By Ng Ziqin (20S03H)
Photographs by Joel Leong (20S03O) from Raffles Photographic Society unless otherwise captioned

So school closures have finally happened, but remember those early days when CCA being suspended was the biggest of our COVID-19 worries?

The extension of home-based learning till 4 May is just the latest in a series of increasingly stringent COVID-19 precautionary measures, one of the earliest of which was the suspension of all CCAs for Term 2. Because of the suspension of CCA, many Year 6s have not had the chance to meet their new Year 5 juniors, while a minority of CCAs have not held a single CCA session for their Year 5 members this year.

Given that the Year 6s will soon be leaving due to CCA stand-down at the end of Term 2, opportunities for inter-batch interaction and bonding look to be rather limited. It seems increasingly likely that the Year 6s will step down without forming any meaningful relationships with their respective CCAs’ junior batches.

What would this, then, mean for the continuation of CCA identities?

By Huang Beihua (20A03A) and Sarah Lok (20A03A) 

It began as a forwarded message, then a few Instagram stories, panicking inquiries from juniors, and finally a visit to Stamford in some false hope for falseness.