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A Level Features 2025: Quantifying the Unquantifiable
Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Bertram Wang (26S06H), Chen Ying (25A01C), Ng Dawin (25A01D)

Ihsan (إحسان) — To do good, or to do beautiful things with the sincerity and awareness that Allah is watching.

There are two ready markers for the success of a Community Engagement Project.

The first is the number of stakeholders involved. The more organisations or companies there are who are willing to partner with you, the more you know that your project means something.

The second is the extent of your reach. What was the biggest thing you did to reach out to the community? Was it a concert? Was it a talk? How many people were there?

Project Ihsan had both of these things. On top of receiving support from the Arab Association and the National Heritage Board, they had held several community dialogues sessions with an upwards attendance of seven dozen people.

But when asked about how they knew that their project had made it, neither Falisha Dina Abdul Jabbar and Emma Phyu Phyu Chain (both 24A01B) mentioned either of these things.

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A-Level Features 2025: Between Studying, Service, and Sustainability
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Isaac Chan (25A01B), Kunchur Bharat (26A01B)

For most Rafflesians, sustainability consists of occasionally recycling bottles, not taking a plastic straw here and there, and forgoing a plastic bag at NTUC FairPrice. Leadership, perhaps, is telling people what to do and when to get something done.

For Y7 Arman Ibrahim bin Mustaffa (24S05A), it’s more than that. As one of the founders of Project Futurum, a project that raises awareness about environmental sustainability, as well as the Chairperson of the Raffles Photographic Society (RPS), Arman had a lot on his plate. Raffles Press had the opportunity to sit down with Arman just before he collected his A-Levels results, where he reflected on his two years in RI and the lessons he learned, both in and out of the classroom.

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Looking back on Wanderlust ‘25: Conversations with the OGLs and Ori OICs
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Keng Yi, Nicole (25S03S) and Isaac Chan (25A01B)

Photos courtesy of Isaac Chan

Every Wayfinder needs a guide; every tribe, an elder; every Orientation, a team of hardworking, dedicated Y6s committed to making it the best experience possible for their charges.

This was no different at Orientation 2025: Wanderlust. Over four days of Orientation, Y5 Wayfinders fought and strove for their tribes. But behind the scenes, their Orientation Group Leaders (OGLs) and the 44th Students’ Council’s Orientation Committee were on duty throughout to ensure safety, energy, and fun. In this article, Raffles Press gets an inside look at Orientation 2025 from the lens of those that helped make it happen.

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A-Level Features 2025: Amplifying Voices, Penning Change
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Aniqa Norhazry (25S03D) and Huang Han Cheng (26S05B)

For Syaura Nashwa Rasyiddin (24S03R), journalism is more than just writing. Rather, it serves as a means to tell stories that matter, amplify voices that need to be heard, and ask the questions others are afraid to. As one of Raffles Press’ very own members, we are proud to highlight her story—how she has leveraged her talents in language to advocate for societal issues and bring awareness to issues important to her.

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A-Level Features 2025: Teaching and Community
Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Koh Shin Robbie (26A01A), Michelle Lee (26S07A), and Peh Zhi Ning (25A01B)

As they step into the room, Hannah and Clarissa bring with them a calming aura, one that relaxes everyone, even us nervous Press journalists. Perhaps this has been solidly practised, along with ‘one silent claps’ and all the necessary skills to control primary and secondary schoolers. After all, despite being recent graduates, they’ve already taken on the title of ‘’Cher’.

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