launch of rocket

Just to show everyone how the rocket was launched and how much fun the kids had! = )

Reflection and photos from Mrs Nancy Lum

Dear children & parents,

I really enjoyed myself in this trip and I will definitely miss all the children especially my 10 beloved beauties and "bao bei" - Mindy, Delphine, Geraldine, Carissa, Vanessa, Yu Bin, Bin Xin, Hui Kai, Claire, Renee. The children are wonderful (no doubt some can really drive you "nuts" at times but children are children, all of them have this very adorable side of them. We will try to upload the link of all the photos taken by the teachers during the trip so that you can save and print them whenever you like!

To all my beloved children, hope to see you soon in school and hope that you will not "see through" us when you walk past the 4 teachers who had been taking care of you during the trip :> Enjoy the remaining of the holidays!!

Love,
Mrs Nancy Lum

You can also access photos taken by Mrs Lum camera at http://www.flickr.com/gp/51093180@N00/qo53i1

Rest Well Everyone.

Hello everyone,
Hoped everyone had a good rest by now and unpacking all your stuff to wash. I am sure it is very nice to be home. Do take the chance to share with your parents the experiences that you had in Shanghai. Well for us, it's back to work! Ha ha Mrs Lum and myself are gonna soaked in the stress to set exam papers.

At the moment I will find some time to share my reflection with everyone about this trip. For a start, I was really intrigued by this aeronautical trip and also wanted to see what Shanghai was like so I hopped on the trip. This isn't my first trip with pupils but in fact my 3rd. Each one of them was special in their own ways. The first had excellent chemistry , the 2nd was a little withdrawn perhaps due to the fact that I was going to the same place again and This was like a mirror of my teaching so far in school. Quite a lot of pupils in this trip were my former pupils or current pupils. Gi Ni, Beatrice, Hui Xin, Axl , Eadric, Niger, Edgar, Julian and Isabella. I had a chance to see how my pupils have grown during these past 1 year and 3 months. I really witness a huge growth in Eadric especially taking on various huge responsibilities. Not to mean that the rest of the pupils are not leaders in their own ways but just that I saw this batch of pupils grow over these past year.

Trips are always going to be unique simply because it is outside school and of course I get to see them and the way they are like "outside" school and their lifestyle outside school too. I hope that each and every pupil have brought something home with them from this trip especially those that cannot be found in books.

As for the pictures. I am in the midst of compiling them. Please be patient with me. Perhaps when school reopens, please allow your child to bring a thumb drive along to school and I can upload the pictures for them. Thank you.

Low Kiah Wee

Singapore, WE are coming back!

Thank you very much for the words of encouragement these few days. I agree with the parents that every child is going to bring home precious memories. Of course not all memories will definitely be happy ones. But I am sure that the unhappy ones made the sweet ones even sweeter, without the unhappy ones, how are they going to tell the difference between the sweet and the unhappy ones. As the saying goes, without unhappy ones there wouldn't be sweet ones.

Sad to say 3 of the girls had fallen ill on the 2nd last day of the trip. However swift actions were taken. They were brought to the hospital ( 1 during late night and 2 in the morning). The tour guide stayed behind to take care of the 3 girls and their fever subsided. Unfortunately something like that had to happen but the teachers really did their best to take quick and swift action.

Today the pupils visited Chen Huang Miao and the museum and the day ended with a grand 18-course dinner for the pupils. They were also given souvenirs and 2 beautiful pictures to carry along with them.

The trip is going to come to an end but it will not end for us until your precious ones return to your arms tomorrow. When I take a look at my boys, they are really funny. Most of them have swollen lips and the way they eat the fish during their meals is really amazing. I thought pupils disliked fish most but you will be amazed at how my boys swamp at the fish that are served during dinner.

In case some of you have forgotten, the flight number is MU567 at terminal 1. Well we will all see you tomorrow. Please feel free to give us your feedbacks of any kind about this trip. You can send them to low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg. See you soon!

Lady luck runs out on the 5th day.

Dear Parents seems like lady luck had ran out for our immersion trip at shanghai. Today a few of the pupils lost their belongings like HP, digital camera and even wallet. Come to think of it, the past few days we were in restaurants where pupils misplaced their personal belongings and thanks to all the honest people in shanghai, they have been returning things that were picked up.

However today we visited something really public and that was the Science Museusem and that was where the pupils misplaced their personal belongs. We did our best by bringing the pupils back from where we came from and retraced the path we took but chances of finding them were really slim. I am sure the pupils really learn a valuable lesson from these incidents.

I am so sorry that there isn't any pictures today. I am unable to upload any pictures to blogspot. The server from google keeps saying time out. Today the pupils visited a shopping mall and they were supposed to take care of their own dinner( they were given a sum of money). My group decided on pizza hut. Their organisation skills really surprised me. They ordered their food and sat in the resturant and ate to their fills. Pizza really is the way to go for NYPS kids.

4th day in Shanghai

Today rain fell on Shanghai and it coincides with the visit to the outdoor theme park. Unfortunately some of the pupils did not bring their umbrellas. Not to worry we shared the umbrellas with one another. Today we visited the astronautic center and they gave us a lecture on the principal behind the making and launching of rockets.

It was followed by lunch and a visit to the theme park. As the weather was wet, we went to a huge aircraft carrier (which is made of rock) however all the items on the aircraft carrier were real! Then it was followed by dinner before the kids made their way back to the hotel to rest.

Well as we mention to some parents, some of the kids are tired already and we had a few kids oversleeping for the past few days. It's amazing how u shake them and they still won't wake up till we had to physically push them off the bed to brush their teeth! ha ha amazing isn't it. Dinner was a mini steamboat dinner where the children had to cook themselves ha ha its really funny how some pupils threw the whole egg into the soup without cracking them. I am sure in this trip there are many lessons learnt for them which cannot be found in books.

I shall leave you with these pics taken today. Not to worry parents, we will be back real soon.

3rd day in Shanghai

Dear parents, the 3rd day has concluded successfully. The kids managed to launch their rockets successfully. All our astronauts-to-be launched their rockets succssfully. Hui Xin, emerged as champion as her rocket was launched the highest and stayed in the air for the longest after the parachute was discharged.

My apologies about yesterday entry. As i would like to correct that it was Huang Pu river that we visited.

We also had a chance to meet up with one of our NYPS teacher, Fuyan who took a one year leave to study here in Shanghai.

After we left the school we went to visit a "pasar malam". The teachers brought the pupils to visit the stalls and various shops whilst I brought my boys to eat the all famous Shanghai Xiao Long Bao! The boys sure had their fill and can you imagine Joel ate 20 of them!!and then followed by dinner half an hour later. The servings here in Shanghai are extremely huge and the people here are extremely hospitable. The meals they served us were awsome and not "holiday tour packages" meals. For example we had fish head soup today and it came in a really huge pot with prawns and shellfish. For the first time we saw soup that is milky but not because condensed milk was added to them.

We are also really lucky during this trip as the pupils keep dropping various things like handphone and digital camera and it's one after the other. From the first day we arrive till now, at least 5 pupils have already misplaced their digital cameras or handphones BUT each time lady luck smiled on them as someone managed to find it and returned it back to us.

Great thanks to Jerry's grandparents who are from Shanghai and also one other aunt who went to the front desk to call for a pupil to come down. Thanks for the support and for working closely with us. Axl is fine, he has been eating quite a bit of Xiao Long Bao too. We noticed that there is a little pimple inside Axl's eyes and was told by him that his eyes were a little itchy before he left and his lips are a little red. We will continue to monitor him and ask him to drink more water.