June Holiday Workshops! Gender Discrimintion and the Crispy Chicken Rendang Saga

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ON CAMPUS May 2018 Issue

Campus News

Public Holiday School Closure

Labour Day and Vesak Day School Closure

Our centre will be closed on Tuesday, 1 May 2018 (Labour Day) and Tuesday, 29 May 2018 (Vesak Day).

Lessons will resume the day after the public holidays (Wednesday, 2 May 2018 and Wednesday, 31 May 2018) respectively.

School Holiday Workshops!

We have a slew of activities in June and September for various levels from Primary 1 to IB Year 12.

May/ June Holiday Workshops

Dates: 28, 30, 31 May 2018 (29 May is Vesak Day) (Cycle A) and 18, 19, 20 June 2018 (Cycle B)

P1 and P4: Celebrate Writing! Workshop

P5 to P6: Intensive English Bootcamp Workshop

Fees: $300 for 3 days

(New students will be required to pay an additional $50 registration fee.)

Time: 12 pm to 2 pm (2 hours per lesson)

Please call us at 6455 3063 for more details or visit our website.

Be FOA-Ready-- 2 Day Workshop for IB Students

Dates: 18 & 19 June 2018

Details: This Further Oral Activity (FOA) 2-Day International Baccalaureate Workshop introduces techniques, know-how and skills to fulfil the requirements of top-grade FOA.

For: All IB Year 11 students completing the IB in 2019; Year 12 students are also welcomed.

Fees: $328 for 2 days (New students will be required to pay an additional $50 registration fee.)

Time: 12 pm to 2:30 pm (2.5 hours each lesson)

Teacher: Ms Geraldine Chew

Early bird discount of $50 for parties who pay before 5 May 2018. Please call us at 6455 3063 for more details or visit our website.

Literature Cakewalk-- 2 Day Workshop for S1 and S2 Students

Dates: 20 & 21 June 2018
Details: This workshop will cover prose analysis, poetry appreciation and techniques on how to answer comprehension inferential questions. Literature can now be fun, and a cakewalk!
For: All Secondary 1 and Secondary 2 students
Fees: $300 for 2 days (New students will be required to pay an additional $50 registration fee.)
Time: 12 pm to 2 pm (2 hours each lesson)
Teacher: Ms Geraldine Chew and Mrs Elizabeth Yeo

Please call us 6455 3063 for more details or visit our website.

PSLE Treasure Chest (Hot!)

Details: The 2-Day programme reviews critical tools and techniques to score 100% in Paper 2's Multiple Choice Questions [Grammar and Vocabulary], Synthesis and Transformation, Grammar Cloze and Comprehension Cloze segments.

For: All Primary 6 students

Fees: $210 for 2 days (New students will be required to pay an additional $50 registration fee.)

Cycle A

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 3 & 4 September 2018,

Time: 12 pm to 2 pm for both days

Teacher: Mrs Elizabeth Yeo

Cycle B
Dates: Thursday and Saturday, 13 & 15 September 2018,
Time: 5 pm to 7pm (Day 1) and 10 am to 12 pm (Day 2)

Teacher: Ms Geraldine Chew

Early bird discount of $20 for parties who pay before 7 May 2018. Please call us 6455 3063 for more details or visit our website.

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English Enrichment

Crispy rendang chicken, anyone?

At Creative Campus, our curriculum is tailored to include a healthy dose of current affairs. Besides tackling real-life issues, we ensure that our students know how to source for relevant clues in a given question, so that they can arrive at the correct answer every time.

Here’s a short passage to test your skills in Comprehension Cloze.

Scroll down for the answers at the end of this newsletter.

Greg Wallace cooked up an international (1) ________ when he eliminated a Malaysian contestant based on the chicken rendang she presented on a television contest. The iconic delicacy is usually slow cooked in a coconut-based curry gravy. It is meant to be tender and moist.

“The chicken skin is not (2) ________. It can’t be eaten,” he declared on MasterChef UK.

Wallace’s controversial remarks on the reality television show sparked an online (3) ________. Even the British High Commissioner to Malaysia, Vicki Treadell, warned that he should not confuse the traditional dish with fried chicken, which is often served with nasi lemak (coconut rice). Wallace has since added fuel to the (4) ________ on his Twitter account. Many are up in (5) ________ over his Twitter feed that signed off with “Namaste”, a greeting native in India, while suggesting that the dish was from Indonesia.

(6) ________ the saga, Wallace has been busy backpedalling, “I didn’t mean it should be fried, like fried chicken. What I (7) ________ was it wasn’t cooked. It was white and flabby.”

Read more details on the #chickenrendang saga here.

Answers to Comprehension Cloze

Did you get all the answers to the cloze passage above?

1. storm
2. crispy
3. furore
4. fire
5. arms
6. Since
7. meant

Critical Thinking

Gender Discrmination: Females not allowed in Sumo Wrestling Ring

A Sumo Wrestling Ring, called a "dohyo", is regarded as a sacred place. Traditionally, women are forbidden from entering the dohyo, or even touching it.

Last month, the mayor of Maizuru City was giving a speech inside a dohyo when he collapsed. When a few women entered the dohyo to provide first aid, they were ordered out of the ring by the referee. This event sparked a gender discrimination row in the Japanese media and even prompted another woman mayor to challenge tradition and request for her speech to be delivered from within the dohyo. The request had since been denied. This highlighted the rift between the roles of women in Japanese society and traditional customs.

Unfortunately, the belief that women are unclean because of their menstrual cycle, spans across several religions and culture. In this modern age, there are still some rituals women cannot attend and temples women cannot visit.

Read the report here.

Questions to Consider

1. Have you encountered gender discrimnation in Singapore?

2. Do you think gender discrimination is a social issue that needs to be address? Why and why not?

3.What can you do to reduce gender bias in your society?

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Until the next time,

The Creative Campus Team

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