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Infosheet on 40th National Colours Award Presentation and Inaugural National School Games Closing Ceremony
660 students from 104 schools were awarded the National School Colours Award at the 40th Singapore School Sports Council National Colours Awards Presentation and inaugural National School Games Closing Ceremony held on 17 September 2010. Of these, 153 students received the National or Special Colours Award for representing Singapore at the Youth Olympic Games. 1,262 students were also presented with the Zone Colours Award for their performance at the zonal level.
The National Colours Award is given annually to recognise students’ contributions in representing the Singapore School Team and their outstanding achievements in sports and games within the official Singapore School Sports Council (SSSC) Sporting Calendar. Since 2004, the Special Colours Award has been given to students who represent Singapore in sports not within the official calendar. The Award serves to promote exemplary conduct and sportsmanship, as well as excellence in sports and games.
First SSSC Best School Boy and Girl Awards for All Sports
This year, the SSSC also presented Best School Boy and Best School Girl awards for every sport to athletes who had performed exceptionally well and served as role models. This gives greater recognition to deserving athletes of all sports in addition to the Overall Best School Boy and Girl awards presented yearly. The list of Best School Boy/Girl award recipients are listed in Annex A. (16kb .pdf)
SSSC Overall Best School Boy/Girl Award
The recipients of the Overall Best School Boy and Overall Best School Girl award were selected from the 42 Best School Boy/Girl awardees. The SSSC Overall Best School Boy Award was awarded to Darren Choy, from the Singapore Sports School, for Sailing. Darren won the World Byte Championships in 2010 and 2009. The SSSC Overall Best School Girl Award was awarded to Quah Ting Wen, from Raffles Institution, forSwimming. Ting Wen had put up an outstanding performance at the SEA Games, winning 5 Gold medals.
Inaugural National School Games Closing Ceremony
Starting from 2010, the National School Games (NSG) would begin with an opening ceremony and culminate in a closing ceremony which would coincide with the National Colours Award Presentation Ceremony. Formerly known as the National Inter-School Championships, the 2010 NSG comprised 27 sports and involved 33,000 athletes from 183 schools.
For the first time in 50 years of history, a virtual Games flame was lit at the NSG opening ceremony and kept burning for 211 days of inter-school competitions. The flame marked the coming of age for sports development in schools and commitment to nurturing sporting values in the holistic education of every student in Singapore. In conjunction with the award presentation, the 2010 NSG was brought to a close with the extinguishing of the Games flame.