form teacher when your child returns to school. If there is no MC, please submit a letter duly signed by parent
School Insurance Scheme
All students are covered by a basic insurance scheme which MOE has bought for all students
This insurance scheme will cover a nominal sum for outpatient expenses, hospitalisation, etc for accidents incurred in the school
Parents may want to have your own personal coverage if you deem it insufficient
School Terms
Take note of events in the School Calendar
Do not schedule holiday travel or staycation during school terms. This will result in the child missing lessons.
Permission has to be sought from P /VP if parents want to take the child out during the school term.
2 Jan 2019 (Thursday)
Pack a story book, pencil case, a small set of colour pencils and a water bottle
Things to bring on 1st day & 2nd day (notification given in Pupil Data Admin Package)
Give your child a snack for her recess or pocket money to buy food
Prepare additional snack for the snack time at 11.30am
Let your child come to the hall by herself
Parents are not allowed to linger in any part of the school compound
Parents are allowed to come into the school canteen and watchthe girls behind the barriers during the recess
(2 Jan 2020 only @ 8.20 / 8/.50am)
• Recess times - Buddy system (2 weeks)
P1E – P1I : 8.30 am to 9.00 am
P1A – P1D : 9.00 am to 9.30 am
HOW CAN I PREPARE MY CHILD FOR PRIMARY 1?
• Relating to others
• Developing good habits
• Nurturing positive learning attitudes
• Creating a conducive learning environment at home
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Home-School Partnership
Our children do best when schools and parents work hand in hand to support them.
Communication
- Pupils’ Handbook
- Telephone
- Email – Teachers’ email addresses (www.rgps.moe.edu.sg)
Teachers will return calls within office hours unless urgent. Please do not
call the teachers after 6pm on weekdays & all day on weekends /public
holidays.
3 working days to respond to email
School’s generic email address : [email protected]
Parents Gateway App
Download Parents Gateway (PG) App from App Store (iphone / android)
Sign in via Singpass
School notifications will be sent to you via PG
Keep the app logged in so that you can receive the notification alerts
Be involved in your child’s learning journey in RGPS
Join the Parent Volunteer Group
Give 1 day of your vacation leave to help out in the school programmes
SCOPE
• Getting to/out of RGPS
• Gate Opening Hours
• Cars Driving in During Morning Drop Off
and Dismissals
• Points to take note
• Watch Areas
• Pupils taking School Buses
Dunearn Rd & Hillcrest Rd junction
(Do not stop and wait along Dunearn Road & Hillcrest Road
During Dismissal)
Hillcrest Rd(Partial One-way:
1pm to 2pm4.30pm to 5.30pm)
GETTING TO RGPS
Service Road in RGPS(15 km/h Speed Limit)
GETTING TO RGPS
Enter through Filter Lane to Gate 1(watch out for pupils at Zebra Crossing)
Gate 3 (Exit to NJC Drive)
Stop at White Line (Give Way to vehicles coming down
from NJC [right])
GETTING OUT OF RGPS
NJC Drive(Do not park and wait)
NJC Drive & Dunearn Road junction(traffic light operating hours:
6.30am to 7.30am, 1.30pm to 2.30pm, 5pm to 5.30pm;
Can proceed to turn if red light is not lit)
GETTING OUT OF RGPS
• Main Gate near Guard Post
Gate Opening Hours: 6.30am to 6.30pm
Drop Off6.30am to 7.25am
Pick UpMon to Fri,
1.50pm to 4.30pm,
5.15pm to 6.30pm
• Pedestrain gate 6.30am to 7.25am
GATE 1 OPENING HOURS
• Gate near entrance of Filter Lane
Pick UpMon to Fri,
1.50pm to 2.30pm
• Pedestrain gate 6.30am to 7.25am
GATE 2 OPENING HOURS
• Rear Gate to NJC Drive
Gate Opening Hours 6.30am to 8.30am
12.30pm to 6.30pm
• Pedestrain gate 6.30am to 7.25am
GATE 3 OPENING HOURS
Driveway to Drop off Point(Keep to the right lane,
avoid overtaking)
Avoid stopping on second lane(15 km/h Speed Limit)
CARS DRIVING IN DURING MORNING DROP OFF
Overhead Linkbridgeleading to Hall
• Drop off along the whole stretch of driveway from Canteen to PARTS(Try to move ahead and fill the gap, watch out for cars when you move off)
• Do not drop your child at bus bay• No pupil is allowed to cross driveway at ALL TIMES even when she is
accompanied by adults – RGPS Safety Culture
CARS DRIVING IN DURING MORNING DROP OFF
Traffic WardenTraffic Warden
Alighting
Alighting
• Gate 2 will be opened
• Prepare a A3 paper with your child’s name and class written in BOLD and big letters for easy identification from afar
• Get your child to remember your car plate number
• Watch out for pupils and staff crossing Gate 2(Yellow Markings)
CARS DRIVING IN DURING AFTERNOON DISMISSAL
Canteen Pick Up Point for P1/P2/P3/P4 Pick up Point for P5/P6
Student Care Pick Up Point in the afternoon
PICKING UP
POINTS TO TAKE NOTE
Parking Around School Please exercise consideration Received complaints from neighbours on waiting and parking
during dismissals along Hillcrest Road, Dunearn Road, WattenRise, Watten Drive, Greenwood Avenue
Avoid parking at zig-zag lines near zebra-crossing, with 6m of any junction and along road with a centre solid white line
Switch off engine if you are early before the dismissal time LTA and Traffic Police are monitoring the traffic situation,
summons have been issued starting since 2017
Drive slowly in and around school zones – 15 km/h
RGPS Parent Drive Through Car Decal
Intent is to enhance security in the school campus as part of MOE’s baseline security measures
Only vehicles with decals displayed on windscreen will be allowed into School.
Each family will be given 1 school-issued decal
at no cost. For families that require more
decals, you may purchase them
from General Office at
$10 per piece.
POINTS TO TAKE NOTE
DON’Ts• Do not stop at the driveway longer than necessary.
• Do not park your vehicle or feed your child at the driveway.
• Do not alight to open your vehicle door for your child, let your child sit behind you so that she can get down on the safe side.
• Do not wait at the school driveway when your child has not arrived.
• Do not leave engine on if you are early to wait for pickup.
WATCH AREAS
Avoid making 3-point turn near the zebra crossing along HillcrestRoad leading up to NJC (morning)
Avoid stopping car along Hillcrest Roadleading up to NJC (two way traffic)to walk child to Gate 1 in the morning
On one side of Hillcrest Road leading up to NJC (no double parking) – summons have been issued to drivers who parked here with no one in the car
At Watten Rise/Drive (Not along the road with solid white line)
POSSIBLE WAITING PLACES
Singapore Schoolbus Transport Association (SSTA) is the School Bus Service Provider
Bus Co-ordinatorMr Ong Chai Heng, 90018385
Feedback > Drivers > Bus Co-ordinator (Mr Ong Chai Heng)> Operations Manager (Mr Lewis Loh)
PUPILS TAKING SCHOOL BUSES
PUPILS TAKING SCHOOL BUSES
• Pupils are not allowed to go to canteen once they have boarded the buses
• Buses will start to move off at 1.40pm
• Remind your child to put on seat belt on bus
Safety of the children and adults is important
While the school is trying to look out for the safety of all pupils by deploying security guards, parent volunteers and staff as traffic wardens inside and outside the school, we need a whole community
approach to ensure that everyone is safe.
This will cause some inconvenience but we appeal to parents / guardians to place the safety of all children and the interest of the neighbouring
community above convenience and one’s own interest
School Rules & Expectations
• Be punctual for school
√ Pupils will need to be in school by 7.25am. Morning assembly will begin at 7.30am. Announcements will be read.
√ Pupils who arrive after 7.30am will be considered late. They will need to go to the general office and obtain a late-coming slip to pass to their teacher in class.
- receive a warning letter (late for 4 times)
- community service to school (late for 6 times)
• Attendance
√ Pupils must be in school every day during the school term.
√ A pupil who is absent from school needs to produce a medical certificate or letter from parent immediately upon her return to school.
√ If a pupil falls ill after she has arrived in school, she can only leave the school when a parent or guardian comes to pick her up.
Please sign her out at the General Office.
School Rules & Expectations
• Displays good behaviour – be gracious, responsible
and has integrity
• Responsibility
– Bring and submit her homework and forms punctually to her
teachers.
– Note down any homework or information in her Student
Handbook.
• Integrity
– Do not provide answers or look at her friend’s work during
spelling
• Graciousness – be kind and considerate to her peers.
School Rules & Expectations
• Use of mobile phones is only for the purpose of
communicating with parents.
• For urgent matters, pupils can use the general office
phone to contact their parents (e.g. when they are
unwell).
– During the holidays, please ask your daughter to memorise
your mobile phone numbers in case they need to call you.
– Alternatively, once your daughter receives the student
handbook, please write your mobile numbers in her student
handbook.
School Rules & Expectations
• Subject Reps (Primary 1 to Primary 6)
• RGPS Leaders (Primary 1 to Primary 6)
• Values Ambassadors (Primary 1 to Primary 6)
• NE Ambassadors (Primary 4 to Primary 6)
• Green Ambassadors (Primary 4 to Primary 6)
• CCA Leaders (Primary 4 to Primary 6)
• Prefects (Primary 4 to Primary 6)
• Executive Prefects (Primary 5 & Primary 6)
Leadership Roles
Before school reopens …
Have a chat with your daughter about the
following matters
• Money-related matters– Go not give their friends any money or help their
friends pay for anything.
– If your daughter or her friend forgot to bring money to
school, tell them to approach their teachers.
Before school reopens …
• Food-related matters
– Tell your daughter not to share food with her friends as
some pupils have food allergies.
– Please prepare enough food for your daughter so that
she does not need to ask her friends for food (during
snack time or on the school bus).
• Health-related matters
– Let your daughter know that if she is unwell in school, please inform
the teacher immediately so that the teacher can attend to her.
• If you have any concerns, please contact your
daughter’s teachers.
• You can call up the school and leave a message for us
to get back to you.
Open Communication