RE Coordinators' Meeting

On the afternoon of the 6th of November, Religious Education Coordinators met at CAEC to be given updates to the FPE (Formation Program for Educators) and the CMECS (Civics & Moral Education for Catholic Schools).
The meeting was concluded after a question and answer session which included topics like the Chaplaincy teams and other concerns.

2010 Appointments to Catholic Schools

ACCS would like to congratulate the following Principals on their new appointments. These appointments take effect from the 29th of December.

School	Name of Principal
Catholic Junior College	Mrs Christine Anne Kong
Maris Stella High School	Mr Lim Choon Kiat Joseph
CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity	Miss Agnes Chew Geok Kim
CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh)	Mrs Tan Soon Kee Margaret
Holy Innocents’ Primary School	Mdm Quek Seok Noi
Marymount Convent School	Miss Cecilia Lim Seok Cheng
Temasek Primary School	Mdm Chin Ming Yew Magdalene
CHIJ (Katong) Primary	Mdm See Sue-Lyn Geraldine
CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace	Mdm Lim Kim Gek
Montfort Junior School	Miss Chye Wui Hung Genevieve
St. Anthony’s Canossian Primary School	Mdm Sia Lu-Ming Eugenie

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Last Singapore religious school head resigns

3rd Communio

The 3rd Communio of the year was held in the library of Marymount Convent School today. Entitled "Innovative Designs for Enhancing Achievements in Schools (IDEAS)" it was delivered by Stella Fernandez and Marilyn Joseph.
The Living Values or LVEP is an educational programme for establishing a values-based atmosphere for more effective integration and inculcation of values to better prepare their students for lifelong learning. The two teachers shared their programme with 40 other educators who came from kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
It was a lively session punctuated with group discussions and role play as well as a question and answer session. The principal, Mrs Angela Tan was also present to lend to the hospitable atmosphere.
Pictured is Stella Fernandez delivering the second part of the talk.

Principals and Vice-Principals' Meet

Christ the King church in Ang Mo Kio was the venue for the annual Catholic Schools' Principals and Vice-Principals' meet this 2nd of October. The purpose of the meet was to acquaint the school heads with the ACCS programmes and initiatives for next year as well as to gather feedback on the various issues.
The main areas presented were the School Chaplaincy programme, prayers in schools, Formation Programmes for Educators and the Religious Education Curriculum Development.
The two hour meeting was attended by some forty odd educators.

Selected pictures above

Why Teach in a Catholic School

On the 11th of September, a conference was jointly orgainsed by ACCS and the National Institute of Education's Catholic Students' Apostolate. The theme was "Why Teach in a Catholic School".
During the 2 hour session at NIE, 3 principals, Ms. Cecilia Lim Seok Cheng- CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace, Mr. Lucas Lak Pati Singh- St. Patrick’s School and Brother Paul Rogers, FSC- Catholic Junior College addressed the issue.
Some 40 trainee teachers took part and stayed back after the session to ask further questions.