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Celebrating the Year of
             The Gift We                                                                                                                  the Tiger: - 2022 Chinese


             Know as Growth:                                                                                                              Lunar New Year


             2022 Senior 1


             Class Ceremony                                                                                                                      On the 28th of January (Friday),               After  the amusing lineup  of



                                                                                                                                          Kuen Cheng High School held a                  videos, all the students and teachers
             Reported by:                                                                                                                                                                began working on their spring couplets.
             Khoo Xin Yi Sr1ScA                                                                                                           Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration.            With red calligraphy paper sprawled
                                                                                                                                          Due to the pandemic, all of the students
                                                                                                                                          celebrated  via  Zoom  platform,  except       across  their  desks,  they  wrote tiger-

                                                                                                                                          for the Senior Middle Two (2021)               themed greetings in Chinese to
                                                                   Back of Postcard                                                       students who needed to arrange their           welcome the Lunar New Year. After
                                                                                                                                          examination halls at the school. Unlike        they were finished, the Senior Middle

                                                                     Moving  on, students were  asked                                     the usual dress code, they were allowed        Two (2021) students took photos to
                  The human mind develops far                                                                                             to wear red tops and dark trousers.            commemorate the event, as it would
           beyond our imaginations, absorbs all the           if they had started to truly identify                                                                                      be their last celebration at the School
           knowledge we seek, and grows evermore.             themselves as senior students. While some                                                                                  together. Meanwhile, the rest of the

           On the 27th of January, the Senior Middle          agreed, others still felt as if they were not                                      The celebration started at 8:00  students worked in the comfort of their
           One students of Kuen Cheng High School             prepared for their senior-high lives. There                                 a.m. with a spring message from  homes with their teachers. Once they
           participated in a warm and encouraging             was  also  a  small  activity  where  students                              Principal Dr. Chua Lee Lee, wishing all  were done, they turned on their cameras
           ceremony regarding the celebration of              were instructed to choose a number from                                     teachers and students a happy new year.  and proudly displayed their creations as

           their growth, officially entering the latter       1 to 10 depending on how difficult they                                     Moving on, the Physical Education  the teachers captured the moment.
           half of their secondary school lives.              wanted the following challenge to be for                                    Department performed a Chinese New
                                                              them. Then, students had to multiply their                                  Year music video,《U虎加把劲》.
                                                              number by 30 and raise their water bottle                                   The Co-Curricular Department also

                  Though students were not allowed  up for that amount of time.                                                           prepared  a  creative  video  welcoming
           to gather in the school hall, the ceremony                                                                                     the Year of the Tiger. After that, the
           still went on as Form Teachers led the                                                                                         award winners of the luck packet
           celebration for each class with a slideshow               After the activity, students were                                    design competition were announced by

           prepared by the School Counseling                  asked if the amount of time their bottles                                   the Academic Department. A video of
           Department.                                        were lifted was the same as their classmates’.
                                                              It was obvious that due to the size of the                                  teachers receiving the luck packet was

                                                              water bottle and the amount of time they                                    also played. Then, Mr Tan Hur Thong
                  Starting off, the Form Teachers  were lifting it for, the weights they all lifted                                       demonstrated how to fold calligraphy
           shared  a  pre-recorded  video with the  were of different magnitudes. Teachers                                                paper for students, so that they could
           Principal,  Dr.  Chua  Lee  Lee  giving  a  explained that everyone has different                                              prepare for their spring couplets with
           congratulatory speech. She wished only  burdens to carry, some for longer periods                                              ease. Last but not least, a short animation

           the best for the Senior 1 students in the rest  of time as well. Thus, students should                                         reminding  viewers  of  the  upcoming
           of their endeavors, hoping that they will be  refrain from comparing their burdens                                             CNY Festival Gala broadcast to be held
           able to persist through their journey to the  with others and should keep going even                                           on the 31st of January was played.

           end of their secondary school lives.               when others have stopped.

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