Location of First Hotel

Satellite view of bangkok and First Hotel (label F) where we will be staying

GP Programme China @ Mayflower

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Using Nokia N95 features in Thailand

For all the friends and relatives of the participants going to Thailand, you can now keep track of the participants in Thailand. How? We will be uploading our daily tracks in Thailand with photos along the way so that you can follow us in our educational journey through Thailand. Here is a sample of a track created today, click here.

Please comment whether you like this idea and also tell us what you like us to include if time and resources permit.

Counting down to our journey.

1st Briefing on the Trip on 2nd May

For those who submitted names to go for the trip,

there is a briefing during the morning assembly at the basketball court after morning announcement. Mrs Evelyn Ng and Mr Ahmad will conduct the briefing.

For those Sec 4/3/2 NA/NT students who did not submit names and also do not have any 'N' Level coursework or exam from the 13th June to 17th June, you can come for the briefing and submit your name.

Estimated cost of trip is S$800 per student.
Singapore citizen pays 20%, ie approx. S$160.
Singapore citizen on financial assistance pays approx. S$32.
For Singapore citizen whose total household income less than S$4000, you can apply for opportunity fund to waive the 20% payment.

more details during the briefing....

Testing of email to blog

This is the content

Shorter text on River Kwai

The River Kwai, more correctly Khwae Noi (Thai: แควน้อย, English small tributary) or Khwae Sai Yok (แควไทรโยค), is a river in western Thailand, near the border with Myanmar.

It begins at the confluence of Ranti, Songkalia and Bikhli Rivers. At Kanchanaburi it merges with the Khwae Yai River to form the Mae Klong river, which empties into the Gulf of Thailand at Samut Songkhram.
The river is chiefly known from the Pierre Boulle novel and David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which Australian, Dutch and British prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese to construct two parallel bridges spanning the river as part of the Burma Railway, also called the Death Railway for the many lives lost in its construction.

Cemetery for nearly 7000 soldiers, who worked on the Burma-railway during the second world-war.

One bridge was wooden and temporary. The other was made of concrete and steel and still exists. Ironically, the bridges actually spanned the Mae Klong, but as the railway subsequently follows the Khwae Noi Valley, the bridges became famous under the wrong name.


In the 1960s, the upper part of the Mae Klong was renamed the Khwae Yai (big tributary"). Source: Wikipedia.

GP Programme to Thailand 2008

Introduction

Students who are participating in the GP Programme to Thailand 2008 will have to read the reading materials and attend the 3 modules before they start their field expedition.

Reading Activities.
1. Look at the archives on the right hand side of this blog.
2. You have to read the newspaper articles and answer the questions posted at the end of each article.
3. Post your answers in the comments entry.
Remember to write your name and class.
4. Each student is expected to post at least three comments in this blog for this particular activity.
5. You have two weeks to complete this activity.

GP Module
Each Module is one hour long and students will be expected to be engaged in the activities designed for them.
These modules will be conducted four weeks before the trip commence.

Objectives of GP Programme to Thailand
1. To plant the seed of entrepreneurship in our students
2. To expose our pupils to the culture of an Asian country other than Singapore.
3. To provide an opportunity for our Normal (Academic/Technical) students to travel to another country.

Propose Date of Trip 13th June to 17th June 2008


Pre-field expeditions

1. Mathematics/POA Module
a. Concept of currency
b. Budgeting based on available resources
c. Concept of profit and loss

2. Entrepreneurship Module
a. Concept of trade (Buying/Selling)
b. Comparing goods and prices between home and foreign country
c. Role of cultural diversity in trade
d. Legal aspects of trade

3. Contribution to Society
a. The greater purpose of contributing to society
b. How trade can be used to develop another country or society

Field Expedition

1. Mathematics/POA Module
a. Students to budget their resources and plan the goods they can purchase.
b. Students to project their profit/loss based on the goods they would be trading.

2. Entrepreneurship Module
a. Students will have to do research on the prices of basic household items in Singapore and in the foreign country.
b. Students to study the implications of cultural diversity in determining the goods they are going to trade.
c. Students to analyse the legal considerations when buying in a foreign country and selling at home.

3. Contribution to Society
a. Students to learn the importance of contributing to society and the less fortunate.
b. Students to research and present the strength of trade in developing a country.

Post Field Expedition
Key Performance Indicator

1. Mathematics/POA Module
a. Students to apply daily financial transactions learned in their sec 2/3 NA/NT syllabus.

2. Entrepreneurship Module
a. Students to make 30% to 40% profit with their business enterprise and the money to be donated to the CIP

3. Contribution to Society
a. Students to share with the school during one care talk and photo exhibition to showcase their experiences.

Conclusion
The Globalisation Partnership Programme will prepare our students to function in the 21st century: rooted in Singapore yet have wings to fly. The countries selected for the GP programme will depend on the economic condition, political stability and social tone of the country. Therefore country may change form year to year but the GP programme will be use to prepare the students for globalisation

Prepared by Mr Peter Leong/ Mr Nara