June 1, 2017
A part of the Scholarship Program goal is to support the academic achievements of our scholars. This support takes many different forms such as Individual Learning Plans, extra tutoring, teacher training, giving resources to teacher training centres and attending to the psychosocial well-being of the child. One of the practical academic support activities by TFFT entails loaning students textbooks, review books, and English curriculum novels.
This week, our Scholarship Program gave out academic books to many of our scholars. This will give advantage to our scholars who often times do not have easy access to these books at school. These books that TFFT has given out will supplement the books already found in school libraries. This way, our scholars can study after the library is closed and take the books back to the dormitory to read at their leisure.
As books are valuable items and can be used multiple times, TFFT has introduced a new stock control system that assigns each book to the care of either individual TFFT scholars or small groups of scholars. They are instructed on the importance of looking after books and given the responsibility to return the books after reading them. This way, more scholars have access to the books, and TFFT utilizes resources in a more efficient way.
Form 4 graduates who are on extended school leave helped the Scholarship Program design a coding system and record on spread sheets. Fadhili and Joachim enjoyed the challenge of applying their Excel computer skills to a practical task.
Delivering the books was a positive experience because the scholars were so pleased with the opportunity to receive books for personal use. With promises to take care of the books and to make the most of them, the books were delivered into the possession of our Form 1 through Form 5 scholars.