Here is another post of my adventures between each schools. For a quick view of schools that I have went so far.

Bedok West Primary School
Unity Primary School
Tanjong Katong Secondary School
Assumption Pathway School
St Margaret Secondary School
Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School
Shuqun Secondary School
Poi Ching School

You have read for Unity Primary School in the previous post. They are quite well behaved. In fact they are the ones that are cute. The kids will be at your side pulling your shirt, and ask for permission to go toilet. There is another boy is kind of weird. As you know we are teaching Claymation for the school. So their moulded clay characters they have to keep them themselves. He will come by and ask if I can keep them for him. He said that his parents will throw them away if he brings them back home. I was thinking quite weird, why would parents destroy their child school work. Some more the tone of his persuasion is really very weird, I don't know how to describe them in words either. He has been doing this for two sessions already.

For Tanjong Katong Secondary School, I had only went there twice for Manga Art. When I was about to teach there, suddenly I have been deployed to Poi Ching School to help on Claymation. One of the lead trainers over there is on-course. At first I thought Poi Ching School was some old school, like Pei Hwa School in the 1950s. Ended up the whole school seem very new and renovated. They even had a large screen showing CNA in the canteen, from ceiling to the floor. Their items seem to be everything for a dollar, I bought a whiteboard marker for just a dollar.

Poi Ching School so far is the only school that I had to shout in order to teach the class. Moreover every time is teaching three classes straight consecutively from 0800AM to 1330PM. Luckily once shouted, the class starts to silence down. If I have shouted already, and still noisy. I will start to drag them out of class. Class 5E, the female teacher like very quiet. She stood there, didn't maintain order. :@

Assumption Pathway School is also another naughty school. I can't say anything, since it is built for dropout students. Students who has failed their PSLE for more than 3 times. The students will be doing vocational training, somewhat like ITE, at the age of 12. The environment over there maybe is affect because of the Boys Home situated just by the side of the school. Assumption English School is also there, Hadi studies there before. Each time I go there, I have different stories to tell back to the colleagues in the office.

First time was the students were suppose to draw out their storyboard with the given theme. Ended up I have stories almost the same, all about fighting. Due to the fact that everyday their environment are fighting. So they will come explain to me, "The girl argues with the boy. The boy not happy, so fight with the girl. Then the police come and catch them. In the end, both of them shake hands. The end". Some of them will be more interesting, they will add in gang fights till the ambulance and tanks come by just to stop them. Best of all, the theme that is given to them is about National Education Issues. Another student couldn't complete the storyboard, so ended up tearing the notes into strips given to them. My lead trainer was kind of petrified after what he had done. ;D

St Margaret Secondary School is a girls' school. The school is so secluded, there is no bus to their school. You have to walk in. Like I said it is a girls' school, so you get to see unseen behaviours that you usually see in mixed schools. They will be rather open-minded. So you will get into a scene where you have to stand infront of the class to teach, and the students facing you. Guess what? Their sitting posture of their legs are open and not crossed, very not feminine right? Yes, that is what I have experienced. Their teacher is like some 'hot' granny teacher. Their teacher aged around in 50s, with cosmetic makeups. Her eye's lower lid is light blue, and cheeks are in hot pinky colour. Her eyelashes are longer as well. Imagine that! I have talked to one of the trainers stationed there, she said the teacher always makeup like that. :O

Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School is the most well-behaved secondary school so far. I am teaching them Photo Journalism. Basically how to take a good shot using cameras, and using Photoshop to edit photos. Almost the whole class is interested. Shuqun Secondary School will be teaching Power Flash. It is basically just how to use Adobe Flash. They are also quite okay. Interestingly the first day, the turn up was all girls. By right the given list of students was 42 students ranging from NT and NA. Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 00:48