Traditions
Kianda School has a school song and a school hymn, both of which were written by students.
Discipline is maintained by a merit-demerit system. Good deeds earn merits, while wrong ones earn demerits. An accumulation of more than five demerits a week results in detention.
In the primary school, failure to do assignments earns the student a 'H'. Accumulation of 3 H's earns a detention. However, a teacher can choose to give a student more that one H for a single assignment and students who appear to be rude earn an 'R' which is a direct detention. Three detentions in a term earn a suspension. Any form of violence earns a suspension.
The Kianda School student council is called the Class Council. There is a Class Council for each class composed of four students. Students vote for the Class Council but it is ultimately the teachers and the Section Committee that decide who the Class Council members will be.
There are four school houses: Green, Yellow House, Red and Blue. Each house has a house mistress and a captain, usually a Form Four student, and an assistant captain, usually a Form Three student. The captain and her assistant are voted in annually by the teachers. The houses compete in sports, merits and demerits, and other aspects of school life. The winning house is announced at the end of the year and gets to go on a special trip while the other houses remain in school.
There are three major events in the school each year: the Family Sports Day in the second term, the Kianda Awards Day in the third term, and the annual Christmas Concert. The school stages a musical every four years.
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Famous quotes containing the word traditions:
“And all the great traditions of the Past
They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
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—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
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—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)