National Day 2010

The Council has once again successfully completed any project. This time round, it is the National Day 2010: The Founding Fathers of Singapore project, which is endorsed by the National Youth Council under the Campus Changemakers scheme.

We first started off the project by announcing the inter-class competition criteria, which consisted of participating in honoring the founding fathers of Singapore by using essays, cartoons, discussion in forums, posters and doing of a quiz on a related exhibition. The response from the school was lukewarm at first, but they gradually warm up to the challenge. We had many classes participating in the exhibition quiz, which no doubt they could only complete by going around the exhibition and reading up on the history of the first decade of Singapore. Many thanks to National Archives Board for being able to supply us with the travelling exhibition at such short notice!

After consolidating all the entries and summing up the marks the different classes have obtained, we had 3 winning classes: 1E4, 3E1, and 4E2. These classes competed during the National Day celebration itself, participating in a Jeopardy-like quiz that presented questions that was obtained from the exhibition itself. In the end, the winning class is 4E2, followed by 1E4, and lastly 3E1. They won for themselves cash vouchers of $100, $80 and $60 respectively. These vouchers were purchased with fundings from Campus Changemakers, a project that aims to let students initiate and implement a (school) community project, funding them 80% of their proposed budget, thus giving them a headstart.

At the same time, during the National Day celebration, we also had a side quiz, some what like Who wants to be a Millionaire, where the entire school participated. Response was great, for the students, armed with the knowledge they have gained from the travelling exhibition, all vied to be the first to raise up their hands to answer the quiz. For both quizzes, after every question, our emcees took the chance to explain to the crowd about the background of the historical fact, thus educating the school on the contributions of the founding fathers at the same time.

One particular class that was worth mentioning is 2E3. Under the guidance of their form teacher, Mrs Alsagoff, they submitted around 10 posters, some of them very professionally done! In recognition of their effort, they were presented with a Special Prize during the celebration itself. Their posters will be posted at the NE Square soon, so do keep a lookout!

We thank the following councillors for their contributions:

• Advisors

1. Mei Yee
2. Ling Yi

• Coming up with questions

1. Mei Yee
2. Ling Yi
3. Eng Kiat
4. Clinston
5. Siti Aisah
6. Peiyi
7. Erica

• Coming up with sample posters

1. Siti Saidatul Fitri
2. Aafreen Fathima

• Emcees

1. Clinston
2. Erica
3. Fayiza
4. Angelica

• Quiz markers

1. Jiahui
2. Maple
3. Xiangzheng
4. Jarrat
5. Eng Kiat
6. Wee Kiang

Nothing could have been done without your contributions! Thanks a million! =D

From Mr. Chui, Ms Hu, and Ms Tay =)