School wins drug prevention competition

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Yu explains as her pupils read the materials displayed.

Yu explains as her pupils read the materials displayed.

SIBU: SJK(C) Tung Hua Sibu created a ‘Hell Cave’ in its drug prevention resource room to win a competition held under the recent 1Malaysia Drug Prevention Programme.

Its headmistress Yu Siong Chiew said the Education Office announced the news of their winning last Monday.

“We won in the primary schools category of the state-level competition.

“With that, we’ll be representing the state at the national level meet. Evaluation of our entry is scheduled for Nov 4,” she said.

Yu was talking to reporters yesterday to reveal the school’s victory in the state-level competition.

With her when meeting the press were senior assistant Wong Lee Ming and the teachers in charge of the competition Du Tai Wee, Tan Geok Sien and Kiu Toh Chung.

Yu said the school’s Drug Prevention Education Resource Room incorporated a ‘Hell Cave’ that depicted the disastrous consequences of drug abuse to health, family relationship and drug addicts’ future.

She attributed the victory to the hard work and cooperation among teachers, students and their parents, and said her predecessor Wong Teck Nai had played a pivotal role in the project.

“We’ve composed songs, the CDs for which were promoted at the recent state-level anti-drug educational carnival in Sri Aman.

“We’ve also come up with a brochure called ‘10 minutes brochure’, copies of which we’d distributed to all 67 Chinese primary schools in Sibu Division,” Yu enthused.

She said the brochure was about drug abuse and its detrimental effects on health.

SJK (C) Tung Hua was also the state representative at last year’s national level competition.

It made it to the top five.