The Little Red Dot

Every morning, we at Hua Yi sing the National Anthem and recite the pledge. We focus our attention on the National Flag as this solemn ceremony takes place everyday. Everyone knows how the Singapore flag looks like but do you know what the colours, the crescent and the stars mean?

The Singapore flag was first unveiled on 3rd December 1959. Upon independence in 1965, it was adopted as the National Flag. The colour red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of man, while the white symbolises the everlasting purity and virtue. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the rise and the five stars represent the nation's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality. 

Singapore is also a democratic nation. This means that the government is chosen by the people. Singaporeans do this every 5 years when they vote for their governing party. One of these party is the People's Action Party which was founded in 1959. Some founding members of the PAP are Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the late Mr S. Rajaratnam. Mr Rajaratnam was also responsible for drafting the Singapore pledge. 

With that, I hope you have all learnt a little bit more on our very own little Red Dot.