Choir & SYF

had a long talk with my Choir on monday...almost to the verge of being 'naggy' & long-winded at them, but i guess it was for the best.

After last week's choir practice and the feedback from my choir instructor, i had to find a way to talk to my choir. The feedback given to me was that the choir was being complacent. They acted this way after attending a choir-exchange during the March hols.

I was thinking long and hard, thinking how to talk to them, how to advise them, how to motivate them....so on and so forth. I even had to ask my former chair-person to visit the choir last friday to listen to them!!!! so that she can give them some advise and comments.

But i guess the worst or shall i say the best happened during this Monday's assembly program.
One of the students (most unfortunate, a student from my form class), mentioned the word 'FAIL' very loudly during the interval break from the 1st song to the next. I guess they were kind of affected by it, and luckily, they did not show it. (i think they did not show it, as i was busy running behind the stage)

The next comment which i received, and which i shared with the choir was from Mrs Chew.
Mrs Chew commented that the choir improved. When i heard it, my 1st inital reaction was 'WHAT???? Are you sure?'. Followed by the next question, which was 'When was the last time you heard the choir?' Which Mrs Chew replied with a 'last year'.

I had no idea what to do with the comment till i spoke to the choir at 4pm. After going 1 big round about my own experience and what i have gone thru in this school (changes of CCA etc), i told them about the comment given by the teacher. At this moment, i did not want to mention Mrs Chew's name. But i did ask the choir, what do they think of her? Comments that i received were...'fierce, fussy, strict, no nonsense to be given'...etc.

The students know that Mrs Chew demand the best from them, and that she can be very strict, and of course, she has many many years of teaching experience.

When I told them that Mrs Chew said that the choir improved, the whole choir was in shocked. But i had to explain to them, what it meant, and how much more they had to improved, how they performed, how they behave, and how they sound like, and most importantly, their attitude towards learning and performing.

I had to mention about the band performance, and since half the choir attended, i thought that they will be able to relate to what i was going to comment and how they can learn from each other.

.........to be continued.....(with editing)........

My form class, the notorious 3t2.
No doubt they have been very playful, with a couple of them giving me grief etc, I am very proud of them for what they achieved yesterday.

As some or actually 6 of them had to go out for their cca training, my form class were only left with 11 pupils to row the dragon boat. and 2 pupils did not turn up last minute.

but nevertheless, with only 9 pupils rowing the boat, they did not come in last. They were very happy n they actually called me up when they finished the race.

They were so eager to find out whether did they qualify that they msg their PE teacher.

And do they DID!!!!

This morning, I had to emphasize on the importance of Teamwork and No Backing Out to the whole class.

Think they understand what I was trying to say as I went thru numbers with them and also congratulate those who turned up yesterday for the heats.

And yes, according Lilian (their PE teacher), they were Formidable yesterday = )

And I am very proud of them = )

*although there are quite a number of issues n problems in my form class, I try to stay Positive for them*

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