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Clarence, Daniel, Hong Jhun, Ranald, Vignes
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Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 5:55 PM
This is my first blog entry in quite a long time lol. Last Wednesday, after having contacted our external mentor, Ms Jeyashini, beforehand, we decided to visit our VWO (APSN Tanglin School) for the first time. Our main purpose was to know the school's system and students better and to understand their needs. Through a short discussion with Ms Jeyashini, we discovered that we could help the students there by creating videos for social and vocational guidance lessons, and that the students themselves would act in the skits. We were also offered side-projects such as helping to translate parents' words during Parent-Teacher meetings and other ad-hoc events which would require our assistance. After the short discussion, Ms Jey took us on a short tour around the school, and we realised that although it was quite small, there were facilities such as the gymnasium and the Sparkz cabin which catered to students who needed to kill time when they needed to stay back. There were also rooms which were set up like real life minimarts and hotel rooms to facilitate vocational training for the students. Just yesterday, we met Ms Jeyashini again at Tanglin School to share with her our plans for this project. We decided to focus on the video-making as our main project and that we would help to facilitate in any ad-hoc events. I felt that it went really well as she agreed mostly with our plans and at the same time answered the many queries that we had for her. I look forward to actually meeting and interacting the students at the start of the next term. |