GLORY4/4 Legacy
Channel: 50FACES
Date: 2014-12-28

Mrs Barnabas’s other love is teaching, as she loved being among children. She emphatically told her dad at a very young age that she wanted to go into teaching. Starting her career as a primary school teacher, she got a British Council Bursary to be trained as a Physical Education instructor. On returning from her 1-year training, she got posted finally to Temasek Junior college where she got to work with students of the right maturity to pursue serious sports.

But even while teaching, she had to do her teacher’s training and train for her international events as well. “Balancing all this would not have been possible without the support of my kind school principles”, says Mrs Barnabas. She credits her principles and senior assistants for giving her a fixed morning school session and time off in the afternoon to do her training.

Her love for teaching still continues even after retirement as Mrs Barnabas, at the request of some schools, continues as an adjunct teacher.