Human Jackpot Game at GEP 25th Anniversiry

Impromptu Speech at GEP 25th Anniversity on youtube

Vistors from HongKong

We were delighted to host a visit by Mr Michael Suen, the Hong Kong Secretary for Education and a group of delegates. A group of GEP pupils presented their FPS project to our distinguished visitors.

UK Visitors

On the 27th May, a group of visitors from UK visited our GEP classes and observed the P5 GEP EL lessons taught by Mr Tan Ying Kiat and Ms Jaclyn Zeng. They were also briefed by Mrs Loo Poh Keng on the GEP Programme.

Visit by a Principal from Australia

On the 6th April, a Principal from Australia visited us and she spent some time learning about the Gifted Education Programme from our Head-of-Department, Mrs Loo Poh Keng and she called on our Principal , Mdm Heng Boey Hong too.

Korean Visitors

This year, a group of Korean visitors visited our school on the 8th Jan. They were greeted by our Principal Mdm Heng Boey Hong and then briefed by our GEP Head-of–Department, Mrs Loo Poh Keng .They enjoyed the walkabout and expressed that they liked the IRS project presented by our pupil, Wong Zi Liang from 6M.

GEP 25th Anniversary Celebrations in Nanyang Primary School

On the 3rd July this year, we celebrated the GEP 25th Anniversary in the classrooms.The time-table was suspended for 2 hours from 8 to 10 a.m. In each of the GEP classes, form teachers started by showing the powerpoint slides on the history of GEP in Nanyang Primary school as well as the goals and mission of the GEP. These slides were prepared specially by our team of senior GEP teachers. Pupils then did the CIP activity on the Orange Ribbon Project. They also had the opportunity to play some games within the classes. Each pupil was given a souvenir of a cap and water bottle to mark the occasion.

Many of our pupils were able to express themselves well in saying that they will emulate their seniors by doing better in their exams and participating in National competitions. Some went on to say that they will have to change their "poor attitude" to one that is better in contributing to the society. Thanks to our teachers, you are able to enjoy a video and some photos shown in this blog.

OPEN LITTLE EYES SYMPOSIUM

“The first time I went into battle I was afraid. But after two or three days they forced us to start using cocaine, and then I lost my fear. When I was taking drugs, I never felt bad on the front. Human blood was the first thing I would have every morning. It was my coffee in the morning… every morning.”
-Ibrahim, 16, Lord’s Resistance Army
Those are the true words of a child soldier fighting in the Lord’s Resistance Army in Sierra Leone and Uganda in Africa. These children are just a small group of children exploited to do dangerous or overly laborious work all around the world, especially in third-world countries such as Africa or India. The other biggest areas classified under ‘Children’ that the United Nations Association (UN) are trying to improve are lack of healthcare, lack of welfare, child labour, child trafficking, poverty and of course the above-mentioned child soldiers.
Modern children living here in Singapore do not understand nor experience the pain and torment children in third- world countries feel, and therefore, the UNAS (United Nations Association of Singapore has organised a number of events and activities for upper-primary children here, mainly using SCGS (Singapore Chinese Girl’s School) as a base. The most recent activity is the SCGS Model United Nations Conference, but before that was the “Open little Eyes” symposium organised within SCGS. Global International Indian School (GIIS), SCGS, Nanyang Primary School (NYPS), CHIJ Kellock were among the schools that attended the symposium.
The symposium comprised of four sessions on every Saturday from February 7th to February 28th. Its aim was to empower the pupils by creating significant learning experiences through problem solving and empathy (developing communication skills) to the sufferings, hardships and differences among the children around the world. It also enabled the students to be more aware of and care about the world to a greater degree than they did before the workshop, or in a different way (enhancing the right values in life and preparing the pupils to impact the world). Students learn campaigning skills (speech, art, poetry, short stories and music), and between their school groups they presented their prepared presentations to the other schools.
The event will also provide the participating primary schools with synergistic benefits to learn from one another's National Education programme and benchmark best practices. Mr Alexander Charles Louis, Secretary General, Chairperson Humanitarian Affairs, UNAS, was also present as Guest-of honour.

Review done by Teo Weilong 6K