School Newsletter 48 | Page 2

WELCOME, MRS TAY!

A warm welcome to Mrs Karen Tay, our new Vice Principal / Curriculum. Mrs Tay was formerly from St Margaret’ s where she was HOD of Student Development. A mother of a 6-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy, Mrs Tay cherishes her time with her family and friends.

English Language Week( 5-9 April 2010) & ANGLICAN HIGH SCHOOL- CHUNG CHENG HIGH( MAIN) DEBATE FESTIVAL( 19 MAY 2010)

The theme for this year’ s English Language Week was“ Love It, Live It!” and this was a promise of a lively start. The range of activities meant that there was something for everyone – book displays and mass borrowing of novels courtesy of the National Library Board, quizzes, competitions and recess entertainment in the form of the screening of the perennially popular“ Mind Your Language” series. Other fringe events were the Secondary 1 & 2 Poetry Recitation Competitions which saw an impressive range of talent and a tough fight for the eventual winners. One of the highlights for the Lower Secondary levels was the“ Confusing Conundrums”, held during assembly, whereby classes competed and were tested in their knowledge of the English and Chinese languages and Spain( our YOG twinning country). All in all, it was a good break from the usual routine of English Language lessons. On a separate event, the Secondary 3 level did the school proud when they continued the tradition and emerged as overall victors in a friendly debate festival with Chung Cheng High( Main) for the second year running.

54th founder’ s day celebration

This year, the school held her 54th Founder’ s Day Celebration on 24 March 2010. The theme for this year’ s celebration was‘ Soaring to Higher Ground’, and our Guest-of-Honour was Reverend Peter Chen who gave an inspiring talk, sharing his insights on‘ Life’ s Lessons from a Basketball Match’. Rev Chen encouraged our students to be diligent always as they pursued their goals and purposes in life. He ended his speech by quoting the famous words of Sir Winston Churchill:“ Success is never final; failure is never fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts”.

earth hour

“ The Dark Hour”

In conjunction with the global Earth Hour event, the community at Anglican High School experienced life without electricity for an hour on 26 March 2010 from 12.15pm to 1.15pm. The main objective of this event was to raise the level of environmental awareness among students and teachers. All the lights, fans, computers and projectors in the classrooms were switched off, and lessons were conducted using the whiteboard only. The air-conditioning and computers in the special rooms and computer laboratories were also switched off. One teacher displaying initiative was music teacher, Mrs Kimberley Sng, who took her class to the Concourse, and conducted her lesson using the piano there.

The community stakeholders sharing the same compound as the school, Anglican House( student hostel) and All Saints’ Church, also participated in this event by switching off the electricity at their premises. Staff, students and stakeholders made adjustments to their work during the hour without electricity. Laptops were shut down and teachers were seen marking outside the Staff Room.

This Earth Hour event, including an interview with Tey Min Li from Secondary 4E, was featured on Channel NewsAsia during primetime news.

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Our principal, Dr Zoe Boon then proudly presented the school’ s annual report, giving details of our achievements – a testimony to the dedication of our talented staff and students. To acknowledge the hard work of all concerned, a prize presentation to the 2009 award winners followed. To show our appreciation to Reverend Chen, Dr Boon presented him with a beautiful artpiece, painted by one of our teachers.

The celebration ended with the school song resonating through the school hall, reminding our students to soar to‘ Higher Ground’!