On 21st February 2020, the secondary students of SHB Modernhill were celebrating the annual event of English Day. After two weeks of decorating the classrooms and rehearsing for their poetry reading, drama, and music performance based on the given theme, there came the moment of truth.
In the culminating event of this year’s English Day, some selected students were having poetry reading, drama, and music performance. Poetry reading was performed by the 7th graders. The poems they chose were The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, The Enchanted Traveler by Bliss Carman, Columbus by Helen L. Smith, Adventurers by Madison Cawein, and The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake. The 8th graders were performing a short play based on their interpretation of the classic work The Adventures of Robin Hood while the 12th graders were doing the same but their short play was based on the classic love story of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In the meantime, the 10th graders got a chance to interpret one of the most famous modern works in the 21st century: JK Rowling’s Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire. Both the 9th and 11th graders were performing several songs which were in accordance with the drama performance. The two songs performed by the 9th graders were Castle on the Hill and Memories, taking the theme of friendship while the 11th graders were singing Lovefool and Kiss Me, taking the theme of teenage love story.
After all the performances, the announcement of the winners of classroom decoration competition was given. From the House of Robin Hood, the 1st winner went to grade 8B and the 2nd winner went to grade 7A. The House of Harry Potter took grade 10A as the 1st winner and grade 9 as the 2nd winner. Meanwhile, grade 11 successfully won the competition as they decorated their classroom with the theme the House of Romeo and Juliet, defeating grade 12.
After all the prizes were handed out to the winners who were also taking pictures with the principals, the MCs directly said goodbye to wrap the event and dismissed the audience.
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