Showing posts with label Racial Harmony Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Racial Harmony Day. Show all posts

Monday, August 8, 2011

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Racial Harmony Day (RHD) Celebrations @SST

8:48 PM Posted by Justin Potato No comments

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. -Wentworth Miller

On 21 July 2011, we had our annual Racial Harmony Day Celebration. The day started off with a beautiful and harmonious performance by our school’s own Guitar Ensemble CCA team. They played cultural songs such as “Bengawan Solo” to promote the harmony and between different people from different races in our multi-cultural society.

Performance by Guitar Ensemble
Photo taken by Clarabelle

Next up, we had a series of “Cat-walks” of our secondary one students dressed in self-made costumes to promote multi-racialism. These costumes were all part of a fashion costume design competition where each class will decorate their own representative with cloth and paper. 103 arose as the grand champion for this competition followed by runner-up 106 and in third place, 109.


In the midst of the “cat-walk”, we had a special cultural performance from Lai Ziying from class 201. She performed a sensational belly dance which “wow-ed” the audience. Not only did she incorporate multi-racialism in her dance, she also showed great attitude and feelings in her movements.

Performance by Lai Ziying from S201
Photo taken by Tan Keming

Next up, we had Wei Chern, Ethan and Abu, representing the Show Choir to perform a beautiful song from the 80‘s. This phrase sparked the inspiration in Paul McCartney to write this song,“black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!” This piece of music is about the integration and racial harmony on a deeper level. Certainly, their magical talent in singing along with their tireless efforts put into this performance has impact our students. Well done!

Performance by Ethan, Wei Chern and Abu
Photo taken by Tan Keming

The prizes for the Kite Design and Poster design was then given out. For the kite design, 108 rose as champions followed by 107 then 103. For the Poster design, 202 turned out to be the champions followed by 207 then 205. Congratulations to all!

Last but not least, we had the “cream of the crop” left for the Grand Finale. Our teachers themselves wore traditional costumes of different races and countries to promote multi-cultures and multi-racialism. The teachers had their very own “cat-walk” down the aisle where all students were enjoying the moment.

After the concert, SST had it's annual Racial Harmony Day bazaar. Students from both levels gathered together to form a huge array of shops lining SST. The shops ranged from all sorts of creative games to food that suited even the sweetest of teeth. Students prepared their coupons and supported their favourite stalls.


S1-05's stall was a game stall which gave players to opportunity to hit an S105 member (or any other volunteer) with a soaked sponge. Thus began SST's first water fight with everyone joining in the fun. Everyone was drenched and some people even soaked the players by squeezing sponges over their heads for maximum effect!

Students in action at S105 stall
Photo taken by Clarabelle

S209's bubble tea stall was one of the most successful stores, quenching the thirst of everyone who needed the water. Soon almost everyone in SST could be seen with a cool glass of bubble tea.


One of the most unique stalls is the S208 stall. They sold out their popsicle sticks and decided to make as much profit as possible by selling ice. Yes, ordinary ice which they managed to sell very well, by carrying a huge box of ice around and giving people samples. Uses for the ice include: Running it down peoples' backs.


Overall the RHD bazaar was a great opportunity for students to learn the basics of business, and for the students to have fun. With stores which suited every need and everyone having fun, this is truly a Racial Harmony Day to remember!


Written by: Calvin Heng and Justin Lim

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Racial Harmony Day performance

2:35 PM Posted by Emily No comments
On Thursday, 14 July, in collaboration with Racial Harmony Day, SST invited the performers from ‘White Rice’ for an enjoyable and humorous skit on the importance of Racial Harmony . Not only that , SST was also joined by students and Educators from RDFZ Xishan School (人大附中西山学校 ). Filling into the school hall , they were welcomed by the loud applause of the SST student body and staff. After a quick speech by one of the educators and two of the student representatives, the performance commenced promptly. The skit conjured up a joyful atmosphere as there were plenty of laughs throughout . The positive messages , such as to not making fun of people from other races , conveyed through comical ways , will definitely stay in the student’s mind in a long time to come.
Be sure to catch the Racial Harmony Day concert as well the Racial Harmony day Bazaar happening next Thursday !

Emily
S2-07
14.7.11

Friday, July 23, 2010

International Friendship and Racial Harmony Day

4:24 PM Posted by Cherin , , No comments
21 July 2010

SST celebrates its Racial Harmony Day in a very special way, which is split into two parts, the performance and the I&E bazaar. It started off with Mrs Chew giving us a speech about her experiences during the Racial Riots in 1969, in Kuala Lumpur, the fear, the pain and them having scarcity of food. We were encouraged to post our thoughts on twitter with #SST 2010 RHD in their tweets.

After that, Fatin and Nadiah showcased a presentation on the Malay Culture, followed by a Dikir Barat performance by the Malay students.

Next up, a Drama was presented by very own SST Drama Club, entitled: “Rama and Sita”, about a King’s children being sent away into the forest by the Queen, one of them being kidnapped and the journey to save her.

After that, an introduction to Wushu was presented by Khim and Yan Jin, followed by a Wushu performance by the Wushu Club.

Before the performance part of the day ended, there was a Quiz about different enthics, with questions such as:
What does ‘Haji’ before a muslim name suggest?
Why do the Chinese present items in even numbers?
How many players are there in Sepak Takraw at one time?





A video compilation of the Racial Harmony Day Performance

While the I&E bazaar, which is totally set up by our SST students, features food, games and other products in various places, such as the Canteen, Learning Oasis and their own classrooms. The air was just filled with noise, with people attracting others to their stall by shouting, walking advertisements and just asking their friends to come to their stall.

Some of the popular stalls are 1-01’s bookmark stall and 1-07’s Nerf gun stall, which have been interviewed on video, and 1-04’s chocolate fondue, along with many other stalls. Do keep a look out for the video.








A video about one of the famous stalls in the I&E bazaar-- S1-07's Nerf game stall







A video about one of the famous stalls in the I&E bazaar-- S1-01's bookmark stall






An interview with one of our students (Zheng Jie from S1-02) and his mother about the I&E bazaar.

Interestingly, the stalls in the Canteen are doing brisk business, while the stalls in their own classes or upper levels have very few, or just no customers at all.At the end of the day, everyone counted their coupons and as they cleaned up, smiles were all around as they earned the money, for a good cause.

Written By: Cherin
Edited By: Ms Seah