Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

[bigfoot]

Mvm:

clayman:

The school calendar says its CNY celebrations tomorrow. Is there early dismissal and do they need to wear the corporate-T?

From what my son told me, they finish later than usual - at 2.40 :yikes: coz the white space time is being used for the celebrations. He did not mention anything about having to wear the corporate T but I will check with him later.

Students are encouraged to wear their ethnic costumes school tomorrow. Corporate-T is usually worn on the last Friday of every month.

For tomorrow, lesson will carry on as usual until 11.45am. The celebration will start at 12 noon and should end by 1 pm. However, CCA in the afternoon (if any) will continue as usual.

[clayman]

bigfoot:

Mvm:

[quote=\"clayman\"]The school calendar says its CNY celebrations tomorrow. Is there early dismissal and do they need to wear the corporate-T?

From what my son told me, they finish later than usual - at 2.40 :yikes: coz the white space time is being used for the celebrations. He did not mention anything about having to wear the corporate T but I will check with him later.

Students are encouraged to wear their ethnic costumes school tomorrow. Corporate-T is usually worn on the last Friday of every month.

For tomorrow, lesson will carry on as usual until 11.45am. The celebration will start at 12 noon and should end by 1 pm. However, CCA in the afternoon (if any) will continue as usual.[/quote]Thanks for the helpful info, bigfoot!!

[Mvm]

bigfoot:

Mvm:

[quote=\"clayman\"]The school calendar says its CNY celebrations tomorrow. Is there early dismissal and do they need to wear the corporate-T?

From what my son told me, they finish later than usual - at 2.40 :yikes: coz the white space time is being used for the celebrations. He did not mention anything about having to wear the corporate T but I will check with him later.

Students are encouraged to wear their ethnic costumes school tomorrow. Corporate-T is usually worn on the last Friday of every month.

For tomorrow, lesson will carry on as usual until 11.45am. The celebration will start at 12 noon and should end by 1 pm. However, CCA in the afternoon (if any) will continue as usual.[/quote]Thanks bigfoot. I just wonder where my DS gets his info from!! :scratchhead:

[bigfoot]

Mvm:

Thanks bigfoot. I just wonder where my DS gets his info from!! :scratchhead:

You are welcome. It's not his fault. The orginal plan for the CNY celebration was from 1pm - 2pm. So, he was not wrong in saying that the whitespace was used for the celebration. The decision to change the time to 12pm was only sent out yesterday. He should have been informed by his CT today.

[clayman]

Does anyone happen to know who is in charge of the administration of the Year 1 CCAs?


Thanks.

[autolycus]

clayman:

Does anyone happen to know who is in charge of the administration of the Year 1 CCAs?


Thanks.

Overall in charge of CCAs would be Mr Chan Chee Wei. However, the CCAs are normally further divided into types of sports and games, uniformed groups, and other activities.

[kandc]

Hi all,

I am new here but had read through all threads in this subject. My son just started his Y1 with ACS (I) express stream, not taking HCL. Can I summarize a few possibilities for him:

1) If his main 6-subject results are good enough (>80% & pass the HAST), he will be upgraded to the IP/IB track in Y3. Then it is not necessary to take higher Chinese.
2) If his results so-so, he has to take O-level exam. If he still wants to enter the IB track at Y5, will passing HCL grant 2 bonus point for IB?
3) If his O-level not good enough to enter IB, the only bonus point he will have is to enter ACJC. But if he takes HCL, he will have extra 2 bonus point to enter a good JC?
4) so question is: how to convince the school to allow him to take HCL from Y2? What kind of results are needed?

Thank you & wish everybody a happy Dragon Year ahead!

[autolycus]

kandc:

Hi all,

I am new here but had read through all threads in this subject. My son just started his Y1 with ACS (I) express stream, not taking HCL. Can I summarize a few possibilities for him:

1) If his main 6-subject results are good enough (>80% & pass the HAST), he will be upgraded to the IP/IB track in Y3. Then it is not necessary to take higher Chinese.

The 80% figure isn't necessarily exact. It's a possible average. Errm, why is it necessary to take HCL in the first place?

kandc:

2) If his results so-so, he has to take O-level exam. If he still wants to enter the IB track at Y5, will passing HCL grant 2 bonus point for IB?

Yes, 2 bonus points for entry by JAE to Year 5.

kandc:

3) If his O-level not good enough to enter IB, the only bonus point he will have is to enter ACJC. But if he takes HCL, he will have extra 2 bonus point to enter a good JC?

He will have 2 bonus points. But I should point out that the only way we know they are 'good JCs' is that they take in good students and graduate good students. Remember, market forces. If you're making your son do HCL as a career decision, poor kid.

kandc:

4) so question is: how to convince the school to allow him to take HCL from Y2? What kind of results are needed?

My question would be: why convince him to do HCL in the first place? If he wasn't already doing it, he's gonna have to work real hard to score some arbitrarily high grade in CL to allow him to do HCL. :rant:

kandc:

Thank you & wish everybody a happy Dragon Year ahead!

I wish everyone, especially your son, the same!

[ngbrdad]

kandc:

Hi all,

I am new here but had read through all threads in this subject. My son just started his Y1 with ACS (I) express stream, not taking HCL. Can I summarize a few possibilities for him:

1) If his main 6-subject results are good enough (>80% & pass the HAST), he will be upgraded to the IP/IB track in Y3. Then it is not necessary to take higher Chinese.
2) If his results so-so, he has to take O-level exam. If he still wants to enter the IB track at Y5, will passing HCL grant 2 bonus point for IB?
3) If his O-level not good enough to enter IB, the only bonus point he will have is to enter ACJC. But if he takes HCL, he will have extra 2 bonus point to enter a good JC?
4) so question is: how to convince the school to allow him to take HCL from Y2? What kind of results are needed?

Thank you & wish everybody a happy Dragon Year ahead!

For ACJC the HCL bonus point will not come into effect.
2 affiliation bonus points and 2 CCA bonus points is already the maximum.

[autolycus]

ngbrdad:

For ACJC the HCL bonus point will not come into effect.

2 affiliation bonus points and 2 CCA bonus points is already the maximum.

Technically, they will come into effect, but 4 points is the max, so they will be truncated if there are already 4 points.