Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
- Barbara Rush
Announcements
Welcome to our new NYJC Service-Learning Website!
Students who wish to initiate any Service-Learning projects, please download the proposal forms from Litespeed and submit to your respective Civics Tutor or CCA teacher/s.
Upcoming Events
Date: 13th March 2010
Event: YEP 10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS – YEP A.TEN.TION!
Celebrating 10 Years of Volunteerism
Date: 15th to 19th March (register for one day)
Event: Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes 2010, Business Proposal Writing Workshop
Venue: YMCA
Time: 9am to 1230pm
Email: genevievechen@ymca.org.sg or yfc@ymca.org.sg
Date: 26th March 2010
Event: SAA Kids Athletics Team Award Challenge 2010
Venue: Ang Mo Kio Primary School
Time: 1pm to 6pm
Volunteers needed: 30
Please look for Mr Joel Loo at the PE Dept if you are interested.
Event: Xin Yuan Community Care (XYCC) Flag Day
Read more here.
Words from Service-Learning Committee
Our college has formed a Service-Learning Committee in 2008. It comprises of Mrs Jane Chong, Mr Victor Tan, Mr Joel Loo, Ms Victor Anne, Mrs Gerda Huang, Mr Mark Goh, Miss Megan Chiou and Miss Liang Pei Yun. Our aims are:
- To coordinate student and staff involvement in Service-Learning programmes
- To promote and oversee the implementation of Service-Learning projects
- To organise Service-Learning training and provide resources to support Service-Learning methodology
- To formulate and review the college policies on local & overseas Service-Learning programmes
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of Service-Learning projects
Do keep a lookout for announcements on upcoming projects from this website. We strongly encourage students to initiate their own Service-Learning projects. Simply download the proposal form from Litespeed and submit them to your respective Civics Tutor or CCA teacher/s.
Latest News
ISLE Selection Camp 2010
12 Mar 2010
On 27th - 28th March 2010, 52 JC1’s attended an ISLE (International Service-Learning Expedition) selection camp organized by the ISLE committee, a sub-committee of the Service-Learning committee to learn more about the International Service-Learning Expeditions for 2010. The participants had a glimpse of the entire ISLE work cycle and its year long activities.
The camp included a host of activities such as an “Introduction to Service-Learning Workshop,” where participants learnt the basics of Service-Learning. They were encouraged to share their past experiences with community projects and have some of their misconceptions on the Community Involvement Projects (CIP) vs Service-Learning(S-L) projects debunked. The camp also included an array of team bonding activities which required the participants to role play scenarios, exercise teamwork and use their initiative to solve certain problems. The participants were also given some difficult moral dilemmas, allowing them to discuss, and share their thoughts and perspectives on selected scenarios, learning the importance of values in our everyday lives.
The highlight of the camp was on Day 2, where the participants were given an impossible task - a series of arduous sport challenges. This mission not only tested their physical and mental strengths, but also taught them that they had to work as a team, harnessing each individual’s strengths, in order to complete a given task. At the end of this challenging yet highly stimulating task, the participants realized that teamwork and perseverance are the keys to any successful completion of a project.
All the camp participants left with a beneficial and meaningful experience, gaining an understanding of the commitments of embarking on an ISLE, to prepare themselves for the actual experience at the end of the year.
Mr Mark Goh
ISLE coordinator 2010
The camp included a host of activities such as an “Introduction to Service-Learning Workshop,” where participants learnt the basics of Service-Learning. They were encouraged to share their past experiences with community projects and have some of their misconceptions on the Community Involvement Projects (CIP) vs Service-Learning(S-L) projects debunked. The camp also included an array of team bonding activities which required the participants to role play scenarios, exercise teamwork and use their initiative to solve certain problems. The participants were also given some difficult moral dilemmas, allowing them to discuss, and share their thoughts and perspectives on selected scenarios, learning the importance of values in our everyday lives.
The highlight of the camp was on Day 2, where the participants were given an impossible task - a series of arduous sport challenges. This mission not only tested their physical and mental strengths, but also taught them that they had to work as a team, harnessing each individual’s strengths, in order to complete a given task. At the end of this challenging yet highly stimulating task, the participants realized that teamwork and perseverance are the keys to any successful completion of a project.
All the camp participants left with a beneficial and meaningful experience, gaining an understanding of the commitments of embarking on an ISLE, to prepare themselves for the actual experience at the end of the year.
Mr Mark Goh
ISLE coordinator 2010
More used textbooks needed for NTUC FairPrice book collection
20 Jan 2010
By Evelyn Choo, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 24 November 2009 1917 hrs
SINGAPORE: It is the end of the school year, and for students and parents wondering what to do with used textbooks, they can drop them off at any NTUC FairPrice outlet.
250 eager student volunteers are doing their bit to help other needy students and families.
Besides Nanyang Junior College, the other schools volunteering their help are Yio Chu Kang Secondary, St Anthony Canossian, Changkat Changi Secondary, Shuqun Secondary and Bukit Batok Secondary.
Tan Chee How, student, Nanyang Junior College, said: "We are sorting them very neatly so that the public can come in for collection. I thought this was a very good way to encourage thrift because needy families don't need to buy the books."
Although the project is into its 27th year, it is experiencing a slow start.
Angela Soo, deputy director, Corporate Communications, NTUC FairPrice, said: "People are still sorting out their books at home because school just closed last week.
"And also based on past years' experience, we usually see a spike towards the end of the period where people will start donating their books. So we're hoping to get the public to come forward and donate their books at all FairPrice supermarkets before the closing date of 30th November."
With just a week to its deadline, less than a third of the company's target has been met. But FairPrice hopes to eventually collect 180,000 books by next Monday.
The project started in 1983 and has helped 120,000 needy students nationwide, collecting over 1.6 million second-hand textbooks and distributing them to low-income families for free. - CNA/vm
Source: Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: It is the end of the school year, and for students and parents wondering what to do with used textbooks, they can drop them off at any NTUC FairPrice outlet.
250 eager student volunteers are doing their bit to help other needy students and families.
Besides Nanyang Junior College, the other schools volunteering their help are Yio Chu Kang Secondary, St Anthony Canossian, Changkat Changi Secondary, Shuqun Secondary and Bukit Batok Secondary.
Tan Chee How, student, Nanyang Junior College, said: "We are sorting them very neatly so that the public can come in for collection. I thought this was a very good way to encourage thrift because needy families don't need to buy the books."
Although the project is into its 27th year, it is experiencing a slow start.
Angela Soo, deputy director, Corporate Communications, NTUC FairPrice, said: "People are still sorting out their books at home because school just closed last week.
"And also based on past years' experience, we usually see a spike towards the end of the period where people will start donating their books. So we're hoping to get the public to come forward and donate their books at all FairPrice supermarkets before the closing date of 30th November."
With just a week to its deadline, less than a third of the company's target has been met. But FairPrice hopes to eventually collect 180,000 books by next Monday.
The project started in 1983 and has helped 120,000 needy students nationwide, collecting over 1.6 million second-hand textbooks and distributing them to low-income families for free. - CNA/vm
Source: Channel NewsAsia