National Family Celebration – EAT WITH YOYUUR FAMILY DAY 2012

NATIONAL FAMILY CELEBRATIONS – EAT WITH YOUR FAMILY DAY 2012
In conjunction with the National Family Celebrations, Centre for Fathering and MCYS will be organising a nationwide "Eat with Your Family Day" on Friday, 25 May 2012. Eat With Your Family Day serves as a reminder of the importance of having meals as a family.

Yishun Primary School supports this event and the school will dismiss Primary one and two pupils at 5pm on Friday 25 May 2012. All pupils and staff are encouraged to use this platform to continually make the effort to have dinner with the family as A Ritual of The Heart.

All CCAs will also end at the same time that day.
Please make the necessary arrangement to fetch your child home.
There will be no change to the school hours for pupils in the morning session.

Mathematics Workshop for Parents 2012

The Mathematics Department will be conducting a Mathematics Workshop for parents on the Teaching of Word Problems. Two concurrent sessions will be conducted - one for parents with children in lower primary and the other with children in the upper primary.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

Date: Saturday 30 June 2012
Time: 11.20 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Venue: Yishun Primary School
Upper Primary – AVA Room
Lower Primary – Special Room (Admin Block, Third Floor)

Click here to register for the workshop.

*Note: There are only 30 places for each session. Each registration is meant for one parent only.

Makkal Kavingar Pattukottai Kalyanasundaram's Tamil Song competition 2012

This Singing Competition was held on 21 April 2012. Two of our pupils - Kavya (4 Integrity) and Krishmita (2 Sincerity) emerged champion for their respective levels beating more than 70 pupils from various schools participated in this competition.

The prize presentation ceremony took place on 1 May at Tanglin Community Club. It was a very proud moment for them.

Brochure on Schemes Supporting Singaporean Students

MOE has prepared a brochure on the various schemes that have been put in place to support our Singaporean students. The brochure also highlights the enhancements and new initiatives that were announced at the MOE Committee of Supply last month. We hope to provide readers with a broad overview of the many schemes that we currently have in place and they can approach the school or MOE if they would like to find out more about specific schemes.

More about MOE's Committee of Supply announcements can be found in the link below.
http://www.moe.gov.sg/committee-of-supply-debate/

Information for 2012 P1 Registration Exercise for Admission to P1 in 2013

Parents, who are interested to know more about the Primary One Registration Exercise, could find the information on the MOE page.

Our Achievements for this year SYF Central Judging 2012

We would like to congratulate our pupils who have done the school proud by excelling in this year SYF. They have certainly demonstrated our school values of Perseverance and Excellence. These are the awards they have achieved:

Chinese Language Competition 2012

Two of our pupils, Qu Hanyu from 5 Sincerity and Lin Yuxia from 4 Integrity have won the Merit Prize for the National Chinese Penmanship Competition 2012 organized by Fo Guang Shan on 14 April 2012.

On the same day, another pupil, Shermaine Yap Jing Xuan from 5 Integrity has also won the consolation prize for the National Primary School E-Dictionary Competition, which was organized by Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School and Creative Knowledge..

Tamil Competitions

Our Primary 5 Tamil pupils have done the school proud once again by clinching 1st prize in Chinnajiru Maedai Drama Competitions 2012 at the National Institute of Education, TLC. This competition was held on the 7th of April 2012, and was organized in view of the Tamil Language Month. Six of our pupils acted brilliantly and captivated the hearts of the judges. The drama was also featured in the Vasantham Television programme, Ethiroli. In addition, a Primary pupil from 4 Nation Loving, also emerged Champion in the Story Telling competition, organized by the Tamil Writer's Association. More than 30 pupils from various schools participated in this competition and our pupil emerged champion after 2 phases of gruelling auditions.

We also took part in the Kalakkal Drama Competitions 2012, and clinched the 2nd prize. This competition was held on the 14th of April at the Woodlands Regional Library. Eight of our boys went through 6 sessions of preparatory workshops, consultation sessions and auditions. Their drama was well received by the judges who were all veteran actors.

National Spelling Championship Zonal Round

One of our pupils, Megumi Bernardo Angela, from 6-Integrity participated in the RHB-ST National Spelling Championship 2012 Zonal Round. Despite facing strong contestants from 23 North Zone schools such as Rosyth and Nan Chiau Primary, she has emerged as the 1st runner-up.