Here comes the year-end holidays!!

Hello every Tanglininan

The year-end holidays are here.....woots :) Yesterday went by too quickly right from the morning assembly. We started off with the House Champion -- hip, hip , hooray to CYPRESS House! Then, there were citations from the Form-Teachers for the Students of the Semester Awards from each level.

The Discipline Master's announcement that there will be TSS school socks with effect from January next year, was greeted with a collective moan.....lol:)

After that back to the classes for some spring cleaning, again! While the students were kept busy tidying up their teachers' homerooms for the last time for this year, WE as teachers, were also busy, finalising the tokens and little gifts we have bought for the 10 individual class awards.

I'm sure your respective Form-Teachers from 3E1- 3E4 & 3N1-3N2, were doing likewise. I had fun selecting, buying and tagging the cute notebooks I've got for my form class 2N1. We made certificates for them too -- from those who got the 3 top class positions to the Bilingual & Most-Improved Awardees. The 5 school values PHIRR - and you better know what these acronym stands for - were not left out!

Then it was time to wait for the class party to start - the Californian pizzas took a bit longer to arrive but we already had the black, forest bdae cake, the curry puffs & mummy's special from our friendly stall no. 8 to feed hungry mouths!! We had fun:)

In the midst of all these mini celebrations, I met and talked to some parents on their respective child's academic performance & what to look out for in 2012. Whew, the class party ended at noon but I stayed on, with a few students for company, until the last parent came at 4.30 pm. Until then, I was literally on my toes throughout the day.  Am I glad to call it a day -- the official last day of school this year !!

But for u peeps, the Sec 3 classes have one more week of extended lessons -- so that you are prepared for a more crucial year ahead. 


Hey peeps, let's start the countdown and enjoy your super long year-end holidays -- 8 weeks no less! 

Ur effervescent teacher

~Mrs S ~

Happy Deepavali

Happy Holiday Peeps!

Good morning everyone:) Am up and early on a non-school day today. Relishes the thought that school is going to end, for u peeps at least, officially in 3 days' time...Woots!

We have done the promotion exercise last Friday. And u peeps will get ur report books come this Friday. While most of u got promoted, I hear 1 or 2 got left behind. Well, that is life. Everyone has to work hard to earn a place at the next level. If u had slacked or thought life is too short for u to continue working at ur books...this is the hard knocks of reality. Take a leaf out of this and renew ur resolution for next year...which is just round the corner. Before the end of 2012, u would have to clear the 'O' or 'N' levels and not have to stay back. If that happens, my advice would be, learn from ur past mistakes and move on. For those who are moving up, congrats! Remember to renew ur pledge to work just as hard cos it will soon be time for u to make ur choices for post-secondary education -- be it to the Junior Colleges or Polytechnics or even ITE.

There will be the ups and downs in the Wheels of Life. It is how u face the challenges and make lemonade out of lemons. Get it?

Enjoy the mid-week holiday and be back in school for another 2 days at least. Come Friday after the teachers have met some of ur parents for the Meet-the-Parents session, you can have a class party, tease ur frens and teachers...let ur hair down a bit & have fun:)

Ur uber-friendly teacher

~ Mrs S ~

Hurray!! I've finally got re-connected to the blog again:)

Hellooo peeps of X-1E4 

Hahaha......now that I can add new posts, I shall not resist the urge to write more comments:) For the last 3 months, in between work, work and more work.....I wanted  to share some of my thots but trying to get into the blog post was a real challenge. But today, something magical happened, I tried and tried AND succeeded in getting into the dashboard -- just like that!

So here's another update since the last June holidays...how time really flies! Actually, the most recent one was half an hour ago.....

The school just had an external validation from MOE. The team comprising senior assessors from HQ came to ask many questions from the school leaders, HODs, teachers and student leaders who are selected not randomly....but based on their ability to talk confidently about how their life in Tanglin has changed and the platforms given for them to develop themselves holistically.


The last time an EV (external validators) came to TSS was in 2005 and we hope this time round, we  will get a more positive report since we have made many more changes to enrich the students' life and make every Tanglinian proud of the school!

We were also given MOE's Sustained Achievement Awards (SSA) for the Uniform Groups &  National Education for 2011-2013.  So here's to more good news.....

 Ur favourite teacher

~Mrs S~