Secondary School CCA
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My DS has suddenly lot interest in St John CCA and wanted to change CCA to clubs. Has anyone change CCA at Sec2? Any advise on that?
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Super Alice:
My DS has suddenly lot interest in St John CCA and wanted to change CCA to clubs. Has anyone change CCA at Sec2? Any advise on that?
Your DS will lose all the CCa points gained in Sec 1 and it can be hard work to accumulate points for the remaining 3 years to score well, though not impossible.
Persuade him to stay the course as I gathered from fellow forumners here that Uniform Groups are the easiest to score, but must persevere till Sec 4. -
Not sure how true. He tried to compare with friends that join club and they get more pts than him. The commitment is high for uniform group and he worried that he cannot cope with his studies. And he also claim that his points will not reset as St John is a voluntary CCA unlike NPCC and NCC. However, I have request him to check in detail before making any major decision.
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Super Alice:
Not sure how true. He tried to compare with friends that join club and they get more pts than him. The commitment is high for uniform group and he worried that he cannot cope with his studies. And he also claim that his points will not reset as St John is a voluntary CCA unlike NPCC and NCC. However, I have request him to check in detail before making any major decision.
When I went for CCA briefing for my DS on Saturday, we were told that in UG, they have must attendance of 75% and above to get the points. Anything below that, they don't get any.
By the way, perhaps you want to clarify with your DS how his friends in Clubs chalked up the points. Is he sure all of them are from participation only? Or maybe, those friends he is talking about takes up Leadership positions or took part in competitions, etc.. .. or could it be CIP points that they gain and not just from normal participation in Clubs? -
kwcllf:
Hi, speaking from a general view of ALL CCAs. If you have less than 50% attendance for any particular year, your cca points accumulated in that year alone will be forfeited. If you have less than 25% attendance, your cca points accumulated up to that point (if you are in sec 4, your cca points from sec1-4) will ALL be forfeited. (Actually I'm not 100% sure on the figures, for the former it's either 50% or 75%, the latter is either 50% or 25%). Anyway. Just ATTENDING cca alone is not going to get you enough points for your A1/2. If you are in UG, you must make effort to get the various badges, because that's what the main bulk of cca points for those in UG come from. An \"easy\" way for CCA points is CIP, completing 100hours gives you 5 leaps points. You need 20 points to get an A2, which will allow you to -2. Being in any cca for 4 years gives you 1 cca point per year, which means a total of 4 from 4 years. If you do the math, you just need 11 more from leadership/enrichment/participation/achievement to get 20. Most schools make their students do NYAA, doing NYAA bronze (super easy, all just paperwork if your school organises the activities) gives you two points. If you go further to do NYAA silver, you get more points. If you decide to go all the way to do NYAA gold in JC, you get to receive award from president personallySuper Alice:
Not sure how true. He tried to compare with friends that join club and they get more pts than him. The commitment is high for uniform group and he worried that he cannot cope with his studies. And he also claim that his points will not reset as St John is a voluntary CCA unlike NPCC and NCC. However, I have request him to check in detail before making any major decision.
When I went for CCA briefing for my DS on Saturday, we were told that in UG, they have must attendance of 75% and above to get the points. Anything below that, they don't get any.
By the way, perhaps you want to clarify with your DS how his friends in Clubs chalked up the points. Is he sure all of them are from participation only? Or maybe, those friends he is talking about takes up Leadership positions or took part in competitions, etc.. .. or could it be CIP points that they gain and not just from normal participation in Clubs?
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Can I know what does NYAA stand for?
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Super Alice:
Can I know what does NYAA stand for?
National Youth Achievement Award
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How do we look for Cip activities? Will school inform us where to go to? How do we compute the 100 hrs, does it incl traveling time etc? Can we do say 50 hrs of CIP in sec 1, 30 in sec 2, 20 in sec 4 n none in sec 4 etc?
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homeworkmummy:
How do we look for Cip activities? Will school inform us where to go to? How do we compute the 100 hrs, does it incl traveling time etc? Can we do say 50 hrs of CIP in sec 1, 30 in sec 2, 20 in sec 4 n none in sec 4 etc?
CIP activities some schools (like mine) during the June and Dec hols will post on asknlearn various places to help out. Whether your school wants to incl travelling time is dependent on school... Some of the more popular CIP activities are Famine Camp (30hours at one go!), volunteering at public library. My school had this joint project about Prison Fellowship, where our students go and help pack food etc for those kids whose parents are in prison and can't take care of them. Most schools will also at some point (usually in sec 1 or 2) have Service Learning trips overseas, so you can get hours there too.
You must do a minimum of 7hours per year. This year I already had 109hours but because of the requirement had to go sell lightsticks at orchard road to raise funds for tan tock seng hospital to obtain the minimum 7hours. -
What is the impact if one REALLY do without CCA? Lose out on the 2 bonus points? Anything else?
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