Catholic High School

[Manlim008]

My DS will be in the Cat High family next year. He's very excited about it. Are there any dos and don'ts in this school? Can 前辈指教指教? :nailbite:

[iFirefly]

Manlim008:

My DS will be in the Cat High family next year. He's very excited about it. Are there any dos and don'ts in this school? Can 前辈指教指教? :nailbite:

No scared.. No scared..

Your DS can read the Student Handbook for the school rules. They're no different from those of most sec schools in SG.

Welcome all to CHS ! May your boys have an enriching & enjoyable journey in CHS. !! :celebrate:

[iFirefly]

Do our Year-5 gentlemen report at Eunoia JC on 02 Jan 2017, or later ? Is the temporary site @ Mount Sinai ready ?

[Dreamgear]

iFirefly:

Do our Year-5 gentlemen report at Eunoia JC on 02 Jan 2017, or later ? Is the temporary site @ Mount Sinai ready ?

School starts 9th jan. Yes the campus is all ready.....

[Happy75]

Hi there, I thought that for IP students, they get to go Catholic Junior College but what is this Eunoia JC?


For IP program, when and how does the school judge whether one can go to JC or ask to sit for O level if one fail to do well?

I am not sure students who take O level track, are there priority given to go Catholic Junior College? Or still base on cut off point?

Anyone can pm me if information is not advise to show here. Thanks.

[alastairsmith]

Hi, IP students go to Eunoia JC, together with IP students from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School and CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School. Eunoia JC is a new government JC. It is currently located at Mt Sinai, a temporary holding site. It will move to Sin Ming, at the site currently holding a golf course, in 2020. IP students will sit for a test at the end of Year 4, to see whether they are qualified. If they are not doing so well, they will usually be transferred out of IP and into the O-level stream in Year 2. And yes, O-level students will gain an advantage of a deduction of two points into Catholic JC, like all other Catholic Schools, namely: Assumption English School, Catholic High School, CHIJ Katong Convent, CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh), CHIJ St. Joseph’s Convent, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ School, CHIJ St. Theresa’s Convent, Hai Sing Catholic School, Holy Innocents’ High School, Maris Stella High School, Montfort Secondary School, St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School, St. Gabriel’s Secondary School, St. Joseph’s Institution and St. Patrick’s School, according to Wikipedia.

[Dreamgear]

alastairsmith:

Hi, IP students go to Eunoia JC, together with IP students from Singapore Chinese Girls' School and CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School. Eunoia JC is a new government JC. It is currently located at Mt Sinai, a temporary holding site. It will move to Sin Ming, at the site currently holding a golf course, in 2020. IP students will sit for a test at the end of Year 4, to see whether they are qualified. If they are not doing so well, they will usually be transferred out of IP and into the O-level stream in Year 2. And yes, O-level students will gain an advantage of a deduction of two points into Catholic JC, like all other Catholic Schools, namely: Assumption English School, Catholic High School, CHIJ Katong Convent, CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh), CHIJ St. Joseph's Convent, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School, CHIJ St. Theresa's Convent, Hai Sing Catholic School, Holy Innocents' High School, Maris Stella High School, Montfort Secondary School, St. Anthony's Canossian Secondary School, St. Gabriel's Secondary School, St. Joseph's Institution and St. Patrick's School, according to Wikipedia.

Actually ip are required to score B and above for all subjects from
Sec 1 to 4, not only year 4, as well as social studies and passion pursuit....

[alastairsmith]

Ah yes. Actually, IP students do not take Social Studies. As far as I know, they take "pure" humanaties. They need to acheive a pass in Passion Pursuit, and a B for subject average. Usually they let all Year 1 IP students promote, those that fall short of the requirements severely (very) will sit for another test.

[Dreamgear]

They do take social studies but finish the course in year 1. Cath high will let you retake the exam if you fall short in the final exam

[KidCat]

Actually the IP students take World Readiness Programme (WRP ) instead of Social Studies.

True, the pioneer batch of IP students ( current Yr 5 ) did Social Studies in their first year but switched to WRP from Yr 2 onwards. The subsequent IP students have since been taking WRP from Yr 1 and I believe will continue into their JC years at EJC as part of the student development curriculum. Passion Pursuit (PP) is another student development programme in which at least a pass grade is required for promotion.