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The Centre for Scholastic Excellence (CSE) is a programme that I coordinate at my workplace. It's a new system devised to "stimulate independent learning and to provide a safe virtual environment for them to engage in collaborative learning as well as knowledge building."

It's been a journey... it really has.

The task seemed daunting right from the start, with me playing 'form teacher' to about half the secondary three cohort who're in the programme. There were many details to look into... mostly administrative. At the end of the day, that was one of the reasons I was placed in the position - to take care of the administrative tasks so that the rest of the teachers could focus on what they could do best, that is to teach, and that mentors could focus on knowing their students.

He knows that administrative skills aside, my heart lies beyond simply that. And thankfully.. he knows too (haha...). And so as things happen and evolve, it's come to a point where I should be able to focus on knowing the boys more as well in time to come, with a personnel hired to handle the administrative tasks, which have been mostly set in place over the past half a year.

I guess I have to be realistic that at the end of the day, it will be impossible to know all 247 of them... add on to the fact that a new cohort is coming in next year. I'm trying hard... but there'll always be the differences in personality and temperaments. I got to know some of them better over the internet, some started to frequent my office... all which I'm thankful. There're some though whom I'll never have contact with unless I take the initiative to sieve them out during morning reading periods, which I haven't been really doing so.

Perhaps they think that it's better to keep to themselves, the lesser interactions with teachers, the better. I don't know... but well. It'll be a miracle if I suddenly see them popping by my place. Haha.. well.

Few more months to the end of the academic year... and soon they'll all don the beige uniform. 成长...成长。