Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Arabic School was named champion in a syair competition for secondary schools, colleges and sixth form centres.
Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha Girls Arabic Religious Secondary School and Pengiran Anak Puteri Hajah Masna Secondary School were first and second runners-up.
Sayyidina Hasan Secondary School and Hassanal Bolkiah Boys Arabic Secondary School rounded up the top five winners.
Acting Director of Language and Literature Bureau (DBP) Suip bin Haji Abdul Wahab, the guest of honour, presented prizes to the winners at the International Convention Centre, Berakas.
The competition, organised by the Ministry of Education through its Department of Co-Curriculum Education’s Arts and Creativity Division, was aimed at exposing students to Bruneian syair and raise appreciation for local traditional poetry particularly Syair Nukilan Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien. – Rokiah Mahmud
