Secondary

2018-09-28

Singapore Holiday Immersion Programme 2018

From the 9th to 20th of July 2018, I had the opportunity to participate in the Singapore Holiday Immersion Programme 2018 (SHIP). This was my first time participating in SHIP, and my second time visiting Singapore. For two weeks, I attended lessons at CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ School with an Integrated Programme (IP) class. Everyone was very friendly, welcoming and willing to answer my questions about their school and daily lives. I noticed many interesting differences between our school and […]

2018-09-27

Police Touch

On the 22 of September, 5 students from the secondary school went to the Police College for their annual Police Touch Open Day Program, where we got a good look inside the campus where cadets train to become Hong Kong’s police officers. Our first stop was at the marching grounds that the cadets would routinely march on, so much so that there were marks left on the ground by their footsteps. The cadets called them “泪痕”, in translation, tear marks, […]

2018-09-07

Summer Internship Reflection

During the two weeks of internship at the farm belonging to Yi O Agricultural Cooperation, I learned a great deal about farming and the environment, also about myself and how I react to unfamiliar situations. Regarding the experience of working on a farm, I came to notice and learn about the environment by listening to the other workers and simply by interacting with the environment each day. To name but a few, I saw how the extra warm summer this year […]

2018-08-22

New Secondary Teachers in 1819

Ms Anna Lee Ms Anna Lee is from Singapore. She graduated from Imperial College London with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Mathematics. She went on to pursue a Masters degree in Statistics at Columbia University in New York. Ms Lee taught Mathematics and Physics at North View Secondary School, Singapore from 2014 to 2016, where she was awarded the Caring Teacher Award (Secondary) in 2016. From 2017 till recently, she was working with the Ministry of Education as a […]

2018-06-30

AY1718 Athletic Council’s Year-End Report

by Choi Yan Lun Iris (S4R) and Shi Xin Ying Kaitlyn (S4M) Since the last update, the Athletic Council has held a number of events such as sign-up table tennis and badminton, and interclass games such as kickball and capture the flag. In addition to traditional sports and games, we organised a schoolwide Sports Quiz regarding sports trivia with questions such as locations of the next Olympic Games or what foods are a good source of energy. This has allowed […]

2018-06-30

Leadership Action Committee End of Year Reports

by Goh Zhuo Lin (S3L) The Leadership Action Committee (LAC) has completed its second year together, and we have accomplished a great deal. Over the past year, the LAC has been responsible for updating the house banners, located in the 4/F Plaza, which are done every week after an event has taken place. The LAC created several different customized symbols for events such as the AC Badminton, DEAR, S2 Benchball and many more to record the number of house […]

2018-06-30

AY1718 Community Council Review

by Arthur Liu Ze An (DP1B) and Kristy Chan Tin Wing (S4R) It has been a demanding but fully fruitful year for the Community Council – not only have we completed some of our largest events successfully and smoothly, but we have gone beyond our previous achievements to build a bigger, better, and brighter reputation for the Council. One of our first events was the annual beach clean-up that the Council has made a tradition of over the past […]

2018-06-30

AY1718 Swimming CCA

by Tai Ethan (S1M) and Sng Yan Megan (S1M) As members of the Swimming CCA, we spend time in the water practising on specific swimming techniques to improve our strength. We also do land training to build up our physique. But most importantly, we help each other develop great team spirit and valuable bonding as a team. All of these together can be challenging but also fruitful. Here we share more about what it is like to be part […]

2018-06-30

AY1718 Science Club

By: Than Yue En Julia (S2S) From Nov 2017 to May 2018, the Science Club has conducted many exciting experiments and activities in- and out-side campus. The experiments and activities that we conducted covered a wide range of science topics. For Biology, we did experiments such as the extraction of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) from a tomato and dissection of a cow eye. For Chemistry, we carried out experiments to learn food coloring and reactivity series of metals. We learnt […]

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