Updates on Duties!!

Hi all,

here's the rundown for the following 2 weeks:

15 May : Final Selection for Project Presentation @ the Audi from 2.30pm.
4 groups representing CE -- only 2 will be selected!! :)

16 May : Husni, Noorendi & Haziq are attending a Rap Workshop at HPB

17 May : Sunday

18 May : Meeting at 4.30pm -- Yati, Syiqah, Sam & Safwan, Noorendi, Husni, Haziq & Zhi Kai: with Wesley & Kelly from HPB
Meeting for all the above plus Adora, Buvee & Fareed at 5.30pm --
this will be for general updates and handing out of Registration Forms, Edusave forms and etc...
Meeting should end by 6pm.

21 May : Grooming Session for all to attend -- @ MLT from 2.30pm to 5.30pm

23 May : Buvee, Adora & Fareed -- Youth Against Tobacco (YAT) Workshop from 9am to 7pm (with bus ride to Tampines Mall for support of event at about 4pm plus... arranged by HPB)

3 - 5pm: Yati, Syiqah, Sam & Safwan on duty @ Tampines Mall (TM)

5 - 7pm: Husni, Noorendi, Zhi Kai & Haziq on duty @ TM

31 May : World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) event @ Plaza Singapura
Let's all head down there to support our CE Rappers -- Husni, Noorendi & Haziq, Kazi, Danial & Hady, and Hafiz!!


Note: Husni & Noorendi has also completed attending the Powerpoint Workshop held @ CC, Bishan ITE.

Great! :) Looks like we're really living out our project and really be Smoke-Free Ambassadors!

WNTD -- Workshop & Roadshow: Who's Going?

In celebration of World No Tobacco Day 2009, the Health Promotion Board (HPB), supported by the Youth Advolution for Health (YAH), is organising a 1-day Youth Against Tobacco (YAT) Workshop for youths aged 17 to 25 years old.

Details of the YAT Workshop are as follows:-

Date: 23 May 2009 (Sat)
Time: 9am - 7pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge (near Dhoby Ghaut MRT station)
Programme: Refer to attachment
Cost: Free of Charge


2 fashion events (2nd May @ The Heeren & 23rd May @ Tampines Mall, 3 – 7pm) on the theme of anti-smoking .

You can help out by being in charge of counting the number of people at the events as well as helping to facilitate the signing of the pledge banner. (Total of 8 students needed, 4 students for shifts of 2 hours each)


Please let me know who are going for which event.

I need people to be at the Tampines Mall event on 23 May 2009.
As well as we'd go support the WNTD event at Plaza Singapura on 31 May 2009.

Practice, Practice, Practice!!

Here's the Schedule people:

• 4 May, Mon: 5 - 6pm
• 7 May, Thu: 2.30 - 3.30pm for Safwan/ till later for the rest
• 8 May, Fri: 3.30pm - 5.30pm
• 11 May, Mon: 5 - 6pm
• 12 May, Tue: 5 - 6pm
• 13 May, Wed: REHEARSAL in Audi
• 14 May, Thu: 2.30 - 3.30pm
• 15 May, Fri: ACTUAL PRESENTATION TO PANEL OF JUDGES

Thanks for the effort put in!!

Can we do it?!! Yes, WE CAN!!

:)

The Actual Youth Reach Event -- All Systems Go, Go, Go!!

Here are the Beach Photos! :)

Group Shot!!

Building our Castle in the Sunny Sands...

Busy at work


Husni looks like he's the supervisor!

Everyone's gathered round...

Do we need more water?

The builders hard at work

Work-in-progress

Ready to play! :)

Hope all of you had a great time at the beach and learnt the important lessons of

Planning

Communication

Teamwork

Commitment

All the essential ingredients for making a team succeed!

So, do you think we succeeded?

Meeting 1 April 2009

Thanks to all of you who came today...
Hope you are feeling better, Buvee! :)

THose present: Sam, Safwan, Haziq, Rasyiqah, Haryati, Noorendi, Husni, Adora, Zhi Kai
Those absent: Firdaus, Buvee, Kwok Chye


Here's what we did today...

1. Ran through the event theme and focus -- what's our objective with Youth Reach?
2. Reviewed the line up of activities from 13 April to 17 April
3. Planned the actions and duties list for the 16 April
4. Reviewed Adora's Q&A questions
5. Reviewed Noorendi's educational material content & gave him suggestions
6. Looked through Haziq's rap and tried to come up with a rhythm & idea on how to perform it

Things to do:

1. Adora -- i/c of the Q&A questions: Will need to align it and review them such that they are short and sharp and easy to put across messages about smoke-free benefits
2. Safwan & Haziq -- i/c of the event: Will need to draft out list of schedule of event and action and duties of each at each point of the event
3. Noorendi, Husni & Zhi Kai -- i/c of the performers: Will need to allocate individual areas of responsiblities and be in contact with performers before actual day and on the actual day itself. Must arrange line-up and seating for smooth flow of events.
4. Haryati & Rasyiqah -- i/c of the poster design & prize giving: Will need to come up with headers for the Poster Design competition display as well as the labels for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes and Consolation Prizes 1, 2 & 3.
5. Sam, Adora, Buvee, Firdaus, Haryati, Rasyiqah -- i/c of the Survey taking: Will be in charged of giving out the surveys at 2 points in time during the event, each pax will get about 80 respondents. Haryati and Rasyiqah will be excused from doing the 2nd round as helping out with prize presentation. Others will chip in at the 2nd round when they have finished their duties.

Key things to do before the actual 13 April week:

1. Finish up the rap presentation -- meeting this Friday at 2pm at City Hall -- please inform those who were absent about it
2. Finish up the Q&A question list and information sheet -- so that I can liaise with Syafi'ee
3. Finish up the educational material -- must have the final and approved version by 9 April 2009 for dissemination to the other LFS staff...

That's about it...

Please check your email for the updated list -- and keep in contact with each other k?

See you all on Thursday, 9 April 2009 at 12noon outside the ITE Club ;)

I'm sure I'd be entertained and impressed by your Rap! ;) Yeah, mama... you can do it, mama... ;) hehehehe...

Take care all!

smiles,

Miss Felicia

Meeting on Saturday, 28 March 2009

Hi people,

those who attended the meeting were:

1. Adora
2. Noorendi
3. Haziq
4. Rasyiqah
5. Haryati
6. Husni

We covered a few things at the meeting -- please check your emails for the Meeting Agenda and things to do from that meeting.

Our NEXT MEETING is this Wednesday, 1 April 2009 -- and no, it's definitely NOT an April's Fools' Joke!

See you all at my office at 0945 sharp!! We've got things to do!

Take care and till then... do what is needful! ;)

Free this Date!! :) 20 March 2009, Friday

Hey people,

this is important!

Date: 20 March 2009, Friday
Time: 8.30am -- 12.15pm
Venue: Amphitheatre
2-way transport provided :)

Attendance: Compulsory

We're going to... The BEACH!!
It's Teambuilding Activities @ the Beach and we're going to build sand-castles!

So come prepared:

1. Bring equipment for building sand-castles
2. Dress appropriately -- wear PE T-shirt and shorts allowed
3. EAT your breakfast
4. Pray for good weather for the beach

See you all then!! :)

smiles,

Miss Felicia

Updates on CCA Performances

Hi all,

Here's what's happened since, contacted CCAs about performance:

1. Soul Percussion -- not performing
2. Hip Hop Dance -- will perform: about 4min
3. Lion Dance -- will revert once they know details of time of event
4. Karate/Kickboxing -- will perform: about 10min
5. Wushu & TKD -- waiting for reply --> my suggestion was for Karate/Kickboxing, Wushu & TKD to do a combined power-packed performance... will see how that goes
6. Silat & Cheerleading -- no silat at the moment & Cheerleading just starting so not in time for performance
7. Singing -- Pravin -- will be contacted by HPB & we could have 1 more from our side, someone to sing something short like 5min max... anyone you suggest?
8. Band -- Safwan, this is your contact? Please make sure you check that they have their own equipment, amps and cables and stuff... are they just playing the instruments or singing as well? If they're singing, we have to tell them that they can't jerk around the microphone cables cos that would spoil the cables... k? :)
9. Circus Act/ Fire-juggling -- I've contacted my ex-student & awaiting confirmation.

Now I'm tying up the proposal and will be sending it to HPB by today.

Check your mails for a copy... :)

Discussion @ Health Promo Board

Hi all,

today we went down to meet up with Wesley and Aurelia on our project and I'd like to thank the following for turning up :)

• Safwan
• Sam
• Adora
• Husni
• Noorendi
• Kwok Chye

Here's a summary of our discussion:

What they'd provide:

1. Rap competition details & prizes
2. Jack Magic -- the roving magician
3. Smoke-Free Ambassador
4. Pledge Banner
5. Exhibition panels
6. Goodie bags

What we're do on our end:

1. Banner design competition -- competition details, banners & paints
2. CCA performances for the Event -- with Smoke-Free message included
3. 5 min/ Short educational video/presentation clip for classroom use -- to include successful smoking cessation programme graduates, if possible

Here's the line-up of the event:

13 April Mon: Classes will be shown the educational clip

14 April Tue: Exhibition begins + Banner Design Competition

15 April Wed: Banner Display around campus

16 April Thu: Event!!

17 April Fri: Exhibition ends

Here's the initial plan for the event:

• Smoke-Free Ambassador -- Pravin
• Rap competition -- Top 3 will perform at World No Tobacco Day
• CCA performances
• Banner competition -- results of the top 3
• Quizzes with prizes
• Performances -- Dance/ Band/ Singing

Some of the CCAs we are hoping to get to perform because it fulfills 2 objectives:

a. It promotes Healthy Lifestyle as an alternative to smoking and as a benefit of not smoking

b. It allows students to get an idea of the various CCAs we have in school

The CCAs are:

• Soul Percussion
• Modern Dance
• Wushu
• Karate
• Lion Dance
• Silat?
• Cheerleading?

So, here's what you'd be doing:

• Plan the details for the Banner Design Competition
• I'd try to send you a sample, once I get the soft-copy... till then, think of the various kinds of information you would want to include for the participants!

See you soon!! :)

Update on Meeting 20 Feb 2009

Hi people,

great to see you all today and am happy with the ideas raised...
People who attended are:

• Sam
• Safwan
• Husni
• Noorendi
• Adora
• Kwok Chye
• Firdaus
• Buvee
• Dongwei
• Teresa

Recap of Meeting Discussion:
1. Target audience -- smokers & non-smokers
2. Messages -- highlight facts and to debunk myths & wrong beliefs
3. Publicity --

• before & after photos of various organs of smokers
• short, catchy messages to be printed on calendars/ posters
• lanyard with name of school and "smoke-free campus" message
• wristbands
• handphone strap with "i'm smoke-free" message
• pledge cards
• cigarette exchange booth

4. Event programme

Things to do:

1. Think of how to present the messages
2. Think of the 2hr event programme

Questions:

1. Should we have Smoke-Free Ambassadors? Who should these be?
2. Should we get sponsors? Who are these sponsors? What do we want from them?

Ok, go think and generate ideas!

If you have good sites to share, write to me with the link and I'd post it here! :)

Newbies to the group, please drop me an email... so that you'd be in the loop!

smiles,

Miss Felicia

Anti-Smoking/ Anti-Tobacco

Hi everyone,

we're working on this project to bring across the anti-smoking/ anti-tobacco message, so I've devised this blog for us as a platform to:

• disseminate information -- links to good sites for info will be posted on the side
• post questions for thought -- welcome comments
• develop ideas for our project

So, let's get started!!

Read the links on the side...

Think it's always good before we start a campaign, to see what has been done before...

No need to "reinvent" the wheel, as they say... so I've done a search on the following:

1. advertisements that are on anti-smoking
2. ways to quit that have been suggested
3. data on harmful effects of smoking

I think what we could do is to assess what advertisements are interesting and thought-provoking, and see how we can modify them and use them for our own event.

Do you remember S C A M P E R? It's one of the ways to brainstorm -- showed you all a sample of how it works with the "Snow White" cartoon? ;)

S -- Substitute

C -- Combine

A -- Alter

M -- Modify -- maximise/ minimise

P -- Put to another use

E -- Eliminate

R -- Reverse the order

Ok, take a look at the links and we'd discuss on Friday! :)

See ya!