Our milestones of 2010: Project Acknowledgement

Project Acknowledgement

Project Acknowledgement was an idea that was brought up by members of Saints Advocate during our service learning camp in 2010 when we were given the time to brainstorm about possible service learning projects that we could carry out in SAJC.

The purpose of this project was to acknowledge the non-teaching staff for the efforts and contributions they have put in to maintain our school and to provide us with a comfortable and conducive learning environment.

However, their efforts are often neglected by the students. Saints Advocate [Task force: Phuong(I/C), Brenda(AI/C), Miao Li, Dong Hoon and Theodore] felt that their contributions deserve recognition; hence sought to convey to them the importance of the non-teaching staff to SAJC, through a video using the analogy of traffic lights to depict the non-teaching staff.

We had hoped that this project could provide students with a platform to learn more about the non-teaching staff as well as to express their gratitude towards their contributions.

During the course of Project Acknowledgement, we had managed to come up with five different insect cards [Appreciation Boards] for the five different Houses. Students of each House were in charge of appreciation notes to different non-teaching staffs such as the AVA assistants, librarians, cleaners etc. During our publicity week in late August to early September, we had also come up with an exhibition featuring write-ups about the various ways the non-teaching staff had contributed to maintain SAJC as well as to let the students know more about their job scope and about them.

Project Acknowledgment was a success because although this project was held during the Promos and JC2 prelims period, most SAJC students still made a conscious effort to take some time to write notes of appreciation and decorate the cards their class were issued.

Through this project, students had also managed to learn more about what the non-teaching staff does and the contributions they have made towards our school.

Without them, we would not enjoy a conducive environment to study in. Hence, we hope that this project could be sustained by the future Saints Advocate members in years to come.