Racial Harmony day

Racial Harmony day, a day to remember the racial riots in 1964, a year before Singapore's independence. Racial Harmony means that the four or more different ethnic groups, Chinese, Malay, Indian, etc, living together as one in peace and harmony without the need of racial disputes and riots.

So far in school, the activities that have been going on this Racial Harmony week are the recital of the national pledge in Chinee, Malay and english on altenate days. Since there might be some difficulty in reciting the pledge in a different language, a little piece of paper with the pledge written on it in Malay and chinese were given to the students a week before the Racial Harmony week. On Thursday, the students are allowed to wear their different ethnic costumes to school and the class with the most number of pupils wearing the costumes get a prize. On that same day, the Sec 2s would be holding a Charity Bazaar to raise funds for the Community chest.

Overall, I think that Racial Harmony means alot because without it, and at the same time having many different races living together, would have a disastrous effect. Chaos, riots, etc, would happen over racist comments and such. So Racial Harmony is important to maintain the peace in a multi racial community.

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                                                  Mission, code name: F.O.O.D.

      Caption: Alpha Sparrow 6 team captain: You there, scout ahead for some food. And you, the one at the back, make sure no cats come to jeopardise our mission. Okay, everybody move out. I want to be home for preening.

Title: The vain cat.

Caption: The cat was in the middle of cleaning itself... I do not think it wants to look in the camera yet, not just yet.

Title: On Your Mark

Caption: Place your bets soon, the race is about to start, be sure you have enough time to watch the whole race because it might take a while.


Title:  I Lost?! Or did I....

Caption: Startled expression on his face, after a game of checkers, win or lose, it's up to you.

Title: Outcast

Caption: I've seen racist people, but I didn't know fruits were racist too.


Title: What is that?!

Caption: It is a crow? It is a dragon? Or is it just a plane coming at me?

PTD

On Saturday, the 29th of May, a Parent-Teacher-Dialogue, or the PTD, was held in school from about 8am to 2pm. The Parent-Teacher-Dialogue is where the Form teachers and Form tutors of each class get to meet the students' parents and give feedback and comments on the students. Early that morning, parents had already started coming in. They were being ushered in by the student leaders to the hall or the classrooms for the dialogue with the teachers.

Other than that, there were a few booths in the foryer featuring Temasek Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the ITE. The representatives from each of those colleges gave out some handouts and brocheres for the parents to take back with them.

There were also some talks held in the AVA room. For example, the Secondary 2 streaming talk held in the morning from 9am to 10am, and later in the morning at 11am to 12 noon. The talk allows the parents attending the talk to know more about the streaming and the choices that the students have.

Overall, it was a rather eventful day and the Parent-Teacher-Dialogue was a success.

Esthetics festival

By: Emily Tan(1E4) and Noelle Tham(2E1)

 During the esthetic fest, sand animation was one of the many programmes that were offered to the lower secondary students. During the activity, the students were given sand and white cardboard to 'draw' their masterpieces and can choose to draw stuff based on the themes of their choice. For example, sports and underwater world. Instead of using the regular cardboard, the instructor used an A4 sized clear plastic piece with lights at the bottom to show the students some of the examples. Overall, the activity was interesting and enriching and the students have enjoyed and learned a lot from it. We asked one of the students on their views.

"I felt that we should have more of these programs in future."

 Another of the programmes during the esthetics fest was the Anime Art. During the program, the students learn how to draw Japanese anime characters and draw out any character of their choices during the last period of the program. It was actually not as easy as the sand animation as a lot of details are put into the drawings. The students then presented their anime characters that they have drawn to the class.

Pictures I took during the March holiday CCA session... some...

Another picture of Being Unique... but with something that looks like a brick...

You have no idea HOW LONG I TRIED TO TAKE A PHOTO OF THE BIRD WITHOUT IT MOVING WHENEVER I'M ABOUT TO TAKE THE PHOTO.... Anyway... the bird spotted something in the grass and ran forward in my direction... and I managed to take the photo...

The pebbles and the leaves...

Pictures I took in ChinaTown... some...

The Yellow brick road... where will it lead to? Well, you'll have to find out yourself.

You look like you're thinking very hard... are you?

Well whadd'ya know, it's a trishaw! .... on the floor...

What type of tea do you like? Chinese or english because we have BOTH.

The old and the new....

My portfolio, the 5 pictures

 This picture was taken in Japan last year during the December holidays. This was taken while visiting Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto. It was on a hill... to me, this picture shows the contrast of the city and the old temple. It is also my favourite place for scenery shots... except there was lesser colour than the previous time I went there... but still...

This picture was also taken in Japan during the December holidays but this time, in Ueno park. I call this Hidden Beauty because there beautiful...I think... flower under all the caterpillar eaten leaves.

This was taken in Japan also last year during the December holidays. It was taken in the area surrounding the Sensoji Kaminarimon temple. 3 years ago, my father took a similar picture at the same place, so when we came back here, I decided to try and 'remake' the picture and it turned out better than before.

This was also taken in Japan during the December holidays last year in Ueno park again. I call this Being Unique because in all the green bushes, there is one unique red bush. Ignore the old uncle with the bicycle.

This was also taken in Japan last year during the December holidays. This was also taken around Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto. The main focus is on the maple leaves. The picture could have been better if I had applied the rule of third though...