Week 5 - Service Week

This week, we have been investigating and celebrating Service Week across the Infant School. The children found out more about the different Service initiatives we support, both here in Singapore and overseas. The main objective was to raise awareness of these initiatives both within the grade and across the Primary School and we certainly believe we achieved that. 

The highlight of the week for many of the  children was Wednesday’s “K2Athlon” where we wanted to see how many “Ks for Kuma” we could clock up as a grade team and see if, together, we could reach the Kuma School in Cambodia! Thank you to our parents who came to support us! The children did themselves proud and displayed great resilience and a real team ethic. I am not sure how many Ks we achieved but watch this space...

Much like the Arts Festival, we finished the week by thinking about how ‘Service Starts with Me.’ We introduced the idea of a Service Diary which the children all took home in their blue folders. We will let them explain these to you but, please be reminded, these are completely optional. The main purpose of the diaries is to encourage the children to engage in Service initiatives in and around their homes as they begin to appreciate the importance of thinking about other people and, hopefully, helping out whenever and wherever they can. If they raise any money, that is an added bonus but the main aim of the project is to raise awareness not funds. Together, we brainstormed ideas of the sorts of things we might be able to help out with at home. We also enjoyed another shared lunch, this time the Grade One children came down to our classrooms. 

On Friday we also visited the Happy Lodge residents with our G1 buddies. It was such a delight to watch our children interact with the senior residents...they were confident, thoughtful and caring and definitely brought a smile to the faces of the residents. 

Lastly, Miss Imogen has uploaded Fazree’s Arts Festival photos onto each class page on the Primary Music Site. They can be accessed directly by clicking on the 'Music' tab link at the top of this page.