First Day

Walking in children’s territory,

Hoping not to get lost on the first day,

Brave myself to walk alone,

As I cannot find new friends along the way.

Primary school is scary,

With almost 500 baby piranhas in sight,

Looking at me with full of wonder,

Well at least they don’t bite.

I always feel afraid of kids,

Some are good some are evil,

I always try to be positive,

But how come they act like a tiny devil.

Stepping into the class with full of fear,

The baby piranhas greet me warmly,

Attentively lending me their ear,

Never thought that they are so lovely.

End of my last SBE,

Realise that piranhas are actually innocent angels,

Will do anything to protect these pure souls,

For now goodbye my little angels.

The Special Boy

It was a cold morning and the clock was striking six when I woke up. I opened my window and gaze into the dark sky wondering why I decided to become a teacher. I felt like lingering here longer but I have school to attend. So I got ready and rushed to school. It was a Drug Prevention Week and I could see all the teachers were busy handling countless of competitions and preparing for the upcoming closing ceremony. Thus, this trainee teacher also got herself busy assisting teacher in class.

I walked my way to class 3 Zurah, walking past countless of excited-looking children as I walked. As I entered the class, this beautiful and petite English teacher named Madam Shamala introduced me to the class. I took a seat at the back. The lesson started with a drawing game where the pupils had to pick one action verb, draw it onto the whiteboard and let the others guessed it. Then, the teacher introduced new topic creatively using a video clip from an animation movie entitled Frozen. All of these tiny angels were enjoying themselves except this one boy.

He was a small plump fellow with a knack for bringing a smile to the face of anyone he knew due to his cuteness. He wandered around the class aimlessly or just slept on his desk. The class ended with the teacher displaying the pupils work around the class. As I got back to the staff room, I asked Madam Shamala about the boy. I’ve been told that the boy had autism but the parents refused to send him to special needs class which also provided in the school. This causes the boy to learn nothing at all in the class.

The day of Drug Prevention Week closing ceremony finally arrived. The ceremony started with the national anthem and a speech from the headmistress. After some students’ performances, the prize giving ceremony began where the names of the winner of each competition were being announced. It turned out that the boy with autism won the first place in coloring competition. He looked so happy and proud walking toward the stage to receive the prize. Most of the teachers looked very proud of his achievement.

This experience makes me realised that all children have their own talent. We as an adult should not tell them what they should or should not be good at. As for his parents, it was not that they were ignorant or entirely blind to it. They knew what was coming but who wants their child being made fun by some people? Deep inside, I know that one day his parents will accept his condition. I pray that these special kids will always get a happy life and bright futures ahead of them.

Drug Prevention Week in Sekolah Kebangsaan Meru Raya

 

Drug prevention programs are designed to provide the education and support necessary to diminish drug dependency in communities, schools and the workplace. This program is important to give knowledge about drugs to primary school pupils. I am going to share my experience attending the program. On 1^st April 2018, Sekolah Kebangsaan Meru Raya held an opening ceremony of Drug Prevention Week. The ceremony were attended by all pupils and teachers and it was held in the main hall.

 "Develop psychological and physical dependence on drug among the drug addicts which will ruin their future” - Madam Saerah Binti Ahmad

The Drug Prevention opening ceremony started with the singing of national anthem by all the pupils and teachers. Then, the ceremony continued with prayer recitation by one of the pupils named Muhammad Helmi Bin Mohd Firdaus. Then, the emcee invited the Head Mistress to give her speech. The Head Mistress who is Madam Saerah Binti Ahmad explained that drug addiction can develop psychological and physical dependence on drug among the drug addicts which will ruin their future. According to Madam Saerah, drug addiction affects a person psychologically as it cause a person to have paranoia and hallucinations which lead to impaired judgement. The example that she gave is the incident that happened in Subang Jaya in 2018, where a 35-year-old father killed his son due to hallucination he got after taking drugs. All the students felt shocked after they heard about the case. Then, Madam Saerah continued her speech by explaining how drug addition affects a person physically. She explained that drug addiction can cause seizures, abdominal pain, and breast development which lead to health problems. She ended her speech by advising the students not to take drugs and always choose the right friends when they grew up.

  

“Drug addiction needs to be prevented at an early stage in order to avoid more youths to be involved in this crime” - Nur Sarah Adelia Binti Mohd Hanif

The ceremony continued with 5-minute speech activity delivered by a Year 5 student who is Nur Sarah Adelia Binti Mohd Hanif. The topic of her short speech was “How to Avoid Drug Abuse”. According to her, drug addiction need to be prevented at an early stage in order to avoid more youths to be involved in this crime. The first way to avoid drug abuse is to choose the right peers. Sarah explained that there were many cases of teenagers who got involved in drug addiction because of peers influenced. Thus, Sarah encouraged all the students to choose the right peers who have good backgrounds so that they will be influenced to be a good person. Other than that, Sarah also shared a way to turn down drug offers which is to explain nicely the reasons why you refuse to take it and excuse yourself quickly. Next, the ceremony continued by a peom recitation by a teacher. The caremony suddenly became lively as all the students enjoyed listening to the nice poem recitation. At the end of the ceremony, all the teacher and students sang Drug Prevention song together.

My experience attending the ceremony was very beneficial as I gained many new knowledge about drug addiction and learnt how the teachers handle the ceremony. In my opinion, Drug Prevention Week is necessary to be conducted in all school as it provides information about how dangerous drug addiction is to the students. They can use this knowledge to avoid being involved in drug addiction when they grew up. I hope that the Drug Prevention Week will be carried out more creatively in school in the future to encourage more students’ involvement. I hope all of my readers learn something from this blog entries.