Student Immersion Programme in Singapore

The vision of our school is to be a world-class high performance school. In line with achieving this ambitious vision of ours, our school organised many student immersion programmes for students from our school to visit schools in other countries and learn more about their learning styles and take a look at their learning environment. One such student immersion programme included a student immersion programme in Singapore, which was to enable our students to learn more about how our national language-Malay, is taught, learnt, and used in Singapore. The programme was held from the 15th to 18th of September, 2010.

One of our members, Nur Syafiqah Adam Malik, was involved in the student immersion programme, and she took full advantage of the opportunity to learn about the various eco-projects carried out by schools in Singapore.

The students' visited the Cedar Girls’ Secondary School, one of the premier girl schools in Singapore, on the 17^th of September. Syafiqah was paired up with a Secondary One pupil from the school, Violent Ng, who was friendly and had a warm personality. Syafiqah interviewed her on the various eco-projects held in Cedar, and was informed that Cedar is working hard towards being a green school.

Various efforts were made in order to achieve their goal, which includes a recycling project. There are no dustbins in the school's classes, and the only way students are able dispose of their trash is by throwing them into the recycling bins placed in their 'green corners' and school canteen. There are three 'green corners' located around the school. To ensure that this recycling project is carried out efficiently, the school prefects and teachers were assigned to punish those who throw rubbish inappropriately. According to Violet, this project has been successful to date. The students and teachers of the Cedar Girls’ Secondary School really hope to make Cedar internationally renown for its green projects.

Though she was merely a visitor to their beautiful school, Syafiqah was able to see that the students and teachers of Cedar really are determined and passionate about saving the environment. She sincerely hopes that the students of Sri Aman would take a leaf out of Cedar's book, and be equally passionate and determined about making our planet, our home, a better place to live. She sincerely thanks Cedar for teaching her so much about going green.