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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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