Singapore's 41st Birthday

Today Greenwood Primary School celebrated Singapore's birthday. More than 2000 people came just to watch the concert. Everyone was dressed in red, some in their school uniforms and even traditional costumes! We were talking non-stop as we were excited about the event.
Soon,a teacher spoke into the microphone and we stopped talking to listen to his instructions.
The first thing we did was sing the national anthem followed by the ceremony song, My People, My Home. After that, we recited the pledge.
Next was a play put up by pupils with different cultures. I thought that they did a great job acting and showing us how Singapore felt when hope was almost lost. I liked the part when the people of Singapore stood up to their country and they started singing the National Anthem. Later,Mr. Fahmi taught everyone a dance of different cultures. After learning the steps, we had a competition between the upper primary and the lower primary. The upper primary weren't very active and made fun with the way they moved. The younger pupils were very excited, especially the primary 1 pupils as they had never danced that way before. In the end, it didn't seem like a competition because Mr. Fahmi didn't tell us the winner. We were all relieved when Mr. Fahmi handed the microphone to another teacher. The teacher told us to move up to the hall so that we could see the concert put up for us.
My friends were all excited. So was I. We settled down quietly and soon thereafter, the concert began. The emcees were Mr. Saravanan and Ms. Siti Sarah. The first item was the 'I love Singapore' Competition. I could see that the classes who managed to get through the auditions worked hard to win. There were about 6 classes who were still in the competition.(I'm not sure how many) While the judges, Mr. Reddy, Mrs. Lor and Mr. George Cheah were deciding, Class 3B led us in the song 'Reach Out For The Skies'. As we ended the song, the judges gave the names of the classes in 3rd place, 2nd place and 1st place and the results were:

Primary 2B got 3rd place!

Primary 1F got 2nd place!
And.... the winner was... Primary 1E!

They ended the concert by a round of applause for everyone.

Miss Tan brought us back to class, only it wasn't 3A, it was 5B. I don't know what happened, but let's not talk about that for now. We got a packet of twiggies and a mineral waterbottle each and discussed our plans for the 2-and-a-half-day holiday. Some were going swimming, some were playing computer games, some were doing their homework, and some were just resting. The day ended and we had to go home. It certainly was an exciting morning today!

By : Nur Sabrina

Class : 3a