Portfolio - Senior Reporter .

 Charity Bazaar Blast

Secondary 2 students had a Charity Bazaar on 2nd August 2010 to help raise funds for the Children Cancer Foundation. The profits will be donated to help children with cancer.

In the afternoon after assembly, every Secondary class started to set up and decorate their booths. When everything was set up, all the students in the school started coming down from the classroom to the parade square, where the Charity Bazaar was held there.

"This Sec 2 Charity Bazaar was very innovative and they had much more creative ideas about the things they sold and the games they invented," said Shermaine Yim from 1E3.

The Charity Bazaar had different kinds of booths. They had booths for games, drinks, food, accessories, and song dedications. Many students were shoving to get their way through the crowd to a specific booth for the fun and interesting things that they sell. To attract attention from the crowd, 2E4 had a creative idea where they were giving out free hugs. 2E3 had chosen to do an arm wrestling game where it is only 50 cents per game and you could get a handmade bookmark if you won. It indeed attracted more students to come.

This Charity Bazaar had raised quite a large amount of money for the Children Cancer Foundation.

"I feel that this Charity Bazaar was a success. I hope there will be more of it in the upcoming years," commented Cedric Cheok from 1E4.

Team Singapore In Water
18 students had been sponsered by the school to go to YOG Swimming Event Semi-Finals and Finals on 17 August 2010, 6.30pm at Singapore Sports School. I had been chosen to go to the event by my CCA to take photos of the event. When we boarded the bus, everyone was filled with excitement and could not wait to get to the venue as most of us had never gotten a chance to go to a event before to watch it LIVE.
When we reached there, we had to go through checking of bags as the security was tight before proceeding in to the seats. We could hear many people screaming for their own country to win! Our school had gotten first row seats and we could see the athletes swimming very clearly.
After 1 hour or so, we were all feeling restless until Singapore started to compete in the Men's 50m Backstroke SemiFinal.

We cheered as loud as we could for the Singapore athlete to win! There was a close fight for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place of it. When we looked at the scoreboard once it ended, Singapore had won in 1st place. The athlete was Rainer Ng Kai Wee, 18. He was the first Singaporean in all the swimming events to qualify for the finals.

Another event that Singapore had competed in the semifinals was the Men's 4 x 100m Relay. Although Singapore had gotten the 7th place out of 8 countries, we did not jeer at them. Instead, we encouraged them because we knew they had tried their best.
China, Australia and Russian Federation were the countries that have won quite a number of medals be it Gold, Silver or Bronze medal. We all hope that the Rainer Ng would win in the finals and bring honour to Singapore!
 Preparation for Teachers' Day Performance
Preparation for Teachers' day performance has started. Students of different levels were preparing talents of their own to showcase to the school during Teacher's Day Performance. A group of upper secondary students were practicing at the empty area outside the science lab.

"I feel excited and fun to prepare for the performance! But at the same time, I feel pressurized because of the tests we have these weeks and the short time to prepare for the audition," commented Natasha from 3E4.

The group consists of 6 upper secondary school students. They had put in a lot of effort and time to meet up for practices even though they were busy with their studies and studying for exams around the corner. They had chosen songs to sing while playing the guitar at the same time.

"We really put in effort in this performance and I would be really honoured if my group were chosen to perform for the students and the teachers!" exclaimed Bryan Joseph from 3E3.