‘BEING YOU’–Reflected on Classroom Decorations

By: Richelynne Milenara Fang, Secondary 3 Integrity

New school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new opportunities. After two years of having classes online, we are back to the physical classroom and part of the onsite set-up, the school has also restored the Classroom Decoration Competition with this year’s theme: BEING YOU. Each class decorated their classroom with a touch of their own personalities.

This competition sure did lift up the spirits of the students, to start off the new academic year by embracing some of our school values: Teamwork, Passion, Integrity, Compassion, Dedication, and Ability to Inspire. The students, with their form teachers, had combined their ideas and finally worked together to put up the decorations. 

All classes have worked so hard together to strive to be the winning class, but there could only be one winner from each of these categories: Best Bulletin Boards, Best Door Decoration, and Best in Classroom Decoration.

The overall winner is Secondary 2 Zeal, the advisory class of Mr. Reynante Bunuan, with their really unique concept of Japanese cartoon which is now popularly known as manga or anime. The intricate details of their decorations from big drawings of characters and coloured papers pasted on their walls, with the famous Fushimi Inari-Shrine in Kyoto, covers a whole hill with more than 10.000 such red gates designed inside their very own classroom. With all the Japanese touches inside their classroom, every student and every teacher who visited their classroom felt like tourists visiting a Japanese school. The students put a lot of effort. Indeed, this class is full of amazing and talented artists!

Secondary 2 Zeal students decorating their bulletin board
Secondary 4 students visiting Secondary Zeal classroom
Mr. Rey, the Form Teacher of Sec 2 Zeal, together with a Secondary 3 student
Mr. Melvin and Ms. Hannie, visiting the Secondary 2 Zeal classroom

The Junior College 1 Logic, under the supervision of Ms. Leslie Irang, class won in the Door Decoration category with their unique idea of using bitmojis (snapchat avatars) on balloons inspired by the movie, Up. Each of these students’ bitmoji was unique as they designed them themselves and as a way to express their personalities.

Ms. Leslie, together with some JC 1 Logic students, after finishing their door decoration

Lastly, an outstanding bulletin board designed by the Secondary 3 Integrity class, under the supervision of Mr. Aep Saepulloh, has also been recognised. The class made their classroom just like our universe with their catchy galaxy-themed notice board. Not only did they win in the Notice Board category, they also got the trophy for their uniquely designed bulletin board inside the classroom. The mini-planets hanging down their ceilings, their hologram frames for their boards, and the appealing design for their homework board will surely remind the students about their homework. 

Secondary 3 Integrity students, working on their bulletin board.
Sec 3 students working on their notice board

Indeed, this competition gave an excitement and a competitive spirit to start the school year and of course, a really different feeling for the students compared to the past 2 years of being in an online set-up. We hope to see these competitive spirits again next academic year!

Secondary 1 Courage door decoration
Ms. Ferly, Secondary 1 Form Teacher, helping the kids finish their classroom decorations
JC 1 Teamwork’s door decoration
JC 1 students working on their door decoration
Secondary 4 students decorating their bulletin board
Secondary 4 students decorating their bulletin board

9 comments

  1. Dear Editor, I have read the article titled ‘BEING YOU’–Reflected on Classroom Decorations, written by Richelynne Milenara Fang. I think the article was very eye-opening and it has detailed informations that was presented in a very organized manner. It also includes a gallery of pictures that further helps the reader understand the article. Overall it was a really satisfactory complete and organized article about our class decoration

  2. Dear Editor, I’ve read the article titled ‘BEING YOU’–Reflected on Classroom Decorations, written by Richelynne Milenara Fang. I think this article was extremely informative and provided good detail about each of winning classrooms. I enjoyed the way you explained the competition as it really provided a good understanding of the topic. One thing I would have liked to see included in this article is student opinions and quote (collecting interviews about how the students and teachers feel about the competition). However, I would like to give kudos to you for how well organised and presented this article was

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  5. Dear Editor, I have read the article titled ‘BEING YOU’- Reflected on Classroom Decorations, written by Richelynne Milenara Fang. I think that this article was very informative. I really like how the writer provided a lot of detail on the decorations of the winning class. All the information in this article were also very well organized. Overall, i enjoyed reading this article and I would like to applaud the writer!

  6. I have read the article titled ‘BEING YOU’-Reflected on Classroom Decorations, written by Richelynne Milenara Fang. I really liked how the author had included each class’ hardworking spirit using the photos. Moreover, she was also able to capture the missed school and class spirit that the students have been longing for ever since the Covid period.

  7. As a JC2 Student, I was not able to know the details of the competition, visit some classrooms and see the awards, so this article was really informative and well-written. I had fun reading through the texts along with pictures to show the class’s art and the students’ creativity. Thank you, Richelynne!

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