NEWSLETTER FOR PARENTS

St Hi lda’s Primary School Establ ished in 1934

A dynamic learning communi ty that nurtures loyal c i t izens wi th g lobal out look and Godly character .

PSLE results & Edusave Awardees

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School Steer-ing Committee

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School Initia-tives & Up-

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School Com-munications &

staff updates

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Inside this Issue

Dear Parents

New Year greetings from all Hildans! Hope that you have a good start to 2016.

I appreciate many of you for taking time to attend our Meet-the-Parents sessions held over the last two Friday evenings. The school believes in leverag-ing on the strong partnership in education among teachers, students, parents and commu-nities. As stakeholders, we thank you for holding the same beliefs as the school to cham-pion the same cause in pro-moting holistic development of our Hildans.

In a recent article in Today’s paper on “Mindset change needed for holistic learning to succeed” (25 Jan), I also echo the same sentiment as the writer. Our education land-scape has evolved and teach-ers are to play the role of advo-cate and facilitator of non-academic pursuits in the arts, music and sports by encourag-ing our students to take part.

Parents’ expectations for their children are to include excel-ling in CCAs and contributing to the community. Having chil-dren attaining perfect scores but neglecting social skills and values would be doing a dis-service to our children.

Term 1/ 2016

As a school, our push for holis-tic development of each Hildan is through the introduction of our Hildan Distinctive Pro-grammes incorporating Ap-plied Learning , Learning for Life, ICT /Cyberwellness and Values in Action (VIA). We will continue to strengthen our pro-grammes to provide wider ex-posure and opportunities for Hildans to discover and build on their interests and talents in a range of areas and develop important life skills from a young age.

Therefore, we will work on re-ducing excessive focus on ac-ademic results so that learning is more enjoyable and stu-dents have more time and space to pursue a broader range of interests, sustain their curiosity, cultivate an innova-tive spirit and pursue a well-rounded education.

All students’ achievements be it academic or non-academic will be recog-nized.

I hope that with synergy in the mindsets of all our key stakeholders we will be able to attain our goal of holistic education.

Let us together uphold the legacy of Graham White, our founder to ensure that his legacy of SHPS provid-ing a balanced development of body, mind and spirit for our students lives on through our future genera-tions of Hildans.

Kew Mee Ying

Principal

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2015 EDUSAVE AWARDEES FOR STUDENTS

Well done to all our P6 /2015 students! All of them have been promoted to vari-ous secondary schools. May our Lord’s favour be with each one of them as they continue in their journey of life-

long learning.

2015 PSLE RESULTS

PSLE National SHPS

% Passes 98.3% 100%

Express

Stream in Sec

Sch

66.2% 75.5%

Normal Academic 21.7% 17.5%

Normal Technical 10.4% 7.1%

Subject National SHPS

English

Language

97.0% 98.5%

Chinese

Language

96.5% 96.9%

Malay

Language

98% 100%

Tamil

Language

97.1% 95.5%

Mathemat-

ics

85.4% 93.7%

Science 90.1% 93.6%

Higher MT

(CL)

96.8% 98.2%

Higher MT

(ML)

99.5% 100%

Higher MT

(TL)

97.7% 100%

Congratulations to our students who were awarded the various Edusave awards! The details are:

No. of Students

Edusave Scholarships 57 (P5 & 6)

Edusave Merit Bursary 363

Good Progress Award 145

EAGLES (achievement) 43

EAGLES (Leadership) 28

EAGLES (Service) 13

Edusave Character Award 34

Edusave Character Award is launched in 2012. The eligibility criteria include:

> Singapore citizen

> Student must demonstrate good con-duct and values on a consistent basis

> Student must show a high level of civic responsibility and qualities associated with resilience.

For more details on the Edusave awards, please refer to the Student’s Handbook Pg 13.

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Key Personnel

Mrs Tan Bee Li

HOD English

Mrs Melissa Chew

HOD Maths

Mr Lim Hui Zhi

HOD Mother TongueMrs Daphne Phua

HOD CCE

Mrs Zahira

HOD GEP

Mr Vaithilingam

HOD PE & CCA & Aesthetics

Mrs Yvonne Chu

HOD Science

Ms Joyce Tan

HOD Discipline & SL

Mrs Susana Lim

School Staff Development

2016 SCHOOL STEERING COMMITTEE

Key Personnel – Subject Heads/Level Heads

Mrs Sheryl Cheng

LH Maths

Mr Daniel Ng

SH ICT & Data Management

Mrs Elizabeth Simon

SH Aesthetics

Mrs Eleanor Goh

SH CEMrs Jasmine David

SH CZ & SS

Mrs Ginger Oh

SH English

Mr Isaac Lee

SH PE

Mrs K Bala

SH TL & ML

Mr Mohd Noh

SH VIA & Partnership

- Heads of Department

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Key Personnel – Senior Teachers

Mrs Tiong-Tan Ee Peng

ST Art

Mdm Zhang Tao

ST CLMs Teo Kah Sze

ST CL

Mr Edwin Lim

ST English

Mrs Cindy Simon

ST English

Mrs Irene Tai

ST EnglishMrs Wong Li Ching

ST Learning Needs

Mr Aloysius Loh Yun Kong

ST PE

Key Personnel – Year Heads

Mr Andrew Soong

Year Head P5 & 6

Mrs Gina Ow

Year Head P1 & 2

Mdm Sonia Lee

Asst Year Head P3 & 4Mrs Jocelyn Chan

Asst Year Head P5 & 6

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SCHOOL COMMUNICATIONS WITH PARENTS - C2HAMPS

This year, the school is using C2HAMPS instead of SNAC to communicate with our par-ents. It is a real-time web-to-mobile device communica-tion channel.

If you have not downloaded the apps, please search for C2HAMPS on Apple’s App store or Google play to download the apps. The school will be sending to you

our school’s monthly adminis-trative as well as class notifica-tions through this channel.

If you need assistance, do con-tact our C2HAMPS support through email at sup-port@elchemi.net. You could access http://www.elchemi.net/c2hamps for more information.

2016 SCHOOL INITIATIVES & UPDATES

Our School’s Distinctive Pro-grammes (Applied Learning and Learning for Life pro-grammes, ICT /Cyberwell-ness and Values in Action) have been planned in the weekly school curriculum hours instead of on Friday afternoon. As a result, the daily school dismissal has

been extended to 1.45pm in-stead of 1.30pm.

SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS

P1—5—No Continual Assess-ment 1 for Term 1.

P6—Continual Assessment 1 still applies.

DAILY WORK

There will be a revision in the computation of daily work in the overall Semes-tral Assessments (SA 1 and SA 2). Please look out for the detailed letter to find out more.

ADDITIONAL SCHOOL FACILITIES

1 Courtyard garden

2 Eco-garden with water plants

3 Road Safety corner

4 Wormery

5 Turnstile gates at Gates 3 & 4

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We bid farewell to the following colleagues who have left the school:

Mr Terry Goh (Operations Manager)

Mdm Tay Geok Lian (School Counsellor)

Mrs Grace Chua (CL teacher)

Mdm Toh Bee Hong (CL teacher)

Mrs Liu Peiwen (EL teacher)

Mr Wong Beng Yu (EL teacher)

Mr Luqman (EL teacher)

Mdm Diana Mamat (EL teacher)

WELCOME & FAREWELL

FOR OUR TEACHING & NON-TEACHING STAFF

2016 TERM 1 KEY EVENTS

The following colleagues have joined the school in January namely :

Mr Pang Kah Yong (Operations Manager)

Mrs Jocelyn Chan (Assistant Year Head)

Mdm Sheryl Chai (Level Head / Math)

Mr Koh Chaik Khoon (Math teacher)

Mdm Sharon Lai (English teacher)

Mrs Jenny Zai (English teacher)

Mrs Shirley Koh (English teacher)

Ms Khairunnisa’ Shamsuri (Art teacher)

Ms Jasarina A Jalil (Allied Educator – Math)

Congratulations to our staff who are recently married. They are:

Mdm Jasjit Kaur

Mdm Kasthuree T Kabilan

Mdm Noorhaslin Abas

Mr Cornelius Loh

Student Leaders’ Investiture— 4 Feb, Thursday

Chinese New Year celebrations—5 Feb, Friday

Total Defence Day—15 Feb, Monday

Talent Fiesta—11 Mar, Friday