25th June 4th Training Session!

25th June 2013 

4th Training Session

Parents' Briefing                                                          

             Today is the 4th training session for us. to finalise There is not much things to do but to finalise certain details before we depart for Batam next week.

 We started off with practicing on our performance items. We will be performing 3 items altogether, dancing to the songs HOME, Chan Mali Chan and Count on me. 

The session was followed by a briefing together with our parents in the PAL ROOM. The tour guide is here to brief us more about the Batam Trip, basically the administration for our trip, the logistics and the safety measures for the teachers and pupils. Our parents were well assured of our well-being that will be taken care by the guide.

3rd Training Session

                                                    20th Jun 2013 : 3rd Training Session!

On the third training session,we settle in the PAL ROOM and we are so surprised that Mr Zakir was not there.We thought that there is no training today but minutes later, Ms Janaki arrived and told us to wait for Mr Zakir. When Mr Zakir arrived,he took our attendance and we were told to sit down according to our group.

The reading group chose some books that are easy to understand. After that, they followed Ms Janaki to have their reading recorded. Meanwhile, the donation team sort out the new stacks and piles of the donated items accordingly. At the same time, the games and performance group decided on the formation for the performance item. 

                   

                  Hilman, Ilyasa and Khalyf were told to go to the gym to take some of the donated items to be brought up to the PAL ROOM. Gosh, they are very heavy. After all that we hada break and we started training on the performance. After that, Mr Zakir briefed and reminded us on the attitude and behaviour while at there. 

2nd Training Session

2nd Training Session

     Today we started off with a briefing by Mr Zakir. He briefed us on the schedule for our learning trip. Mr Zakir also thought us how to speak Bahasa Indonesia. It was sure a challenge for some of us, but our Malay members were definitely of great help, assisting the non-Malay members.

           After that, we were separated into our individual groups. We continued with our group discussions. The donation team started to sort out the donation items contributed by the pupils. We are very glad that most of the pupils had took this time to contribute in this donation drive. All the donations will be given to the orphanage in Batam. While we were sorting out the donated items, the other groups were also busy doing their own group discussions. After sorting out the items, we labelled the bags according to their respective categories. 

               Lastly, we gathered together and Mr Zakir told us what to bring and what the activities will be for the next training session.We hope to collect more donation items contributed by our Riverlites to help the poverty! We look forward to the next training session !

Batam trip training

1st day of Training Session

         We started our Batam training sessions on the 11th of June. You may be asking why we started preparing so early. The reason was because we had lots of things to cover, just like busy bees. We were very excited and we could not wait to have a glimpse of what we are going to be doing and what we shall experience there. 

              Mr Zakir and Mrs Lee, the teachers in-charge of this program, briefed us on their expectations on our behavior during the trip. We are required to be at our best behaviours and to be courteous at all times, to make Rivervale proud. 

             However, we were very confused when we were given some exercises to convert Singapore Dollars to Indonesian Rupiah. It was very interesting to know that a small amount of Singapore dollars can be exchange for a big amount of money in Indonesian Rupiah. However, Mrs Lee still advised us that although the amount that we get is a lot, we still need to be mindful of our expenditures and not to be spendthrift.

  

                    We also learnt about servant-leadership and how it should be demonstrated. As we approach the end of training for the day, we all got into our respective groups assigned to us and started planning on how we should do the different duties assigned to our own groups. Our group is in charge of the donation and communication. 

We will be going to go to an orphanage called, Betesda. Last year, some students went to the same orphanage and helped them to paint their walls to make the place more colourful but this year, we will be trying something new.We will be conducting a Donation Drive for people to donate items that can still be used.  We are going to help the orphans learn how to read English book!

All of us were eager for our next training session which will be on Thursday, 13 June. On that day, we are going to be separated into four groups to discuss further on our roles and responsibilites.