Hwa Chong Institution (High School)

[wanxuan75]

babygirlwee:

Hi all HCI parents, glad to be in this thread and thank you for the information, it has been most useful! :thankyou:


DS will be starting year 1 next week and taking French as third language. Any year 1s doing French too?

Both of us are excited about the new adventure!

Hi, DS taking French in sec 1 next year too

[ellehcim]

windows:

Hi can anyone share what is the difference in curriculum between iSpark and other consortiums? Any mainstreamers currently in iSpark and how are your kids coping? Thanks in advance.

Not sure about their curriculum, think they are using the same booklist, probably with 1 or 2 extra books to buy. my child not in iSpark, so far he is enjoying his stay with HCI and also his classmates.

[HCstudent]

Hello. I will be a sec 1 student in hwa chong on 4th of jan. Im an iSpark student. There are apparently no big difference between iSpark and other students except for a 20% curriculum difference.

[babygirlwee]

wanxuan75:

babygirlwee:

Hi all HCI parents, glad to be in this thread and thank you for the information, it has been most useful! :thankyou:


DS will be starting year 1 next week and taking French as third language. Any year 1s doing French too?

Both of us are excited about the new adventure!

Hi, DS taking French in sec 1 next year too

That's good to hear! Hope the boys enjoy the language!

[babygirlwee]

HCstudent:

Hello. I will be a sec 1 student in hwa chong on 4th of jan. Im an iSpark student. There are apparently no big difference between iSpark and other students except for a 20% curriculum difference.

Hi. How would one know if he is in i sparks? Is the class list out already?

[ellehcim]

iSparks house the GEP students and some PSLE high-scorers (maybe 270ish above?) Other than that, the rest are all spread across Aphelion, Ortus and ProEd. One of the consortium also house the Malaysian scorers. Year 2015 happen to house in Aphelion. Irregardless of which consortium the kids are in, I believe all the kids are doing fine and enjoying life in HCI.

[HCstudent]

During registration they would have invited all ispark students to go to a room to have a briefing by Mr Eugene Chua (Assistant director of iSpark).

[HCstudent]

To be eligible for iSpark you have to perform well in DSA tests and the PSLE/be in GEP. So yeah.

[babygirlwee]

ellehcim:

iSparks house the GEP students and some PSLE high-scorers (maybe 270ish above?) Other than that, the rest are all spread across Aphelion, Ortus and ProEd. One of the consortium also house the Malaysian scorers. Year 2015 happen to house in Aphelion. Irregardless of which consortium the kids are in, I believe all the kids are doing fine and enjoying life in HCI.

Thanks for the information. Yeah I am sure the kids do fine and enjoy HCI regardless of consortium. As it is, the campus and friendly environment are already good to look forward to.

DS was in GEP in primary school however we were not informed of class/consortium allocation nor attended any briefing... maybe there's a change in directive or something.

[Ckll]

Do HCI provide lockers for the students to rent?


Thanks,
CK