National Junior College (Junior High)

[phankao]

helloeveryone:

hello, i'm a student here at njc... after seeing the forum i realised that the parents have many questions regarding njc and its system. Well, i'm willing to answer them as long as i'm able to. Feel free to email me at [email protected]

basically, i dsa-ed into the school and i'm the pioneer batch. i will be one of those involved in next year's orientation so a 'hi' to all 2011 jh1 students!

Any of your children doing OGL for next year like \"helloeveryone\"? Are the OGLs also often Student Council members, \"helloeveryone\"?

[jtoh]

phankao:

jtoh:

Kaypohing here, how does CAFE work? Do the kids get a chance to represent the school in CCAs then?

You select 3 ccas to do for the whole year. Also have to put 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, like any other school's cca selection, but there are no trials. It's just based on availability.

At the end of the year, again, have to select a core cca, and if the child wants - a 2nd cca (there are way more choices for 2nd cca though).

Whether they get to represent school, depends on the cca, their ability and the events/competitions/fairs available, right?

Things like math olympiads and science fairs, i think don't need to be part of cca to be seleted to represent school.

Thanks phankao. Was wondering that if a kid was really good in a sport, would he get the chance to be on the school team in year 1 as it's only CAFE which (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't sound competitive. Say for eg a kid who's been in nationals in primary school in badminton, swimming, basketball etc, he may be good enough for the NJC school team. But with CAFE, he might not get the chance? Just kaypohing.

[phankao]

jtoh:

Thanks phankao. Was wondering that if a kid was really good in a sport, would he get the chance to be on the school team in year 1 as it's only CAFE which (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't sound competitive. Say for eg a kid who's been in nationals in primary school in badminton, swimming, basketball etc, he may be good enough for the NJC school team. But with CAFE, he might not get the chance? Just kaypohing.

Have - some go thru cafe, some go straight to ask, lor.

[helloeveryone]

phankao:

helloeveryone:

hello, i'm a student here at njc... after seeing the forum i realised that the parents have many questions regarding njc and its system. Well, i'm willing to answer them as long as i'm able to. Feel free to email me at [email protected]

basically, i dsa-ed into the school and i'm the pioneer batch. i will be one of those involved in next year's orientation so a 'hi' to all 2011 jh1 students!

Any of your children doing OGL for next year like \"helloeveryone\"? Are the OGLs also often Student Council members, \"helloeveryone\"?

the OGLs are students who volunteered but elected by the teachers and the student councillors. All councillors be it in the JH or SH student council will automatically be OGLs, of course they have the right to refuse too.

[helloeveryone]

phankao:

jtoh:

Kaypohing here, how does CAFE work? Do the kids get a chance to represent the school in CCAs then?

You select 3 ccas to do for the whole year. Also have to put 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, like any other school's cca selection, but there are no trials. It's just based on availability.

At the end of the year, again, have to select a core cca, and if the child wants - a 2nd cca (there are way more choices for 2nd cca though).

Whether they get to represent school, depends on the cca, their ability and the events/competitions/fairs available, right?

Things like math olympiads and science fairs, i think don't need to be part of cca to be seleted to represent school.

next year the system will be changed. you wil do choose to do two ccas in the first and second term and for the third it will be like a advanced CAFE program that continues either from the first and second. from this the student will continue to the JH2 chosen cca for a year. They will get to change again in JH3. but the CCAs remains the same for JH3 and JH4. of course, most students will not change unless they really dislike the ccas and from JH2, some will already hold exco positions in the cca.

[phankao]

helloeveryone:

next year the system will be changed. you wil do choose to do two ccas in the first and second term and for the third it will be like a advanced CAFE program that continues either from the first and second. from this the student will continue to the JH2 chosen cca for a year. They will get to change again in JH3. but the CCAs remains the same for JH3 and JH4. of course, most students will not change unless they really dislike the ccas and from JH2, some will already hold exco positions in the cca.

Except that the ccas in the cafe list quite limited .

[helloeveryone]

hi all, i just received news that there will be 8 classes for JH1s next year

[phankao]

jtoh:

Kaypohing here, how does CAFE work? Do the kids get a chance to represent the school in CCAs then?

For those who want to know the whole details, the CAFE programme is described in this document (available on school website).
http://www.njc.edu.sg/jh/downloads/CCA_Programme.pdf
It says that jh1 students go thru CAFE bc otherwise the students may find the choice *daunting*? Not so scary bah. Some students are already so used to CCAs that they've done in pri school, but these are not available to them until upper junior high or even senior high!

[phankao]

helloeveryone:

hi all, i just received news that there will be 8 classes for JH1s next year

Isn't that same as this year?

[helloeveryone]

phankao:

helloeveryone:

hi all, i just received news that there will be 8 classes for JH1s next year

Isn't that same as this year?

yes, but not as the year before