35th Anniversary Kick-off Ceremony was a 'must-see'

                                                                            by 3D Chau Pok Man, Bosman

Last month, our school held an extremely important event – the 35^th Anniversary Kick-off Ceremony. This year’s ceremony was especially meaningful, and involved all of us: teachers, students and even non-teaching staff.  Our school invited many guests to join our ceremony, for example, our school supervisor, Mr Chan and parents of F.1 to F.6 students.

On that day, the Student Association prepared many awesome shows to entertain us. First, there was a ribbon cutting ceremony. Our school supervisor, principal, teacher representatives, Chairperson of Parent-Teacher Association, and Chairperson of the Student Association went to the stage to cut the ribbon which started the ceremony. The audience clapped happily.

Suddenly, music started – it was the hit song of the year, “Gangnam Style”. When the curtain rose, we saw the members of our school’s Dance Club. They wore beautiful costumes. The club has won a lot of prizes in external competitions. They re-designed the moves of the song and performed it in a jazz form.  Their performance was outstanding and amazing. Every move was perfect. I think no team could do better.

After the Dance Club’s performance, it was the turn of the wind band. They performed a Christmas song which was excellent! They made no mistakes. When we listened to the music, you would feel the atmosphere of Christmas and follow the beat!

The next event was the shadow puppet show which was performed by Form 5 students who are studying Visual Art. They supported the little paper puppets with bamboo sticks to control their moves. They performed some stories chosen from Chinese opera. Although we didn’t know the name of the story, we still enjoyed the show very much.

Then, here came the stop-motion animation! It was my favourite part. Stop-motion animation doesn’t mean everyone stops moving. It means the performers use one shot ('freeze-frame') or a few shots to do the whole animation; they use one scene as one shot, like taking a series of photos and sticking them together. You may still see people moving, or not; you could see some incredible action through the animation. For example, you could see the 'mime artists' give the illusion of moving while they were sitting on the floor! The F.4 students thought of many creative and interesting actions to perform.

Finally, the ceremony came to an end. Every performer stood at the front of the stage thanking us all. We stood up and clapped long and loud. After we stopped clapping, the music for the school song started. Everyone sang our school song in high spirits. We were sorry that the ceremony had ended but we still had happy faces because we were celebrating our school’s 35^th anniversary.

“Happy birthday, VC!”