NEWSLETTER FOR PARENTS

St Hi lda ’s Pr imary School Establ ished in 1934

A dynamic learn ing communi ty that nur tures loyal c i t izens wi th g lobal out look and Godly character .

School’s achieve-ments

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Latest Development of PERI Upgrading

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School highlights 6

Inside this Issue

Dear Parents

RUN WITH ENDURANCE, RACE WITH JOY!

This is the 80th Anniversary celebration theme for St Hilda’s Schools (Primary & Second-ary) as well as St Hilda’s Church.

The primary and secondary schools had our combined cel-ebrations on 11 July at Marina Mandarin. It was a memorable evening—bringing together for-mer and present principals, vice-principals, staff and stu-dents of the two schools, ex-Hildans who had graduated from St Hilda’s Schools in Cey-lon Road and Tampines, mem-bers from St Hilda’s Church and Chapel of Christ the Re-demeer (CCR) as well as par-ents. Most important of all, the celebrations reminded us of God’s faithfulness and grace toward the two schools.

It was awesome to know that so many generations of Hil-dans have passed through the door of St Hilda’s Schools and they are now contributing to the society at large. Praise be to God!

As we continue this journey , let us not forget to pass on the Legacy of our Founder, Arch-deacon Graham White. The mission for us is to ensure that each Hildan is developed in his/her body, mind and spirit to be a God-fearing citizen for so-

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ciety. To do this, we as staff, students and parents need to be good role models for one another.

I am reminded of this story tak-en from The Brothers Grimm

entitled, “The Old Man and His Grandson.”

There was once an old man who was almost blind and deaf and whose hands trembled. When he sat at the table, he could hardly hold his spoon; he liked to talk and he took forever to eat his supper. His son and his son’s wife lost their pa-tience and finally made the old man sit in a corner behind the stove. They brought his food in an earthenware bowl. He looked sadly in the direction of the table and his eyes filled with tears. One day his hands trembled so much that he dropped his bowl and it fell to the floor and broke. The young woman scolded him but he said nothing. She bought him a wooden bowl and from then on he had to eat out of it. As they were sitting there one day, the little four year old grandson was on the floor playing with some pieces of wood. “What are you doing?” his father asked. The child replied: “I’m making a trough for both of you to eat out of when I’m grown up.” The husband and wife looked at each other and burst into tears. After that they

brought the old grandfa-ther back to the table. He ate with them from then on, chatted merrily and took his time.

This story is an example of how much our children look to us for guidance—we need to make sure that the way we act is in line with what Paul teaches us in Titus 2: 7 - 8 “In every-thing set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integri-ty, seriousness and sound-ness of speech that cannot be condemned…”

Together with endurance to stay on course, the school will go forward into the next decade with God’s strength and wis-dom.

Kew Mee Ying

Principal

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Sony Creative Science Award

Congratulations to Zane Chua P2/2 for being awarded a Merit Award for his creative toy submit-ted.

The school is now a Friend of the Sony Creative Science Award having 3 consecutive years of par-ticipation. Cheers!

Raynn Kwok who is one of our P6 sailors has been selected to rep-resent Singapore at the coming Asian Games in Korea.

He is the youngest sailor to have been chosen for the Optimist race.

We wish Raynn all the best! Hope that he will keep our Singapore flag flying high.

SUPER ZONAL

SCRABBLE SERIES 2014

East Zone Junior category

CHAMPION: Kayden Jamie Tan and K Shruti

East Zone Senior category

2nd: Benny Ong, Harsha and Ashley Cheo

CHAMPION: Sanjith Raj, Jonathan Pua and Isaac

Super Zonal Junior Category

2nd: Damien Ooi, Seth Lim and Letitia Chen

Super Zonal Senior Category

2nd: Sebastian Lau, Noel Li and Natasha

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50 Words for 50 years creative writing competition winners

Book Launch by Amon Chua (P6)

Kudos to Amon Chua, a P6 student who had launched his first book entitled Bone Hunt recently.

The school library has a few copies of his book which our students could borrow to read.

In the above creative writing

competition, Madeleine Fung Sum Yee emerged the Overall Champion in Category

2 (9 to 10 years old) and Vic-toria Ong Dai Qi emerged Champion in Category 3 (11—12 years old).

Congratulations to both of them for putting in much thought in their writing!

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NATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Izz (Hockey player) and Raynn (Sailor) were recipients of the Peter Lim Scholar-ship 2014. They were recognized for their outstanding sports skills in their respec-tive CCAs.

The awardees of this prestigious book prize from our school are:

Zhang Zheqing (P6/11 – 2013) Dan Ang

Zhang Zheting (P6/11 – 2013)

Rachel Alyssa Aby (P6/10 – 2013) Fong Wee Miang

The following students did the school proud with the following achievements:

Primary Boys Under 11- East Zone 2nd

Primary Girls Under 11- East Zone 2nd

P4-7 KOH CHENG WEE BRYAN

P3-7 SCOTT LIM

P3-7 NG DU WEI

P4-9 GREGORY CONG DA RAMA

P5-9 MATTHEW RAMLI

P5-7 KRISTIE RAMLI

P5-8 CHONG KAITLYN

P4-7 TANG MIN XUEN EVANGELINE

P3-6 AARTHI VENKIDACHALAM

P3-7 TAY KAI LI

Primary Girls Under 11- East Zone 3rd

Primary Boys Under 9- East Zone 3rd

P4-4 KUO TE YI

P5-2 LI YONG EN GABRIELLE

P3-7 LIM DANIELLE

P3-4 LIM YAN LING

P3-7 YEO NICHOLAS

P3-6 CHU ZACHARY

P3-2 XU XIUPING

P3-7 LIM XAVIER

P3-2 LAI YU

PRIME MINISTER BOOK PRIZE 2014

2014 PETER LIM SCHOLARSHIP

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School’s new Media Resource Library

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF THE

PERI UPGRADING PROJECT

Extension of the playground with additional fun structures is ready!

Rooftop Outdoor Experien-tial Learning space (above the foyer) is ready for in-stalling of an aquarium, trellis, Math and Science fun equipment, etc.

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SHIFT BACK TO TAMPINES &

2015 SCHEDULE

TERM 4 UPCOMING SCHOOL EVENTS

English Language Teacher

1. Mrs Lisa Lee

Technology Assistant

1. Mr Cheng Han Lin (He is an additional TA sent to us. This would greatly help the school as we moved back to our Tampines site which has more facilities)

Plans for the school’s shift back to Tampines site is underway. We are mov-ing in stages namely:

∗ Pre-shift –Oct 16 & 17 (Science, PE, Music, Library resources)

∗ Actual shift—Nov 18—21

The last day of school at Bedok site will be the 13 Nov (Thursday) which is also our Prize Giving cum Meet-the-Parents Day.

The school office will officially operate at

our Tampines site with effect from 24 Nov (Monday). There will be an Open

WELCOME TO THE HILDAN FAMILY

House for all parents and students on 29 Dec, Monday. All are welcome to visit the new facilities of the school.

More details regarding the shift back to our Tampines site as well as the 2015 sched-ule will be sent to you shortly.

29 Dec

2014

PSLE

* PSLE Listening Comprehen-

sion - 19 Sep

* PSLE Written papers

(25 Sep—1 Oct)

*PSLE Marking - 14 –17 Oct

(No school for all )

* P3-6—Children’s Day celebrations @ school & P1 –2 Lower Primary

Sports’ Day - 2 Oct

* Children’s Day holiday - 3 Oct

* Admin Day & P1 (2015) Orienta-

tion— 7 Nov

* P6 Graduation celebration @

Tampines Upgraded school—11 Nov

* End of the Year Meet-the-Parent

cum Prize Giving Day—13 Nov

Last Day of school @ Bedok—13 Nov.

To: All our P6 stu-dents taking PSLE

Wishing you God’s blessings of peace, wisdom and good health for PSLE!

From: All P1—5 Hildans, teachers

and parents.