Principal’s Greetings 校长前言

Welcome to a new school year! We hope that everyone had a fun and enjoyable time with family and friends during the holidays. A warm welcome to our Primary 1 pupils and their parents, as well as those who have just joined the Pei Chun family! We will be keeping you informed of the latest developments in the school through our regular Pei Chun Newsflash, Parent Notification (PN) and Pei Chun Story. Do keep a lookout for these publications so as to be informed about what is happening in the school. We encourage parents who are new to our school community to join the Parents Support Group (PSG). For more information on the PSG, please contact the Chairperson, Mdm Lisa Lim, at pcpspsg@yahoo.com. As we celebrate the beginning of a new year, it is also a good time to guide our children in planning what they would like to focus on and accomplish this year. In your conversations with your child on making the new year’s resolutions, you might wish to consider what your child had done well last year and how he or she could replicate the success to other areas this year. This will help them build their confidence and desire to do well. You could also help by coming up with broad categories for their resolutions and letting the children fill in the specific goals. These categories should focus on their holistic development. Hence, they should not be limited to the academic achievements but also include areas such as their social and emotional well-being which are equally important. Timely review of their goals and positive affirmation of their efforts will also help them in following through on their resolutions. Your encouragement and support will spur them on in their journey towards achieving their goals. As part of our efforts for continual improvements, we conduct a Parents’ Survey at the end of every year to gather your valuable feedback. Thank you for taking the time to share with us your feedback last year. Your inputs will help us focus on key areas for further improvements. We look forward to working with you as partners in ensuring an enriching and fruitful learning experience for our children. Mdm Ler Jia Luen (Principal)

新的学年开始了！希望大家都与家人朋友度过了一个丰富多彩的假期。欢迎大家回到校园，

也欢迎刚加入培群这个大家庭的小一学生以及家长们！培群将定期通过培群月讯、家长通知信和“培群

的故事”网页及时为您提供学校发展的新动向。请家长们留意这些资讯，以掌握学校的新发展。我们也

鼓励新进的家长们加入培群的家长支援会。若欲知道更多有关家长支援会的详情，请通过邮

址： pcpspsg@yahoo.com 联系家长支援会主席，Mdm Lisa Lim。

当我们在欢庆新学年开始之时，这也是一个很好的时机去引导孩子们规划自己今年想要在哪

个方面做得更好，并努力地去达成目标。当您与孩子一起为新的一年设立新目标时，不妨细想您的孩子

去年在哪个方面表现特出，而今年要如何在其他领域也取得同样出色的表现。这将帮助孩子建立自信

心，以期做得更好。家长也可以从广泛的层面去协助孩子制定新计划，让孩子写下具体的目标。这些层

面应该着重于孩子的全面性发展。因此，他们不应该仅限于取得学业上的成果，其他领域如学习正确的

社交与情绪管理也是同样重要的。及时审查孩子的目标并给予正面的肯定将帮助他们坚持到底，而您的

鼓励与支持也将鞭策他们努力地去实现自己的新年计划。

为促进学校的持续进步，我们去年底发出了一份家长反馈表以收集您的意见。感谢您的积极参

与以及所提出的宝贵意见。您的反馈将帮助我们专注于重点领域的发展。我们期待与您携手合作，确保

培群学生度过丰富与充实的学习生活。

吕佳伦校长

Established 1933

JANUARY ISSUE 2016

Passionate and Cultured Learners. Proactive and Caring Leaders.

好学、优雅、有文化。积极、主动、有爱心。

2015 PSLE RESULTS The school would like to extend our heartiest congratulations to our P6 cohort (2015) for their excellent performance in the PSLE:

99.7 % pass for the Standard and Foundation Course;

87.1 % of our pupils qualified for the Express Stream, as compared to 66.2 % at the national level. We would like to commend all teachers, pupils and parents for their remarkable effort!

WELCOME The school would like to extend our warmest welcome to the following colleagues who have just joined the Pei Chun family: Mr Alvin Ng Yee Hui, Mrs Koh-Kim Han Ip, Mr Foo Chee Yuen, Miss Lee Qian Hui, Miss Cheong Cherie.

FAREWELL We bid farewell to the following colleagues: Mdm Tan Yun Lei, Amanda, Mdm Prisca Fernandez, Mdm Nur Hidayah Amaliah, Miss Xavier Chan, Mdm Melissa Tan, Mr Chong Wing Cheong, Mr Ting Seng Eng and Mr Koh Chuan Hwee. We would like to thank them for their contributions, and we wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

TEMPERATURE-TAKING EXERCISE & STUDENT WELL-BEING As part of our measures to maintain schools’ preparedness to resume the temperature-taking regime should there be a need to, a temperature-taking exercise will be conducted on 7 January (Thursday). We would like to seek your

assistance in ensuring that your child brings a working thermometer to school on that day. This temperature-taking exercise also serves to educate our pupils on the need to take personal responsibility for their own health and practise social responsibility. Please note that a one-time issue of the thermometer, free of charge, will be given to all P1 pupils in 2016. The thermometers will be issued by the Form Teacher on the day of the temperature-taking exercise. On this note, we would like to appeal to all parents/guardians to continue to exercise social

responsibility. If your child/ward is unwell, please seek medical attention for him/her as soon as possible and ensure that your child/ward is well before returning to school. Please encourage your child/ward to practise good personal hygiene at all times. Your understanding and cooperation in this matter would be much appreciated as this would complement what our school is doing to inculcate values of personal and social responsibility.

P4 NE / SS LEARNING JOURNEY @ KAMPONG GLAM

Class Date Time

4B, 4E, 4G 12/1/16

1.30 – 5 p.m. 4A, 4C, 4I 19/1/16

4D, 4F, 4H 2/2/16

As part of our National Education / Social Studies (NE/SS) programmes, our P4 pupils will be embarking on a Learning Journey at Kampong Glam. During this Learning Journey, they will learn to appreciate our heritage and the cultural diversity of the different ethnic communities living in Singapore. More details will be provided in a separate PN.

ACHIEVEMENTS 学生成就

UPCOMING EVENTS

STAFF MOVEMENT 人事调动

P1 AND P6 PHOTO-TAKING FOR NEW EZ-LINK CARD Date: 20 Jan 2016 (Monday) All P1 and P6 pupils are required to be in school uniform for the photo-taking.

VALUES-IN-ACTION PROGRAMME P2 ViA – KEEPING OUR CANTEEN CLEAN In January, our P2 pupils will embark on a canteen cleanliness project where they will keep their designated tables at the canteen clean after their meals. This is to provide an opportunity for our P2 pupils to show their love for the school by keeping the school environment clean. It is also in line with the P2 ViA theme ‘I love My School’. Through this project, we hope that our P2 pupils will learn to take ownership of the cleanliness of the places that they frequent such as the school canteen and the classrooms, and show care for the school cleaners who work hard to keep the school environment clean.

P6 STATIONERY DONATION DRIVE In line with the P6 ViA theme ‘I Love My World and Beyond’, we will be collaborating with Dunman High School to help needy children in ASEAN countries through a stationery donation drive. Primary 6 pupils will be involved in the promotion of the Stationery Drive to the Primary 3 pupils as well as the collection and packing of the donated stationery. Primary 3 pupils are encouraged to support their seniors by donating stationery such as pencils, rulers and erasers.

Through this stationery donation drive, we hope to instil in our Primary 3 and 6 pupils a sense of care and empathy for the underprivileged. This is part of our efforts to nurture our pupils to be proactive and caring leaders who care for others and take an active role in improving the lives of others around them. More details will be provided in a Parent Notification in due course.

LEVEL BRIEFING FOR PARENTS

Close communication and collaboration with our parents is of utmost importance to us. For better home-school collaboration, Level Briefing for P1, P4 and P6 are conducted for parents at the beginning of the year so as to enable parents to have a better

understanding of the various school programmes, subject-based banding, assessment modes and PSLE requirements. The P1 briefing for this year is scheduled to be on the first day of school, 4 Jan 2015. Due to space constraints, we would like to appeal to parents that there should not be more than two attendees for each pupil. This briefing is organised for parents/guardians and your child is welcome to attend. Parents who drive are urged to make use of the nearby public car parks as parking lots within the school compound are limited. Information disseminated during the briefing will be uploaded and made available at the school website (http://peichunpublic.moe.edu.sg) after the session. Feel free to contact us at 63539450 or pcps@moe.edu.sg should you have any queries.

Level Briefing Date and Time

P1 4 Jan (Monday), 1.00 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.

P6 16 Jan (Saturday), 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon

P4 23 Jan (Saturday), 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon

P5 AND P6 WORKSHOPS FOR PARENTS At Pei Chun Public School, we are proud to invite parents regularly to our workshops so that they can support their child’s learning at home. The Chinese and Science Departments will be organizing a workshop for parents of P5 and P6 pupils on 30 January (Saturday). All parents of P5 and P6 pupils are welcome to attend. The objective of these workshops is to share with parents strategies on how they can guide their child’s learning in Chinese and Science. As there are different objectives to be achieved, the P5 and P6 Chinese workshops will be held separately. Please take note of the time of the respective workshops:

Date / Time Session Objectives Who should attend

30 Jan (Sat) 9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.

P5 Chinese To share with parents the new P5 examination format

Parents of P5 pupils

30 Jan (Sat) 10.10 a.m. – 11.10 a.m.

Answering techniques in P5 and P6 Science

To share with parents the answering techniques in Science.

Parents of P5 and P6 pupils

30 Jan (Sat) 11.20 a.m. – 12.20 p.m.

P6 Chinese To share with parents oral skills and composition writing skills.

Parents of P6 pupils

Please take note of the following events in the month of January.

Date/Day Event Remarks

Mon 4/1 P1 Level Briefing for Parents Venue: School Hall 1.00 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.

Commencement of Niche CCAs

Thu 7/1 ‘Adopt- A-Station’ – Training of P5 Prefects and CCA Leaders (SMRT Ambassadors)

1.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Temperature-taking Exercise All levels

Mon 11/1 P2 ViA – Commencement of Canteen Cleanliness Project P2

Tue 12/1 Commencement of P3 SwimSafer Programme (8 sessions)

Venue: Toa Payoh Swimming Complex 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

P4B, 4E, 4G NE/SS Learning Journey Venue: Kampong Glam 1.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Wed 13/1 Commencement of P5 & P6 HCL and CL classes (every Wednesday)

P5 & 6 HCL classes Time: 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. P5 & 6 CL classes Time: 2.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Thu 14/1 P3 & 4 Workshops for Green Monitors P3 & P4 Green Monitors Venue: Science Lab 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

‘Adopt-A-Station’ Visit to SMRT Depot for P6 Prefects (SMRT Ambassadors)

Venue: SMRT Depot at Kim Chuan Road 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Fri 15/1 Commencement of P3 & P4 HCL classes (every Friday) All P3 & P4 Time: 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

P5 & 6 Workshop for Green Monitors P5 & P6 Green Monitors Venue: Science Lab 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Commencement of P6 ViA –Stationery Donation Drive Preparation

P6A – 6E Time: FTGP (Form Teacher Guidance Period)

Sat 16/1 P6 Level Briefing for Parents Venue: School Hall 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon

Mon 18/1 – Fri 22/1

Cyber Wellness Monthly Quiz

Mon 18/1 Commencement of BreakFun & Recess Games

Tue 19/1 - 24/2 Commencement of Zonal Volleyball Championships 2016

Tue 19/1 P4A, 4C, 4I NE/SS Learning Journey Venue: Kampong Glam 1.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Wed 20/1 Photo-taking for EZ Link Cards P1 & P6 pupils

Molly Bus (P2 & P3) P2 & P3 pupils

Sat 23/1 P4 Level Briefing for Parents Venue: School Hall 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon

Mon 25/1 Commencement of all CCAs

Tue 26/1 P5 Student Leadership Training P5 Student Leaders

Wed 27/1 P5 Chinese Journalism Programme for P5 pupils during HCL class

Thu 28/1 P4 Student Leadership Training For P4 Student Leaders

Fri 29/1 Commencement of P6 ViA –Stationery Donation Drive Preparation

P6F – 6J Time: FTGP

Sat 30/1 P5 & P6 Workshops for Parents (Chinese & Science) Venue: School Hall from 9.00 a.m. to 12.20 p.m.

CALENDAR OF THE

MONTH