Curriculum

Curriculum, Please Mind the Platform Gap, Subjects

H1 Subjects: To Take Or Not To Take, That Is The Question
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Looi Ee Xin (26S03M) and Tan Yan Qi (26S06M)

It’s the time of the year for incoming Year 5s to choose their subject combination. Usually, the big question is, science or arts? Physics or Biology? But it’s about time to add one more question to that list:

4 H2s or 3 H2s and 1 H1?

While 4 H2s have long been the ‘default’ option, we know that there are some of you out there wondering if it truly is the right decision for you. As students who have experienced the H1 syllabus for (probably) the two most common subjects to be offered at H1 (Math and Economics), here’s our advice to you. 

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Commentary, School Life, Student Issues, Subjects

The Absolute Definitive Objective Guide to File Colours 
Reading Time: 6 minutes

By Georgia Ong (26S03O) and Kunchur Bharat (26A01B)

The Catalyst 

It all started when Bharat and Georgia got into a debate over what colour English was. Bharat claimed it was red, but Georgia insisted that it was yellow, since the file she used for English in primary school was yellow. 

This triggered some questions for us: How do we form these colour associations? Are there any links between the subjects we take and the colours we associate with them? 

Being bored (read: deciding to procrastinate on Promos revision), we decided to find some answers to our questions. 

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Curriculum, Opinion, Please Mind the Platform Gap, School Life, Subjects

Somewhere Only We Know: Love, Life, and Latitude in Geography
Reading Time: 13 minutes

An article on the study of Geography, and my experience in iGeo

By Cherie Khoo 26S03B

In the wild African savannah, a lone being scurries across the plain. A strangely-shaped extension to its ape-like silhouette protrudes from its head. A sudden rush of warm air draws back the stratus clouds, and moonlight shines upon the figure. There, on the naked ground, crouches a… a Geographer? (With binoculars, no less)

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Commentary, Subjects

Voicing the Nation: English in Singapore—ELL Symposium 2025
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Georgia Ong (26S03O) and Tok Kai Xue (26A01B)

Photographs courtesy of RIAC

You’re overseas in another touristy area when a voice rings out: “Walao eh! Why the queue so long sia?” 

All Singaporeans have experienced this exact moment—finding out another Singaporean is abroad with you through their colloquial accent. 

Singapore English. The language we speak on the daily, the sounds we hear all around us. Ringing in our ears, the sounds of Singapore are the pieces of our past, present and future. We, as products of our history, have been woven together by generations before us; our forefathers who found their way to our shores in search of better lives, our grandparents who learnt a tongue unfamiliar to them, and our parents who watched the languages they once grew up with fade away with time. 

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April Fool's, Curriculum, Humour, Multimedia, School Life, Videos

New Coop on the Block: NEST@Raffles rehomes RI chickens and more
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Betty Ding (25A01B), Isaac Tay (25S06L), Meryl Lim (25S05A)

In line with recent rewilding (or RIwilding) efforts on campus grounds, the school announced yesterday at Team Raffles Gala the launch of a brand-new initiative: NEST@Raffles. 

Raffles Press was given the egg-clusive opportunity to cover this new programme, and dish the inside scoop on this egg-citing new initiative. 

This initiative welcomes a chicken coop into the school, the first of its kind in Singaporean schools. The wild chickens which traverse the school compound, especially around the Marymount gate, will finally be given a home. 

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