Vote for your favourite Captain Green

To mark the nation’s 50th year of independence, 50 schools took part in the ‘My Captain Green’ Competition which was held at ITE College Central on 16 April 2015. The 50 schools decorated the Captain Green figurines based on this year’s YED tagline: ‘Imagine. Create. Change’ and centred on the themes of cleanliness and waste minimisation.

The 50 designs had since been unveiled and they are now showcased on the YED website (https://www.yed.sg/#/captain-green-vote) for the public to vote for the ‘Most Popular Captain Green SG50 figurine’. Vote now for the best design and the winning school for the 2 categories: ‘Primary Category’ & ‘Secondary, JC, ITE Category’ will stand to win $500 each.


YED website
https://www.yed.sg/#/captain-green-vote

Online Contest: Have you been environmentally-friendly?

Hello, everybody! Do you realize that whether you are traveling overseas or just hanging around in Singapore, we inadvertently shall leave behind our carbon footprint and that would have impacted the environment in many ways. As you go about your daily life, are you aware how much carbon footprint you have generated? Have you been consciously living your life in a environmentally-friendly way? What "Green" efforts have you carried out over the last one month? Have you done anything that you can proudly claim to be "saving Gaia"?

You have stories, dreams and hopes. But you also have your own different views, brilliant ideas and unique opinions. Why not share it with everybody and you win for yourself an attractive gift token! So, go on and pen down your thoughts in reply to this post!

To participate in this online contest, all you have to do is to post a comment! It's that easy! So, since this online contest shall only last throughout the June school holidays and into the 5th week of the Term 3, what are you waiting for then? Hurry, post your comments NOW!

Performing Household Chores

Based on the positive response received last year, our CCE/VIA team rolled out the Family Household Chores Appreciation Card project once again this year!

We hope to encourage our students to assist their parents/guardians in doing household chores, as a way to show care and concern for their family members. It is also their responsibility to take charge of these tasks at home (especially of their own rooms).

This year, we hope to also garner greater parents' engagement. We would like to encourage parents to pen down your thoughts upon seeing your child's efforts and work through the completion of the household tasks.

One of our P6 boys, Bryan Sun from 6A, has been consistently helping his parents with the household chores. You may want to view his appreciation card that was nicely done up:

Bryan Sun's (P6A) Family Household Chores Appreciation Card

Seen here is another of our P6 boys, Brandon Goh Yi Heng from 6B. who is cooking instant noodles for his mother.

Brandon Goh Yi Heng (P6B) cooking noodles for his mother.

Brandon Goh Yi Heng (P6B) cooking noodles for his mother.

Next up, this P3 girl is Juana Little Sia from 3B. She and her mother were making pancakes together. She brought the pancakes to school and shared with her classmates.

EDP Community contributes to Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund

"On 25-May-2015, our School launched the initiative to facilitate the fund-raising by Singapore Red Cross Society for its disaster humanitarian relief effort in aid of Nepal Earthquake. A presentation to raise awareness of Singapore's response to the disaster and to appeal for donations was given during the morning assembly to the students and staff. A donation booth has been set up and manned by the parent volunteers of EDP Parent Support Group. The students and staff responded overwhelmingly with generous donations and many well-wishing notes. This 3-days fund-raising donation drive concluded with tremendous success and the EDP community was happy to be able to make a difference in helping the people of Nepal."

The video of the presentation can be found here.

Visit to SWAMI Home

SWAMI (Sunshine Welfare Action Mission) home is a nursing home that provides residential nursing care facilities and  dementia day care for the aged and the aged sick. It is located in Sembawang, and houses services such as physiotherapy, medical treatment rooms and rehabilitation services all under one roof.

On 22 May 2015, our EDP students, teachers, and parents volunteers spent a meaningful afternoon at the SWAMI Home. Our talented students from the performing arts group (Choir, Guitar and Gu Zheng) prepared a line up of performances for all to enjoy. As most elderly only know dialect and mandarin, our performing arts group specially prepared songs that are in their familiar language to cater to them! Apart from that, understanding that the bedridden residents are not able to join us at the stage area for the performance, our student-guitarists took the initiatives to head up to the rooms instead to strum and sing for them. Delectable high-tea snacks and drinks were also prepared and served to all residents at the Home. Following that, we had a mass singing session that brought everyone clapping along together! It was indeed heartwarming to see the elderly smiling and singing along with the music.

Although interacting with the elderly might not be easy for everyone due to the language barrier, it was still a fruitful and enjoyable learning experience. More importantly, what is significant is the smiles we have left on the elderly faces during the visit.

As the saying goes, it is a blessing to give than to receive.
Let us continue to reach out to the community, and to spread the EDP spirit of care!