Hwa Chong Institution (High School)

[Maple leaf]

Oh My Gosh:

Kinowing iSparks is for GEP and high calibre mainstream, may I check how are the rest of students allocated to the 3 consortiums? I do not think it is solely random? Is it by languages proficiency? DSA? Maths/ Science Proficiency? Heard all DSA are allocated to ProEd?

Not sure but ProEd seems to be for DSA sports.

[Maple leaf]

Oh My Gosh,


Which class is yr DS in?

[Sunshine_bear]

Anyone's ds in 1P1? :rahrah:

[timtim]

From my son, I understand even PE day, they must go in uniform, change to PE during PE lesson and change back to uniform again with a sweaty body?? Terrible…totally dont understand why. My son’s PE is 1st period on Thu…can’t even go in uniform…my god.

[JJ_chua]

timtim:

From my son, I understand even PE day, they must go in uniform, change to PE during PE lesson and change back to uniform again with a sweaty body?? Terrible...totally dont understand why. My son's PE is 1st period on Thu...can't even go in uniform...my god.

I guess this is the \"standard procedure\" Secondary schools. My elder son (now in poly) also did that when he was in sec.

[wanxuan75]

timtim:

From my son, I understand even PE day, they must go in uniform, change to PE during PE lesson and change back to uniform again with a sweaty body?? Terrible...totally dont understand why. My son's PE is 1st period on Thu...can't even go in uniform...my god.

Hi, just to let you know that at times, when the weather is very hot, the school will make exception and allow the boys to dress down even on non-fridays. Last year, there were a few occassions when the weather was so bad and the school was understanding enough to let the boys wear school tees to school for the whole day.

DS had PE on Thu, which happened to be his super long day due to 3rd language classes in MOELC, and so he would wear school uniform to school, change to PE tee, then change back to school uniform with his sweaty body and tahan for the rest of the day, till late evening when he reaches home at 8pm :). They will get used to it, dun worry

[wanxuan75]

Maple leaf:

Oh My Gosh:

Kinowing iSparks is for GEP and high calibre mainstream, may I check how are the rest of students allocated to the 3 consortiums? I do not think it is solely random? Is it by languages proficiency? DSA? Maths/ Science Proficiency? Heard all DSA are allocated to ProEd?

Not sure but ProEd seems to be for DSA sports.

HCI's explanation is that other than iSparks, the other 3 consortiums are randomly distributed. Our observation as parents is that it seemed to be random such that one year, there may be more DSA sports students in Aphelion, and the following year, there may be more of such in Ortus, etc. There is no ranking of consortiums in HCI. Each consortium has its own resources but all the students will sit for the same mid year and year end exams.

[7788]

Those who have PE on Friday are luckier as Fridays are dressed-down days where the boys can come in half U, ie khaki pants with PE, Class or CCA tshirts.

[wanxuan75]

A question for parents of Sec 3 and 4 students in HCI. Do you have any idea if it is possible for a student to change his CCA in year2? DS and his classmates were all allocated to CCAs that are not their first choice. After a year of trying, DS and one of his classmate (in the same CCA) felt that the CCA is not suitable and would like to change to something that they want, e.g. clubs. Does any parent have any idea what is the success rate of changing in year 2?

[7788]

Have not heard of boys changing CCAs so far. Perhaps very few. The boys probably must have very good reason to justify their request. The best person to check with is Mr Tok AL.