IdEas@Work in Nanyang

Contributed by LIM MEI HONG Present Situation: PTMs were held every Friday for the first few weeks of school. It was a hectic schedule and for Sec 2 it was too close to the PTM in October of the previous year when they were in Sec 1. Improvement: PTMs were scheduled with at least 2 weeks apart to allow for above with Sec 2 in Term 1 Week 10 as the parents would have come for a PTM in October the previous year.

Contributed by LIM MEI HONG, TAN KAH KEOW Present Situation: Students who lose their name tags order from the bookstore. Since the name tag vendor comes once a month, the wait for the student can be as long as 2 months. The current practice is for students to pay for a plastic tag from the General Office which covers the school logo, does not indicate level, written illegibly and is recycled by students using scraps of paper. It is cheaper than the official name tag and students can be permanently using the temporary name tags. Improvement: Students to purchase blank tags identical to their current level colour,. Year Heads to write in their names in upper case letters. The cost per tag is $1 from supplier. Students to be charged $1.50 per name tag compared to $2.50 for two from bookshop to discourage students from using it as a permanent name tag instead of getting from the bookshop.

Contributed by LIM LAM ENG Present Situation: We are having staff CNY lunch on 12 Feb where lessons will end at 12.30pm for staff lunch to begin at 1pm. If we leave recess as usual from 11.30am to 12.30pm, the canteen stallholders' business will be affected as students will want to leave at 11.30am. Most stalls will opt not to operate, which will be an inconvenience to many, including those who need to stay for CCA. Improvement: That the recess be moved earlier by an hour - to be held from 10.30am to 11.30am so that the canteen stallholders business will not be too badly affected and having all stalls open will be a convenience to all staff and students.

Contributed by SAW PEI LIN and LIM LAM ENG Present Situation: Every year, the e-cards that I designed are static Improvement: This year, with Mrs Chek's suggestion, I had created a animated gif e-card. It is more appealing than a static e-card.

Contributed by SAW PEI LIN Present Situations: Every year during open house, Melinda will make sure to order 2000 mineral bottles for open house goody bag. After that, we have concerns of visitors throwing half drank bottles and it had became a problem of not just wastage but a environmental unfriendly. Improvement: This year Open House, we had suggested not to give out anymore mineral bottles. Instead, Peilin will indicate the locations of water cooler in the location map on the programme card. Besides that, Peilin will also create a TV message to encourage visitors to cut on mineral bottles and drink from our water coolers.

Contributed by TAN SU-LING DELPHINE Improvement: Set up a book exchange corner in the school library so that students can leave books that they have read and pick up books that others have left behind.

Present Situation: The role of IT in school is completely absent from student handbook e.g. use of and access to Google calendar, Student results portal, progress reports, termly letter, what to do if IT assistance is required etc Improvement: To include above information in Student Handbook.