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Primary 2 Level wide VIA - Making CNY decoration to bless the Elderly

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Primary 2 Level wide VIA - Making CNY decoration to bless the Elderly

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Our P2 students made Chinese New Year decorations to bless the elderly from 2 nursing homes in Singapore.

The decorations were put up in the elderly home ( NTUC Income Elderly Home and All Saints Elderly Home ) as well as given to the elderly.

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Over the span of 3 weeks, our Hildans Alexis Lum and Ethan Lum conducted a self initated book donation drive in school. They personally advocated for their project and rallyed together a group of friends who helped them sort and pack all the books donated by Hildans. These books were than given to Jalan Besar Community centre where a book donation drive was held. People from all walks of life in Jalan Besar attended this event and were blessed by the books.

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I went to the st Andrew senior care centre at tampines hub and help the elderly with art and craft.

The act of kindness was done on 8 Feb 2024.

It was a meaningful act because it was my first time helping out at a senior day care centre and doing art and craft together with them. It makes me happy to see them enjoy the craft session.

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It was a fun and enjoyable experience to communicate with the elderly at ST’ Andrew’s old folks home. I enjoyed folding origami for the old folks. I also enjoyed seeing the people who are practicing to perform a play for the old folks. This experience allowed me to communicate with the elderly in different languages.

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At the migrant worker centre, I gave out

goodie bags containing toothpaste, toothbrush, bar soap 🧼, man shaver and a gratitude card. The act of kindness was for migrant workers to show our appreciation to them. It was a meaningful act as we could show our gratitude to them. What I mean is if there were no migrant workers ,there will be no buildings to live in. And finally I would like to end off by sharing how I felt about the trip. At the start, I felt a little nervous because it was my first time going there. However it was a pleasant surprise. It was fun and enjoyable 😉.

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This year, with the support of Mdm. Law and the guidance of Mrs. David, Alexis and I reran the book drive program as it was very well received last year.

Looking back, I feel that the effort that my schoolmates and I put in in these 2.5 months was well worth it. We have collected a whooping 4747 books, 1000 books more than last year, allowing us to open this giveaway not only to the residents of Kampong Glam but also to members of the public. In addition, I also feel extremely grateful to my schoolmates, their parents and staff members who have generously contributed books to this book drive They made our sorting work at the community club so much easier by donating relevant materials.

Our biggest challenge during this book drive was to sort out books donated by members of the public as we spent many hours sieving out the inappropriate content that they had dropped off at the community club. Among them was a whole school bag full of ledger papers that was dusty and had turned yellow. Tedious as the work may be, we are still very grateful for the overwhelming response from our school and the public. During the giveaway event, I witnessed very heartwarming scenes, such as parents bonding with their children over books. We even see grandparents helping their grandchildren to select books. No amount of words can describe how happy I feel when I see the happy faces of the recipients, adults and children alike.

I feel that our goal for raising awareness for sustainable reading has been achieved as during the giveaway event on the 16th of March, some adults ask when will we be doing the collection again as they would like to drop the books back once their children have read them. They feel that this is a very good initiative and hope that is can be run more often.

Most importantly, I would like to thank my friends for helping out both in school and at the book giveaway event, for this event is only made possible with all their selfless help. They sacrificed their free time after school, and their March holiday to help out in our endeavour. As the sayings goes: 单丝不成线, 独木不成林.

The heros from 6/7 are: Kayden Heng, Zhang Xin Yu, Matthew Lee, Zhang Yun Ying, Hoo Wan Ting, Clara Low, Athena Chew, Joal Cheng, Isaiah Lam, Lucas Tay(and his mother)

From 5/6: Gwen Teng

From 5/5: Leanne Tay

From 4/8:Zheng Ella

From 4/7: Jayda Cheng

From 3/5 : Emma Grace

From 2/9: Sebestian Cheng

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I helped my father to present the games at the St Andrew Senior Care Center for the elderly. It was done on the 08/02/2024. It was meaningful as I could see the elderly enjoyed the game. At first when my father told me about it I was nervous and upset as I had to miss CCA. During the expirence I got even more nervous to speak in frount of everyone but after the expirence I had a lot of fun with the elderly.

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Sonshine Club went to St. Andrew's Senior Care on 4 April 2024. Jake and I had the opportunity to share about our CCA gifts with everyone. It was my first time there and we got to bless people. I felt so happy when I saw all the elderly having fun playing the games and seeing us perform 2 songs. At the start, I was a bit nervous as it was my first time there. During the time we were there, I started feeling more comfortable as the elderly were very happy and it made me happy as I know that we blessed them. After the time we were there, I felt really happy as everyone had a smile of their face. I am looking forward to playing more games and singing more songs the next time we are there.

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SHPS, Primary 5/5, Christina Edwin Arokiyam

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SHPS, Primary 5/5, Christina Edwin Arokiyam

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I interacted with the seniors at St. Andrew's Senior Care when Sonshine Club went to visit on 4 April 2024. We sang songs and I gave out crochet heart keychains to the elderly. The seniors were happy and very active when we were there. I felt excited before the visit. I forgot myself during the visit as I was having too much fun. I felt contented that we blessed the seniors after the visit.