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Academic Achievements |
Science
Alternative Energy Car Challenge 2010 – Solar Prix Reloaded
Alternative Energy Car Challenge 2010 – Solar Prix Reloaded, is organised by Marsiling Secondary School and National Environment Agency, Participants constructed their vehicles and powered them using solar energy. Then they had a race with 3 challenging obstacles (The Wedge, Bumpy Ride and The Amazon).
Two groups of Yishun racers took part in this year SolarPRIX held at Marsiling Secondary School on 22 June 2010. One team clinched the Championship for the Primary Category as well as the "Most Environmentally-themed Car" award. We will be receiving our Championship Trophy during the Clean and Green Singapore Schools' Carnival (10-11 Nov 2010)
Teachers, mentors and pupils rejoicing after the prize-giving ceremony
Our Yishun solar racers receiving the SolarPrix Tamiya hampers from our principal, Mrs Chan during the school assembly
The video of the journey our Yishun racers had embarked to achieve their success.
Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC) 2010
The SAFMC 2010 is Singapore’s largest flying machine competition that will put your creativity, scientific knowledge and flying machine to the test!
This competition was held at Science Centre. Participants had to present the theory of flight and then achieve 3 flying missions – Endurance (longest flight time), Precision (closest landing to target) and Acrobatics (most horizontal loops around a pole).
Five teams of our very own pilots took flight and two teams soared to excellent heights. We beat 115 teams from over 20 primary schools and emerged as the Overall Champion for the Primary Category.
Team "Flying Brothers" clinched the
(a) Championship Award Category A 1st
(b) Best Precision Award Category A 2nd
Team "Flying Kids" won the
(a) Best Acrobatics Award Category A 2nd
(b) Best Precision Award Category A 3rd
Our aspiring pilots were interviewed by a Straits Times reporter and the article was published on 9 April 2010.
Team “Flying Brothers” receiving the Championship Trophy from DPM and Minister of Defence, Mr Teo Chee Hean.
Winners from all categories taking a group photograph with the Minister Teo.
Our teacher mentors and winning pilot teams
The video of the journey our Yishun pilots had embarked to achieve their success.
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9th Elementz Science Competition:
- Lower Primary category - Gold (Project title - grease-ycle. Pupils conducted investigation on which used cooking oil produces soap of a better quality.)
Upper Primary category - Bronze and Certificate of Commendation
SOLARPRIX Alternative Energy Car Challenge AEC 2009 – 4th place for Primary Category.
(Click on the Clean & Green Singapore facebook link to view our Mighty Duck.)
1. Distinction Award in the 32nd Shell Singapore Youth Science Festival 2009.
2 Commendation Awards (2 teams) in the National Weather Studies Project (2008-2009).
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English
1. National Stamp Collecting Competition 2010
Yishun Primary School is the Overall Champion for the Primary School Group Category! We won 10 Gold awards, 9 Silver with Special Prize awards and 12 Silver awards! Well Done Yishunites!
Our staff, Gold & Silver Award winners and Performing Art Club dancers taking a group photograph after receiving the Singapore Post Challenge Shield and various awards on Saturday, 4 September 2010, at The Plaza, National Library.
Our Vice Principal, Mdm Ng and our English teachers who attended the NSCC Prize Giving Ceremony
2. National Stamp Collecting Competition 2009
Our pupils took part in the National Stamp Collecting Competition (NSCC'09) organised by the Singapore Philatelic Museum and had achieved the following award:
1. One Gold Award -P5
2. Four Silver Awards - P5 (3 teams) and P3(1 team)
3. One Bronze Award- (P5)
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Tamil Language
1. Chinnajiru Maedai Inter school Drama competitions 2010
We achieved 1st prize in the Chinnajiru Maedai Inter school Drama competitions 2010. Our lower primary pupils also clinched the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in the story-telling competition. Their hardwork attributed greatly to the Challenge Trophy which we have won for the second time.
2. Chinnajieru Maedai Drama Competitions 2009
Our P4 and P5 participants attained Second prize at the Chinnajieru Maedai Drama Competitions 2009.
Our P1 pupil, Kavya emerged as the Champion for the Lower Primary Story Telling Competition 2009
3. Overall Champion for Tamil Language Competition 2009
1st prize – Primary 3 Role-play, Primary 4 Essay Writing and Primary 6 Poetry Recitation
2nd prize – Primary 1 Story-telling competition
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Chinese Language
National Chinese Language Online Scholar Competition 2010
Our pupils has done us proud again by clinching the Overall Champion for the National Chinese Language Online Scholar Competition held at Rosyth School on 10 July 2010. We also received a Commendation Award for the National CL Oratorical Competition held at Suntec City during the World Book Fair in June.
Our participants taking a photograph with Mediacorp's famous host, Guo Liang
Our participants taking a group photograph with Mrs Chan during the school assembly.
National Chinese Comics Challenge 2009
Xie Kun Hua of P6-7 entered the Winner's List.
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Malay Language
Malay Language Competition (Peraduan 3,2,1 Aksi 2010)
In conjuction with the Malay Language Month 2010, the Malay Language Unit, Curriculum Planning and Development Division (CPDD) has organised a Malay Language Competition for Primary Schools - Peraduan 3,2,1 Aksi. Our pupils emerged the third place in the story telling competition.
National Story Telling Competition (Juara Tok Selampit 2010)
This story-telling competition, "Juara Tok Selampit 2010" is organised by the EDN Education Consultant Pte. Ltd. This competition is held annually at the Woodlands Regional Library. Three of our pupils received the gold award. One pupil received the silver award and another received the bronze award. Syazlina was also nominated as one of the top ten best story tellers in the competition.
 
 
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CCA Achievements |
Performing Arts Club
NZ NE Dance Competition 2010
Congratulation to our Performing Arts Club dancers for clinching the 1st prize in the NZ NE Dance Competition although they faced tough challengers from eleven other schools.
StreetBliss III Competition
On 20 March 2010, 10 Performing Arts male dancers emerged as Champions in the StreetBliss III competition organised by MOE. This is their second time clinching the title for this competition. Despite knowing that they will be up against the school that took them down in the recent Danceworks 2010, the senior boys made a strong comeback with their determination and ability to lead the younger dancers.
Indeed, the boys showed tremendous team spirit in all their rigorous training sessions and rehearsals. The instructor was very impressed by our boys' commitment and resilience. The boys could achieve such results because of the support given to them by all the teachers in Yishun Primary School.
Danceworks! Competition 2010 – First Runner-up for the Primary Category
On 6 March 2010, 10 Performing Art Club pupils took part in Danceworks 2010 and the clinched the 1st runner-up for the dance component. Our girls were able to maintain their cool when they had to do a 20-second costume change (total change of costume) during the dance. The judges were very impressed with their ability to handle such difficult and stressful situation. Besides walking away with the trophy for dance, the team also came in 1st for the Anti-Drug time capsule design which was submitted in late January 2010. Our school was also awarded with the 'Best Costume' award. All these would have been impossible without the support of all the teachers and pupils from Yishun Primary School.
Danceworks! Competition 2009 - Overall Champion for the Primary Category
Dance Works! is an anti-drug dance competition organised by the National Council Against Drug Abuse and Central Narcotics Bureau. This event has been in its 11th year. 23 primary schools took part in this prestigious competition this year. Danceworks! 2009 was held at Toa Payoh Hub on 24 February 2009.
Our school has sustained the Challenge Shield for another year running. Keep it up Yishun Primary School! A BIG Thank-you to the teachers-in-charge (Mrs Audrey Lee, Ms Sharifah, Mrs Adeline Hong and Mdm Chen Wei) for their hard-work and dedication. Special thanks to our Principal, Mrs Chan Kwai Foong for her invaluable advice during the practices.
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Art Club
National Comics Challenge 2010
Congratulation to Haistleene Ah of P5-Integrity who has clinched the 3rd prize for the National Comics Challenge 2010. Her comics artwork is one of the 1000 entries from various schools. In addition, this is our first time participating in this nation-wide comics competition held for all Primary and Secondary student, organized by Doby Studio Pte Ltd.
Inter-School Nanyang Floral Art Competition
We are pleased to share the good news that our school has clinched the 2nd prize for both the Individual and Team categories in the Inter-School Nanyang Floral Art Competition. Three of our P4 pupils have shown their individual talents and creativity during the "On-the-spot flower Arrangement" that was held at Suntec City Convention on Saturday (17 July 2010).
 
Mrs Chan presenting the trophies and certificates to the winners during the school assembly.
Top Winners
"The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife"
Digital Video Puppet Show
This competition was organised by The Embassy of Spain with the support of MOE to honour the most well-known Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
The competition aims to promote understanding of the Spanish culture among primary and secondary students. It also provides an opportunity for students to heighten their aesthetics and
cultural awareness.
Students were encouraged to express their personal and unique interpretation of universal values depicted in the play through different art forms, such as drawing, painting, puppetry and animation.
Under the guidance of our teacher mentors, Mrs Sindy Koh and Mrs Justina Surash, the following pupil participants had worked cohesively in producing the digital video puppet show.
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Angeline Foong Hui Yi |
Primary 3-5 : |
John Benedict Remela Shirlley,Florentino Gemuel Paul Villar,Muhammad Sufi B Salam, |
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Ruqaiah bte Ghazali,Nyan Lin Htet and Soo Velle |
8 consolation prizes for a 'Bioglan' colouring contest organised by Guardian Guardian Health & Beauty.
Merit Prize for Floral Harmony at Nanyang Primary 7th Inter- School Creative Floral Art Competition 2009
Winning entry for Anti- Drug Championship Title Belt Design Contest
Created by Christine from Primary 4-6.
“Fashion Evolution” below is shortlisted for Singapore Youth Festival (SYF Arts)
These SYF art pieces below were created by our pupils.
“Global Pursuit”
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"In the eyes of the beholder" |
"We R THE Passion!" |
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InfoComm Club
Northzone ICT Competitions 2010
The InfoComm Club, under the ICT Department, recently participated in the NZ ICT Competition during the June holidays. The competitions involved the Macintosh Apple platform. Our pupils had demonstrated their creative talent, perserverance and IT skills.
Two of our P5 students have clinched two distinctive awards - first prize for the Comic Life Category, and 2nd prize for the Digital Music Category.
Our award recipients who have done us proud for the NZ ICT Competitions 2010.
National School Podcasts Competition 2009
All 11 entries submitted by the InfoComm Club members made it to the final round.
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Cub Scouts
8th consecutive Frank Cooper Sands Gold Award for 2009
On 25 October 2009, 5 of our P6 cub scouts were awarded the Akela Award during Akela Award Presentation Ceremony at Singapore Scout Association.
This award is the highest award to be awarded to individual scouts in recognition of their outstanding performance in scouting.
Vaishakh Pillay and Thein Hla of P6-4 were awarded Akela Awards with Honours and Merit respectively.
Arief, Nicholas and Jerome of P6-6 were awarded Akela Awards with Pass.
These scouts have worked very hard to achieve these awards. We are proud of them.
Back Row: Mr Silver Rajoo District Commissioner, Mrs P. Ganapathy and Mr David Huang
7th consecutive Frank Cooper Sands Gold Award for 2008
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Outstanding All-Rounder Student (OARS) Awards
A Pethanakshi was awarded the prestigious Outstanding All-Rounder Student OARS Award for Community Development Council level.
Nur Hidayah bte Rahim and Amir Hasif B Rosli received the OARS Awards for school level.
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Robotics Club
Singapore Junior Robotics Challenge 2010
On 1 June 2010, our Robotics Club members won two awards in the challenge. They won the "Most Innovative Design" award and the "Most Outstanding Display of YOG Values" award. Although the boys did not clinch the top prize, it was a good start for them and the school as this was the first time they participated in this challenge.
Our winners presenting their trophies to Mrs Chan.
Champion in the Battle-bots Event in the Asia Pacific Robotics Competition 2009.
Pupils from the Robotics Club took part in the Asia Pacific Robotics Competition (APRC 2009) during the first week of the June holidays. The pupils played hard and thoroughly enjoyed themselves during the event. At the end of the competition, we brought honour to our school by clinching the top position for the Battle-bot event.
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Sports Achievements |
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Soccer (Girls)
Second place in the National U9 5-aside Soccer Girls Tournament.
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Hockey
North-Zone Inter-Primary Schools Hockey Championships 2010
- Junior Boys 3rd Runner-Up
- Junior Girls 2nd Runner-Up
- Best Player (Girls) Natasha Utari
Northland Secondary School Invitational Competition (Hockey Party) 2010
- Girls Category (Champions)
- Best Player (Girls) Gan Pei Ling
4th in National Inter-Primary Schools Hockey Championships 2009 (Senior girls)
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Service-Learning (Project Grease) |
Project “Grease-ycle” is a joint collaboration by Yishun Primary School between NorthWest CDC and Raffles Girls School.
The teachers of Yishun Primary School were taught a technique of turning used cooking oil into soap used for household cleaning purposes by some students from Raffles Girls’ Secondary School. As a result, some teachers work together as a committee to facilitate a service learning project that sees the collection of used cooking oil from the neighbouring households and churning out aesthetically-molded pieces of soap from this oil. The entire level of Primary 4 pupils is engaged in this project. |
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Pupils ventured into Nee Soon East Zone 1 and went about interviewing the residents on the methods they used to dispose off used cooking oil and also to garner their interest in participating in a recycling drive to store and turn this oil into soap. After two Saturdays of knocking on doors and applying communicative skills learnt through their teachers, they managed to gather about 150 odd interested households. The next step was to start the collection. |
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On the first collection, we were blessed with about 20 litres of cooking oil which could in turn be converted to slightly more than 200 pieces of soap. The collection will continue till early September on a fortnightly basis while pupils are encouraged to donate their used cooking oil to the school on the Mondays following the collections. |
Pupils will be taught on the technique of soap-making after their mid-semestral examinations. Excitement is prevailing in the pupils as they eagerly anticipate the commencement of this workshop.
Proceeds from the sales of the soap will go into the school’s Needy Pupils’ Funds and North West Community Development Council Food Aid programme. In the pipeline, there will also be a workshop to teach residents how to make the soap by these Primary 4 pupils.
Click here for newspaper article on Project Grease
Mr K. Shanmugam addressing the pupils at the launch of Project Grease-ycle at Canberra Road.
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