history is fun

Dear Parents,

Family & Friends: A Singapore Album is a project organised by the National Museum of Singapore, Landmark Books and supported by Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) and Nexus (formerly Central National Education Office). It was launched on 5 September 2006.

Victoria School has adopted this project as School Family Education (SFE) project.

We believe that this meaningful and simple project will strengthen bonds within families by building bridges between generations. It will also root our children to Singapore and allow them to better understand what we, as Singaporeans, have in common and to appreciate our diversity.

Through this project, we want our children to know about their family members such as grandparents and great-grandparents, their names and what they did.

We also want to use this project to let our children open a window to their past by recording a true story of their family based on a family photograph. Examples of material contributed to the national Singapore Album project by other Singaporeans can be viewed at www.SingaporeAlbum.sg. Please also refer to the Keeping Memories booklet given to you with this project.

Do spend time with your child in this activity. We are sure that you will find it worthwhile.

We will be selecting suitable work for submission to the national Family & Friends: A Singapore Album project. If your child’s work is selected, we will let you know and, at that time, invite you to contribute your photographs to the national e-photo album housed in the National Museum of Singapore.


Thank You
Victoria School NE Committee


Activity Guidelines

(1) Ask your parents about your grandparents and great-grandparents and fill in the form provided. When you have done that, you will have an important record of your family.

(2) Look through your family photographs together with your parents and choose one that is interesting or meaningful.

• Find out when the picture was taken
• Find out where the picture was taken
• Find out who the people in the picture are. If you can, give their names
• Find out what happened, why it happened and how it happened.

Write the true story about the picture. Give it a title. Your story should contain about 50 – 100 words.

Submission Details
Every class will be provided with an email account. Students will scan their photos, do the write up about the photos and will e-mail the photos to their respective class email accounts. Their respective History teachers will provide details of the e-mail accounts soon. Please visit http://victoriaschoolhistory.blogspot.com for further details.



Email your photos and the write up by 11 Feb 2008