Clubs and Societies

Debate Society

Day / Time:
MONDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS
THURSDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS

The Debate Society, formerly a special interest group, is a newly-established CCA in 2017. The CCA aims to develop student-debaters who are able to think critically and speak skilfully. We train our students in the art of debating, focusing on the domains of research, speech, and working together in a team. We take part in debate competitions such as the Singapore Secondary Schools Debating Championships, Youth Debate Open and Raffles Debate Academy Under-14 Debating Championship.

Achievements

Teachers-in- charge:
Mr Lok Sin Min
Ms Anita Salleh

International Chess Club

Day / Time:
MONDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS (Recreational)
THURSDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS (Competitive)

International Chess is a newly established CCA in 2023. It was formerly a special interest group and had about 30 students playing regularly and taking part in school competitions.  The objectives of International Chess are to build character, team spirit and responsibility. Playing chess helps students in developing problem-solving skills, critical thinking and creativity. It also helps improve students’ memory and concentration. We will train students to take part in internal and external chess competitions.

Achievements

Teachers in-charge
Mr Tan Xue Ji
Ms Vivien Tan

Media Club

Day / Time:

CCA TRAINING DATES:
MONDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS
THURSDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS

AV DUTIES:
- EVERY MORNING (0700 HRS – 0800 HRS) [TEAM BASED ROTATIONAL BASIS]
- DURING SCHOOL EVENTS [SELECTED STUDENTS]

PHOTO/VIDEO DUTIES OR PRODUCTIONS:
- DURING SCHOOL EVENTS [SELECTED STUDENTS]
- NON-CCA TRAINING DAYS [SELECTED STUDENTS]

The Media Club, formerly known as the AVA Club, began in 2000 with only six pioneer members under the Media Resource Library. 2002 was a milestone for the club as it celebrated its recognition as an official CCA. As a service-oriented CCA, with a strength of 80 members to date, Media Club has thrived through the sheer dedication of its teachers and members in all school events pertaining to Audio Visual (AV) support, live telecasting, video shooting, digital photography, production of videos and photo slideshows. Students build their expertise by undergoing training in workshops and engaging with multiple hands-on projects to develop artefacts that can be used in their portfolios. They are also supported with a wide range of equipment from studio lighting to DSLR cameras. In addition, members are exposed to a plethora of talks, exhibitions and competitions to express their creativity and skills as well as to showcase their works.

Vision: Equip members with useful technological skills through independent learning and personal experience.

Training structure:
Year 1 – Basic Photography / Videography
Year 2 & 3 – Choice of:

Advanced Photography – training in genres such as Studio / Portrait photography, Light painting, Photo journalism, Sports & Events photography, Architecture photography, Photo editing e.t.c.

Or

Advanced Videography – training in shooting of video genres such as visual documentaries, interviews, video logs, dramas, advertisements, video editing using special particle effects and green screen effects e.t.c.

Note: All first Year Media Club students will learn to operate basic AV equipment to support school operations and will be given a chance to further specialise to run events and handle more advanced AV equipment in the second year onwards, as an AV specialist.

Key Competitions
N.E.mation! (Storyboarding + Script / Content writing + National Education)
Our Schools, Our Stories (Photography and Videography)
CNB #DrugFreeSG (Videography)
N.Parks Singapore Gardens Photographer of the Year (Photography)

Achievements

Teachers in-charge
Mr Ng Chong Hern Bennedic
Ms Zannatul Nauum Moumee
Ms Vivian Cheong
Ms Zhan Huili

Robotics Club

Day / Time:
MONDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS
THURSDAY: 1535 HRS - 1800 HRS

Mission: Robotics members are equipped through collaboration, community engagement and skill development to be computational thinkers and work independently and as a group.

Robotics Club aims to further develop the skills and competencies of students with greater interest and aptitude in computational thinking and robotics. The 4 – 5 years development programme allows students to deepen their computational thinking and robotics skills and knowledge, and to apply what they have learnt to design, code and build robotic solutions of increasing complexity to complete challenging missions and to address real world needs.

The training framework for Robotics Club students details a clear progression of skills from introduction to computational thinking, programming and robotics in Sec 1, to deepening of programming and robotics skills in Sec 2 and 3, to coding and app development skills in Sec 4 and 5.

Students participate in different competitions to hone their skills and are selected based on their learning progress. Through the process of training for the competitions, students learn to apply their skills in new ways, leverage on team members’ strengths to complete complex missions and be resilient in the face of challenges to continue to invent better solutions.

Students also apply their skills to help others during community projects this will be led by the Secondary 3 and 4 seniors. Secondary 3 and 4 students will also take on the responsibility of developing their leadership skills through training and mentoring their juniors.

Competitions

• Bebras Competition

• National Junior Informatics Olympiad (NJIO) / Design Thinking with robotics and Computational Thinking Competition (DrCT)

• IDE (Innovation, Design and Engineering) Robotics Competition

• World Robot Olympiad / National Robotics Competition

• Hack@Code

Achievements

Teachers in-charge
Mdm Michelle Cheong
Mr Seto Yi Kang, Marcus
Mdm Ma Jing
Ms Firhana Binte Mohamed Almuddin (Mrs Arafat)