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Day 7: Sports Day

We reached school much earlier than usualto prepare for the opening ceremony and

march past parade.

After a short speech by the school chairman, thesports day was declared open with the marching

in of the flag party and contingents. The marching

contingents consisted of all the students in each

All of us were very excited & happy because itwas Hong Yuan Middle School sports day …. no

lesson throughout the whole day!!!

class.

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 Our students were given the honour to lead the

marching contingent (from their buddy class).

rching contingent (class) had to put up a

sessment by the judges.

ormance.

This is Hong Yuan Middle School award winning aerobic dancing

team (top in Nanjing). Their performance was simply breath taking!

Each ma

short performance for as

Prizes were awarded for the best perf 

 

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“….Hong YuanMiddle school

students were good

in many senseswhich are deserving

of our respect and

emulation. They cheered whenever their team mates were competing. They did their best

in everything that they do and dared to accept challenges. It really made me think of myown behaviour.”

Taken from reflection booklet 

“I participated in 2 running eventsand 1 pull up event. I am very

happy that I managed to help my

buddy class win 2 team events(4x100m relay and team pull up). I

only managed a third in the

individual 1.5 km run. I wasdisappointed as I could have won

the event if not for the banging

incident at the end of the race. But

after Mr Lau explained to me that‘we are not here to win races but to

win friendships’, I felt better.”

“I participated in an 800m race. While running halfway, I felt cold and had difficultybreathing. I started to vomit and gave up running. My buddy and her classmates were

super concerned about me. I was touched by their consolation and words of 

encouragement.”

Taken from reflection booklet 

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This Chinese girl student is able to speak fluent English … even better than our students.

She told me that to improve her English she joined a charity club which has a lot of English speaking foreigners. I am impressed.

Mr Lau sharing a candid moment with 3

Chinese girl students on the design of hand phone. They are very curious about

Singapore and subjects taught in our

school. The students here are not shy to

strike a conversation with a foreigner.

“Towards the end of the sports day, the school organised a friendly telematch between us

and our buddies. In the end, we lost 1-2 to them. Although they won, they encouraged usand gave us a pat on our back for putting up a good fight. I really had lots and lots of fun

with them. I can’t bear to leave Nanjing!”

Taken from reflection booklet 

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Daily End of Day Reflection and briefing

The end of day reflection was conducted daily at the school conference just before dinner.

Every one had to share our thoughts or reflection for the day in one sentence (in Chinese

or English). Administrative instructions for the next day events were also discussedduring this meeting.