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2024

Present Work to SPS (MOE) Shawn Huang & NDP Chairman EXCO (8 Aug'24)

Our students S Mattea Abby and Nicholas Tan presented their work and share their stories with Guest of Honor Senior Parliamentary Secretary (MOE) Shawn Huang at the annual Gift to SG event, NDP 2024 by Our Heart for Singapore Gallery.

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2023

Live On Festival (LOF) 2023

Live On Festival (LOF) is organised by the National Organ Transplant Unit (NOTU), Ministry of Health. NOTU oversees both living donor and deceased donor organ transplants and is also responsible for the promotion of altruistic act of organ donation. and transplantation activities in Singapore.

Live On Festival encourages participants, in particular youths, to express their thoughts on organ donation and transplantation through art and writing. Designed with the perspective to be consonant with the goals of the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) curriculum, inculcating values of responsibility, compassion, empathy and altruism by providing insights into the delicate and emotive nature of the topic of organ donation and transplantation.

2 students received awards in the school category for their artwork entries. Lin Xi from Sec 3E5 received the Distinction Award for her mixed media artwork titled Rich in biodiversity: right in the heart of the island, Singapore. Erindianz Amellia Binte Suriyan from 3E5 received the Merit Award for her mixed media artwork titled HEARTfelt Connections.

Lin Xi, 3E5
Awarded Distinction, School Category, 2023

Artwork Title: Rich in biodiversity: right in the heart of the island, Singapore
Medium: Mixed Media (Colour Pencil, Pencil & Gouache Paint)

Artist Statement:
Singapore calls itself ‘Garden City’. With landscape of towering architecture in the compact city-state, Singapore has interspersed parks, rivers, and ponds amid our high-rises. Visioning my organs as my friend, it would be breathtaking to go on an adventure together and capture the island’s undeniable charm. Depicting the anatomy of the human body as an illustration of the iconic places and activities to discover in regions of Singapore. It is also to raise awareness for the organs that can be donated and transplanted to patients with end stage organ failure or for research and education purposes. The first stop of the adventure is uncovering bird paradise at Singapore’s Bird Park, and its nature wildlife reserve. It symbolises the lungs, and below it is HDB flats, where many calls it ‘Home’, a sense of belonging. Moving to the right, with a walk through the scenic view of the Marina Bay and iconic statue, Merlion Park, representing the liver. While travelling to the stomach of Singapore’s famous island, Sentosa, and taking public transport in the MRT train to span around this rich biodiversity Singapore, right in the heart of the island.

Erindianz Amellia Binte Suriyan, 3E5
Awarded Merit, School Category, 2023

Artwork Title: HEARTfelt Connections
Medium: Mixed Media (Colour Pencil, Pencil & Gouache Paint)

Artist Statement:
Did you know that up to eight lives can be saved from organ donation? For someone awaiting a transplant, donation can mean the difference between life and death. From the mirror image of a broken vase heart on the left, projecting the past, to the colourful and vibrant transformed heart on the right, symbolising the future. With the bag of blood used for transfusion dripped on, the ‘now’ attempts to knit and fix the broken self, while seeking out by painting and imagining its future self. Donation of organs give them hope for a second chance. For donor families, they can find solace in knowledge of their loved one’s lifesaving legacy.

The Prove It! Contest

The National Library Board recently organised The Prove It! Contest that challenges students in their knowledge and application of information literacy (IL) and critical thinking skills. To date, over 1,300 lower secondary students had participated in the contest since 2013. The contest aims to equip students with news and info-literacy skills. It also instils in them the confidence to become effective student ambassadors by spearheading their own advocacy efforts in their schools and community. This contest is supported by the Ministry of Education, Black Dot Research and Rice Media.

This video entry from Yishun Secondary School has clinched a position in the Top 10 (Video Category)!

The team comprises of:

• Lakshman s/o Nakkeeran 2 Resilience

• Lor Jin Ting Avery 2 Integrity

• Rathod Dhruv Dilipkumar 2 Resilience

• Muhammad Danial Haddy 2 Respect

2022

Naanum oru Padaippali – Budding Writers

The Tamil Language Unit of the Mother Tongue Languages Branch, Curriculum Planning and Development Division 1 has been organising the Budding Writers’ and Artistes’ Programme in Tamil Language for Secondary school students annually.  This year’s programme was conducted by TLU as a series of 3 online workshops. These workshops provided the students the opportunity to hone their literary and artistic skills and appreciation. Students had to first attend two workshops and submit their short stories at the end of the second workshop. Only the best 20 were given the opportunity to attend the third workshop. Our students who were selected for the third workshop participated in the final round of the story writing competition and among them two of our Yishunites were awarded trophies and certificates. This year AISHWARYAAGNANAM IYAPPAN of 2E3 and VINODA D/O RAVICHANDRAN of 3E1 has done us proud by winning the ‘Budding Writers’ award in the Lower secondary and Upper secondary categories respectively.

2021

Recipient of The Lee Kuan Yew Award for All – Round Excellence

North West Outstanding School Partner Award (SPA) 2021 We are pleased to share that our school has achieved the Gold for North West Outstanding School Partner Award (SPA) 2021! The award is given to schools that had participated actively in North West CDC programmes in 2020. Our students, under the careful guidance of teachers, have shown acts of empathy and resilience to care for the vulnerable and less fortunate in the community, in their own little ways amid the unprecedented Covid-19 situation. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all teachers who have contributed their hard work and ‘heart’ work in guiding the students, while making every experience we have at school count! Let us continue to affirm the effort of our students in promoting a sustainable environment for all in the long run. Thank you!

Caring Heart@YSS While some of us were driven to boredom during the Circuit Breaker, Wong Le Yi, Grace from 2E1 seized the opportunity to do her part for the community by joining the Masks Sewn With Love Project. Inspired by her Form Teachers’ daily bite-sized sharing on the community needs and concerns amid Covid-19 crisis in Singapore, Grace joined her mother to help the community to sew masks for those in need. Grace’s family rallied together to make it a whole-family effort. Her father brought out his wife’s sewing machine which had been stored away for many years. Her mother took out her prized pair of tailoring scissors for cutting the materials.Each day, Grace got up as early as 6:00am so that she was able to undergo sewing tutorials from her mother before Home-Based Learning lessons started at 8:00am. Her mother taught and supervised her to master the cutting and machining the masks. Grace had to learn from scratch the art of handling the scissors for cutting the material for the masks, threading through the needle, running the thread into the bobbin case, controlling the machine for straight and curved stitches and joining the pieces of materials together. After a week of her first lesson, Grace finally made her first mask, complete with a lining for it.Despite being hit by hurdles themselves during the Covid-19 crisis, the family stayed resilient and found time to spread love selflessly through their act of kindness. Their big hearts would certainly go a long way in supporting those in need.YSS shares Grace’s pride and love for the community. Grace is a true inspiration to others of her age. Grace’s name is so apt for the gracious deed she has undertaken.

From Dawn to Dusk… A reflection from Grace It was a slow start where I had to first learn how to do something as simple as learning to thread into the needle followed by learning how the sewing machine worked and the many steps to making a mask. In the beginning, I made a lot of mistakes such as sewing stitches too far or too close to the edge. Many times I had to pluck out the thread and redo it. It was frustrating at first and there were times where I felt like giving up. However, I was very determined to help the community and persevered. I must thank my mother who kept motivating and guiding me through this journey. In the end, it was worth all the pain and effort. I experienced a deep sense of achievement, feeling of joy and excitement when I saw the finished product of the first mask that I made. Soon, I made the first batch of masks together with my mother and delivered them. I not only learned a new skill during this period but also learnt how to balance making masks and my study time. Making mask has now become a worthy hobby, a totally new experience that I will never forget. I am looking forward to trying out new things, learning new skills which I can use to help others.