History of NYP Mentoring Club
Initially, NYP Mentoring Club was named as BP Mentoring Club. BP Mentoring Club was sponsored by British Petroleum (BP) but since BP was sold to SPC, our Mentoring Club become independent. Consequently, we changed our name to NYP Mentoring Club. Other than coming from NYP, Mentors also come from SP, NP, RP, TP, NUS, NTU, SMU, Meridian JC, National Junior College, St Andrew JC, Temasek JC, Raffles Institute, Tanjong Katong Girls, Methodist Community Service Society, National Mentoring Network and Riverside Secondary Alumni. For more information about BP Mentoring Club, click on this website (BP Website).NYP Mentoring Club started in the year 2004 to cater to the need of the lower secondary students in Yishun Secondary School (YSS). A NYP student graduated from YSS requested his YSS teacher (Mr Chan Chee Keong) that he would like to launch this new Mentoring Club program in YSS. Hence, Mentoring Club began it journey from there.
What is Mentoring Club?
NYP Mentoring Club is a NYP CCA affiliating with secondary school. It consists of Mentors (NYP students) and Mentees (Lower Secondary School Students). You may want to think yourselves as a tutor or an adviser to the Mentees. Our purpose is to develop the Mentees' leadership quality, social skills, acadamic at the same time developing Mentors' leadership and character quality.
Who is a Mentor?
A Mentor is more than just a tutor. Other than setting papers for the Mentees to do, they are also required to organize interacting events such as weekly games, semester outing as well as camping events for the Mentors and Mentees. Most importantly, a Mentor is an older brother and sister who will guide the Mentees when they face difficulties. We also give social advices to the Mentees so as to ensure they grow up to be able to face challenges and stresses.
The Mentors
Who is a Mentee?
Mentees are the younger students whom the Mentors guide and befriend. Embarking on their first steps in society, they will inevitably face various difficulties, from academic to social. Some can cope well on their own; others may need a little help along the way.
Our Mentees are sec 1, 2 or 3 YSS students. They join Mentoring Club because they need help from people like us. They could be students who have financial problems, family problems or psychological problem. It could be their poor result that led them in Mentoring Club or they are just a group of youngsters who like to make friends with us. It could also be their interest to join Mentoring Club to get addition help from us.
Our Mentees
Mentoring Club in Year 2006
In year 2006, Mentoring Club was just a small group of members sitting outside the general office’s tables revising homework. Study and games were the basic activities in Mentoring Club. However, it was quite well managed as well as causing much interests among our group of members to join this weekly program. (NYP Mentoring Club of Yishun Secondary School and Outram Secondary School). In Year 2006, we also ran our Mentoring Club in Outram Secondary School.
Mentoring Club in Year 2007
In year 2007, Mentoring Club grew rapidly in size. We were given 2 classrooms for 40 Mentors and 60 Mentees. In view of a better management, English, Maths, Science and Activity Department were set up. Leader for individual department was also assigned. (NYP Mentoring Club of Yishun Secondary School and Outram Secondary School)
Mentoring Club in Year 2008
In Year 2008, Mentoring Club went as smooth as Year 2007. We had cohesion outing with the Mentoring club members; this enhanced the friendship and bonding among us. (NYP Mentoring Club of Yishun Secondary School)
Mentoring Club in Year 2009
Mentoring Club was temporary closed in year 2009.
Mentoring Club in Year 2010
This year will be the re-opening of Mentoring Club in the 1st semester as well as linking YSS with the 1st newest program that would involve us helping out in the YSS activities such as a visit to the Science Centre, interacting with the Environmental Club and ?Youth Olympic Game. With these program, we not only extend our service to the YSS Mentees, we also encourage our Mentors and Mentees to participate in leadership program by involving in some YSS activities. For instance, a Mentee brief a group of Yishun Secondary School students on their trip to the Science Centre. Our objective is to develop the social skill of the Mentees as well as the leadership of our Mentors. Due to this expansion of service, a Social Department was set up on 8 May 2010 to cater to the new dimension for the student development. Multimedia Department was set up on 10 May 2010 when we see a need for photography, video editing, Photoshop as well as managing our Mentoring Club's website.
Hierarchy System of Mentoring Club
- Executive committee
- Curriculum Management
- English Department
- Mathematics Department
- Science Department
- Activity Department
- Social Department
NYP Mentoring Club Current & Previous Ex-Co
- Presidents & Vice Presidents
- Ken Xu Ying (Year 2006)
- Marni (Year 2006)
- Ng Weide (Year 2007)
- Nasyita (Year 2007)
- Eric Choo (Year 2008)
- Halif (Year 2009)
- Jen Ng (Year 2009)
- Ng Wei Jie (Year 2010)
- Secretary
- Karen Neo (Year 2006)
- Ong Mingzhu (Year 2006)
- Han Xinyi (Year 2007)
- Yus (Year 2007)
- Wang Mingzhu (Year 2008)
- Hui Li (Year 2009)
- Shirlyna (Year 2010)
- Samantha (Year 2010)
- School Coordinator
- Zhang Ling (Year 2006)
- Atiqah (Year 2007)
- Xiao Qing (Year 2007)
- Khasminah (Year 2008)
There are 3 Departments in Curriculum Management mainly the English Department, Mathematics Department and Science Department. Recruits will be assigned to individual Department. If they are not assigned into these Departments, they will either be assigned into the Activity Department or Social Department.
If a Mentor is assigned to the English Department, he/she will need to set English papers for the Mentees once every 3 weeks but he/she will also need to teach Mathematics and Science other than English alone. The English Department is involved in marking the English papers.
If a Mentor is assigned to the Mathematics Department, he/she will need to set Mathematics papers for the Mentees once every 3 weeks but he/she will also need to teach English and Science other than Mathematics alone. The Mathematics Department is involved in marking the Mathematics papers.
If a Mentor is assigned to the Science Department, he/she will need to set Science paper for the Mentees once every 3 weeks but he/she will also need to teach English and Mathematics other than Science alone. The Science Department is involved in marking the Science papers.
Activity Department
Mentors in the Activity Department will organize game and cohesion activities for the Mentees. It can be stepping balloon games, floorball, badminton, amazing race, treasure hunt, water bomb game etc.
Social Department
Social Department is set up in year 2010 to enhance the cohesion between the members in Mentoring Club. They take care most of the Mentees and develops their social skills.
Social Department is required to interview the Mentees once every 2 weeks for them to highlight their problem and get feedback from them.
Social Department is also involved in counseling students. In order to improve their efficiency, they have to research more about counseling and be a students’ guidance.
Social Department takes over the Activity Department for organizing external activities. They organize events such as BBQ outing, recycling project, a visit to botanic garden and NYP open house. They will be the one who plans the external events and the Activity Department will execute their plan.
The Social Department will link up with the Ex-Co, Curriculum Management as well as the Activity Department to ensure that Mentoring Club is interesting, beneficial, in addition to improve students and Mentors leadership and thinking skills.
As this is a relatively new Department, more will be discussed to ensure that they are able to provide a good service for Mentoring Club.
Multimedia Department
A new department set up in year 2010 to put our memories into photos and videos. This department is involved in taking pictures in all Mentoring Club sessions and activities as well as videos. The are required to do photo editting, upload photos into the server for Mentors to download. Mentors who have a DSLR, a four-third, a compact camera, or a camcorder are more preferred.
Yishun Secondary School Aggregate
| Non-Affiliation | Affiliation | |||||||
| Lower | Upper | Mean | Median | Lower | Upper | Mean | Median | |
| Normal Academic | 174 | 192 | 179 | 179 | None-posted | None-posted | ||
| Express | 206 | 233 | 212 | 210 | None-posted | None-posted | ||
| Normal Technical | 94 | 157 | 117 | 107 | None-posted | None-posted | ||
Information
Venue: Yishun Secondary School
Meeting Venue: Yishun MRT Station
Time: 0900 - 1200hr
First session for the recruits: 3rd July 2010 (forecasted, not confirmed)
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