On the 17th of April 2009, approximately 200 Secondary 1 students and parents settled down in the Hwa Chong boarding school hall for ProEd Nite. ProEd Nite is an annual event, held mainly for Secondary 1 students, and parents, with the aim of providing the opportunity for parents, students, school staffs and parent volunteers to interact. Parents would be able to learn more about the school activities through various talks, so that they can better able help their child.
The event officially started at 6.30pm, although many enthusiastic parents and students came much earlier. The buffet dinner opened to the many hungry diners who rushed up to collect their much anticipated food. The hall was filled with soothing music, played by the Hwa Chong String Quartet. The pieces played included masterpieces by Mozart and Vivaldi. At around 7.30pm, Mr. Charles Low, the Director of ProEd consortium, and Mr. Ted Tan, the Co-chairman of ProEd Parent Support Group, gave their welcome addresses. Mr. Low introduced ProEd consortium, and explained that ProEd stands for Process and Education. He emphasized that the learning journey is as important as the end result, and the school aims to develop all-rounded students.
Following that, Fan Jun Wei, a Secondary 2 student gave an enlightening talk on ‘Coping Strategies in HCI’. He described the problems that he faced when he was a Secondary 1 student. His key advice was to pay attention in class and exercise good time management. He was quite humorous, and managed to keep the audience’s attention.
After Jun Wei’s sharing, Mr. Charles Low gave a presentation on Projects’ Day. He covered the objectives of the Project Day, the various stages of project presentations and the Projects Day website for more resources. After that, past year project winners presented their projects. The first project was called ‘Arc Tap’, an innovation project. The second one was called ‘Potatoes’, a resource development project. Judging from the response of parents, and Q&A session that followed, they were obviously impressed by the high quality of work.
Tokens of appreciation were presented to the speakers and the event ended at around 9.00pm.
2 comments:
Good talk, Did you go on stage to talk? You said that secondary 2 boy was humorous, how humorous? Anyway, nice blog as nice as alex's. Like brother like brother.
OMG! You shouldn't review anything about the school on this blog!
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