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Sunday, July 09, 2006
Now, to post something about the sessions in HSS.
8 July was our first session in HSS.
The mentors actually did sms or phone their mentees on Friday to tell them about the session. Weiming was frantically (maybe not frantically, but something similar) emailing and sms-ing us before the session to remind us about it.
So, the first session saw a not too bad attendance rate. Much much improved from the very few that we had. We started late... obviously. So, it was basically academic work for 1 and a half hours and then 1/2 hour of activity. NOT!
At least for my case, it was mainly interaction and getting to know my new mentee. And since he's smart, academic work took only a fraction of our time.
So, after that, we had the science experiment and because the eggs broke while on the way to school, it was very very very disgusting and slimy. So, it was just verbal presentation throughout.
*yawns*
Weiming planned some team bonding activities like grabbing the hand of the person opposite you and then try to untangle yourself and a team relay whereby we had to move from one end to the other using different methods e.g. running, hopping, jogging, crawling, frog walk etc...
A pity that we had no camera that day. (I forgot to bring mine... argh!!)
THE NUS BP MENTORING CLUB
The NUS-BP Mentoring Programme is a community-service project
sponsored by British Petroleum. Under the programme, mentors
are matched with mentees to help these younger pupils raise their
personal development and academic standards. Here at NUS, we mentor
academically weak students from Geylang Methodist Primary School
from 10 am to 12 noon every Saturday. Our mentees are EM3 pupils from
Primary 5 and Primary 6 and we try to kindle their interest in English and
Maths through a combination of games and experiential learning.(Shivaram)