Mid-Autumn Festival

The school’s Mid-Autumn Festival was held on the 12th of September 2008. The students, some with their parents, trickled into school and by 7.30 everyone was seated and eager for the night’s activities to begin. Only thing missing was the teachers. Unknown to them, the teachers were waiting for the signal to proceed out to the quadrangle, carrying their eye-catching lanterns.

Huge cheers were heard when the students saw their teachers and after everyone settled, the emcees, together with Mr Edmund Lim and several other teachers, officially declared the event opened. The first performance of the night was by the Montfort Wushu Team. They displayed their highly precise and quick movements, both with and without weapons. Some of them even swung their weapons only inches away from the audience. After a short game involving bean bags and colored wood pieces, the first competition involved three pairs of student-teacher to peel a pomelo and hand out pieces to the audience.

The next performance was a Chinese dancer, who danced something about the moon and the mid-autumn festival. Then the about four groups of students who had a mini Chapteh competition, which was judged by three chosen teachers. The teams had to display teamwork and not let only one person do all the work. Next was the CLDDS performance, which involved the actors saying Chinese tongue twisters, and it got quite difficult as they had to saw it to a beat. As the night’s event was about to draw to a close, a game of Gasing was played, with two teachers first explaining how the game worked. For the last event and competition of the night, three pairs of student-teacher made a mooncake. The teachers were Mr Foran, Mr Chrys Ho and Mr Lim Kim Huat. First, they were taught by Mdm Su. Then, they had to do it on their own.

After the performances and competitions were held, everyone was invited to the canteen for light refreshments like fruits, mooncakes and kueh. The parents who came were able to talk to the teachers and students got to do the same. Everyone enjoyed the event and went home with the same smiles.







Done By:
Brian Theng
with Colin Hernandez and Lucas Yap