2015
Relive the highlights of Outram Secondary School's 2015 Mother Tongue activities, from the Superstar Singing Competition to Chinese New Year and Tamil New Year celebrations.
2015 Superstar Singing Competition
The MTL department CL Unit organized the annual Outram Superstar Singing Competition on 21 May 2015. In conjunction with SG50 celebration, we set “Xin Yao” as the theme for this year’s competition.
“Xin Yao” is a genre of songs that is unique to Singapore, where the songs are composed and sung by young Singaporeans and are usually about life in this small island country. Our students have to choose from these “Xin Yao” songs to compete in the competition. This gave greater meaning to our singing competition this year as we create greater awareness and appreciation of local music culture.
List of winners
List of winners | |||
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Position | Name | class |
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1st | SELVIE | 3/4 | |
1st | FU XIAOHANG | 4/3A | |
3rd | LEW SHI MEN | 3/2 | |
ACC Care Centre Performance 2015
On 19 August, our school partnered ACC Care Centre and arranged for an assembly programme for our upper secondary students. There was a performance brought to us by 6 African children, sharing about their homeland, their school and their experiences in learning Chinese language and Chinese cultural. They also performed martial arts, recited Di Zi Gui with 3 of our student representatives, and sang Chinese songs. Their performance was both entertaining and inspiring.
After the performance, our students took part in the Essay Writing competition organised by ACC Care Centre to share about their thoughts. 6 of our students were the finalists of the essay writing competition, and 2 emerged as the winners. We would like to congratulate:
1. Top winner: Huang Kaiyin S3/5 - She won a trophy, $200 book voucher, and a chance to go on a learning journey to Africa.
2. Runner up- Xiao Qianqian S3/4 - She won a trophy and $100 book voucher
3. Finalists: Zhang Kexin S2/5, Liu Yanan S 3/3A, Bao Qipei S3/4, Ye Zi S3/5
They received $20 book voucher.
TCM Passion Fiesta @ Heartlands (Yuhua)
The Mother Tongue Language Department Chinese Language Unit participated in the PAssion Fiesta @ Heartlands (Yuhua) on 7 & 8 March 2015 oragnised by People’s Assocaition. This activity involved our students who learnt Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) under the Enhanced Mother Tongue Language Curriculum.
We were invited to set up a booth at Yuhua. As the TCM ambassadors, our students shared health tips with the public and conducted games during the event. At the same time, they also gained greater knowledge through their interaction with the other TCM counterparts who were there to conduct health talks for the residents.
It was a meaningful and enriching learning experience for the students.
Tamil New Year 2015
This year the Tamil New Year Celebration was held during the Assembly period on the 15th of April 2015. The theme for this year was on Vaisakhi (Sikh New Year) and Puthandu (Tamil New Year). The objective of the celebration was to create an awareness about these celebrations to students of all races.
This year, the guest performers from Khoohinoor Bhangra added more glam to the concert. They also shared with the students on what the dance was all about. There were video presentation on teachers who celebrate this New year along with dance performance and Silambam (Indian Martial Arts) demonstration by the Tamil students.
In conjunction to that there was a Kolam competition held for all Sec 2 level students during their CCE period on the 13th of April. Students comprising of different ethnic groups were encouraged to take part in this colourful competition which required them to create and decorate a kolam within an hour. Out of the 15 groups who took part in the competition, students from 2/4, 2/3A and 2/6 clinched the first three prizes of the competition.
Chinese New Year 2015
The Mother Tongue Language Department put up the Chinese New Year Concert on 18 February 2015 to usher in the year of the Goat. To start off the joyous occasion, some of our teachers sang two familiar Chinese New Year songs《恭喜恭喜》and《贺新年》. Following it were wonderful performances put up by our Dance Club, Band and Chinese Orchestra CCAs.
Other than our performing arts group, there were also individual Indian dance item by Ashwataa Anabalagan (Sec 3/5), song items by Vivian Ang (Sec 4/4), Yang Yanhua (Sec 5/2) and Xia Jiayu (Sec 3/2), as well as songs brought to us by our talented teachers. Every year, our distinguished guests, senior citizens from Chin Swee Road, will also be here in our midst. Their representative, Mdm Goh Kim Eng, presented us with a mandarin song《春之晨》.
Towards the end, we had the arrival of the God of Fortune, who collaborated with some Chinese Orchestra members to do a drums performance. The concert finale was group singing, followed by yusheng and light refreshment.