Clubs, Commentary

Astro Night 2012: Doing it in the Dark
Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Loh Jia Wei (13S06C), Exco member of the Raffles Astronomy Club

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” — Plato

Therein lies the allure of astronomy, the study of the language of stars, celestial objects and phenomena beyond the shackles of Earth. Contrary to popular belief, astronomy is not an esoteric discipline for the exclusive few; as Tumblr minions would know, “we are made of star stuff”, and astronomy is more intimately related to our daily lives than we think.

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Commentary

Rafflesians Unite!
Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Chua Jun Yan (13A01A)

It’s official: Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary) will move to opposite RI in 2018, 133 years after the girls’ wing separated from RI to make way for the sons of the King of Siam. RGS will bid farewell to its current campus near Orchard, which it has occupied since Singapore achieved self-rule in 1959. The site is too small for its enrolment, and houses Year 1s in containers.

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Commentary, Curriculum, Please Mind the Platform Gap, Subjects

Please Mind the Platform Gap: Is Project Work Really That Hard?
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Regina Marie Lee (13A01B)

Please Mind the Platform Gap is a fortnightly column aimed at preparing Year 4 RI and RGS students for the challenges of JC life. Written by Year 5s from Raffles Press who have “been there, done that”, each piece covers a different aspect of life “on the other side”.

Project Work must be the only topic that the Twitter users I follow never seem to tire of tweeting about. Because PW work submission deadlines are the same for all, you can be sure to find people commiserating about how difficult thinking of a suitable PI (Preliminary Idea) is, or the terrible length of their GPP (Group Project Proposal) days before it is due. Year 4s who have yet to enter RI, when encountering such grievances raised by their seniors, must imagine PW to be a strange and formidable subject.

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