Christmas Wish List!

Hi, all! The Bright Sparks centre would like to invite those who loves working with children to come forward and work with us to help nurture and journey with these kids and watch them grow and learn new things each day. It is a real fun filled and fulfilling service. Do come and see and experience it for yourself!

Besides that, if  you have any item at home that you do not use it anymore and like to donate to us, please give us a call at 04-2633842. The item we need are as follows:

1) Moveable partition
2) Soft notice board
3) Radio/CD Player
4) Book Shelves
5) Kitchen Cabinet
6) Soft toys
7) Balls - football or other types
8) Badminton racket and shuttlecock
9) Skipping ropes
10) Rice cooker

For those who had rendered their help to us.We sincerely thank you for all your generous supports!

Thank you & God bless you always!

- The Bright Sparks Coordinator

An unique Bottles Wall set up at LH Bright Sparks

On 8th November 2012, Ms Anna Yoon and a group of her staffs from The Traders Hotel which includes the General Manager, some engineers, some sales personnel and a bottle wall specialist came and executed a special project for The LH Bright Sparks centre. It is a Recycle Project where the mineral water bottles are use to make a wall.

At 3.00pm the children of The LH Bright Sparks came and help the staffs of Traders Hotel in carrying out the project together. Both the staffs of Traders Hotel and the children were working hard to determine that the project run successfully.

Some parts of the bottle wall had already constructed. The remaining bottle wall is still in progress but it will be finishing in about a week's time as informed by The Traders Hotel engineer.

All of us at The Bright Sparks were so excited and filled with enthusiasm with the artwork. We just can't wait to see the unique and creative work to complete soon.

Photos of  the specialist and the Traders Hotel - Marketing and Engineering staffs working hard 

in constructing the wall :

The construction of the wall was completer in mid November 2012. Below is how the wall looks like :

Thank you Trades Hotel for such a creative & innovative wall at the old Bright Sparks centre. Indeed it will be a memory for all the children and the staffs of Traders Hotel who took part in the construction. As for the year 2013, we will operate in a new place hence the wall will be left at the old place.

Preparation for Tea Break is so fun!

On 29th October, 2012 Erina came and conduct a cooking class with the younger children age 8, 11 and 16. The cooking class started at 3.00pm. Erina begins the cooking class by teaching the children step by step on how to make an egg sandwiches and pancakes. Some of the kids were also assign to prepare and set up the table. Besides that, Erina also bought some fruits for the kids as desserts.

The children had an enjoyable time together in the cooking class. They learned not only on how to prepare the food. They were also taught by the volunteers on food hygiene and team work.

The program then ended with a delicious meal serve by the children. Both the children and volunteers had fun in the cooking class. Some of the children even said to the volunteers to have more of this type of activities class with them in future.

Erina, Maria, Margaret Lim and Veronica together with the children learning how to  made pancakes.

Erina teaching the kids on how to prepare a sandwich.

An elder girl teaches the younger boys how to wash the plates and cups before meals.

Maria guide the children on how to serve the food and set the table.

Erina made the pancakes while the children prepares the sandwiches.

Mmmm the food I prepare is so delicious, wanna try some, teachers?

A Good Experience of Western Table Setting

Yay! It was Friday again and we had another wonderful Living Skill Program on Friday!

19th November, 1012 Ms. Anna Yoon brought a team of F & B personnel from Traders Hotel to do some training on Western Table Setting with the children.

The team demonstrated and taught the children on how to set up a dining table; arrange the plate, bowl, fork & spoon, knife, cup, glass in a proper order. Then the children were taught on how to dine with good table etiquette. The team from Traders Hotel also showed and taught the children on how to fold the table napkins into different styles and designs. After that, each child was given the opportunities to learn and practice setting up the dining table and also fold the napkins.

The program ended with a special tea break treat by Ms. Anna Yoon cooking spaghetti for the children. Indeed it was a great and fun filled experience for everyone! Both the trainers and the children enjoyed the training together!

Learning table setting and proper dining manner

Learning to fold napkins

The table is set ready for dining!

Thank you Ms. Anna for cooking the spaghetti for the children

Mmmmm yummy spaghetti !

Gotong-Royong by DELL staffs

Good team spirit and good team work!

On the 23rd October 1012, a group of staffs from DELL came and helped out at The LH Bright Sparks centre under the DELL CSR project. There are five of them. They help us to clean, sweep, mop and hang the curtains. See, how nice and sparkling the place looks now....

Thank you DELL for your kind help at Bright Sparks!

Mandarin As The 1st Choice of 2nd Language Learner

Mandarin has becoming the first choice of a growing number of 2nd language learners these days. Many people are learning this language worldwide. Mandarin has been a priority language identified as one of all schoolchildren should be given a chance to learn language.

At Bright Sparks, the mandarin classes had just started with every child from primary to secondary school. There are mix races of children in Bright Sparks but all are given equal opportunities to learn the language together.

The children will be taught how to read, write and speak the language. The teachers will communicate mandarin with the children and though the children are only able to speak simple mandarin words. But the beauty is that the children are able to sing a mandarin songs together as one happy and loving family! Amazing isn't it?

See, the children are paying attention to teacher  Maria at the mandarin class.

I love mandarin. Yay! Now I'm learning how to write mandarin words!

FIRE SAFETY AWARENESS AND FIRST AID TRAINING

What is safety? Safety as explained in a dictionary, it is the state of being safe and protected from events or from something that will leads to danger and injury.

On 12th November 2012, Ms. Anna Yoon, a Representative from Traders Hotel brought her team to Bright Sparks, Penang Road to gave training to the children on Fire Safety Awareness & First Aid. There were about 30 children participated the training.

For Fire Safety Awareness program, the children learned precautions measures that are to be taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that may result in death or property damage. The Fire Safety Training is very informative as it helps to alert and better equip both the children and adult about what to do to prevent fire and how to react when is threatened by fire to help save lives and reduce the injury or damage caused by a fire.

As for First Aid program, the children were taught on how to save a life when someone drowns, choke or bitten by a snake. The team demonstrated to the children some important methods like CPR and also shows them on how to bandage a wounded arm. After that, the trainer encourages all the children to practice the first aid skill by bandage one another. There were also question and answer session.

The event then ended with a tea sponsored by Ms. Anna Yoon. It was indeed a very good, educated and fun filled training program for the children. Some of the kids said that they are happy that today they have learned "something new and important".

Fire Safety Training

Rescue someone from choking

First Aid Training - Arm bandage

CPR Training

CPR Training

CPR Training

Having tea together

Wah, the food is so delicious!