Yuying SHG

Shifted

2010-02-22T00:38:00.005+08:00

Please visit our new blog at http://yuyingshg.wordpress.com (:

Afternoon games

2009-08-01T17:10:00.001+08:00

SHG Movie Outing

2009-06-27T16:36:00.001+08:00

SHG June Camp

2009-05-31T14:32:00.021+08:00

Centre-based training for 2009 (Upcoming Event)

2009-02-24T23:15:00.004+08:00

Centre-based training for volunteers is scheduled on 25 April (Sat) from 3 - 5pm. The children will come for 1 hour SHG (from 2 - 3pm) on that day.

The first training will be focus on allowing volunteers to understand the importance of volunteers in the SHG programme. At the same time, learn simple teaching theories to help them understand the children better, and share some techniques to help them in 'controlling' the child.

The training content is as follows:
1. Objective of SHG.
2. Roles of a volunteer (Mentor vs Teacher)
3. Cognitive development of a child (learning behaviour)+learning difficulties
4. Teaching Techniques (Simple guidelines of mentoring)
5. Behavioural Modification (Classroom Mangement)

Kindly reserve the date. Attendance is strongly encouraged.

Commencement of SHG 2009 (21Feb09)

2009-02-22T14:19:00.035+08:00

Briefing to parents and students

Tea break & Getting-To-Know-One-Another

Games: Whacko

Games: Bang Bang!

Games: Say-The-Name

Games: Untangle Hands

Lesson Starts:

CDAC "READY FOR SCHOOL"08 - Rice Raising (21Dec08)

2008-12-21T16:31:00.001+08:00

CDAC "READY FOR SCHOOL" 2008 is an event to help the less privilege students under CDAC's assistance programmes to cope with the additional expenses in the new acdemic year. I have never planned to moblise anyone from Yuying SHG for the event, knowing that VSS has never had any problem in getting people involved so far. Neither it has come to my mind to share this event in our SHG blog initally.

However, I was suprised to see 2 of our new volunteers from Yuying SHG (Weihao and Eugene.C) taking their own initiative to take part in the event at CDAC HQ when VSS emailed them for assistance. It was so concident that both of them were involved in the Rice Donation counter. The volunteers at the counter were to carry and pile up rice donated by the public. To my understanding, it was targeted to raise 10,000kg of rice for 400 low-income familes selected from CDAC Workfare Programme.

While I was volunteering in the event, I witnessed our volunteers strong volunteerism spirit. Putting in their strength and sweat to carry packets of heavy rice brought in by donors. I also saw the overwhelming response from the heart-warming public communities coming forward to donate the rice. Interesting scene! I was thinking that it would be good to share with all of you :

Our Boys: Weihao & Eugene.C

Scene of Rice brought in by a Family Car

Scene of Rice brought in by another Family Car

Scene of Rice brought in by a Motor Bike

Scene of Rice brought in by Van & Truck

Scene of Rice collected from a nearby Supermarket donated by a family

Scene of Rice brought in by Lorry

Scene of Rice brought in by Sponors (Walk-In)

Our boys stocking up the Rice

Our Boys: Spirit of Volunteerism (With Sweat and Passion!)

Their Harvest

**According to my understanding, the rice will be distributed to 400 low-income familes in mid January 2009 before Chinese New Year.

The entire CDAC "READY FOR SCHOOL" event is more than just rice donation. It mainly constitute programmes like, games stalls, stage performance, free haircut, kids workshops, cancer screening, food & drinks, parents talk...etc. To my understanding, the event involves 400 volunteers in 3 event locations. It ended with 3500 families leaving the event with School Packs & Family Packs. Getting ready their children back to school :-)

Jimmyzie

Sentosa Outing 29Nov08

2008-11-30T15:34:00.000+08:00

Sentosa Briefing

Bravo!! off we go for a new adventure.......

Amazing Race Briefing
Puzzle Game anyone?
Amazing Race 1st challenge
Off we go............
Sentosa here we come......haha.....
the young ones "gives" seats to the "Old ones" ...haha.... =p
Scenery

Station Games at Images Of Singapore

Dragon Trail Walk - Exhausted Kids

Station Games - At Tanjong Beach

Sentosa LUGE station

Graduation Ceremony 2008

2008-11-09T19:46:00.000+08:00

Wishes all Yuying students all the best in yours future studies and endeavours.
Good luck and have a bright future ;) Take care =)

From this to ...............

wow.... this is great ....... yours creativity have surpass me haha....
Well done and great work =)

CDAC Volunteers

Volunteers and students having relaxing moments

Yuying students

Students settling down

Getting ready for graduation rehearsal ceremony

Yuying performance
You are the best

Yuying best student
Congratulations!!! :)

Hi 5! anyone??...haha.. next better player..haha

Ball of Hope
May your wishes comes True =) Gambate!!!

Clips

Rehearsal begin.....

In line, ready and go.........

relaxing moments.......

Collection of Certificates

Performance

U are the best =)

Well done !!! =)

Sorry for incomplete video, battery flat.

Cheers!!!

Sentosa Debrief

Bravo!!! ;) Great job ladies and gentlemen, Well done!!! =) A very successful event.
Thank you for your support and cooperation !
Millions claps for all of us =)

SHG Graduation Ceremony - 8th Nov08

2008-11-09T11:52:00.000+08:00

Check out the SHG Grad Ceremony photo from this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/howyeelee/SHGGraduation2008?authkey=SRg5Mzzsglg&pli=1#
(contributed by Yee Lee)

Another set of photos will be uploaded into the blog later. :-)

Appreciation: Thanks to all volunteers who has contributed their efforts for past 8-10 months. Thanks to volunteers who has contributed so much to the Grad Ceremony rehearsal over the past few weeks. Especially to Lynn, Jas, Nicholas, Cindy, Tasmin, ZiQin. Also special thanks to Eugene.L, Poh Leng , Yi Xian, Ching Yang and Yeong Sheng who has been helping out with the lower primary students exam prep while the rehearsal is running concurrently. And not forgetting Yee Lee who has been giving us lots of support and advice over the full term of SHG. Cheers!

Exam Is Over - GAMES TIME!!!!

2008-11-01T18:33:00.000+08:00

SHG Graduation08 Ceremony Preparation

2008-11-01T18:24:00.000+08:00

Clay Art Making

2008-11-01T18:23:00.000+08:00

Moving Towards SHG Graduation08 - Retaining Memories Of Your Efforts and Bond

2008-10-06T01:02:00.000+08:00

SHG Graduation Ceremony Committee Members

2008-10-06T00:37:00.000+08:00

Appointed SHG Graduation Ceremony Committee Members:

1. Nicholas
2. Jas
3. Lynn
4. Cindy
5. Tasmin
6. ZiQin

Note: 1st SHG Graduation Organising Committee Meeting, 10 Oct 08

PSLE Maths Preparation

2008-10-06T00:11:00.000+08:00

PSLE Maths Revision: Last Saturday, we drilled our students with formulas.

Volunteers please note that there will be no P6 SHG this coming Saturday (11Oct).

CDAC SHG Very Own Blog

2008-09-28T22:49:00.000+08:00

We are moving into the new era of fostering CDAC SHG centres collaboration: cdacshg.blogspot.com

It was brought up in the recent SHG co-ordinators meeting that SHG centres should have a platform for sharing information. HuiXian (staff) have done up a simple blog. The blog webby is cdacshg.blogspot.com. Currently, coordinators from each centre have access to the blog. Some coordinators have delicated the roles to their respective centre volunteers who are specialised in blogging.

Are you also look for more friends in other centres? Start sharing interesting topics like game ideas, problems faced during SHG sessions or new suggestions. Share your friendsters or facebook addresses. Build a nested network of friends that have passion for sharing and teaching. Encourage more volunteers into our SHG family.

Check out the new blog and see how we shall move in to build up blog with the rest of other centres. Share your views. Let's think and plan. Cheers!

Jimmyzie

Children's Day Celebration08

2008-09-27T23:42:00.000+08:00

P6 Lesson Before Celebration

Celebration Begins

Games Briefing Hit the Cans down!
Pairing the cards
Ping Pong

Throw these rings through the stands

Badminton - Aim into the circle

Memory game - remember what you see in the pictures

Fishing

Makan Time - Food!

Fun session with the students and volunteers during the meal

Goodies Bags

Top winners for station games

Prize Winners

Teachers' Day Celebration 08

2008-08-30T23:49:00.000+08:00

Our Dedicated Team Of Teachers 2008

Sharing Our Joy With Kids

The Celebration Cake
Our dedicated Teachers
Yuying SHG "Chief in command" in action...haha...

MAKAN TIME!!
The Celebration Begins - BBQ

Preparation for BBQ

Re-enforcement coming in.......haha..dun prey prey...

All Waiting for food to be automatically served...haaa....

Night Falls....What a nice ambience!

Ahhhh!!!!....Fire Still Can't Start!.. What is the TIME now?!?!... Why only see SMOKE?!?!

No worries..... there a will there a way......haha

See.....keke......

Hey thanks!! for the labour.... i guess "yuying SHG can cook"...haha....

Great job !!! =)

Now we can sit down, enjoys the food. Thanks!

A game of UNO after the BBQ - What a wonderful team of volunteers! :-)

PSLE Oral Starts Tomorrow! - 14th Aug08

2008-08-13T23:46:00.000+08:00

We did a final Oral preparation for the students who have turned up for the weekday class this evening. Every kids went through 1 round of mock oral exam (1-to-1) and the volunteers gave their comments at the end of it.

Special thanks to:
- Y.Xian who has prepared the assessment papers in advance for the kids today.
- Lawreance and Y.Sheng who have handled the mock oral exam and gave their precious advice to the students.
- Volunteers who have planned, conducted and helpout in the Oral lessons since April on every Saturday.

Jimmyzie

Student Outing at East Coast Park - Videos

2008-07-20T10:23:00.000+08:00

Games briefing

Getting things started

Organizing the playful children

The children and volunteers enjoying the game of frisbee.

Lunch Break
It's MAKAN Time! .. Yummy

More food for me please

After lunch, everyone was energized to build their dream sand castles.

Briefing for sand castle building

Sand-castle building in progress

Collecting Seawater

Collecting Seashells

Putting the finishing touches to the sand castles ...... Jia Yu!

The sand castles were built. Bravo! From the final creative sand castle products, it looks like the hard work paid off. Good job everyone.

Volunteers and Children enjoying some more games ..... before the rain came.

Playing a game of "monkey"

Poison ball game

THE END

Student Outing at ECP - Pictures

2008-07-19T20:17:00.000+08:00

Our 1st Weekday Lesson 08 - My Experience

2008-07-16T23:02:00.000+08:00

We started our weekday lesson for the P6 students today. I was late and skipped my dinner. While I was a few meters away from the centre, I received a call from one of the students asking for my whereabout. Luckily, C.Yang and Y.Sheng were there to attend to the students before I arrived.

This is not my first time conducting a weekday class, but it is my first time co-ordinating and at the same time teaching a group of students. Luckily, Y.Lee has given me the advice to prepare the assessment papers before the lesson. I could have been lost if I had not done the preparation the night before.

After the lesson started, it came to my surprise that only the guys volunteers could turn up for the lesson. To "protect" them and myself, we had to switch to a classroom that had a glass window that was viewable by the counter aunty. (hmm....it seems to be quite a pain to be a guy volunteer or mentor heh?...Haaa..)

The class went on smoothly after that. Each of us take 2 students. Some students brought their school homework along and we guided them. The student which I was teaching got stuck in most of her school's Maths questions. I had to give lots of attension to her for the whole evening. My brain was nearly drained by the time we left at 9pm. That was really a Challenge!

Jimmyzie

CDAC Volunteers' Day - 12 July 08

2008-07-13T18:30:00.000+08:00

New Member In Our Family

2008-07-07T22:24:00.000+08:00

Eugene.C has just joined us last Saturday. He is currently serving his NS. I do not know much about him yet. But he was assigned to the new student last week.

His email reply to my request for an intro of himself on Sunday:

"I'm just a regular heartlander who wishes to do his part for the community. Helping out at yuying is my way of contributing back. Being slow to warm up and painfully shy, i usually look serious and unfriendly. But once i get to know you better i can be very fun-loving. " - Eugene.C

Let's welcome him to our Big Family! Looks like he really needs to get a bit of warm up. I think the coming 19th July outing would be a good ice-breaker for him too.

Jimmyzie

Prep for Student Outing 19th July - ECP (Updates)

2008-07-07T21:03:00.000+08:00

yay and now also for the confirmed stuff for outing! =))

fishball - ziqin
drinks - lynn and jas
fried rice - yong sheng
jelly/sandwich - yixian
trash bag, plates, forks and spoon, cups - shg
nuggets - jimmy

Thanks everyone! `\ ^_^ /`

also, we will be having 2 way transport (from and to cdac building)!

cya all at the outing! =)

Jas.

CDAC Volunteers' Day - 12 July 08 (Upcoming Events)

2008-07-04T23:21:00.000+08:00

(Thanks to Y.Xian for compiling the attendance list)

Timing:
Volunteers are to be seated by 7pm for the dinner (early bird activities from 5.30 – 7pm).

Dress Code: Smart Casual
Location: The Chevrons, 48 Boon Lay Way, BallRoom

Awards:
Cheers to our recipients of awards from Yuying:
1) How YL – 10 years LSA + Commendation Award!
2) Evelyn – 10 years LSA
3) Jenny – 10 years LSA
4) Belina – 5 years LSA

SHG Program:
SHG’s Saturday mentoring session will end at 3.30pm on 12 July 08 (Saturday). Our oral lesson will be cancelled that day. We shall take 1.5 hrs for purely tutoring.

Prep for Student Outing 19th July - ECP (Upcoming Events)

2008-06-30T21:33:00.000+08:00

Hi all!!!! =D

now for the all exciting 19 july students outing!! yay it appears that lots of ppl can make it!!

the confirmed people going are
eugene
tasmin
ziqin
ching yang
lawrence
lynn
nicholas
cindy
yixian
jas
jimmy
duan qin
yong sheng

did i miss anyone out?? = p (oops REALLL sorry if your name is left out!!! tell me n i will put it in!! =D)

and now, for the proposed itenary for the outing! *drumrolls*

Venue: east coast park

Activity:
1300 – 1400
Assembly, attendance, transport to ECP

1400 – 1430
Frisbee

1430 – 1530
Soft ball games
Bury items for treasure hunt (a few volunteers)

1530 – 1600
Treasure hunt!

1600 – 1700
Sandcastle building competition

1700-1800
Transport back to shg

any suggestions on how we can improve it, feel free to post or tag or email! =D

ohh!! and just in case we get hungry, we can have a pinic, and yes! we can bring the following!
- trash bags
- recommended food (eg bee hoon, sandwich, fishball, nuggets)
- paper plates, cups, forks, spoons n drinks (which we will get from sheng shiong)
- frisbee

anyone wanna volunteer to bring any of the above? =)

yay lets look forward to 19 july!

Jas.

Thoughts on the Training Session

2008-06-24T20:31:00.000+08:00

The topic for the 1st half of the training session was “Mentoring Teens in the Internet Age”. I thought the talk was well-delivered and was at an acceptable pace. The talk’s purpose was probably to serve as a good introduction (or a rude shock?) to parents who had not been previously exposed to the world of online activities. But to most people who are already familiar with the majority of the talk’s content, it may have seemed a little boring.

In the end, the talk did its job: it was educational, with its analysis on digital divides, and the problems of online blogging influences & gaming addictions. It laid out the complexities of a difficult problem, and presented the challenge facing parents and educators, all in an easily-digestible format.

The 2nd half’s topic was “Achieve Your Breakthrough in Learning Difficulties” by Dr Doris A. The verdict on this talk is a bit more controversial; whether the talk was good or bad was a matter of opinion. I’m of the opinion that it was bad.

In all fairness, we should understand what is not part of this criticism. That the speaker had a genuine real-life experience, and is sincere in wanting to help others; this is something probably not subject to doubt. There was also no known intention to mislead.

However, as the talk progressed, something inside me cringed a little when I started to feel I was in the middle of an MLM talk. The traits were there: the promotion of a product that seemed too good to be true, oversimplification of a complex issue, over-repetition of few simple points.

A quick search on the web reveals that the Irlen method is indeed not without controversy (“Critics claim that the symptoms of those with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome are related to already known visual disorders.”) The failure to at least acknowledge the existence of the controversy probably undermines the credibility of the talk.

Another thing that probably did not sit well with the audience was the over-emphasis on a single topic (the Irlen method). The broader issues associated with Dyslexia, and alternative methods of treatment seemed to have been ignored or brushed over.

Overall, I felt that both halves of the training session were at least informative. (I did not know about cherry credits or Irlen method before that day.) Even if there were parts where the pace was a little slow (I took 2 naps that afternoon.)

C."Fair and Balanced"Yang

Captain’s Ball Tournament Photos (21June)

2008-06-22T21:59:00.000+08:00

The team

Candid Shots

In Action

P.S. A very big THANKS to Y.Xian for taking the pictures and also touching up the pix for ease of display and uploading to blog. Looks like we all have that "Ahem!" - A Healthy Team Spirit. YOU ALL MAKE THIS MIRACLE HAPPENS !!! :-)

BBQ at Glendale Park on Sat 28 Jun at 7pm

2008-06-22T14:24:00.000+08:00

There will be a BBQ gathering at Evelyn's place on this Sat 28 June after SHG. Among Evelyn's guests, there will be current and ex-SHG volunteers.

Going from CDAC are (updated 25-Jun): Y.Li, DQ, YSheng, Tasmin, Eugene, Z.qin, Y.xian, C. Yang

Thanks to Evelyn and Y.Lee for organizing the event.

Basketball & Captain’s Ball Tournament (21June)

2008-06-18T21:32:00.000+08:00

This saturday after training, there will be a Volunteers-only BBall/CBall tournament.

We are going to play BBall if we have a court. however, if there is no court available, we will play CBall in HQ.

The purpose of this "tournament" is to foster a better relationship between centres. "beat iron must be hot" (da tian yao cheng re) hee:) Since we are still fresh from camp, we should keep this going.

We have to let Tracy know if anyone from YY centre will not be able to make it.

June Camp 14-15Jun08 (Photos)

2008-06-15T21:54:00.000+08:00

Appreciation Thanks to all the volunteers and committee members that make this Camp a success. Hopefully, we can work together to make this joyous moment happen again next year :-)

1. Starting Point at YuYing Centre:

2. Address By Camp Commandant: 3. Moving to Dormitories: 4. Ice Breaking:

5. Flag Making

6. Lunch

7. Game: My Fair Lady 8. Our Kids Are Hot and Tired After a few stations 9. Game: Exercise Nut! 10 Game: Poison Water 11. Game: Spider Web

12. Game: Amazing Maze 13 Game: Cinderalla 14. Bi Shou Hua Jiao

15. Hollywood Time! 16. Night Activity 17. Reach Out!

18. Low Wall

19. Put out the fire!

20. Other Games

21. Cheers

22. Volunteers that put in the extra effort 23. An Emgering Bond

Count Down to June Camp08 (1 more day)

2008-06-12T23:10:00.000+08:00

Logistic:
(1) 12 empty cans (task completed)
(2) 6 ping pong balls (task completed)

Volunteers attendance updates:
(1) Y.Li - Not coming
(2) Q.Miin - Not coming.

Students attendance updates:
Athena will leave at 12pm from camp site on Sunday. Parents picking her up.

Shuffle Grouping:
Lynn will shift from Grp3 to Grp5 to replace Q.Miin.

Volunteers Sleeping Arrangement:
Free and easy but based on the quantity of volunteers required in each Domintory.

Things to Bring: Start Packing now! (Details of packing list was sent via email on 10thJun) Email down? Never receive? Call for help immediately!

Count Down to June Camp08 (2 more days)

2008-06-12T21:26:00.000+08:00

Logistic:
(1) 12 empty cans (task completed)
(2) need 4 ping pong balls (P.Leng got 2 and he is trying the get the rest)

Most of the logistic stuff have been found & bought by CDAC staff though our centre is in-charge of the logistic for this June Camp. So, be pro-active and lend out your helping hands to help anytime you can :-)

Volunteers attendance updates:
(1) Y.Li - Not coming due to last minute work committment.
(2) Q.Miin - Just fall ill. Attendance unconfirmed now.

Grouping and Sleeping Arrangement:
Grouping an sleeping arrangement list is out. Waiting for other centres co-ordinators comments.

The camp grouping is as what we have proposed. Few things that we are going to take note for the sleeping arrangement:
1. Lionel has no "kaki" in the Dormitory.
2. W.Yu and T.Wee in the same Dormitory.
3. Kevin and Shaun in the same Dormitory.
4. Diana and Y.Zhen in the same Dormitory.

Nothing serious but something that we want to take note of.

Things to Bring:
(1) Bring your own plates, utensils & mugs for all meals. (important)
(2) Rug for area cleaning. (additional)

Details of packing list was sent via email on 10thJun.

Count Down to June Camp08 (3 more days)

2008-06-11T22:53:00.000+08:00

Logistic:
(1) 12 empty cans (task completed today)
(2) need 6 ping pong balls (anyone?)

Photo Memories Of Last Year Camp:

Count down to June Camp08 (4 more days)

2008-06-10T22:31:00.000+08:00

Reporting time: 9am
Location: HQ

Logistic (Left 1 more item to settle): 12 Ping Pong balls (anyone has it?)

Running the show on that day: Guys that are going for the camp ,please get ready to help carry those logistic items to the bus on that day.

More About June Camp 08 (14-15Jun)

2008-06-04T21:54:00.000+08:00

Our Duties:

1) Night duty
There are 8 centres. Punggol SHG have the smallest no. of volunteers. Yishun have about 32 volunteers. Lights out is 10pm while rise & shine is 6.30am. 8.5hrs to be split. We did a draw lots and got the 1st shift for sentry duty: 11pm-12am :-)

2) Distribution of food duty
We will be helping to distribute the food during all meal times. Food will be distributed by centres. There will be just 4 meals (lunch, dinner & supper on 14th Jun and breakfast on 15th Jun).

3) Area cleaning duties
Ensuring areas like the toilets, dormitories and dinning hall are clean. The places where we use to play games should be cleaned up directly after using. Dinning hall should also be cleaned up after every meal. The children sleeping in the individual dormitories should clean up the respective dormitories that they sleep in. While toilets shall be shared by 2 dormitories, so those staying at the dormitories will clean up the toilets.

New Member in Our Family

2008-06-04T21:31:00.000+08:00

Sorry for this late introduction. Cindy P. has just joined us last Saturday. She is assigned to teach Sharon. Her speciality: First Aid. She won't be with us this coming Saturday nor the June camp. You will be able to catch up with her during the Volunteers Training Day i.e 21st June. She will also be one of the committee members who is organising the students outing.

Cindy, welcome to the family :-)

Jimmy N.

A Message from a New Blog Gardener

2008-06-03T20:24:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone, this is a message from the new 'gardener' hired to maintain the blog (I'm the one who has decided to name himself C.Yang on this blog). I've gotten some easy tasks out of the way, such as updating info on upcoming events in the previous entries. The next 2 tasks have left me scratching my head a little.

First, we would like to pay tribute to efforts of the 2 VJC guys who has just left us: Eugene Y. and Nicolas P. You guys did a great job organizing the oral sessions and games sessions. Sadly, some of us did not get a chance to get to know you guys that well. (I'm of couse speaking as someone from this group) Therefore, I may not be the best person to write an appreciation piece for you guys. So can anyone out there send me the most / least flattering photos /descriptions /biographies / roasts of these 2 guys? I will put it together and post it once ready. If you guys do not hear about this again, then: Eugene and Nicholas, this is all to your tribute. :-P

Second, we have an objective of keeping the blog lively so that everyone expect to see something new on the blog every week. This can help us bond together and forge a Yuying SHG spirit. (These are Jimmy's wishes, which we probably all agree with) Some of us probably have some fantastic opinions on how to go about this. Therefore, please share your ideas.

One thing that perhaps we can start out with is to have everyone be able to write on this blog. If you like authorship permission, just mention that to me or Jimmy. Or if you have a rambling post (like this one I'm writing) which you feel contains 'bo liao' material, and emailiing everyone is spamming, then you can also send it to me to publish. I guess the only condition for any posts on this blog is that it must be linked to SHG activities (however loose the link).

C.Yang

Follow-up on group blogging
For group blogging, if you're logged in as the admin, you can add other authors by clicking the tabs in this order: Settings -> Permissions -> under 'Blog Authours', click on 'Add authors'.

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe that in order for you to be added as another author, you need to have a Blogspot or a Google account (not necessarily under a google email address; in fact, my google account is under a yahoo email address)

If you would like your Blogger/Google account to be added as an author to this blog, just send an email telling us the email address you use.

June Camp 14-15 June

2008-06-03T17:53:00.000+08:00

Here is the attendance list and group information for the upcoming June camp.

Some recce information on the camp site collected by Punggol SHG can be found here:
http://punggolshg.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html

Student Outing on 19th July

2008-06-03T17:24:00.000+08:00

Hey everyone, here's some information on the upcoming student outing in July.

Place: Bukit Timah Hill
Date and time: 19th July (Saturday), 1pm-6pm
Coordinating parties: Jaslene, Y.Xian, Lynn, Cindy and Nicholas

Organizers, please send us the itinerary to publish here once its ready, ok?

Volunteers' Training Session 21st June

2008-05-24T23:02:00.000+08:00

TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SHG VOLUNTEERS:
Date : 21 June 2008 (Sat)
Time : 2pm – 6pm
Venue : CDAC Auditorium

Programme Outline:
2.00pm – 4.00pm Session 1 – Mentoring Teens in the Internet Age
4.00pm – 4.30pm Tea Break
4.30pm – 6.00pm Session 2 – Achieve Your Breakthrough in Learning Difficulties

* Attendance is compulsory after registration, as a seat would have been allocated. Please do not deprive others of the chance!

ATTENDANCE
Attending: Lynn, Jaslene, Eugene L., C.Yang, Y.Sheng, Lawrence, C.Miin, Z.Qin, Tasmin, P.Leng, Jimmy N.

Pre-Camp08 Activity Photos (18 May)

2008-05-18T23:42:00.000+08:00

Refreshment After Ice-Breaking

1st Game

Shoe Lace

Our Yuying Guys

Walking on Papers

Water Game1

Water Game2

END OF DAY - WET and "SIOW"!!!!!

Bully-Free Forum

2008-05-16T23:31:00.000+08:00

Singapore Children’s Society is organizing a Bully-Free forum titled “School Bullying – Bystanders can make a difference!” on 12th July 2008 to address the dynamics of adult and peer bystanding. The forum will also provide participants with strategies to diminish school bullying through positive bystander intervention.

Date: 12 July 2008 (Sat)
Time: 9am – 12.30pm (to be seated by 8.45am)
Venue: Singapore Power Auditorium

It is a SHG session day, but the forum is in the morning till 12.30pm in town.
Those interested, pls submit your name.

June Camp Consent Forms

2008-05-16T23:15:00.000+08:00

(1) We will be giving the consent form to SHG students for the June Camp tomorrow. The lower part of the consent page needs to be tear out, the top part is for the parents to keep.

(2) Volunteers under 21 years who are going for the June Camp has to fill up a consent form too.

Deadline for the students and volunteers to submit the consent forms next Sat, 24th May

Pre-camp08 Details

2008-05-16T22:39:00.000+08:00

Details of the Pre-camp08:

Date: 18 May 2008 (Sunday)

Time: 2pm – 6pm

Venue: CDAC HQ (meet at 1st floor of Blk B, outside the salon / B1-03 SSC Dept)

The objectives of the pre-camp are to:

1) get to know volunteers from other centres better J

(Especially as a lot of teamwork will be needed for June Camp as well from volunteers. Volunteers from different centres will be mixed together in each team like the children.)

2) understand how the games prepared for the June Camp are played

(Some volunteers will act as Station Masters while volunteers attached to teams will have ideas & hint the children what to do.)

3) feedback on the games, so that there is still time to change any game if needed.

Our Activities (26Apr08)

2008-05-10T22:55:00.000+08:00

Suggested guidelines on handling Bullying‏

2008-05-10T13:15:00.002+08:00

Based on ex-SHG Coordinators, the following are recommended standard procedures for handling Bullying & Sexual Advancements:

Bullying

- All communications have to be in written form.
- Get all parties involved to write a statement of what happened.
- Inform Secretariat (me or Huixian)
- Secretariat will notify the school of findings and work with school. This is due to CDAC having limited control of what we can do to the children and thus, working with school is more important and urgent.
- Parties will have to be counselled and understand that they are developing signs of Bullying.
- Protect our children from confrontation from other parents. All parents have to be informed of the matter (after all information has been gathered).
Arrange the parents to a meeting regarding the matter after thorough documentation and investigation. Report the matter to them transparently and request the parents to assist in the learning and character development of the children.

* The purpose of the meeting is not to nail the culprit, but rather a learning phase that the children are going through. Parents and us have to work together to help the children grow into responsible adults.

Sexual Advancements

- Get more information on the names of the persons involved, where and when the thing happened.
- Get the volunteer who heard the incident to ask the child how she felt about the whole incident.
- Let the child knows that we will be informing the school (if the incident took place in school or involved school mates).
- (If the incident took place in school or involved school mates) Secretariat will inform the school and let the school know of the matter. The school counselor will be able to help with the case.

All cases are sensitive and need to be dealt with carefully.
*above idea extracted from SHG coordinators group emailing list

No claim situations‏

2008-05-10T13:15:00.001+08:00

Please note that there will be no allowance for the followings:
- SHG Break
- SHG outings
- June Camp
- Pre-Camp
- Training Day
- Graduation Ceremony

Protect Our Yourselves - Volunteers

2008-05-10T13:15:00.000+08:00

Attached is a recent article on ex-teacher’s molestation case.
Volunteers go out all the way to help the children, but got to keep some distance. Not just to protect ourselves against accusations, but also not to be ‘abused’ by our children and parents!

Up-Coming SHG Activities

2008-04-29T21:54:00.000+08:00

18May (Sun, afternoon) Pre-Camp @ HQ

9-21June SHG 2 Weeks Break

14-15June June Camp @Dairy Farm

21June (Sat, 2-6pm) SHG Volunteers Training Day @ HQ

July (deferred. date yet to confirm) Students Outing

12July (7-10pm) Volunteers' Day 2008 @ Chevrons

Pre-Camp & June Camp Attendance Forecast

2008-04-24T23:38:00.000+08:00

NAMES	Pre-Camp (18 May)	Actual Camp (14-15Jun)
EY	No	No
NP	No	No
NT	Yes	Yes
LY	No	Yes
JP	Yes	No
HYL	No	No
TYL	No	Yes
JN	Yes	Yes
KPL	No	Yes
EL	Yes	No
LCY	Yes	No
PYS	No	Yes
LLCP	No	No
LCM	No	Yes
YYX	Yes	Yes
AZQ	Yes	Yes
TT	No	Yes

Roller Blading At East Coast (19 Apr08)

2008-04-20T23:02:00.000+08:00

Bonding Yuying SHG Team
Thanks to HYL and YYX for taking the photos :-)

PYS- Obviously a first timer...Haaa..

PYS (left), LCY(Middle), JN (Right)... R we ready for the FUN!

7 of us roller blade but see only 6 in the picture. LY is way right in front of us (not in the picture)! Runner up NT (front)

I'm proposing YYX for a photography course..hmmm.. Who are these people with their back facing the camera?

That's the team spirit! Senior EL lend a helping hand to Junior EY (front)

Don't act smart, TT. Your blading skill still needs more improvement....haaa...

AZQ (back), TT (middle) and NP navigating his way to the destination (front)

YuYing SHG (Our Team)

2008-04-20T22:58:00.000+08:00

Advisory
1. HYL

Yuying SHG Co-Ordinator
1. JN
2. TYL (will be back after Jun08)

Game Masters
(restructuring in progress)

Acedemic Tutors
(restructuring in progress)