Grace Orchard visit (4/1)

Hi guys,

For tomorrow's Grace Orchard visit, we shall meet at the RAJA block foyer immediately after the 4th period (when our RE period starts). Jin will be bringing his camera while I will be taking pictures using my phone and posting it up here. Please think of how to arrange our stuff.

Regards,
Ruiliang

Add on:

Ken, please remember your hardcopy of the unit plan templates and receipts for the purchased items. I'll be bringing a hardcopy of the timeline + a backup camera in addition to Rui Liang's camera.

/Jin

"Meaningful" post

Well, it's written on the panel to your left. I'm Jin, the Communcations Manager Guy for RE-SL Group 3069. Our leader, the "Ken", requires all group members to post a "meaningful message reflecting the group's recent progress throughout the course of the project", so here I am.

I added a hits counter to our blog.

It counts hits everytime it logs a new IP address instead of everytime it logs a visitor, this will prevent inflated numbers from people repeatedly refreshing the page to bump up the counter in times of severe boredom.

That's all from me for now.

/Jin

RE Shopping Trip!

Hi guys, this is a post on our progress today and what furniture we bought.

Since we already cleaned up the work skills room, we went to get the furniture today and was really happy with what we got. So, after school, we made our way to the Toyogo warehouse to do some furniture shopping. We started with some walking around and waited till Ms Yvonne came. When she came, we noted some stuff of what to buy.

In the end this was what we bought.
1 x Electric Airpot
2 x 2L Water Jug
4 x Tea Cup and Saucer Set
1 x Tray
1 x Dust Pan set
2 x Mop set (stick and mopping cloth)
6 x model 9707 container
1 x 903-5 drawer (brown in colour with an extra mini drawer free)
1 x welcome mat
8 x YELLOW tray
8 x GREY tray
8 x BLUE tray

This is a rough idea of what we bought. We hope to post this to keep track of what we bought as to provide records.

Also, the long overdue pictures of our cleaning up session.

Some of the stuff we used to clean the window.
Look at how clean the shelves are! And the floor!

A picture of Ken, our Group Leader!

Nature of our Project

Hi! This is Xuan Ru. I will be posting about the nature of our project.

We are actually a Service Learning group from Raffles Institution, teaching students with mild learning disabilities work skills. These work skills are related to that of a "production line" concept. However, as doing these repetitive tasks in such a controlled environment might be boring, we will be decorating our class room with fun and lively decorations to lighten up the mood of the students.

Teaching and educating is and so, my groups and I will give our all to this project, making sure it is an impactful success.

Progress so far

Hi! I am Ken, the supposed leader of our RE-SL group. I guess that I should note the progress of the group so far in my first post so, here it is.

Firstly, we have gone down to Grace Orchard School once already. That was just two days ago, during our RE (Research Education) periods, on 11/2/09, a Wednesday. Basically, after the trip, we cleared up the administrative things (e.g. logging in and out of the school), got a much better idea of what our project entailed and what we needed to accomplish in this project. This will be further elaborated on later, but for now, I will continue.

Secondly, Lim Jin, in charge on communications for our group, has just sent an email to Ms. Esther Kwan to enquire about the next time we can make our way down again. This is estimated to be next week. Also, we asked about the takeaways she wanted to see in her students. This would enable us to get a better understanding of our end product as well as make sure that our methodology for conducting this project is on the right track. Jin has also sent her our contact list so as to ensure efficient communication.

Third, I have began to look at how to write our literature review and a draft has emerged. However, it needs much editing and will not be ready for quite a while. Reynard is in charge of the proposal and is close to completetion.

That should be it. There you go. Our progress thus far.

I think that one point to note would be that the team is making steady progress so far. However, perhaps we should speed things up a little and delegating more tasks to be completed in a shorter time span. After all, most of our school syllabus for this term is still revision of past years' topics. Even though the exam period is already here, I believe that we should be able to juggle both this project and excel in our exams all the same. That is all I have to say for this post. For the next post, perhaps the specific nature of the project will be elaborated further before anything else.

First Post

Hi! This is Ruiliang, the webmaster of RE-SL group 3069.

This is the first post of the blog, so we shall start off with a little of what our group is about. We are doing a Service Learning project with Grace Orchard School and we are from Raffles Institution. Our group consists of 5 members (you can see from the side of the blog). We hope that this can be used for our Group Portfolio and for us to keep track of our progress.