From Mr Low

To Mr Siow,


Read the blog and saw the videos - Congratulations to you and the
boys!!!

No wonder it is serious PE!

Thanks for doing VS proud
P/VS

Library

MUHAMMAD NOOR HAAZIQ B MUTAZAH
TAN LIDE JEREMY

Please help me inform the students concerned to return/pay their
book(s)/fine(s) at the library before the coming school holidays.

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards,
Ng Hwee Hoon
Library Assistant
Victoria School

Global Warming

Chemistry Project on Global Warming...

Done by: Desmond, Aldrin, Chong Chieh, Shaun, Haaziq

Chemistry Project : Global Warming

Jeremy, Daren, Alym, Kendrick, Daniel Lightfoot

8th National Schools Sports Quiz

Today, the Serious PE class of 3B took part in the 8th National Schools Sports Quiz organised by Hwa Chong Institution.

Last year's team managed to get into the Top 3 despite having almost no preparation. So this year's team being comprised of the Serious PE fellas offering GCE PE for O-Levels surely can do better, right? Well, other schools offering GCE PE were also taking part and we knew we would face tough competition.

The qualifying round would consist of 40 MCQ. The Top 4 individuals and Top 4 teams would proceed to the finals.
So first off, we would have to qualify--

Team Captain Narren's words "We will do our best to make Victoria proud!" left a smile on my face as I made my way to the canteen to wait for them to come out half-an-hour late.

The half-hour passed quickly and I was confident that they would do well. Afterall, the team and I spend yesterday afternoon going over all the GCE PE syllabus that they covered so far. Our preparation was damn serious man! I give them powerpoint slides to revise, use Flash cards to quiz them. Donch pray pray arh!

Then Captain Narren comes to tell me, "Sir, all the anatomy, fitness and training sessions and hard core PE theory never come out!"

Uh Oh......
Nevermind, being a good sport we proceeded to the auditorium to watch the rest of the teams participate. Suddenly as we were seated, the ushers came to us and said,"Uh 'cuse me ar sir, you know your boys in the Top 20 for Individual Round? Got prize wan..... Oh ya, your team also in Top 4 for finals. Got to draw lots for table, can?"

WOOTS! Of couse can lah! As I always say...... Rock neber die!
So here are the highlights of our ardous climb to glory.
First came the Matrix Speed Round where teams had to choose questions from 12 boxes and give the correct answer:

The first question, on Judo, was answered by typical Victorian talent. Yup, pure, unadulterated guesswork.


Our second question, on Rugby, which the boys probably have never played during their PE lessons in VS was answered again with the belief in our natural Victorian talent. Yup, it was pure luck again. I look at the boys and could see them equally amazed. The audience must be wondering "Eh, liddat orso can ar?"


The we got the next question wrong, and I started to fear whether our first 2 lucky flukes would be the only thing we would take back with us.


But the next round would tell. We moved on to the Buzzer round where the first team to press the buzzer would get a chance to attempt the question. 2 point for correct answer, -1 point for wrong attempt.


But this round showed that we had what it takes to make history after all.
Against all odds, we led the round by a one point margin at the end of the round. Yup, thanks to Jeremy Tan's 'anyhowhantam also better than don't answer', we squeezed in the extra one point to make 11 points and qualify us to match Nanyang Girls in the final round.


In the final phase, students are split into pairs with a Describer and a Guesser. Describer has to describe elements of a sport to the Guesser without using certain forbidden words ala Taboo.
If ever there was a doubt that we would pull it off, this round erased all doubt from my mind that Victorians can indeed think outside the box.


Jeremy and Shaun got 3/5 for their round
Next was Naren and Ernest-
Although abit hesistant at first, the duo showed that they had almost telepathic communciation skills when they got 3/5 as well for this round!

Jeremy and Shaun made history for us after this round!

Despite giving a hilarious answer for the first question, they clinched the round by getting 3/5 again.
It was this consistency in scoring points for each round and earning the bonus points by naming the sports that allowed us to make sporting history.


It was a well-deserved win! All 4 boys won medals for being in the Top 20 Individual scorers amongst the Secondary School category


But winning the Championship was a sweet reward for our first batch of GCE PE students offering PE for O-Level. It has been a very challenging year for Sec 3B and some have expressed doubt about our level of ability, our committment and character.
But I believe that this is the first step towards proving that when it comes to PE, we are SERIOUS.

3 cheers for the team and Narren, you DID make VS proud!
Sec 3B Serious PE
is here to stay!

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Combined Humanities Homework

hi all,

Here's the homework from Mr Sham

Homework for Social Studies: Email to my foreign friend

From Jorge in Spain:
"Ola amigos! I heard a lot about Singapore’s peace, security and
economic progress. How did you manage to do this without the problems
so many other countries have, especially where so many different people
live together? Vamos!

Email me by 18th August Monday 2359hrs Singapore time (extended), with
the vote for the favorite identity as a footnote. Adios!

Jorge Sanchez"

I've also attached the handouts including the teacher's copy in case
some of you guys managed to somehow lost it (?!). For the video you can
watch it at this website
(http://www.evideo.edu.sg/programme.asp?id=730&subj=14&lvl=4)

Also, in order to address some of your concerns of difficulty in
understanding CONTENT, I would encourage you to watch the National Day
Rally on Sunday (after the ping pong final of course!), in whatever
language you prefer. This will help you A LOT for your contextual
knowledge in the managing diversity section. Use the reverse side to
put in the respective headings.

view - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: view

I will also upload to my own blog at society.edublogs.org later, so you
can check that out and other entries.

Enjoy your Olympics and may we all have fun learning.

Go Singapore!

coach sham

GCE PE CourseWork (Soccer/Hockey- Week 8)

This is Week 8 of GCE Coursework for Soccer and Hockey.

From the technical aspects of play, we are now developing the tactical aspects of play with the boys. From practicing set plays, now we see Mr Sng explaing the various principles of offensive and defensive play in action:



The Hockey boys were not to be outdone today.
Today, we saw Miss Sheikha giving them the finer points of how to take a penalty corner.
Of course, before all this practice can happen, we need to get geared up.
Here's Dilip, looking absolutely like a Sesame Street character :)


So on to the Penalty Corner! Usually it's the attackers who intimidate the defenders during the penalty corner. Here, it seems it's the other way around!

From the above clip, I suggest Khairul to take up Golf to represent Singapore in YOG.

We had the sides switch over. Must commend Dilip for his fearless ability to stop the ball using all parts of his body-- Only problem for him is once he falls down, he cannot stand up again on his own.

Thanks for helping out for the Cross-Country Day

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Read this document on Scribd: The TeamSize

More pictures at http://vs-crosscountry.blogspot.com/

Assessment Weightings

GCE PE CourseWork (Soccer/Hockey- Week 7)

Here we are during Week 7 of our Coursework for Soccer/Hockey

During this lesson we see the Soccer boys moving on to set plays and work on their crossing:


The Hockey boys are working on their hits and long passes: