Secondary School CCA

[happyluckymom]

Can someone pls advice whether girl guides or interact club is a better cca choice? If choose interact club then how do students get leadership, achievemnt and enrichment points?

[stsl]

zeemimi:

stsl:

Any one can advise which is better? Net ball or volley ball? My DD has gone for trials and has been approached by the coach to join their teams, she is quite interested but we are also a bit worried if she can get enough cca points from sports cca or not? Especially if she did not win in any competitions.. She first choice was actually girl guide. DH said volley ball is \"dangerous\" as DD wears glasses. In her school, 97% gets A1 or A2 for UG. Only 70% for sports CCA.

if wear glasses, netball would be better than volleyball as the latter may involve some kind of break-falls / rolls on the ground.

but should choose what she is interested in rather than for the cca points.

Thanks for advice, have let DD to decide, so she choose GG 1st choice and net ball 2nd choice, volley ball, 3rd..

[wangwei8]

Hi,

I have a headache issue, my son is selected by 2 CCA, badminton and perform art. The problem is he likes both! My question:
1. If he selects both 2 CCA (timing not crash) and after say half year, drop one, will he get any punishment or bad record?
2. if he selects only one now, after one year, does he get chance to re select again if he decides select another one? of course after one year, another CCA teacher may not want him any more.
I don’t think my son can take 2 CCA at the same time, so must decide now. Appreciated any experienced parent’s input
Which way better? got too many choices also headache.

[rubydoll]

I was adviced from my brother who came from a top shool and now doing his overseas studies to choose only one cca and strict with itt.

Academic results are also more important.so choose a sports cca .

[wangwei8]

rubydoll:

I was adviced from my brother who came from a top shool and now doing his overseas studies to choose only one cca and strict with itt.

Academic results are also more important.so choose a sports cca .

Tks Rubydoll, probably I will ask my son to take the performance art(chinese orchestra), since the CCA got quite good reputation.

[MMM]

I only encouraged my kids to choose 1 CCA and they are in the school band. The reason why we stick to this is because the kids can only join band at P1/ P2. Subsequent to that, band is not really open to the other kids. The school has a very good band and we believed with that kind of exposure they are getting, we can potentially think about DSA or maybe appealing for secondary school will come in handy given that "talent".


Recently, my P3 has interest to take on badminton as well. This is our family sports. We play it almost every weekend. I thought it might be good if he can join the CCA and acquire some right skills from the coach. But not sure if they will offer him. As looking at it, he can only join this year. Come next year, badminton will clash with band. Band to us, is the priority.

I find it difficult to use sports CCA for DSA, etc… as you probably need to be at the national level??? the question is how many can be there? So to me, performaning arts has better opportunities.

But we are still learning about the processes. So any experienced parents who have been through it, pls share your outlook.

[wangwei8]

[quote=\"MMM\"]

Hi MMM, first of all, my son is now in sec 1 . One thing you are right, base on sports CCA is difficult to get DSA, since your standard must be national level (like top 8 ). My son was badminton school team player in primary school, but compare with those top badminton player, still very very big gap.

[ctct61t]

Chinese orchestra got a lot of chances to perform oversea, this will be a very good chance for children to open their mind.

[hquek]

Not sure if there is any diff between last and now, I had friends who didn’t do well academically; but they were from Band and they appealed successfully to get into top schools - seems like that time nobody wanted to join band.

[INNOVATE]

Just have one cca that interest your kid and that he’s likely to represent his/her school. Be it sports or performing arts, at upper secondary level, must be able to win honours and prefably in leadership positions.


At jc level, appeal cases are based primarily on cca-ability to contribute as a representative of the college. It’s not base on 0-level score.


Similar to conduct, cca is an important consideration for appeal cases in unis.