Finally, Lean Kang and I have completed the latest round of the student leadership workshop at Penang Free School, with assistance from Sue Hay, Yan Tatt and Mohamad Afan. The first weekend of the workshop was held last month and this month, we proceeded with the second weekend. Unfortunately, three of the participants in Lower Six were unable to join the group of 20 Form Four pupils as they were in the midst of their end-of-year school examinations. We shall try to fit them in later in the year so that they can complete both weekends.
Our experiences with this batch of Fourth Formers were not typically different from the other workshops that we held in previous years. Initially, they were quite reserved but by the end of the second day of the first weekend, we had opened them up and lowered the barrier between coach and students. Thus, they arrived for the second weekend completely relaxed and with minds that were eager for more information. We derived quite a lot of satisfaction from this particular group.
As usual, we had the Headmaster come around to present certificates to the participants. I've got to say this about Headmaster Syed Sultan: he was very supportive of the leadership workshops and we, in turn, were very glad of his continued belief in our workshop and training methods. It's a relationship which we hope will carry us through to the eighth workshop during the 2023 academic year.
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