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We hope you have a great start to the new year. Ministry of Social and Family Development: Please be reminded that MCYS is now known as MSF or Ministry of Social and Family Development. MSF set up CDN - The Child Development Network to build and connect the community of Early Childhood stakeholders, professionals, families to champion the quality of early childhood care and education in Singapore. CDN initiates its first resource for parents with young children Growing With Your Child . Please look out for resource which consists of a booklet on developmental milestones for children up to 3 years old, a calendar and a covering letter from CDN. We will pass the resource to you directly or pass to your child/school bus driver. There are also video series on developmental progress for children from birth to 3 years, accessible at CDN videos link. http:/app.cdn.gov.sg/GrowingWithYourChildResourceKit.aspx . We hope you find resource relevant and helpful. Enrolment: We would like to welcome Ezzy from the Rabbit Toddlers class, Daiyan from the Koala Nursery 1 class, Dheeptaa from the Snake Nursery 2, Woon Hwee from the Elephant Kindergarten 2 class who recently joined us this year. Glcklich Schoolhouse hopes they spend the best of their time here with us. Calendar of Events and Themes for 2013 We attach Calendar of Events & Themes for 2013. Do take note of our planned activities, themes, celebrations, school closure days, Parents-teacher Meetings, etc. - we will refer to this information from time to time. We may also refer to Parents Handbook for administrative matters or rules/regulations. Let us know if you need us to forward you a e-copy of the handbook.. Some highlights and clarification from the Calendar of Events & Themes for 2013 and Parents Handbook are as follows:

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Themes for Term 1: Our schools curriculum period of follows Singapores Ministry of Educations curriculum period. Thus, the year is divided into four school terms (10 weeks in each term). We plan various themes per school term. The themes for Term 1 are: Myself : My Family : My School and Friends : My Neighbourhood : 7 January 25 January ( 3 Weeks) 28 January 15 February ( 3 Weeks) 18 February 1 March (3 Weeks) 4 March 15 March ( 2 Weeks)

We just ended the theme Myself. Children learned about body parts, the five senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell) through four core subjects Expression (English-Language and Literacy) Mathamagic (Numbers-Numeracy) Mother Tongue (Mandarin-Language and Literacy) and Explorer (Science-Environmental Awareness) conducted through activities like Rhythm (Music and Movement-Aesthetics and Creative Awareness), Wiggle Works (Reading and Story-Telling-Language and Literacy), Reflection (Art and Craft-Aesthetics and Creative Awareness), Kidzercise (Gross and Fine-motor Exercises, Sand and Water Plays-Motor Skills Development), EdVenture (IT/Computer-aided), Theatre (Speech and Drama) and Mastery (Cookery).

Field and Neighbourhood Trips: As part of our school activities to support the childrens learning, we will periodically carry out outings. These outings are referred as Field Trips or Neighbourhood Trips. Field Trips are conducted at least once in a school term to venues farther than Sembawang town, like to Changi Airport for Transportation theme. This maybe our venue for our first Field Trip on Friday 12 April 2013. We will provide you details of the trip later. Neighbourhood Trips, on the other hand, are conducted more frequently during a school term to venues within Sembawang, Yishun and Woodlands towns. Such trips take the children beyond the school/classroom settings to understand or immerse themselves to the theme that is being taught (example: a bus tour around Sembawang town during the My Neighbourhood theme.
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Library Visits: Our Library Visits are compulsory and part of our Neighbourhood Trips. Frequent visits to the library are known to instill interest in learning and cultivate good reading habit in young children. The children learn how to conduct themselves in public places such as the library, mall or in a bus. We believe there are more to gain out of the Visits other than the many books, programmes and activities our library has to offer. We stated the dates of our Library Visits in the Calendar of Events & Themes for 2013. The visits in Term 1 and 2 will be on the following Wednesdays: 6 February, 6, 21 March, 10, 30 April, 19 June,

Library Visits will be conducted from 11:30am -1:30pm. If your child is in the half-day programme, do take note that we will be back at school by 2.00pm. We will re-confirm the exact times on the day of the Visits via SMS (schools mobile 82233784). We encourage you to provide your child with his or her very own library card should you wish for your child to borrow books. Furthermore, having his or her very own library card help him/her feels important and has a sense of ownership during the Library Visits. Please let us have your Consent Form by Monday, 4 February 2013. Written Communication Trumpets: We generate monthly Trumpets (Parents Info Update). In Trumpets, we inform you of the Schools or MSF updates (if any), or our school activities and those that all the schools children will carry out as a group. We also write (as reminders) our current weeks planned school activities on the window panel, learning objective(s) and outings/trips on the information/Parents boards at the dining/reception area. Stomps: We will return all childrens work at the end of each week/theme. In addition to the above Trumpets (monthly), Blog and Photobucket (periodically), we will generate Stomps (Learning Update) every end of the week, to update you on what your child learned during the week. In the Stomps (weekly) we will write briefly the following weeks planned lessons/school activities. We truly appreciate you return the childrens work to us by the next school day (i.e. Mondays).

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To maintain open and direct communication, your childs class teachers will call you directly for immediate update i.e. if your child is unwell, your child has taken medicine or if your child is absent, etc. You would have received your first Stomps last week. We have outdoor Kidzercise classes daily (i.e. Cycling on Mondays, Water and Sand Plays activities on Fridays and outdoor activities during the rest of the week). Please remember to pack your child swimming suits/trunks on Fridays. Please be reminded that these plays will only be conducted during fine weathers. In the case of rainy weather, the activities for the day will be substituted with other activities of similar objectives. Please also be reminded that when you sign the Consent Form Form B (upon enrollment), you allow us to take your child for outdoor activities (part of daily activities), as stated in our Time-Table. We will maintain and conduct outdoor activities within 500m radius from the school. We need you to submit another Consent Form, beyond 500m radius (i.e. Library Visits, Neighbourhood Trips, Field Trips, etc.) Public Holidays: Chinese New Year 11, 12, 13 February 2013: We will have Chinese New Years celebration in school on Friday 8 February 2013. Please dress your child in traditional costume and bring goodies to share that day. Please ensure the goodies are suitable and safe for all children to consume. We will operate until 1.00pm on Friday, 8 February 2013. We seek your kind cooperation to fetch your child on time that day. The school will be closed on 11, 12 and 13 February 2013, for Chinese New Year (Public Holidays). We will resume school on Thursday 14 February 2013. Have a good week ahead! Warmest Regards:

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