“ 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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