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Aspire and Achieve

Monday, September 15, 2008

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