Y Green Delights YMCA SCC @ GREENRIDGE NEWSLETTER January to June 2016
YMCA Student Care Centre in Greenridge Primary School opened our doors to the first batch of students on 4 January 2016. We are conveniently located within Greenridge Primary School to provide after-school care services that are designed to complement what the school offers to children who lack home support. Other than homework supervision, we also offer exciting in-house enrichment programmes, Character and Citizenship Education, as well as electrifying School Holiday Programmes and Learning Journeys. A big “Thank You” to all parents and students for your support and we strive to serve you better in the many months ahead!
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Contents 1) Introduction Page 1 2) In-house Enrichment Programme - My Fun Crayons Page 2 - Cup Stacking Page 2 3) March School Holiday Programmes - Crime Scene Investigation Page 3 - Team Telematch Page 3 4) June School Holiday Programmes - Love and Peace is all Around Page 4 - Circus Art Page 4 - Milky Milky World Page 4 - Journey to Lost Civilisation Page 5 - eXplorer Kid Page 5 - Love for our Earth Page 5 5) Upcoming Events Page 6
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In-House Enrichment Programme Term One – My Fun Crayons We were delighted to have Ms Dawn Lin, YMCA School Art Teacher, to conduct Art Lessons at the centre. “My Fun Crayons” was developed by Ms Dawn Lin and it features the elements of art such as drawing of lines and shapes, colour blending technique and 2D to 3D dimension drawing. Some of the interesting topics includes cupcakes, ice-cream, love birds, hot air balloon and ocean fishes.
Shermay Lo (P5) assisting Syamimi (P2) with colour selection for her ice-cream artwork!
The programme concluded with an Art Competition during the March School Holidays. We are proud to announce Chua En Xuan Jasvin (P1) to be the overall winner of our Art Competition. Term Two – Cup Stacking Cup Stacking was conducted in Term 2 as part of the weekly enrichment programme. Students were taught to stack plastic cups into various pyramid-shape formations then breaking them down into neat piles again using both their left and right hands alternately.
Chua En Xuan (P1), our overall winner of My Fun Crayons Art Competition!
A Cup Stacking Championship was organised on Saturday 11 June 2016 at YMCA of Singapore where over 100 students from YMCA Student Care Centres participated. It was a great opportunity where students from various centres came together for a whole day of fun and interaction. We are also proud to announce that Wong Jing Hui (P3) from our centre won the First Prize for the Lower Primary Category 3-3-3 Competition!
Everyone listening attentively to Mr Jacky, Cup Stacking Coach
Congratulations
Lin Hao (P2), taking part in the 3-6-3 competition.
L-R: Jing Ying (P4), Jing Hui (P3) and Teng Wee (P1) practicing for the competition.
to Wong Jing Hui (P3) for winning the Lower Primary Category 3-3-3 Competition!
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Students were all busy collecting and recording evidence from the Crime Scene!
PAGE 3 March School Holiday Programmes Crime Scene Investigation Workshop Everyone was excited about the March School Holiday Programmes as we unlocked the hidden Sherlock Homes within through the Crime Scene Investigation Workshop! Through the studying of foot prints, soil samples and fingerprints, our little detectives looked though a list of suspects to pinpoint the “Murderer”! Guess what? Everyone managed to find the real “Murderer”! Well done everyone!
Team Telematch We had a mini Telematch where students were divided into groups of 5 to 6 members to complete tasks. Before the start of the challenge, all the teams came up with their Team Cheer and presented it to the class! ↑ L-R: Lin Hao (P2), Keith (P2), Jing En (P5), Eng Kiang (P4) and Jing Ying (P4) presenting their team cheer!
The five exciting stations for this Telematch were: Puzzle World, Chips Monster, Defy Gravity, Shoe Kick, Hula Hoops and Skipping Champion! Everyone had so much fun that they have requested for another round of Telematch for the next School Holidays!
↑ L-R: Aden (P5), Jasper (P3), Jasvin (P1), Qian Ning (P3) and Ziying (P1) taking up the Hula Hoops Challenge!
Jing Ying (P4) and Eng Kiang (P4) becoming Chips Monster
↑ L-R: Bernice (P1), Shernice (P5), Jerrick (P1), Yi Xun (P4) and Miller (P1) conquering the Shoe Kick Station!
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June School Holiday Programmes Upper Primary
Week 1: Love and Peace is all Around
students are busy designing their Peace Lanterns!
Students learnt the importance of maintaining peace through our Peace Lantern programme. The students made beautiful lanterns which will be sent to Hiroshima YMCA for the annual Peace Lantern Ceremony held on 6 August. We also went on our very first outing to watch “Awake LOVE Orchestra”! We are very fortunate to be able to take group photographs with the cast of “Awake LOVE”. Another outing was to watch the movie “Angry Bird”. This was well received by our students too! Even after the movie, everyone was still very excited about ‘Red’, the Angry Bird!
↑ Group Photo with Awake LOVE Orchestra Cast!
Jerrick (P1) walking on a glass globe.
Week 2: Circus Art & Milky Milky World We were delighted to be offered a free Circus Art Workshop by Esplanade’s Community Engagement Team on 6 June 2016! Through activities such as Globe Walking, Diabolo and Poi Twisting, all participants got to try out the different activities!
Miller (P1) and Joshua (P1) trying out the Diabolo.
We learnt about the various types of milk and its health benefits during our Milky Milky World Theme. Students also had a pleasurable time tasting Organic Rice Milk and Organic Oat Milk! Look at how our creative students turned a Yakult bottle into a beautiful Butterfly Pen Holder during the Art & Craft session! Lastly, we had a Milky Hunt to conclude this week’s theme. Students had to hunt for ‘Milk Bottles’ hidden in the centre and to answer the questions hidden in the bottles in order to score points for their team! The winning team received a bag of milk chocolates! Miss Shirley helping Caeden (P1), Keith (P2), Jasvin (P1), Dylan (P1) and Jasper (P3) with their butterfly!
Hmm… How does this taste?
↑ Group Photo with Esplanade Engagement Team!
↑ Jing Hui (P3), Teng Wee (P1), Charmayne (P4) and Bernice (P1) figuring out the answers to their milk bottle quiz!
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PAGE 5 March School Holiday Programmes Week 3: Journey to the Lost Civilisation and eXplorer Kid
↑ Christelle (P1) and Aden (P5) with their volcanoes!
Have you heard of the Mayan Civilisation? How about the volcano eruption that wiped out the whole of Pompeii? Well, students were amazed at how these civilisations have disappeared suddenly! We created mini volcanoes that erupted right here in Greenridge! Students have also created interesting art pieces of how their civilisations would look like! We also brought them to eXplorer Kid on 16 June 2016 for a whole morning of great fun and workout!
↑ Nuradillah (P4), Eng Kiang (P4) and Ace (P1) creating their own civilisation!
Week 4: Love for our Earth
L-R: Nuradillah (P4), Qian Ning (P3), Bernice (P1), Shernice (P5) and Yu Xuan (P1) having fun @ eXplorer Kid!
We had so much fun during the last week of the June School Holidays learning about what we should do to protect Mother Earth from harm. Firstly, we had a mini ‘Fashion Show’ where students were divided into groups to dress one of their friends as their selected marine animals. After that, our little models did a ‘Fish Walk’ and teachers chose the most creative design as the winner! As requested by our students, we had another round of mini Telematch again! This time round, all the materials used were recycled from used plastic cups, old cereal boxes, used drinking bottles, old newspapers, yakult bottles and drinking cans. These materials transformed into interesting challenges for a whole afternoon of fun and excitement!
Miller (P1), Eng Kiang (P4), Shernice (P5), Caeden (P1), Ethan (P1) and Bernice (P1) are from the winning team for this mini Fashion Show! Can you guess which marine animal we chose?
↑Jasvin (P1) and Teng Wee (P1) are busy sorting the ‘trash’!
↑Jasper (P3) and Jing En (P5) playing ‘Tennis’ with cereal boxes and a newspaper ball!
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Upcoming Events Centre Closure Date
Day
No. of Days
Event
Remarks
8-Aug
Mon
1
Staff Training
SCC Closure
2-Sep
Fri
1
Teachers’ Day
SCC Closure
25-Nov
Fri
1
Staff Training
SCC Closure
16-Dec
Fri
0.5
Spring Cleaning Day (PM)
SCC Closure
Enrichment Programmes Term
Enrichment Programme
3
Junior Engineers @ Work
4
Y Choral Beats
Centre Programmes Dates
Programme
Aug-Sep
Junior Entrepreneur Programme
7-Sep
SCCs 4th Storytelling Competition
7-Oct
Children’s Day Celebrations
Nov-Dec
Year End School Holiday Programmes
YMCA SCC @ Greenridge c/o Greenridge Primary School 11 Jelapang Road Singapore 677744 Tel: 6219 5431 H/P: 9674 5807 Email: grscc@ymca.edu.sg