Shaun and I went to Monfort Junior School (located at Hougang Ave 10) this morning. We didn't meet up with the principal, but we met with Miss Koh who is the health ed coordinator.
We presented and liken our project to 'Pay It Forward' and she is interested on what we are offering.
She understands that we will go in without any health topics in mind. She did ask if we have any specific plans on how we are going to carry out the events, but we explained to her that we will only be able to plan for the specific actions for sustainability and learning after we find out about the students health issue. We only told her how we are going to carry out the first two sessions to find out about the health issue.
She is interested about some of the possibilities we mentioned, like asking parents to come in for the final event, like having the pioneer batch set up mini booth in canteens but she knows that these details can only be worked out after the health issue is confirmed.
As far as I feel, I don't she expects a very big programme from us. She didn't request any specific things from us too. She did mention this health survey that the students did recently, where the students said that they don't like vegetables because they are bitter. We just gave her examples like what could be done i.e salad making, but we didn't say that we will be doing exactly that.
The students she is able to provide us as the pioneer batch will most probably be her class, sec 5D students, which is around 35 of them (Is that a lot? I remember meeting time we were targeting around 20 students). She wants to be present during the sessions. Time slot she is asking for is Mon or Tue, 2pm to 4pm (school ends at 1.30pm). However, we told her that if she could get us Wed 2pm to 4pm, that will be great, so she is asking her principal for it as that time slot is normally used for school's meetings. She said she probably can get exemption from the meetings and just read the minutes.
Monfort's exams starts on 23 Oct which is in week 7. Also another point to note is the PSLE Marking days which falls on 16 - 19 Oct, meaning the teachers will go to other schools to mark papers and students will not be coming for school. Probably ALL the primary schools will be affected by this, so we need to take note in our time line.
Basically she is very nice and said that it is ok for us to chose another school if the other school can fit our schedule better. She has another HPB health project coming this Nov. But if we decided to work with her (provided her principal approved of the project), she is more than willing to welcome us :).
And last but not least.. some photos which Shuan say we must have because don't want to lose out to the other group who went to Radin Mas. Lol.
Miss Koh, Shaun & Me.
Monfort Junior
Shuan and the 'study hard' statue.(aka the yay we have one more photo than Radin Mas group. Lol so baichi. >_<)
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