Students Try Their Hand At Unusual Co-curricular Activities
At Hua Yu Secondary, students are kept busy looking after more than two hundred bonsai trees.
The school started the garden in 1968 as part of the government's "Use Your Hands Campaign" and some of these trees are more than thirty years old.
Said Kong Yen Fong, principal of Hua Yi Secondary School, "They require a lot of tender loving care, so in the course of their CCAs they have to put in a lot of time and effort nurturing the plants. We hope that along the way they learn to appreciate patience, perseverance and commitment in completing tasks."
The students use their artistic eye to shape the trees and the unusual miniatures draw in members.
Said Debra Cheah, chairman of the Bonsai Club at Hua Yi Secondary, "I was curious as it's a different CCA from other schools. It's not sports, and I love plants and science."
With all these green fingers hard at work, the bonsai garden has a good chance of thriving for another thirty years.
The school started the garden in 1968 as part of the government's "Use Your Hands Campaign" and some of these trees are more than thirty years old.
Said Kong Yen Fong, principal of Hua Yi Secondary School, "They require a lot of tender loving care, so in the course of their CCAs they have to put in a lot of time and effort nurturing the plants. We hope that along the way they learn to appreciate patience, perseverance and commitment in completing tasks."
The students use their artistic eye to shape the trees and the unusual miniatures draw in members.
Said Debra Cheah, chairman of the Bonsai Club at Hua Yi Secondary, "I was curious as it's a different CCA from other schools. It's not sports, and I love plants and science."
With all these green fingers hard at work, the bonsai garden has a good chance of thriving for another thirty years.
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posted by Davor Novakovic @ Monday, June 13, 2005
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