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Dear Parents,

How time flies! All's done for Term 4 and the holiday awaits us! We

celebrated Children's Day, introduced Kellock PSG to new P1 parents

and had a blast at the long-awaited SpaceVenture@Kellock 2013. Also,

we are all ready to roll out new sub-committees for 2014.

But before we wrap up 2013, the members of PSG Kellock and I would

like to express our sincere gratitude to our ex-Principal and Advisor, Mrs

Clara Lim-Tan.

Mrs Lim-Tan has given us tremendous encouragment and support. It is

because of her positive enforcements that the PSG was able to initiate

and maintain interesting and meaningful events and activities for our girls

and our families.

We thank Mrs Lim-Tan for her wonderful presence in PSG and

congratulate her on an excellant tenure at CHIJ Kellock. Best wishes,

Mrs Lim-Tan, and may God continue to inspire you and keep the IJ spirit

within you!

Look out for her farewell message to parents and parent volunteers in

this edition.

God bless.

Sabina Wee

Chairperson

2013/2014

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Photos courtesy of PSG parents.

For more news and images, visit the

school's website:

www.chijkellock.moe.edu.sg

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Editorial Team: Lim Muisoon (PSG)

Jean Toh (SH CCE/Partnerships)

Email us at: [email protected]

CHIJ (Kellock) Primary School

No. 1 Bukit Teresa Singapore 099757

Telephone : 6273 0096

PSG Connect Newsletter 4th Quarter 2013

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A Little Surprise on Children’s Day


A very Happy Children’s Day to all our lovely Kellock girls!

As part of the Children’s Day celebration, PSG (Kellock) surprised every Kellock girl with a

little gift to bring home!

Our Primary 6 girls were given vibrantly coloured card/phone holders, while the Primary 1 to

5 girls had a cute little coin purse each.

Thank you too, to our dear PSG parent volunteers, especially mummy Judy, for coordinating

this meaningful surprise and for making Children’s Day for our Kellock girls extra special!

Card/phone Holders for the P6 girls

Coin Purses for the P1 to P5 girls


Primary 1 Orientation

P1 Orientation Day was held on the 8 of November for our new batch of Primary 1 girls.

Our talented and young tap and ballet dancers put up impressive performances to welcome

the new girls. Well done girls, we are very proud of you!

We look forward to welcoming our new batch of Primary 1 girls into our nice and warm

Kellock family in year 2014!

Look at our P2 ballet and tap

dancers go! The audience's

eyes were glued to the stage!

PSG (Kellock) parent

volunteers. Thank you

for being there.

SPACEventure @ Kellock


We ended the year with a big bang with our open-house cum funfair on a bright and beautiful

Saturday, 16 November 2013. No decent funfair is complete without lots of games, fun, food

and happy people. We were blessed with all of these, and much, much more!

The Crater Traders Shop / Garage Sale organised by PSG

(Kellock) Parent Volunteers was a huge success! Thank you

for your support, everyone!

SPACEventure @ Kellock 2013 (continued)


Fly me to the moon, well, almost! If you had the opportunity to drop by the Space Room, it

was as close as you could get. We would like to express our most sincere thanks to Mr.

Akira Takahashi who constructed the Space Room for the funfair so that everyone could get

an opportunity to experience ‘walking in Space’. The Space Room and space ship were

amazing works of art. Knowing that everything was put together using paper egg holders (for

the floor), black trash bags (for the walls), a bar fridge, wheels, chairs, pails and drink cans

(for the space ship) upped our amazement by another notch!

The beautifully constructed Space Ship on display

in the Space Room

Mr. Akira Takahashi

being attacked by

Stormtroopers!

Space Buggy Space Riders


Ms Shirley Seah

(Teacher) got

dunked!

Our dear girls waiting

eagerly for Ms Shirley

Seah’s turn to get

dunked.

Stormtroopers ‘patrolling’ the school.

Games stalls managed

by Kellock girls!


Everyone, together now! Smile!

The girls having a whale

of a time.

Mouth-watering satays Nail-painting

We must have balloons at a

funfair. Beautiful ones!


A Farewell Note from Mrs Clara Lim-Tan

To my dear Kellock PSG EXCO n Kellock PSG,

Just wanted to take this opportunity to pen this message to personally express my thanks and

appreciation to each and everyone of you for your role in co-creating the Special K Experience with

me these past 6 years.

Each of you came forward with a generosity (I know how busy you all are) of spirit and goodwill to

offer your time, talents, energy, resources and ideas to create unique experiences for each and

everyone of our Kellock girls.

You went out of your way to be present at school events like Tea with P, help reassure first-time

parents with P1 daughters at orientation day, ingeniously convince and rope in new parent volunteers

to wear different hats (to the effect of even making being a 'juicy parent' at the fruit stall fun n cool!),

you took time off work to join psg meetings and rolled up your sleeves at school events and never

once, expected anything in return.

Having felt the Kellock PSG 'special touch', events like the Valentine's Day, Mothers' Day, Mid-

Autumn Festival, Career Day etc will never be the same again! The warmth n energy you injected

resulted in creating special and meaningful occasions and moments that facilitated bonding between

parents (and grandparents) and children.

Signature CHIJ (Kellock) events like Kellock Arts Jamboree (KAJA), The Little Blue Pinafore, Mount

Kellock Challenge I and II, K-Cruise, SPACEventure, ChildAid and the 6 editions of Children for

Children (CfC) took on a life of their own with the creative and wonderful contributions from the PSG.

In the process, we not only helped to expose our children to a truly holistic and multi-dimension

education, helped to inculcate values and life skills in them and even helped to raise money for the

school building (the pupils even got a dream playground in the process) and reach out to needy

children in Singapore and Japan.

Apart from being at the forefront, you were always helping in the background too - especially in

prayer, school learning journeys (including camps, NE show etc), character formation, leading support

to our girls during performances and games (make-up, hair tying etc), photography, videography or just

simply being there to support and cheer them in in the audience. The list goes on and it would not be

possible to capture everything here. But it is clear that Kellock has grown from strength to strength and

has achieved so much over the years - and all this would not have been possible without you.


PSG will see you again in 2014!

I have been truly blessed to have had the privilege of working alongside such an amazing team of parent

volunteers.

Thank you for your contributions, belief, trust, support and friendship all these years I have been

Principal at Kellock. I have learnt much from each of you and been inspired and energised to do my

best each day for the girls and the school.

Thank you for that unforgettable sendoff (as part of 'Project hush-hush') and the most memorable

farewell dinner you organised for me. I was (and still am) truly moved beyond words. All these truly

mean a lot to me and I am really encouraged.

Tomorrow marks a new chapter for Kellock (and me) and I hope you will continue to extend the strong

support to the new Principal Ms Magdalene Chin, just as you had extended to me - especially as

Kellock's marks its 50th anniversary next year. I will always fondly remember Kellock and will continue

to do my best for our future generation at my next posting at Yu Neng Pri School.

On this note, let me wish you and your loved ones an especially bright, happy and fulfilling 2014 ahead.

And to our PSG members celebrating Christmas - my warmest wishes for a blessed yuletide season.

It has been truly a joy and privilege knowing and working with you (*lump in throat).

Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you for making a difference in Kellock! Keep in touch!

God bless.

All best

Clara Lim-Tan

Principal

CHIJ (Kellock)

2008-2013

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