SC Camp Group 3 '10 IC with Wan Xuan and Chong Wei ^^

WDP SC Alumni Batch '06 '08 '09 :D

WDP SC Camp '10

Alumni (L)

Hello!
I'm always proud to be a Woodlander. Being part of council is just one the many reasons.
Woodlands Primary is probably one of the few primary schools that had a council. At least that's what our teachers told us back then. We have a prefectorial board too. Yes, I'm part of both the Student Council and the prefectorial board. Back in primary school, we don't do as much as the councillors in Nanyang. We might be fully recognised, but I love being part of it. I won't say I know every single one of them, we weren't a 'bonded' group but to be honest they are a pretty special group of people in my life. Or at the very least, the alumni. We might not have made significant impact on the student body, but throughout my experience in council, I learnt a lot. From my peers, seniors and teachers.

My school prefects wore a tie. The boys wore a long one while the girls wore a short one. The Student Council had collar badges to pin on their collar. Unfortunately, I lost mine in Primary 5, from then on, I never wore a badge. ( D: ) We have a council tee, but in the past, for some unknow reason, it was stated 'sports leaders'. I guess it was probably due to fact that we were more active in sports related activities. But in the year 2009, we had a proper shirt that says 'Student Councillors' and I got the shirt when I went back to help out.

I remember the day when I realised I was accepted into council. That sense of thrill. WDP SC started out with three core committees, namely Sports, Publication and Welfare. Later in 2008(if I didn't remember wrongly) Publication and Welfare were merge together. I was part of the Sports Committee. The group of people who were mainly in charge of loaning of P.E. equipment before/after school and during reccess breaks as well as the annual Games Day.

We had many training sesssions, ranging from working on Microsoft spredsheets to being referees. The experience was wonderful. I won't say I'm a best referee, I don't know the rules at the back of my mind, but nonetheless, I did have a lot of fun.

Moving on, the council alumni. Technically, if you were a part of council, you are in the alumni. But not everyone is willing to go back to help out. Thus, the alumni is reduced to the group of people who go back at the end of every year for the larger Student Council activities.
WDP SC only started in 2006, which explains why there's only up till the '06 batch of councilors in the pictures above. I don't know how big their batch was, but (if I'm not wrong), there's seven of them(mainly those in the first row of the last picture) who are dedicated to this council. They help out ever since they graduated... (I think) They are really nice seniors and a batch of people I (secretly) look up to.
For the '07 batch, currently, there's only two of them who go back to help out... '08 batch, which is my batch. Well, in 2009 there were more councillors that went back, but then in 2010, those who went back in 2009 didn't go back. But there were a few others that joined in. I'm not all that close to all of them, so I can't say for sure who will be going back again this year. But throughout the past two years, I did manage to forge some new and strong friendships, with the people I never once spoke to.
I never loved the council that much in primary school. But I love the Alumni. After graduating, I would try my best to go for all council activities and I'm proud to be part of the alumni. The activities the alumni help out in are the annual Games Day and the annual Student Council camp. In 2009, my batch helped out in the annual camp as group I/Cs. We didn't do as much but we basically lead the juniors. The seniors(batch '06) did a lot of work and they definitely did a good job. That was my first year getting to know more seniors, and seeing them in person after hearing stuff about them back in primary school (cough).

Last year, through a rather close senior (Chong Wei), I was also involved in Games Day. I helped co-ordinating the people in my batch to help out in Games day and training sessions. My seniors have my upmost respect, last year, many of them were having their O'levels examinations, yet they still went back to help. The teachers wanted to get the Alumni to train the juniors so they can do more referee-ing during the actual day. However, only a few managed to go back for the training sessions. Chong Wei definitely help a lot, if I'm not wrong he's probably attended the most training sessions. I remembered him asking me to go for the first training session which happened to be on the day of my last paper for the End-Of-Year Examinations. I took a cab from Nanyang all the way back to Woodlands just to help out because there were only two members of the alumni there. For the actual day, there were much more alumni helping out, so we were guiding the juniors as they refereeed.

SC Camp 2010. My batch were in charge of the morning activities for day 2. It was fun typing out the proposals, mass-emailing others and freaking out when we almost screwed up. I definitely forged closer bonds and managed to meet up with the people I barely have the chance to. Although our activity wasn't as successful as we hoped to be, at least the juniors enjoyed themselves and we're happy. I'm thankful for my batchmates who came for the camp namely Edina, Huilynn, Kyle, Faith, Linshan, Xuan Hao, Joshua and Wen Xuan. We definitely aren't as close as our '06 seniors and do not have the experience. But I'm glad we managed to do a rather good job.

I had a lot of fun in last year camp along with my fellow group I.Cs, Wan Xuan ('10 bactch) and Chong Wei. The '06 seniors did not join us for the morning activity at Treetop adventure park (or whatever that place is) as they had to prepare for the night activity. Throughout that activity, I knew much more about Wan Xuan and he is a great help. We (batch '08 '09) did let our seniors down when we did their night activity after the juniors, but at the same time we learnt a lot. I did learn a lot from the camp, mainly on leadership as we did our reflections on how we performed as Group I/Cs and I'm glad I went for the camp.

I don't meet these people often. But in actual fact I do like them a lot. I love the council and I wish we could have more outings which are quite impossible judging by the fact we all have different commitments. We had a chalet during the June Holidays this year at Aloha Changi. Though I couldn't stay over, but I had a super fun time though we did nothing much except slack in the rooms playing games, guessing riddles, blasting music and simply just talking.

Yup, Woodlands Primary Student Council do mean a lot to me and I'm proud to be part of this big family. I'm not sure if I can go for this year Games day but I do hope I can. As for the camp, I am rather sad when I realised that GCP was going to clash with it. Most likely, I would be back in Singapore on the day of the camp. Nonetheless, I hope I would be able to contribute and help in the planning as well as to go for the camp.

WDP SC - To lead is to serve.