*Flashback* March Newsletter

Healthy living Healthy Lifestyle

In conjunction of The Healthy Living Healthy Lifestyle month, our centre has organised Fruits day for our children. Children of PCF Woodlands Blk 652 were asked to bring fruit from home. Childhood is the best time to learn the healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

Some fruits that were brought by the students.

To make the event more interesting, teachers have planned a picnic for the children to to eat the fruits they prepared in the park.  We would like to take this opportunity to thank the parent for making the effort to prepare the healthy snack for your child to participate in this picnic.  The students and teachers were having so much fun. 

Beside healthy eating, we also want to inculcate healthy lifestyle to the children.  Eating healthily is important, keeping fit is also important to stay healthy.  Before the children can enjoy their delicious snack, they have a mass walk in the park.  This is a great activity for both the teachers and the children.  All the teachers and children get to motivate each other to exercise and keep fit.  Teachers also introduce the function of the equipment in the fitness corner.  Take a look at the children  exploring the Health and  Fitness equipment.  

Dear parent, visiting the fitness corner with your children is a good bonding activity you may try with your children.  You get to keep fit, stay healthy and at the same time, spend quality time with your children.  

Lastly, A Fruit Salad Recipe for you to try at home with your children!

February Newsletters

February is a month of LOVE and the air in the school is all filled with love!

"Send Me to School, Daddy" Campaign

The ‘Send Me to School, Daddy’ campaign that runs for the entire month of February was a success! Thank you to all the daddies out there.

We have seen more daddies making the effort to send their children to school and showing their support and care for them.

Did you know…research has shown that children whose daddy are more involved in nurturing them have higher academic achievements?

Therefore, COME ON, DADDIES… Step up and be more involved because you, too, play an important part in your child’s development.

Here are some photos of the supportive daddies…KUDOS!

They were rewarded with a sticker for every time they send their child to school.

Thank you to the daddies…

As the saying goes, Dad is the son’s first hero and daughter’s first love. Well, who needs Superman when you have a daddy, right?

…and Valentine’s Day falls on February too!

Valentine's Day

It is a day where children had a lot of fun making craft for the loved ones. Show them some love…

Oh yes, Family is everything…it means the world to them.

Chinese Lunar New Year

Also, on 18^th February, we decided to welcome the year of the Sheep with an unforgettable performance from each class. Weeks before celebrating Chinese New Year, each individual class worked together to make this Chinese lion head. It was made out of a pail, ang bao (red packets) and some decorations. A shiny cloth is then attached to the head to represent its tail. Children had a chance to search on how “lion dance” move and with this, they create a dance move to perform with their lion.

Everyone enjoyed taking turns to dance with their lion and they learned that they had to work together to make the lion move. It was indeed a great cooperative learning experience for the children.

We also invited Fabius, an alumnus, to perform a lion dance to the entire school. He was really good!

Fabius performing lion dance.

That’s it for the month of February updates. Stay tuned for more exciting happenings in our school.

Feeling loved already? Oh definitely…

Teacher Erlyn

Send me to school, Daddy!

Dear Parent/Guardian,

In collaboration with Centre for Fathering Ltd, we would like to encourage all daddies to step up and send your child to school to show them that you care about their academic journey. 

Dads are Important! Why? Research says...

Father involvement in schools is associated with improvements by students in academics, behavior, and social skills.

Let's watch this meaningful video about how great a daddy can be to his child...

Start off small by taking a little time off to send your child to school, it will make a great difference in their learning journey and we hope to see more daddies participate in their children's activities in future. 

Support our "Back to school with Dad 2015" campaign from 4 Feb 2015 to 27 Feb 2015 ans you and your child will be awarded a sticker each.  (Parent's circular 4/15 issued on 3/2/15)

I would like to share this good articles with daddies.

Christina

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Fathering Decisions For The New Year

By monica

<written by Edwin Choy for Centre For Fathering>

Strong families are intentional.  They do not happen by chance. Beginning of the year is a great time to make certain fathering decisions that will help you build healthy families.

Decide today that your career is only as good as your family. Family is like a base camp for mountain climbers. If you want to climb mountains, you must have a good base camp, a place where there are shelter and resources, a place where you can nurture and rest before attempting to reach another summit.  You will not go far or achieve much without your solid base camp.  If you want to climb high, then tend to the base camp and keep it in good shape.  You will be healthier, happier, more effective persons if you do.

Decide today that your children are more important than your personal projects. Be willing to pause for a moment, look them in the eye and listen to

them for what they need. Set aside regular family time during week that you will protect from intrusion by unimportant urgent matters.

Decide today that your children are special no matter how they fare in school. Let them know without a doubt that they are loved and cherished regardless of their grades. Academic performance is just one of the many gifts our children can be blessed with but not the only one. They have new skills to learn but they are not failures. They may not meet someone else’s expectation but they will succeed with a father who believes in them.

Reflection pointers for fathers …

Do we measure our happiness in our children by their results and achievements or do we have happiness in our children despite their results and achievements.

Action pointers for fathers …

Stick little notes in places that your child will find it after you leave for work (e.g inside their clothes drawer, inside their pencil box, on the screen of their mobile phone.) Let them know you appreciate and love them on these notes, “No strings attached”.

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Class Timetable 2015

N1 Timetable

 

Class Timetable 2015

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Class Timetable 2015

K1 Timetable

Class Timetable 2015

K2 Timetable

 

Menu for 2015

Healthy eating is important as it provides good nutrition for the children which is essential for healthy brain development for critical learning.  In our school, we do our part to provide children with the good nutrition they need.  We believe that it will help them to perform better academically in school and improve their overall health and wellness to stay fit to come to school daily.

Presenting to you our New Menu for 2015, which we includes proteins, carbohydrates, heart-healthy fats, vitamins, minerals and water and minimize processed foods and saturated fats.

Updates: We have also include different culture food delicacies for children to promote culture appreciation in our centre.

PCF 652 MENU 2015

We welcome any feedback, please email to b652pcf@gmail.com and we seek your patience for our improvement to take place.

Thank you.

Cheers,

Ms Christina

Happy Deepavali!

Do you know?

Diwali (in Hindi) or Deepavali (in Tamil) is the Hindu Festival of Lights. The name originally comes from the Sanskrit word dipavali, meaning a row of lights. Wherever Diwali is being celebrated you will see shops, houses and public places decorated with small, earthenware, oil lamps known as diyas. They are usually placed in rows on window sills and outside buildings as decorations.

Another well recognized activity we know of probably are the Rangoli Patterns, beautifully made decorations, drawn on floors and even pavements, usually with rice flour and water, or dry and made with powdery, colored sand.

Rangoli Craft

Rangolis and Diwali is synonymous. The most common practice is to make the Rangoli at the main entrance of the home, inviting Goddess Lakshmi for year round prosperity. However, you can also hang rangolis above doors. Here we give you a Rangoli idea that you can hang on the walls, by making it on a piece of large cardboard, or make it directly on the floor.

Materials you will need:
A full size Cardboard piece, if you intend to hang it.
Black marker pen
coloring of any sort, suited to the craft.
Rangoli pattern 
Colour Crepe papers and Glue

Instructions :
Print out a Rangoli pattern of your choice from our Rangoli page and trace it onto cardboard (or the floor, as the case may be), using a black marker.

Cut the coloured crepe paper into small pieces and roll them into small balls. (Your child can helo you with the cutting and rolling of the crepe paper.  It is a good fine motor exercise for them.) 

spread glue onto the Rangoli, section by section.

While the glue is still wet, have children carefully paste the colored crepe balls within the Rangoli pattern. Make it a joint effort, with kids doing the pasting, you can help them to roll more crepe balls.

When the Rangoli is finished, let it dry thoroughly.

If you had made it on a cardboard, make two holes on two corners, and hang it wherever you want.

I hope you will enjoy the Diwali activity with your child during the weekend.

Cheers,

Ms Christina.

Happy Mother's Day

We have always know that one of our most important people in everyone's life is our mother.  She is the one who carry us in her wombs, vomitted their food, suffered headaches and feel fatigue and weakness of their body every morning for about nine months and it's not the end.  After the nine months, they continues to care for us and protect us from dangers.  They will wake up in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep to check our needs when we are sick.  They gets weak and tired but because they are mothers, they never complain and make all sacrifices wholeheartedly without hoping to get anything in return.

Being a mother is hard and tiring, but receiving a simple smile, hugs and kisses from us is enough to take away their tiredness. This coming Sunday, 11 May 2014, is Mother's Day.  The children and us could not verbally express how much we love our mother.  But we would like to present every mother a small present made by the children themselves and a song they have practiced, hoping to be able to sing to every mother on this special day.

Every mother is special and important.

Let's sing along with your children - Happy Mother's Day Song

Loves,

Christina