IdEas@Work in Nanyang

Contributed by CHANTELL KOH YI LIAN Present Situation: The workspace within the accounts office is outdated and poorly-designed which lead to higher stress levels, mental health issues, anxiety, and even physical problems such as back aches and reduced eye vision. Take a look around our accounts office. Watch how people walk and how they move from one space to the next. Physical bottleneck in spaces. Our current office design literally deteriorate the employee wellness, productivity, daily interactions, overall morale, and especially guest perceptions (i.e. students, parents, other visitors). Improvement: To modernize and improve the aesthetics and layout of the workplace within the accounts office. This will reduce distracting clutter, improved staff motivation, better usage of technology, facilitate greater collaboration among the team, and make a good first impression for students, parents, visitors, and school staff members. Creating a positive environment plays a greater role ...

Contributed by KHOO LIAN NEO RACHEL Present Situation: There is no standard corporate email signature presently. Improvement: It would be good for our corporate identity to have a standardised email signature for all staff.

Contributed by LIM ZHONG JUINN Present Situation: During COVID-19, all teachers have to key into the Google Sheets daily before the online lessons, but subjected if the worksheets have been created. Very hard to keep track of the progress of that particular subject because details are across various worksheets and documents of shared Google sheets. Information could also be overwritten by mistake. Improvement: Teacher has an online Google Class Schedule - where records of all lesson details (theory and practical), absentees and further remarks could also be made. In addition, announcements or deadlines required can be made in advanced to inform the students. All the class schedule can be archived into personal Google Drive or downloaded to refer to the learning progress of a particular level of a particular subject anytime anywhere.

Contributed by LIM ZHONG JUINN Present Situation: Students in Judo organised additional physical trainings on Wednesdays from 7:30am to 8:05am. Improvement: Games are included to bond the juniors and seniors, because the juniors and seniors might be training on the same days together. Teacher-in-charge of Judo are encouraged to join in - which the teachers all did!

Contributed by WONG WAN LING, YEO BIN CHONG CLARENCE, TAN SU-LING DELPHINE  Present Situation: The challenge here was how to have meaningful activities that engages students in National Day festivities, while still influencing the affective domain and maintaining safe distancing. Improvement: One classroom activity proposed was to have students sing along – with their masks on – to a National Day song, while doing a self-choreographed dance from their allocated places in the classroom. This was then recorded and posted on Instagram so that collectively, the whole school could be seen and see how others are involved in National Day celebrations. This activity sought to engage the students in areas of their interest, including song, dance, and posting fun activities on Instagram. The response from the students was overwhelming. This was a team effort by the National Education Team: Clarence Yeo, Delphine Tan, Kuan Ju-Lin, Corliss Phua & Wong Wan Ling.

Contributed by SAW PEI LIN Present Situation: Most Google Form will face a problem of over sign up when there is limited vacancy. Improvement: Create a Google Form by formulating the Excel Responses to limit the number of signup. Once the limited places if taken up, viewer will see a notice informing the vacancies are filled up.

Contributed by SAW PEI LIN, TYE SECK MOY Present Situation: There is no copyright or school identity on some documents teachers prepared and share to their students or third party. When it is reprint, the ownership of the document will be unknown. Improvement: Create documents template with our school crest watermark.