“ Ready for rationing ?”
NEMation IV
Google Apps Training
Total Defence Day
“ Ready for rationing ?”
buying food from the ‘ black market ’ to fill their tummies . Limited quantities of chicken rice and fried bee hoon were sold at $ 5 and $ 4 per pack respectively . Samuel Leong Chee Pin from Secondary Two Compassion commented , “ Paying $ 5 for this packet of chicken rice is definitely not worth it but I am too hungry as I did not have breakfast .”
Teachers donned Mercy Relief vests and distributed four packs of army combat rations to each class . Hesitant to try them at first , some students were surprised that the vegetable curry combat ration was quite delicious . They were also surprised that the food could be eaten cold , straight from the pack .
On 10 February 2010 , our students had an unusual experience – the prospect of closed canteen stalls and water coolers which had the sign “ Unfit for drinking ” pasted on them .
This was done in commemoration of Total Defence Day . Our students had a first-hand experience of a rationing exercise . Prior to the event , each class was instructed to prepare an emergency kit as part of an inter-class competition . The five items in the emergency kit had to include a torchlight , a radio , a first-aid kit and sufficient food and drinks to last the entire class for 12 hours . Another compulsory item was a write-up rationalising the choice of items .
During the assembly programme , representatives from Mercy Relief , an independent non-governmental humanitarian charity , shared with the students the role of the organisation and the importance of always being prepared in case of an emergency . Selected students also had a chance to interact with the representatives from Mercy Relief during a dialogue session to find out more about the volunteer opportunities available .
Overall , this event certainly left a deep impression on the students with regard to the importance of being prepared .
During recess , students ate what they had packed into their class emergency kit . Common food items included biscuits , snacks , canned food and slices of bread . However , the emergency kits for some classes were insufficient , and hungry students resorted to
NEMation IV
The Infocomm Club sent in 4 teams to this annual national animation competition . One of these groups , The-Big-Bang , represented by Joo Hwee Lim ( 3F ), Perlyn Koh ( 2 Perseverance ), Jolene Teo ( 2 Perseverance ) and Kelly Chow ( 4D ), emerged in the final Top 10 out of more than 400 schools with stiff competition from schools such as Dunman High , School of The Arts , Victoria School and Raffles Institution ( Junior College ). They also managed to clinch the Social Media Award and won iPods for themselves .
Employing a technique known as Rotoscoping in the making of their clip , The-Big-Bang started filming snippets of their own hands , shaping movements and actions . These became hand silhouettes in the final clip . Thereafter , painstaking work was involved to trace out the hand actions frame by frame ( a mere 5 seconds of animation comprised 120 frames !).
Google Apps Training
In December 2009 , the Ministry of Education began migrating its email system over to Google Apps . Google Apps is a suite of online productivity applications . Anglican High School was fortunate to be one of the first few schools to have its staff ’ s email addresses migrated over to Google Apps .
In order to allow teachers to better utilise Google Apps , an in-house training workshop was conducted on 1 February 2010 at the three computer laboratories . The features of Google Apps covered that day included the use of the new email system , the use of Google Docs and how it can enhance collaborative learning .
Since then , teachers have been actively using Google Docs to update documents collaboratively in order to reduce their administrative workload .
A follow-up workshop on the use of the Google Sites modules would be conducted to help teachers create websites useful for home-based-learning .
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