All councillors

Please take some time to have a "stock check" for yourself. We are coming to the end of the year, though another hectic period is coming up for councillors soon, i would like to have all of you doing some reflection for yourself.

Why Reflect?

We build up understanding through our experience in the world. But until we reflect – that is, until we engage in explaining not just what we do, but why we do what we do – this understanding remains just “intuitive”:something we feel in our gut and can do almost on auto-pilot.


The process of reflection helps us to develop our understanding more deeply and to make our intuitive knowledge shareable with others. It provides the opportunity to step back and take a look at what our work means to us and our communities.

We reflect on our work, so that we can recognize our own intuitive understandings, develop them further, and explore new directions.

Ask questions to understand experiences that you may have overlooked in your day-to-day work. By reflecting we can grow and develop our understanding more deeply, so that our work continues to improve the next time we roll through the design process.

Hope you guys understand why we are practising this.

Well, here are some guiding points for you to ponder :

1) our goal is to have a value based student leadership development for our students so that they can contribute to school and society, since it's value based, you can think along this.
- how have you been developed and that you display the values that the teachers have inculcate in you. Have you been a good role model of the 4 values to your peers?
-what are the opportunities given to you to train you for student leadership?
-how have you improved so far? does the reflection after the event and evaluation given by the teachers help you in the development for leadership skills?

2) what are the platforms that you get to develop and display your leadership qualities? Workshops you have attended?

3) did teacher give you constant feedback?

4) what are the trainings given to you so far ? during full board meeting? Workshops, conference, etc.

5) what are the leadership skills you have learnt so far? Eg, communication skills, decision making, organizational skills, etc. have you applied them and where have you applied them?

After reflecting, what is next? What do you intend to do with all these skills learnt? How can you apply in your life? how do you think you can be an effective leader in the school?

A unreflected life is not worth living.

Start living your life intentionally! Do you want to create a positive influence over someone? Have you live a life that has left a positive impact to your peers?

Ms Lim

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