President
S R Nathan Celebrates Be Yourself Day with Students Who Dare to Make
A Difference - The New Paper Be Yourself Day is in support of President's
Challenge 2006
Singapore, 29 August 2006 - From 24 schools
in 2002 to 88 this year. Yes, The New Paper Be Yourself Day is gaining
increasing support from schools all over Singapore.
So far 34 schools have already celebrated TNP
Be Yourself Day and raised a total of $51,130.65 this year.
Another 35 schools will be celebrating TNP Be
Yourself Day on Thursday, 31 August with the rest organising their
events in September and October.
The day sees students coming school dressed in
their creative best to express their individual personalities. It
is an occasion when teachers and principals get to see their students
from a different perspective. Students, while enjoying their creative
freedom, will also spend some time thinking of those less fortunate
than themselves.
Since its inception, TNP Be Yourself Day has been
a fund-raising event for President's Challenge, an annual charity
event that benefits 49 charities.
This is the seventh year The New Paper is involved
in raising funds for President's Challenge wiith more than $400,000
raised so far.
President S R Nathan will grace this year's TNP
Be Yourself Day celebrations at Temasek Secondary School and Wellington
Primary on Thursday, 31 August.
(Please refer to attached Press Advisory for media
coverage of this event on 31 August).
List of 88 participating schools in The New Paper Be Yourself
Day 2006:
| Admiralty Secondary School |
Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary
School |
| Ang Mo Kio Secondary School |
Lianhua Primary School |
| Anglo Chinese School |
Junior Maha Bodhi School |
| Balestier Hill Primary School
|
Manjusri Secondary School |
| Bartley Secondary School |
Mayflower Primary School |
| Beatty Secondary School |
Meridian Junior College |
| Bedok View Secondary |
Meridian Primary School |
| Bendemeer Primary School |
Methodist Girls' School (primary)
|
| Bendemeer Secondary School |
Methodist Girls' School (secondary)
|
| Broadrick Secondary School |
Millenia Institute |
| Bukit Batok Secondary School
|
Monfort Secondary School |
| Bukit Panjang Primary School
|
Nan Hua Primary School |
| Bukit View Primary School |
National Junior College |
| Bukit View Secondary School |
Naval Base Primary School |
| Canossa Convent Primary School
|
Northbrooks Secondary School
|
| Casuarina Primary School |
Northland Primary School |
| ChestNut Drive Secondary School
|
Park View Primary School |
| CHIJ (Toa Payoh) Primary School
|
Poi Ching School |
| CHIJ Katong Primary |
Punggol Primary School |
| CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity
|
Radin Mas Primary School |
| CHIJ St Joseph's Convent |
River Valley Primary School |
| Chong Zheng Primary School |
San Yu Adventist School |
| Clementi Primary School |
Si Ling Primary School |
| Clementi Town Secondary |
Singapore Chinese Girls School |
| Commonwealth Secondary School
|
St Anthony's Canossian Primary
School |
| Da Qiao Primary School |
St Anthony's Primary School |
| Damai Primary School |
St Margaret's Primary School
|
| De La Salle School |
Tanjong Katong Primary School
|
| East Spring Primary School |
Teck Whye Secondary School |
| Elias Park Primary School |
Telok Kurau Secondary School
|
| Evergreen Sec School |
Temasek Junior College |
| Fengshan Primary School |
Temasek Primary School |
| Fengshan Primary School |
Temasek Secondary School |
| Greenridge Secondary School |
Wellington Primary School |
| Greenwood Primary School |
West Spring Secondary School
|
| Haig Girls' School |
White Sands Primary School |
| Henderson Secondary School |
Woodlands Secondary School |
| Holy Innocents' High School |
Xishan Primary School |
| Hong Kah Primary School |
Yio Chu Kang Primary School |
| Huamin Primary School |
Yishun Primary School |
| Jin Tai Primary School |
Young Talents Childcare and Development
Centre |
| Jin Tai Secondary School |
Yuan Ching Secondary |
| Kent Ridge Secondary School |
Zhenghua Primary School |
| Kranji Secondary School |
Zhonghua Secondary School |
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Promotions & Events
Marketing Division
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