RSVP @ BTPS

EPSON - BTPS Essay Writing Competition

2009-10-05T05:21:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to all of our winners for the Essay Writing Competition! You certainly know how you can play your part in reducing carbon footprint.

Mass Recycling Campaign (2)

2009-09-01T01:11:00.000-07:00

Dear pupils,

Take part in BTPS Mass Recycling Campaign.
We have collected 540 kg of papers in the 1st campaign.
Let's aim to collect higher in the 2nd campaign. Bundle old newspapers and magazines and drop them off in the collection points on 2nd Sept (Wed) & 3rd Sept (Thur).
SAVE TREES! REDUCE CARBON FOOTPRINT.

Essay Writing Competition - 3rd Prize

2009-06-30T05:40:00.000-07:00

Name: Nur Munirah Bte Mohamad Ismail
Company: Singapore Epson Industrial Pte Ltd

MAKE SINGAPORE A GREEN City!

This globally recognized phenomenon called climate change has touched many and will continue to affect everyone, especially small and urban Singapore.

As a basic and simple example, I think Singaporeans will feel the most obvious effect of climate change in the rising temperature and suffocating heat. The infrastructural face of Singapore will change by having more shaded areas and even more buildings with powerful air-conditioning networks. This results in higher levels of carbon dioxide emission, trapping Singaporeans in a vicious cycle, thoughtlessly worsening the environmental condition.

In order to circumvent the flooding problem caused by higher sea levels during unpredictable monsoon seasons, Singapore’s civil engineers will be the highest paid professionals in Singapore, creating complex drainage designs given Singapore’s land scarcity issues.

The sentiments of civic duty will then propel Singaporeans to try their best to minimize their harmful effects on the environment. Together with the National Environment Agency, the government, corporate and social organizations, schools and other bodies will work on successful campaigns to make environmental awareness a key factor in personal education.

Though Singapore will continue to suffer from the adverse effects of climate change, a coping method will be Singaporeans’ huge capacity to learn and adapt, making Singapore a truly GREEN city.

Essay Writing Competition - 2nd Prize

2009-06-30T05:49:00.000-07:00

Name: Sng Siang Mui Irene
Company: Singapore Epson Industrial Pte Ltd

NEEDS or WANTS?

I would like to propose a simple, yet effective methodology which will help in reducing the carbon footprint in domestic household. Most of us would have already used this method to help manage our finance, by determining our needs and wants.

We need a refrigerator to store food and electric kettle to boil water. These are examples that we had to have these electrical appliances for our daily necessity. We want to have an air-con to cool ourselves. We want to have a hi-fi system to enjoy great music. These can be classified as wants to feed our desire. Therefore when we prioritized our needs and wants, we can then focus on which electrical appliances we can forsake or to substitute with.

Since electrical appliances categorize under the “needs section” are something we are going to have for long term, we have to find energy efficient appliances to reduce usage of electricity. For example, look at the Energy Label of the refrigerator before making your purchase. Procure the one with the most ticks which represent highest energy efficiency thus saving electricity.

All in all, we have to be responsible in making Earth a habitable place while maintaining our own lifestyle.

Essay Writing Competition - 1st Prize

2009-06-30T05:57:00.000-07:00

Name: Jewel Ellyna Widjaja
Company: SEP - Singapore Epson

Save the Earth, Reduce carbon

Mother Earth is calm and Round
Keeping us all within, safe and Sound
With sky so clear in deep blue allure
Who can resist such a beauty lure?

But soon it will lose its might
Filled with starless, smoky night
Mother Earth is coughing out loud
Like the factory spouting black cloud

Not until we do our part
Springing from our grateful heart
Towards Mother Earth we show our love
Returning all we had unearthed
Starting all, reduce carbon footprint!
Here are some methods. We mightily sprint

Save the water! Turn off the tap
Slowly, steadily, returning earth sap
Flick of a finger, switch off the lights
towards the goal, gaining new heights

Dump the car, we walk, make it brisk
Breathe the air, feel the breeze
Take the bus with lively horn
Slowly see the new light born
Reduce wastage, let' s be lean
Indirectly the air we clean
Reducing plastic, resources sprees
Save the environment, Save the trees

Change your lifestyle! Don’t be stubborn!
Help to Reduce Emission of Carbon
One' s efforts small, but not nil
Combining all, we beat the longest Nile
Our efforts - an endless mile
But she will too shine upon us with endless smiles!

Earth Day 2009 Activities

2009-05-29T20:30:00.001-07:00

Pledging support for the BTPS Anti-Littering programme 2009 - pupils write down the action they will take to play their part to keep BTPS clean.

It's through games and fun, we learnt how our actions affect the Environment.

We also learnt about ways and items we can recycle.

Assembling this puzzle with our team mates, we pledge to make a difference to our Earth.

Hello Again to our 50 trees at Bukit Batok Nature Park - 2009

2009-05-27T20:15:00.000-07:00

National Parks staff teaching RSVP and Epson volunteers how to

add nutrients (mulch) to our 50 trees.

Getting our hands dirty was an exhilarating experience!

Alien Plants on the Move

2009-05-27T17:18:00.000-07:00

Aliens on the Move!

They are Green

They look Pretty

Why Weed them Out?

The RSVP members and Epson staff spent hours to weed out these plants that are not native to Sinagpore.

Creative Thinkers Kindergarten Friends - Earth Day 2009

2009-04-27T07:36:00.000-07:00

Teachers and pupils of RSVP Club, Creative Thinkers and BTPS Parent Volunteers collaborate for Earth Day 2009. Together, we hope to pass on the passion to care for our Earth.

RSVP members share their love for the environment with the little ones in the BTPS Learning Garden!

Winning Entry Anti-Littering Campaign 2009

2009-04-27T07:34:00.000-07:00

Mass Recycling "I'm In" 2009

2009-03-13T07:25:00.000-07:00

Thank you for an amazing week of recycling. We welcome the P1 and P2 who took part for the first time in this meaningful activity!!

Total amount recycled in 4 days was: 540 kg

We thank all the pupils who painstakingly tied up the papers (thank you parents too) and carried their 'bunch' to school in the morning.

A great BIG THANK YOU to the RSVP team who sweated their way through every morning under the guidance of Ms Chitra.

1st prize for Living aRRRt Primary School Category

2008-11-06T05:13:00.001-08:00

Our Warmest Congratulations to the team from BTPS 6 Grace:

Ong Jun Jie (leader)
Low heng Yi
Theresa Chang
Jordan Lim
6 Grace pupils who created the 18 Green messages

for their green structure making ART out of recycled and discarded items.

The structure was made of: a bicycle wheel discarded at an HDB landing, two 'legs' found in BTPS on a broken chair, cans, vitagen bottles, plastic bottles and longan twigs!

It is amazing how the passion of 4 RSVP members can inspire so many others!

Clean and Green Carnival 2008

2008-11-06T04:51:00.000-08:00

It took us 5 hours to set up the BTPS / Epson Clean and Green booth at Suntec City! It might be interesting to all of you to know that we only used recycled items in our booth - even for the lettering which came from donated drawings from our pupils!

The crowds gathered and were eager to play the games made of recycled items set up by our pupils and the informative quiz set up by Epson. Many visitors asked about the Nature Box that showcased the Tree Riddles created by the P5 and many took pictures of the Mid-Autumn lanterns and My Dream Green City drawings by P3!

Warm thanks to the 24 members who helped to set up and manage the BTPS booth at Suntec City. We appreciate your tremendous efforts during the long hours.

Term 3 and 4 Recycling

2008-11-03T06:15:00.000-08:00

In term 3 and 4, BTPS recycled a total of 1322 kg of paper.

Keep Up the good work specially as we are nearing end of the year.
Encourage your friends to recycle their used Activity Books and old worksheets!
Every little piece counts!

We will announce the winners soon!

Tree Poem

2008-10-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

Wood is very Useful
A bit Fragile, so be Careful

Makes Table and Chairs
Trees get Scratched by Bears

Paper is made from wood
They woud Walk if they could

Trees have a lot of Leaves
That might Freeze on New Year's Eve

So remember to Love the Earth
So that the World would like ... YOU

Plant-A-Tree - More Photos

2008-10-24T06:30:00.000-07:00

Tree planting

2008-10-19T07:12:00.000-07:00

Dear RSVP members,

It was a truly a heartwarming experience for me as i saw all of our very own BTPS pupils enthusiastically being involved in the tree planting activity. "Planting a tree' is our way of giving back to our Mother Earth & the environment. Years down the road, i'm sure all of us will fondly remember the memories and look forward to go back and visit the dearest tree that we have planted

Its feels great knowing that we've done our part in serving our environment isn't....

Congratulations to all RSVP members for being such an active and enthusiastic group.... Let's continue to value and serve our planet. We, each can make a difference.

Hello - This is a Tree Writing - Not Any Tree!

2008-10-19T04:05:00.000-07:00

Hello to all, reading this...It might sound wierd, but this is a tree writing on a park ranger's laptop!

A little bit about myself: My scientfic name is Eurycoma Longfolia, most commonly known as Tonkat Ali. I'm not a local plant here in Singapore, I am a native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

It was a hot and sunny Friday afternoon when I moved into my new 'home'-Bukit Batok Nature Park. With my roots tightly packed in soil, I met my so called tree-planters. One of them, donned in a Bukit Timah uniform, looked like a chubby rollypolly. Accompanying him were two fellows wearing Epson T-shirts, one tall as a fully grown tree, the other was like Santa Claus - happy!

All of them wore gloves (which I took as an insult - was I dirty? But I brushed the thought away). Later, the two Epson staff approached me and with great effort, pulled out the black wapper from around me. Next, they lifted me high above the ground... before plomping me back into a hole in the ground. Feeling sore, I tried to say, "Easy!" when I remembered that trees don't have mouths!

Finally, the Bukit Timah student took a hoe and started to push the soil towards me. He patted the soil around me, giving me what I thought was a Shiatsu massage. Just when I thought he was here to stay, he got up and left! Leaving me with a number tag 50 and my name tag hanging on my branch.

Settling down here would be lonely, so people who read this, please visit me!
Oops, the rangers are coming! Gotta go now!

Friday Plant-A-Tree

2008-10-17T03:07:00.000-07:00

In the library, we were given 5-6 younger children to take care of. We also received a name tag. The numbers on our name tags showed the number of the trees each of us was going to plant. Megan and I had the same 2 numbers (Trees 44 and 45) so we knew we were going to plant them together.

At Bukit Batok Reserve, I thought that it was going to be an easy thing ....seriously but when I lifted the shovel, it weighed a few kgs!!! I was real surprised!! Looking sideways, I could see that I was not the only one. Megan was also having trouble! Furthermore, her shovel was heavier than mine!!!! Putting the soil up the shovel made it even harder for us!!

After a long period of pants and puffs (it was quite short...it just seemed long ^^) we finally finished planting the trees!! After that long ordeal of putting the soil onto the plant, water it and flattening it with the shovel, we finally put the name tag on the plant. Ours were named "Eugenia dennis florida" (something like that) and do you know that the plant is also grown in our BTPS Learning Garden.

It was really (not sure how to describe it) ... many positive and wonderful feelings came at the same time inside me and I-want-to-go-again (that type of feeling). It was the 'bestest' of the best experiences! I just LOVED it!!!!!!!

PLANT-A-TREE 2008 at Bukit Batok Nature Reserve

2008-10-11T00:14:00.000-07:00

Dear RSVP members

Planting 50 beautiful trees in our community of Bukit Batok was a truly exciting adventure for me. Standing amidst the trees in the afternoon heat and adding to the environment made me feel so special to be part of this project! Bukit Timah Primary School wholeheartedly THANKS Epson Singapore for letting us share this 'journey'.

But above all, to hear your laughter and enthusiasm for the task was even better. BTPS was so proud to see you all attentive and cheerful despite the high temperature. You accomplished the tree planting so effectively and still had energy to pose questions and look for seeds!

We hope that this learning experience will be truly a great memory from BTPS. I believe that many Environmental Activists will emerge from Bukit Timah Primary!

Why do I Do It?

2008-04-29T03:18:00.000-07:00

First of all, I like to do volunteer work as I can help people and in the meantime learn new things!! So I joined the RSVP club and also help to save the Earth.

My first job was to go up on the stage and I gave a speech on tetra-paks. Although it was my second time going on stage, I was quite nervous and I shivered when I faced the crowd who was staring at me as if there was something on my beautiful face=)...

So I plucked my courage and stepped in front of everyone and gave a speech. Finally it was over but I said to myself, "I did it! I did it !!!" A sense of satisfaction came over me...

Second, I was appointed to be the leader of the RSVP Recruitment. I have to work with Yong Zhi to set up the booth and decorate it. We planned so hard until the actual day. Another sense of satisfaction came over me when we saw the pledges and people who were so full of passion about Earth fill up the application forms.

Soon, the two days were over and we were all so happy to see the overwhelming response!!! We actually collected about 108 pledges!!!

To me, it is not the prize that I was waiting for but the satisfaction I get and the things I learned throughout all the activities. But of course MUST HAVE FUN!!!

A RSVP leader's experience...

2008-05-14T03:57:00.000-07:00

First, I would like to thank all of those who helped out at the booth on Earth Day, and many apologies for posting this late reflection!

When Mrs Chien first annouced that I would be working with HuiHao for the quiz booth, I had a mixture of excitment, joy and shock shooting directly at my brain.

What we had to do was prepare some powerpoint slides with questions relating to Earth. Later, we had to transfer the questions into this mind-boggling system. HuiHao and I had to edit the questions over and over again to make sure that there were no mistakes in the questions.

Finally it was Earth Day. We had to rush to the library at 8:30am and prepare the makeshift borders out of chairs and prepare the tables. At 9:30am, a few pupils stuck their heads in to see what was happening. But the best thing was that the response was crazy! Soon, the libary was a sea of bobbing black dots and was filled with mindless chatter!

After this, we all felt extremely good with ourselves as we had met with our expectations. And most of all, I would like to thank Mrs Chien and Miss Chitra for their patience and for those green, cute frogs!

PLANT-A-TREE 2008

2008-10-11T00:04:00.000-07:00

Plant-A-Tree

2008-09-20T06:07:00.001-07:00

Welcome all new RSVP members for 2008-2009.

On 10th October, 50 of you have been selected with 10 teachers to go on this amazing mission to plant 50 saplings at the Bukit Batok Nature Reserve.

Together with our Epson partners, we look forward to put in our efforts to show our sincere wish to keep Singapore and our Bukit Batok community green and healthy!

But before that, we have many tasks to accomplish. Each of us will contribute our inner thoughts whether in Art, Poetry, Riddles or Research to make this journey more meaningful.

We await your best entries!

Plastic - We Can Now Recycle Plastic at BTPS

2008-07-03T03:45:00.000-07:00

I'm sure you would have all noticed the big brownish bin next to the sinks in the canteen. It's for your plastic containers - feel free to bring containers from home. Let's take that little extra step to save our Singapore!