Hari Anugerah Cemerlang 2011

Hari Anugerah Cemerlang HAC on 9th April 2011 was a very happy day in SMK Convent Sentul!

Teachers and students worked very hard to ensure that the school was ready to welcome the invited guests - VIP Pn Phoon Yoke Meng, PIBG YDP Pn Rose Saidah, Pn Suseela and Pn Zaini from the Board of Governors , honoured parents, ex-students and current students.

The beautiful backdrop with flowers and butterflies were done by Pn Intan and her team.

Puan Suraya is superb! She and her team handled the kecerian very well. She prepared so many things to make sure everything looked beautiful. She had new stage curtains, and sewed the new red scalloped cloth. She spruced up the little staircase leading to the stage by wrapping it in new carpet. The old curtains were recycled and made into skirting for the MC's table and the VIP's table. Apart from buying new flowers for the event, she also brought flowers bouquet from her own home for the VIP table. Such dedication and excellence is not easy to find! Simply amazing!

Puan Rubiah made sure all the noticeboards were redecorated by the students and the teachers! It is a delight to walk around around the school and see the beautiful and informative notice boards. Pn Rubiah 's dedication and love for the school is a joy to behold. She juggles many duties cheerfully. Thank you Pn Rubiah.

Teachers and students, thank you for playing your part to ensure everyone had a wonderful time that day! From the jemputan to the kebersihan to the jamuan to the juruacara and the persembahan and ..............! Thank you teachers and thank you students for all your hard work! It was very good to see your dedication to the school. Big kudos to you all especially those working in the background .

My heart overflows with grateful thanks to the teachers for their dedication. Thank you Pn Vasantha for looking into every detail and checking everything to make sure the HAC went smoothly.

Most of all, our girls stole the hearts of the parents and the rest of the guests by their creativity in putting up a very very entertaining show! I enjoyed the singing and the dancing and by the look on Pn Suseela's face, I knew she too like the rest of the guest enjoyed it tremendously.

The event was a celebration of womanhood and so many things pertaining to feminity! I am now very glad I am in an all girls school although several months ago, I was slightly apprehensive.

You have stolen my heart away!

School song makeover

Apart from the school hall getting a makeover, the time has come when our well loved school song also has a makeover.

The choir girls under the supervision of the choir teacher Cik Nik Syawani have been practicing hard and they sounded so wonderfully sweet when we heard them practicing in 4 Anggerik room while we were having a staff meeting in the APD room. I just could not resist it. I had to pop over to 4 Anggerik to see how many girls were actually singing because it sounded like there were so many of them. Surprise! Guess how many girls I found? Only 6 girls but whoa ... they sounded awesome!

Today, I drove these 6 girls- Teoh Wei Yee, Pavitra, Dimple, Jaz Lyn, Janice and Diana to Majestic Oracle at Tabernacle of David for the recording of the school song.

Mak Kien Loong kindly and graciously did the recording for us FOC. Wow! Earlier some else had quoted me a minimum basic of RM 500/- for a recording. Thank you Mak and thank you TOD.

Mak briefed the girls through what they had to do. As usual , Mak was gentle and clear and cool and that did much to calm the girls who were recording for the very first time.

Mak started with the pianist Teoh Wei Yee. He recorded her playing first. Next 3 singers were called in to sing together with the music track. We watched them through the glass window of the recording studio

Then the next batch of singers went in to the studio and the first 3 singers - Jaz Lyn, Dimple and Pavitra exited.

Finally all 6 girls went in and sang together. Imagine how happy we felt when we heard the recording! It was so good to hear their sweet voices so clearly especially when I compared it to our previous minus 1 track which must have been done many many years ago. See how happy and relieved the girls are when their work is finally done and they have finished the recording. Now the girls can relax. After visiting the most important place - the loo, they go around testing the many musical instruments. Rain sticks, gongs, many types of drums, etc...! They have fun singing whilst Wei Yee plays the grand piano at TOD. From their singing, I can see they have been practicing together for a long time. So ... now watch out for the posting of the new makeover of our well loved school song on the school website. We are going to try sing the new version this Monday assembly!