The PAR committee plans and implements strategies to enhance the relationships between parents and teachers, and to engage the parents more actively in the development and growth of their children. The PAR will help the Alumni start its association and also kick start networking programmes to promote the school to potential parent volunteers. The committee is also looking into creating more opportunities for parents and the Alumni to collaborate and network with the school.

Long Term Plans

It provides the support for and works with the Parents' Support Group (PSG) to form a Parents' Association. When the group is eventually formed, it aims to organise activities on parenting for the parents of Shuqun Primary School. We also aim to support the Alumni by forming an Alumni Association later in the year.

Short Term Plans

The PAR will help the Alumni form its association, kick start networking programmes, promote the school to potential parent volunteers and seek opportunities for parents and the Alumni to collaborate and network with the school. PAR targets to recruit at least 100 new Alumni members this year and achieve 5,000 client contact hours.

The PAR Committee will also work with the existing PSG exco members to organize regular activities. This allows the PSG to eventually gain the experience to become an independent association. We want to continue to engage parents in close partnership in the areas of nurturing their children.

Current Activities

The school has a strong pool of PSG volunteers in these clubs:

Maths Support Group		Picture Conversation
English Reading Mums		Sports
Chinese Reading Mums		School Administration
Malay Reading Mums		Road Crossing
Tamil Reading Mums		Cookery Club
Special Functions		Library
Oral Discussion

Achievements

Alumni

The Pro-temp Committee of the Alumni was formed on 13 November 2004. Ms Ivy Lim has volunteered to be the Chairperson of the Pro-temp Committee. The other members include Ms Cecilia Quek, Ms Foo Jia Wei and Ms Liew Hui Fen.

An Alumni gathering was organised on 31 July 2004 with more than 70 ex-Shuqunites in attendance.

More than 30 former Shuqunties returned to their alma mater to celebrate the school's 20^th Anniversary on 26 November 2004.

PSG

The PSG hosted the parents and student visitors from St Francis of Assisi's English Primary School (Hong Kong) on 25 February 2005. The visitors complimented the school's PSG on their hospitality.

14 parents played the roles of Road Marshals, assisted at the refreshment counter and participated in the school's Mini Cross Country Run on 11 March 2005 at the Jurong Gardens.

The PSG contributed its time towards the manning of the station for the Maths Mazing Challenge on 31 March 2005.

5 parents from the PSG also acted as "parents" of injured and traumatized pupils during the school's Emergency Exercise on 5 April 2005.

The PSG supported the school's Sports Day on 29 April 2005 by helping out in various ways and made the event a resounding success.

The PSG also organized monthly Parent Education Talks for the school's parents.

In 2006, the PSG organised the first Shuqun Parenting Education Conference (SPEC) which benefitted many parents. Following its success, in 2007 the second SPEC was held on 3 Feb 2007.