yes!!! o levels is finally over! no more waking up at 5 am in the morning to go to tiong bahru to collect exam papers. and i have clocked my Chief Presiding Examiner tour at the age of 30. some of my invigilators were a bit surprised that i became a CPE with only 3.5 years of teaching experience, and even the principal of the school was surprised at how young i am.
ok now let's recap year 2013. :)
JANUARY
Singapore Book Of Records 2013 - Highest number of people doing cup stacking. This project is anchored by the PE Dept. GOH is mr baey yam keng.
FEBRUARY
CNY performance with the students from wushu and modern chinese dance. i got the feeling that this will be my last time choreographing a CNY item.
Commemorating Total Defence Day, by wearing our SAF/HTA uniforms.
MARCH
Mass Run, another big event organised by the PE Dept. beside me is one of my favourite dance students, audrey yong! she got 13th position in the B Girls category!
APRIL
my show choir performing for Speech Day. i was still having reservist and i obtained permission to "sneak" out of camp to watch them perform!
MAY
Sec 3 Overseas Camp @ kota tinggi. organised by the PE Dept again. i am the 2IC for this camp, as well as the kayaking expedition leader. next year's sec 3 camp i am "promoted" to become the Overall In-Charge. sian...
JUNE
hosting 'Show Choir Experience' at my workplace, in collaboration with Singapore Show Choir Academy (SSCA). SSCA invited 2 instructors from Los Angeles to conduct the show choir workshops. we have about 10 schools coming down for the 3 days of 'Show Choir Experience'. quite overwhelming, but is a great experience.
JULY
organising and coordinating PASSION 2013, the arts assembly for the whole school.
AUGUST
b-dazzled 2013, the biggest event that i am most looking forward to. the show choir trained really hard for this, and we bonded alot through all the practises.
and we achieved good results too! we got 'diamond' award (equivalent to syf certificate of distinction), as well as the 'most popular show choir' award.
show choir performed for geylang serai constituency national day dinner, and the GOH is mr goh chok tong.
SEPTEMBER
conducting mass dance for ACES Day.
thank you students and ex students for the teachers' day wishes and gifts!
show choir chalet @ aloha loyang!
another important milestone for the workplace, because we are featured on the front page of straits times! as well as featured on 联合早报，and on the news on channel 5, channel 8, channel u, channel newsasia, channel suria.
OCTOBER
Grad Nite, for the graduating students.
the flash mob on last day of school, choreographed by xuehong.
NOVEMBER
staff retreat held at serangoon gardens country club. i presented 'Niche for Creative Expressions' to the the staff. and at the end of the staff retreat, it was announced that robin #1 is leaving. actually i knew it 2 weeks ago, when robin #1 told me personally. a few days before the staff retreat, robin #2 called me, and said she want to tell me a secret, and i must not tell anybody. turned out that she wanted to tell me that robin #1 is leaving, and she thought of doing a special farewell performance for robin #1, and asked me for ideas. so we created a whatsapp group, invited all the KPs in, and discussed the details of the special performance in the whatsapp group. i even went to learn sign language from my ex-student for this special performance!
and to conclude this review, here are the comments from my hod. :)
It has been a successful
year for Y_ _ _ y_ _. In the areas of teaching and co-curricular activities, he has
shown great enthusiasm and commitment. Do continue with the high spirit in the
creative expressions niche to promote it amongst both the students and the
staff. Keep it up.
