 Pasir Ris Secondary School Chinese Orchestra [PRSSCO] Email: prssco@gmail.com SYF awards2001 - Gold2003 - Gold 2005 - Gold 2007 - Gold with Honors 2009 - Gold with Honors
Teachers-in-charge
Mr Wong Wei Long |
Monday, November 27, 2006 The recent CO training camp has left me on an all-time high that I feel compelled to blog, in your CO blog. Somehow in Dunman, I sensed the passion and excitement everyone has, the motivation and desire to perform, the love for music. Seriously after having been in CO for 4.5 years, I’m definitely grateful that I’m placed in CO. For CO is a CCA that has opened my heart to students. It has taught me love and how to love unconditionally. I bet the rest of your teachers feel the same way too. That CO provides meaning beyond that of a CCA. Even though sometimes we are limited by funds and challenged by students and instructors but I do find CO is a meaningful CCA that is in a league of its own. Bet you didn’t know these: I didn’t know that I love CO until I tried. I don’t know about you but I have grown to love PRSSCO. So very much. I love the way you learn music from scratch. I love the way you guide your juniors. I love the way you speak to others about your CCA with pride. I love the way you treat me as a teacher and yet a friend as well. You know, PRSSCO is definitely a CCA with a difference. For I hope that CO is a place which is overflowing with love. Love for music, love for your seniors, love for your juniors, love for learning, love for your instructors, love for your teachers. Hey guys, we know in our hearts, we need to work a lot harder for SYF. Not because we want to get a Gold (it’s important!) but because we want to do our best. That’s even more important for I don’t want you living a life of ‘What If’. When I had students telling me that it is impossible to get a Gold next year, my response was that as long as we have tried our best, we can answer to our hearts. I promise that the teachers will do my best but our efforts alone will probably not make as big as difference. We need YOU to make that difference. Should YOU? Can YOU? Will YOU? Last but not least. Thank YOU! Let’s work together for SYF 2007 =) Tons of love Annabel ;) 11:30 PM EAST ZONE COMPETITION. Date: 27th Nov 2006 Time: 9am - 6pm. We participated in this east zone competition which is held at dunman high secondary. I'm sure that it was a really scary experience for those competitors who is having a solo performance on the stage for the first time. But, from these competition, we bound to have learnt something useful no matter what position we get, be it gold, silver, bronze or even certificate of participation. Ms Ding once told us that this competition is not to test your skills but to test your courage. Well, those who have joined this competition have more or less overcome their fear when performing alone! Anyway, here's are the results for the competition. PeiFen gold. Vionna silver. ZhiLin silver. Daphne silver. JingPing silver. Eleen silver. Janine silver. Lambert silver. Debbie bronze. 10:26 PM Thursday, November 23, 2006 this is first time posting here. very sorry. haha. nonetheless, i'm sure people who had gone for the east zone camp recently had absorbed quite alot of new knowledge, whether is it in terms of their skills, discipline or any other things. dom and i had also been to the leadership-cum-conductor camp. and upon looking at the reflections of those who had gone for EZ camp, i realised that both camps had taught several similar things. for example, punctuality is the key to success. this had been a major problem of prssco and had yet to be solved. in my opinion, this issue would not be resolved for ever, if we do not have the coorperation of every single co individual. as mentioned, co is a big family and it cannot operate properly. thus i really appeal to all out there to be punctual for all practices. refrain from giving excuses like forgetting that there's co on a particular day, because the calendar has been given out already. if you do not have one kindly approach any co teachers for it. can i also urge everyone to come beforehand for every practice to spare time for tuning, esp for erhu, cello and tanboyue. if your instrument is super hard to tune, do come earlier to do it. another issue is the delay thats occurs every session. whenever there's combined practises, the ava room would be empty. people would either be late or for those who had come early, hang around the corridor, go toilet and so on. or else, people would be in the co room, saying that they are tuning or what. (no offence to anyone) please be seated on the dot and wait for ms ding to come. meanwhile you can prac on certain bars that you are not familiar with. in this way, lessons can be carried out on time and we can therefore end on time too. on that note, i too would like all sectional leaders and exco members to help with this situation. if anyone of you happen to spot people hanging around during lessons, please do not hesitate to call them back their respective rooms. this would reduce the workload of teachers, chingkiat and myself. during combined sessions, all of you can also help to keep your section silent, so that ms ding would have a very pleasure time teaching us, without having to scold us due to the increasing noise level. thank you everyone for your copperation and i'd try to post here more often too. *issues mentioned here have no offence to anyone. if you have any problems or suggestions to make co a better place, feel free to tell me, the teachers or even the EXCO members. ps: last sunday's performance was terrific. many other schools were shocked by our performance. this proves that our efforts have not gone down the drain. continue to work hard everyone and gold award would thus be awaiting prssco. -jingxiong 1:35 PM |