2026: Our School, Our Story (MOE OSOS)
Explore award-winning photo and video stories by students in the MOE Our School, Our Story 2026 competition, celebrating school life, community, and personal growth.
Theme: Our School Community
Title: Heartbeat of Fernvale
Here, You Try
Story by: Hillary Chiew Qiao Qi
Some lessons do not come from a textbook.
A hand reaches over to help another strike the right key. Someone cheers when the Angklung finally makes the right sound. A senior stands beside a junior, showing her fingers where to go on the Guzheng. An older boy wraps his hand over a younger boy's, helping him find his first chord on the guitar. Nobody laughs when someone gets it wrong. They just try again.
It is not just students either. Someone helps set up the lights just right. Another shows a student how to get the app working. A teacher raises a camera and says… Here, you try!
Every time someone says "let me show you", something good happens.
Somewhere in all the trying and figuring out, we stop feeling lost. We start feeling like we belong.
Because every you was once a me, still figuring things out.
