SFE April Parenting Workshop - 20 April 2012

Calling all parents! Come join the SFE April School Family Education (SFE) sexuality talk for parents - The Birds & The Bees!

Details as follows:
Date: 20 April 2012 (Friday)
Time: 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Venue: SACPS Performing Art Room 2
Fee: $5/person, $8/couple
Speaker: Mrs Michelle Soliano-Lew (Family Life Society)

More information of the workshop & speaker can be found here.
Deadline is Thursday 5 April 2012 - please submit reply slip with payment to the school's General Office.

See you @ the workshop!

Essential Parenting By MCYS

Essential Parenting, a free quarterly e-newsletter that gives parents easy access to parenting resources, articles and programmes has been launched! It is a parent education initiative by the Family Education Department, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Log on to: www.essentialparenting.sg

Parents can also join the Essential Parenting Facebook Fanpage for weekly parenting tips and updates on the latest parenting programmes as well as parenting videos that provide parents with useful tips on how to handle day-to-day parenting situations.

Those who sign up for Essential Parenting by 15 February will stand a chance to treat their family to a 5-star hotel stay in Sentosa.

“WE WELCOME FAMILIES” Week 2011

The Businesses for Families Council (BFC) is organizing the “We Welcome Families Week” from 3 Sept (Saturday) to 11 Sept (Sunday) to raise awareness of family-friendly businesses. Families get to enjoy special family deals during this September school holidays.

Look out for attractive deals, special promotions and family packages at family-friendly establishments across Singapore. These establishments can be identified by the Businesses for Families Marker accreditation logo (red) or the Pledger logo (blue). Download the new ‘We Welcome Families Mobile Application’ on iPhone and Android handsets to enjoy these fabulous family offers!

During the week, you can also participate in ‘We Welcome Families’ Photo Contest. Submit a 2-Generation photo of your family creatively showing a family-friendly feature at your favourite business establishment and stand a chance to win weekly cash prizes of $150 or grand prize of $1,000. It’s that simple!

Keep a lookout for fun family activities on 10 September (Saturday) at nex @ Serangoon Central. You can join the challenging ‘We Welcome Families’ Race and enjoy the edu-taining puppet show and much more! See you and your family there!

More information of the above can be found here.

SFE Programme - How to Beat Exam Stress 5 August 2011

With exams just about 2 months away, come join us for our August parenting workshop "How to Beat Exam Stress" where speaker Donus Loh will guide parents on how to tackle this stressful period with our children.

Details of the talk as follows:

Date: Friday 5 August 2011

Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm (light dinner will be served @ 6.30pm)

Venue: SACPS Performing Arts Room 1 (Level 1)

Fee: $5/person, $8/couple

Copy of the flyer has been distributed to the girls.

Send in your reply slip together with cash payment to the General Office by Wednesday 27 July 2011.

SFE Programme - Understanding Your Child Through Handwritting Analysis

Can handwritting really indicate if a child is happy, depressed, stressed, confident or insecured?

Come join us for a parenting workshop where together with William Pang, a certified handwritting expert, we will find out how the handwritting of our children can provide us with a better understanding of them.

Details of the talk as follows:

Date: Friday 22 July 2011

Time: 7.00pm to 9.00pm (light dinner will be served @ 6.30pm)

Venue: SACPS Performing Art Room 2 (Level 1)

Fee: $5/person, $8/couple

The flyer has been distributed to the girls. Send in your reply together with cash payment to the General Office by Wednesday 13 July 2011.

Any further enquiries, please email to sacps_sfe@yahoo.com.sg

SFE Programme - My Father, My Hero - 28 May 2011

Check out the photos here

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Let's celebrate Father's Day early this year with My Father, My Hero programm!

Start off the day with a meaningful and fun interaction session for daddies and daughters as they play bonding games. Thereafter, while daddies pick up better communication skills @ a short talk "Turning the Hearts of The Children to Their Fathers" by Jason Ng, the girls will do some art & craft activity.

Date: Saturday 28 May 2011

Time: 8.30am - 12.30pm

Venue: School Canteen

Fee: $20/pair (inclusive of refreshment & art material)

The flyer has been distributed to all girls, do register early as only 40 places are available on a first come first serve basis. Send in your reply slip together with payment to the school's General Office by Wednesday 18 May 2011.

SFE Programme - Mother & Daughter Day for P3-P6 - 14 May 2011

Check out the slideshow on the right!

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Calling all P3-P6 mummies and daughters, come spend some time together and build memories that last through a Picture Frame Making Workshop

After refreshment and some games, the girls will continue with their art and craft activities while mummies can pick up some tips on Effective Communication with Your Daughters by Michelle Soliano from Family Life Society.

Date: Saturday 14 May 2011
Venue: School Canteen
Time: 8.30am - 12.30pm
Fee: $20/pair (includes refreshment and art materials)

The flyer has been distributed to all P3-P6 girls, do register early as only 40 places are available on a first come first serve basis. Send in your reply slip together with payment to the school's General Office by Wednesday 4 May 2011.

SFE Programme - A Date with Dad - 9 April 2011

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Dads & Daughters, go on a date together to engage in some fun-filled and exciting activities to build stronger bonds that last!

Date: Saturday 9 April 2011

Venue: School Canteen

Time: 8.30am - 12.30pm

Fee: $20/pair (includes painting materials & light refreshment)

The workshop includes a t-shirt painting activity for each father-daughter pair where you will design as a team to foster creativity, ideas and bond at the same time. Please bring along a white/light coloured t-shirt for this activity.

Thereafter, let your hair down, get up on your feet and dance with joy at a Happy Feet programme.

The flyer has been distributed to the girls, only 50 places are available - do register early as its on a first-come-first serve basis. Send in your reply slip with payment to the General Office by Wednesday 30 March 2011.

SFE Parenting Talk fo Parents - Motivating Your Child To Excel

After an enjoyable year-end holidays and the recent festivities, its time for our girls to get down to some serious work! How do we motivate our children in the coming months as they come face to face with tests and exams?

The School Family Life Centre is organising a talk "Motivating Your Child To Excel" to help parents rediscover your children and equip parents with the tools to develop and enhance your childrens' strength:

Date: Friday 4 March 2011

Time: 6.30 - 9.00pm

Venue: Performing Arts Room 2, SACPS Level 1

Speaker: Mr Johnny Ong

Fee: $5/pax, $8/couple

The flyer with details of the talk and speaker has been distributed to the girls and copy of it is here for your easy reference

Those interested in attending the workshop, please return the reply slip with cash payment to the General Office by 23 February 2011.

parenTHINK Forum 2011

The release of Amy Chua's recent book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has sparked debate on the acceptable limits of discipline, with many criticising her harsh disciplinarian tactics as abusive. The recent furore serves as a timely reminder of a pertinent issue in parenting - what exactly is the difference between discipline and abuse and where should one draw the line.

Raffles Institution's Community Advocates is pleased to invite parents of SACPS to parenTHINK, a forum organised by students from the CCA with support from the Singapore Children's Society to promote discussion and understanding on the highly contagious issue of discipline.

Details of the Forum as follows:

Date: Saturday 26 March 2011

Time: 8.15am to 11.00am

Venue: Raffles Institution (Years 5&6) Performing Arts Centre

Registration is free and a morning tea is provided.

The forum will see a brief introduction on the topic by the students, followed by an expert panel discussion featuring notable experts such as Dr Daniel Fung, Senior Consultant and Chief of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Mr Alex Lee, Member of the Panel of Advisers, Juvenile Court; Child Protection Officers from MCYS and Research Officers from the Singapore Children's Society.

Please log on to http://parenTHINK.comuf.com/ for further details and to register.

SACPS parents who will be attending this workshop, please email you name, daughter's name & class to the SFE Co-ordinator at sacps.sfe@yahoo.com.sg

School Family Education - MCYS Family Bonding Contest

MCYS would like to invite all parents to take part in the Family Bonding Contest.

Email your best family bonding idea (limited to 80 words) which you have done during the year end holidays to mcys_sfe@mcys.gov.sg

Don't forget to include your name, contact number, email address, mailing address, and name of SFE School. The best 10 entries will receive a $20 NTUC Voucher!
Closing Date: 17 January 2011

SFE Workshop For Parents - Cyberwellness

There is no denying that the internet has become very much part of our life. With the year end school holidays coming soon, the internet would definitely be a source of entertainment for our children. In view of this, the School Family Life Centre is organising a Cyberwellness talk to better equip parents with the understanding and the potential dangers of the World Wide Web.

Details of the talk as follows:

Date: Saturday 30 October 2010

Time: 9am - 12 pm

Venue: Magdalenian Centre Level 1 SACPS.

Fee: $5/person or $8/couple.

More information of the talk can be found here.

Please return the reply slip with payment to the General Office by 20 October 2010.

School Family Education

The School Family Education Centre (SFEC) is opened every Thursday from 10am-3pm. The Centre is located just next to the school's General Office.

Besides brochures and booklets from MCYS, there is also a resource library catered to staff and parents of the school. Books and audio visual items are available for loan for a period of 2 weeks.

Following are some of the resources available

Do pop into the Centre to check out the full range of resources!

SFE Workshop For Parents - Effective Discipline

Disciplining a child is one of the most important roles of a parent and also one of the most difficult. To help parents tackle the challenges, the School Family Education Centre has invited Dr Agnes Tan to provide some tips on effective and positve discipline.

Details of the talk is as follows:

Date: Friday 13 August 2010

Time: 7.00 - 10.00 pm

Venue: Magdalenian Centre, SACPS Level 1

Fee: $5/person, $8/couple (Cash Payment Only)

More information can be found here

Deadline to register: Tuesday 3 August 2010

(Reply Slip + Payment to be handed over to the General Office)

SFE Parent-Child Bonding Activity - Roller Blading - 17 July 2010

The heavy downpour in the morning did not deter the spirit of 17 pairs of parent & child. They turned up eagerly in school awaiting the new challenge ahead of them.

The activity had to be carried out indoors in the canteen and despite the space constraint, the parents and girls had an enriching time learning a new activity together. For the parents, it was a humbling experience as they put themselves in the childrens' shoes learning a new skill. For the children, it was definitely a tickle to see their parents fumble. After a 2 hour long session, there was definitely a sense of accomplishment for all as they managed to learn the basics of roller blading and were happily gliding around the canteen.

Thank you to all parents who took the time out to engage in such a meaningful activity with your children and we will see you at the next SFE programme.

Do check out the slide show on the right!

School Family Education - Parent Facilitator Training

Applications are now open for the Parent Facilitator Training Modules 1 & 2.

The 40-hour training for parent volunteers will empower them to facilitate the running of SFE programmes and be mentors to other parents.

Details & Application for Module 1 can be found here

Details & Application for Module 2 can be found here

If you have any enquiries or clarifications regarding the Parent Facilitator Training Programme, please contact Ms Veronica Ng at 9452 2847 or Ms Helen Lim at 9783 9386, or email: cafeprogramme@gmail.com

Parents from SACPS who are interested to sign up for the training course, please submit the application form to Ms Margarette Taylor via the School's General Office.

SFE Parent-Child Bonding Trip to Kukp 15 May 2010

A group of 62 parents & children went for a 1 day bonding trip to Kukup on 15 May 2010. The trip was organised by our SFE Co-ordinator Margarette Taylor with Family Life Society.

We left the school at 630am and after crossing the Second Link and breakfast at Gelang Patah, we jumped straight into the string of exciting activities that were lined up for the day - batik painting, a visit to the pewter factory, lunch @ the kelong followed by a visit to the kelong.

What would a trip to Johore Bahru be without some shopping! The group spent about 1.5hrs at Tebrau City getting some good bargains. After a sumptuous dinner, it was home sweet home after an exhausting but no doubt enjoyable and enriching day for all.

Here are some of the comments from parents who have joined us for the trip:

Kelly Anne Soh - We like the batik painting and kelong trip.

Juliana Jahja - I had a wonderful time spending the day with my daugther. Job well done, thanks a bunch!

Noraini Bte Jayani - It was an eye opener for my child to see the life of the fishing villagers in Kukup and had our first experience at batik painting.

Roland & Priscilla Seet - Well Done! The guide was excellent - speaks well and very knowledgeable

Lily Wong - The trip was very good for family bonding and my child had gained some knowledge from the trip.

Check out the photo slideshow on the right!

Look out for future family bonding activities and we hope more families will come join us!

"The Armour of Love" - Sunday 23May 2010

The above talk is organised by Family Life Society with its affiliate Worldwide Marriage Encounter Singapore.

The objective of the talk is to help married couples recognise that love is not just a feeling that comes and goes, but love is a conscious effort to make a decision that will benefit your spousal and family relationship; love is to be life-giving to your loved ones.

More details of the talk as well as registration details can be found here.

DadsforLife Conference 2010

DadsforLife is holding their inaugural conference in May! The conference is part of an exciting line-up of events to celebrate Fatherhood.

Renowned international and local speakers will be there to share their journeys of fatherhood and experiences of transformational relationships with their children.

Full details of the Conference can be found here

Fathers of SACPS girls who will be attending this conference, kindly provide your name, contact details, daughter's class and tickets stubs to the SFE Co-ordinator, Ms Margarette Taylor, via the School General Office no later than 2 weeks after the conference.

Family Bonding 1 Day Trip to Kukup, JB

Come mid May, the exams will be over and it will be time for fun! What better way than to come join in a Family Bonding 1 Day Trip to Kukup, JB organised by the School Family Education Centre on Saturday 15 May 2010.

Full details of the trip can be found here.

Deadline to submit reply slips would be Friday 30 April 2010.
Do book your places early as its only limited to 80 pax!