SINGAPORE HISTORY, PUBLIC SPEAKING

Telling the stories of Our Amazing Pioneers

I shared stories with primary school pupils. And seriously, you wouldn’t believe what they asked me!

Shawn Seah
3 min readApr 14, 2024

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Speaking with primary school pupils at their assembly talk. Photograph by Shawn Seah’s team.

Recently, I was away from writing stories on Medium. I’m still writing on this platform, but I was just busy.

I was (i) working hard at my day job; (ii) developing a book proposal and rough manuscript for an upcoming series of children’s books that can teach values through Singapore history (fingers crossed that this series can see the light of day and be published to inspire many children); and (iii) I was speaking to some primary school pupils!

In fact, I was delighted and deeply honoured to spend two mornings with more than five hundred amazing young primary school pupils!

This is a short story about my experience.

I had fun reading from Our Amazing Pioneers, sharing the stories of the King of Gambier and Pepper Mr Seah Eu Chin; the generous and kind Mr Syed…

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Shawn Seah

Singaporean writer and public speaker, passionate about education, social issues, and local history and community stories.