Sparkling Moment

Chinese New Year Celebration

2 February 2022

See the highlights from this year's Chinese New Year celebration with the elderly at Thong Teck Home, featuring bingo games, hamper-making, and lion dance performances.

Orange banner reading CNY Celebration 2022 With The Elderlies At Thong Teck Home with festive fish and lantern decorations.

This year, we celebrated our Chinese New Year with the elderlies over at Thong Teck Home. Our activities include Bingo game with the elderly folks, making of hampers, Chinese knots and CNY cards for them and many more!

Here are some of the highlights taken during the celebration.

TKGS students participating in a video call and giving a thumbs-up to the camera. TKGS students using their phones while taking part in a video conference with residents of a care facility.

Interact Club hosted a bingo game with the elderlies at Thong Teck Home in 4 languages. Both the elderlies and our interactors had lots of fun. It was definitely a heartwarming and memorable virtual ViA experience!

TKGS students gathering around a table with snacks and gift hampers during a classroom activity. TKGS students creating and decorating red packets during a classroom craft activity.

The class activities included the making of the hamper, tying of chinese knots as well as folding origami tigers from red packets! All these items that were made, along with food items such as biscuits, were all wrapped up with the collective effort of each class.

A young woman wearing a mask writes Chinese calligraphy with a brush on a red paper outdoors.

A performer wearing a colourful lion dance costume entertains TKGS staff during a Chinese New Year celebration.

Writing of Chinese Calligraphy Couplets, 变脸 or face-changing performance and not forgetting our very own lion dance.

TKGS staff posing with festive gift hampers during a Chinese New Year community outreach activity. TKGS staff delivering festive gift hampers to Thong Teck Home for Senior Citizens.

Our Principal, Ms Chew, along with a group of teachers loaded the beautifully wrapped hampers into their cars and delivered them to Thong Teck Home. The hampers were received by Mr Rashid in representation of Thong Teck Home.