By Jeanne Tan (17A01B) and Joan Ang (17A01B)
Appreciation Week 2016 is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Students’ Council that aims to recognize and appreciate the non-teaching staff members who do a lot that we often don’t value enough. Though we do not normally see them around, the impact they have on our school lives is indispensable.
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By Rachel Lim (16A01E)
On 29 April 2016, the National Stadium seated a crowd of roaring spectators in the thousands-strong, boasting students from schools ranging from Cedar Girls’ Secondary to Victoria Junior College. With cheering competitions, ‘flexcams’ claiming their enthusiastic victims and the initiation of the quintessential ‘Kallang wave’, there was hardly a dull moment for members of the thundering audience. So when the pin-drop silence hit right before each race, ushered by Nila the SEA games mascot on the massive LED screens, the tension in the stadium was almost palpable. Under the eyes of a sea of nearly 15,000 peers and judges, the grand stage was set with the Singapore Flyer and Marina Bay Sands looming in the backdrop, and the athletes only had one goal in mind.
By Ernest Lee (17A01A), Nicole Doyle (17A01A) and Bryan Ling (17S06C)
Year 6 Assembly on the 29th of April saw Mr Chan (Principal, Raffles Institution), Mr Magendiran (Senior Deputy Principal, Student Development) and Mrs Reavley (Deputy Principal, Curriculum Y5–6) engaging in a dialogue with the school on issues of concern to the batch. What differentiated this talk from others was the direct line of communication between student body and management: questions addressed during the talk had been formulated and voted in by students for the Principals to answer.
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By Daphne Tang (16S03M), Liew Ai Xin (16A01A) and Lex-xis (16S03M)
Appreciation Week 2016 is a collaboration between Raffles Press and Students’ Council that aims to recognize and appreciate the non-teaching staff members who do a lot that we often don’t value enough. Though we do not normally see them around, the impact they have on our school lives is indispensable.
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by Bay Jia Wei (17S06R) and Yang Si Qi (17A01C)
Photos by Amelia Chong, Amelia Lee, Deborah Lee and Jennifer Shen
Five minutes before registration was to open, everyone involved was already feeling nervous, to say the least. The journey hadn’t been a smooth one so far – the technical rehearsal on Wednesday had been plagued with hiccups, and the stage logistics set up before hand had accidentally been cleared by Estate. Nevertheless, the team remained optimistic and excited, weeks of training and preparation all leading up to this. When the doors to the Hodge Lodge opened and herds of students streamed in, organisers, performers, and participants alike held on to a nebulous question (subconsciously for some, perhaps):
What does it mean to serve?
Continue reading “It Begins With You: You’ve Got Heart 2016”
