Mid Autumn Festival

The Mooncake Festival, also known as the Lantern festival, was celebrated in the mid of September. The Moon Cake Festival is usually celebrated by the Chinese. Shops were brightly lit and decorated to attract customers. Mooncakes, piglet biscuits, pomelos and other types of food and decorations were sold at the shops during the festival. One example of a place that has shops like that is none other than Chinatown. People from all over Singapore will come to Chinatown just to buy food, decorations, lanterns and more to prepare for the upcoming festival. They drank Chinese tea after eating the mooncake because the mooncake is too sweet. On the 12th of September, our teachers explained about the Mooncake Festival and we tried our best to answer 10 riddles. Those who solved the riddles got a mooncake as a reward and that concluded the Mooncake Festival lesson organised by the Mother Tongue Department. Written by Illa Haziqin (1Cmt) and Khairiahtulnisa (1Ach)

Teacher's Day & Be Yourself Day

On Friday, 29th August, which was the last day of Term 3, we celebrated Teacher's day in conjunction with Be Yourself Day. Both the concerts were hosted by the 6 finalists of 'Emcee King & Queen,' a public-speaking competition, organised by Creative Circle. It was a very special day for the teachers as it was a day for the students to celebrate and thank our teachers for imparting their knowledge to us and helping us achieve our dreams from the day we started our journey of learning. Also, on that day, many ex-Evgians came back to meet their teachers whom they missed dearly and brought sweet tokens of appreciation as Teacher's Day gifts.

For Be Yourself Day, everyone was given a theme and they were to dress up accordingly. Sec One's theme was 'Singapore's Heroes,' Sec Two's theme was 'Sports,' Sec Three's theme was 'Occupation,' and finally Sec Four's theme was 'Singapore's Past.'It was not hard to tell that Evgians were so excited and thrilled to be in their costumes. Students came to school in all kinds of clothes and accessories. Some were weird and funny yet some were very formal. There were even students who came in suits and ties for the theme, 'Occupation'. This year's 'Best Dressed Class' Award went to 4 Dynamic.

Immediately after the concert, the teachers had a sumptuous lunch at Sakura, Clementi Woods.

Look at the happy faces of our teachers...

Our Principal, Vice-Principals & SAC member.

Written by Hann Shen of 2 Aspire

National Day Celebrations

On the 8 August 2008, our school celebrated National Day, the most memorable day for Singaporeans. Mr Chan, our school principal, also celebrated his birthday together with Singapore, our homeland. The school was decorated with colourful flags and banners. The day started with some classes assembling at the first and second level of our school, this was done s0 that Evgians got a better view of the parade held by the uniform groups and the school band.

After the parade, we sang the National Anthem proudly which was played by the school band. Then, we went back to our classrooms for the second activity which was to complete a piece of group work on an article and present it to the class. We also wrote an acrostic for Singapore and included a reflection. Next, we proceeded to the school hall for the concert. It started off with Mr Chan's welcome speech and the National Day Message. We continued with wishing 'Happy Birthday' to Mr Chan and then we watched a National Day video and sang our favourite National Day songs. The prefects were on stage, leading us with the singing. Even some students stood up and waved in rhythm. After the entire day, we were happy and proud to celebrate National Day in our school which is the Centre of Excellence for National Education.


WRITTEN BY:
Syaheera amira (1 Commitment) Nur Farahin ( 1 Achieve)

NE Festival 2008

On 30th July 2008, our school hosted the NE Festival for North Zone. It was a huge success. The Guest-of-Honour for this event was Ms Yeoh Chee Yan, Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education.

The festival started off with a fusion dance, in the theme of RICE, by our Chinese and Malay Dancers. Next, six students from different schools in the North Zone attended various workshops in our school and shared their experiences with us.

Bright, colourful costumes all around

Even our 2 Concert Emcees were in lovely costumes

That's our RICE mascot giving out free balloons!

National Educational Stories ll (NESTll), a collection of original stories written by Primary and Secondary students in the North Zone, was also launched that day.

The Movers & Shakers Gallery was officially opened by the Guest-of-Honour. The gallery features 10 Founding Fathers of Singapore who have made significant differences in Singapore's development.

There were also events like Story-telling, Movies Watching and watching digital clips on Singapore's Past.There were traditional food from different ethnic groups; Potong ice cream and kachang putih were included too. The traditional food and the setting of the environment brought back memories of Singapore in the early 50's and 60's. We even had a professional caricaturist stationed at the new Movers & Shakers Gallery.

To end off the day, there was a prize presentation for participants, comprising of Story Writing, Animation, and Illustration and Photo Stories competitions. Mrs. Marian Chia, Cluster Superintendent North 5 Cluster giving a speech

We are proud that our school hosted the National Education Festival and we thought that the school looked grand and marvellous with the banners, balloons, flowers and all the ethnic decorations. We look forward to the next National Education Festival.

Written by: Rennie Lee and Tan Zi Yu from 3 Aspire

Road Run - 23rd May 2008

Many Evgians, dressed in their own house t-shirts (Red, Green, Orange or Yellow), gathered at Bishan Park for the annual Evergreen Secondary School Road Run on 23rd May 2008.During this event, even the Evergreen Secondary School Principal, Mr Chan, joined the students in completing the road run to show his support for the event. During his interview on this event, Mr Chan commented that this year's event was better as compared to last year's. He even said that the students settled down much faster this year. According to Mr Chan, the road run had benefited us by keeping us healthy, physically fit and also keeping our body in good shape. We were also told that he had enjoyed the road run very much because he had the chance to enjoy the fresh air with the Evgians and staff.
Mr Jay Lim running for a good cause with weights in his haversack
During our Vice Principal, Mr Lee's, interview, he commented that he felt great about this year's event as the students were more cheerful and engaging in the event. When Mr Lee was asked what he thought were the benefits of this road run, he told us that the road run had helped the students gain resilience and develop their character.

Written by Hann Shen of 2 Aspire