National day

With the National Day songs playing in the mornings in the week leading up to 9 August, AssumptionKnights looked forward with great anticipation to this year’s National Day Celebrations. It was the first time in 2 years that the school could get together and celebrate this important event as one, and all of us could not wait for the events of the day to get started.

This year’s National Day theme, “Stronger Together, Majulah!”, is a call for all Singaporeans to forge ahead as a united and strong people towards a better future. With communities, families and friends coming together to form the bedrock of our nation’s strength and resilience, unity in our diversity enabled us to overcome challenges and Singaporeans look towards striving for a better future as we emerge from COVID-19.

As we started the day with a solemn Observance Ceremony, representatives of our uniformed groups marched our National Flag into the hall with pride. This was followed by the recitation of the recollections, highlighting our past and contributions of our key leaders and the pioneer generation. The passionate response from the school population reaffirmed our collective knowledge of our nation’s history and struggles, and our commitment as one people towards ensuring our country’s freedom whilst holding onto the ideals of justice and equality.

After a series of games and class activities, the school gathered together for the final concert segment with live performances from our dancers and the choir, a school-wide Kahoot! competition that challenged our AssumptionKnights’ knowledge of Singapore, and a prize-giving ceremony for the AssumptionKnight Competitive Team Challenge. As the concert reached the finale, pride and emotions soared as the entire school spontaneously rose to sing along to ‘Home’, grateful for one another’s company and celebrating our nation’s birthday as a family.

After 2 years of social distancing, our student councillors rightly summed up the day by rallying the school population at the close of the concert, “AssumptionKnights, Unite!!”