OYEA Stories

OYEA Stories 2023

Recipients

Mr Gan Tze Qiang Benjamin
Gan Eng Seng Primary School
How a chat and a toothbrush led a child back to school

Ms Shobana D/O Sreetharan
Holy Innocents’ Primary School
She infused Maths with K-Pop to turn an angry student around

Ms Sum Kar Mun
CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh)
She gives students the language and tools to express their passions and concerns

Mr Seow Tzer Yeun
Edgefield Secondary School
The case of the unbreakable beaker – how this teacher forms bonds through Science

Ms Lim Bee Leng
Kent Ridge Secondary School
She turned a chat about hooliganism into a discussion on the importance of learning

Ms Khairunnisa Binte Ismail
St. Gabriel’s Secondary School
Her motto for her students? “Character first, academics a close second”

Finalists

Ms Lee Hui Ting
Canberra Primary School
Add Maths, Science and pumpkins and you get? Lessons plus a side of dessert

Mdm Lim Peak Deng
Sengkang Green Primary School
Cheering her students’ bite-sized successes whets their appetite to learn Mandarin

Ms S Purnima Janani @Purnima Janani Sampath Kumar
Catholic High School (Secondary)
She models empathy, the ‘highest form of knowledge’, to her students

Mdm Shariffa Amalsharaff Binte Syed Othman Aledroos
Springfield Secondary School
She started podcasts and other platforms ‘to give every student a voice’