Don’t Put Out the Fire in the Prometheum Ceremony!

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By Chua Jun Yan (13A01A)

The pocket-side card issued to CCALs for Prometheum Day.

Yesterday, the college marked the Prometheum Ceremony, in which Year 6 CCA Leaders handed over the mettle of leadership to their Year 5 successors. As we commemorate the formal transition of leadership, it is worth looking at how this exercise can be improved in future years. Here is the wish-list of this correspondent for next year’s Prometheum Ceremony.

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RI Sports Coaches Bare All

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By Claire Yip (13A01A)

This week, we bring you exclusive previews of the upcoming edition of Eagle Eye, which will be distributed to all staff and students at the end of the month. Jointly produced by RI’s Corporate Communications Department and Raffles Press (Yr 5–6), Eagle Eye is the school’s official magazine.

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History Teachers, Unite!

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by Amy Ng (13A01E)

This week, Raffles Press launches our very own book review column, in collaboration with MediaCorp’s e-bookstore, ilovebooks.com. In the first of a series of fortnightly instalments, Amy Ng takes a look at the novel which gave rise to the recent blockbuster movie, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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Diary of an RI NS Boy: Adil Hakeem

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By Adil Hakeem

Adil, with his RI classmates.
Adil, with his NS platoon mates.

I’m only a three-month-plus-old soldier (unlike most of the people in my batch, who enlisted three to five months earlier), and yet it already seems like a long time! I’m not here to preach about the virtues of the army or how to survive it, but I thought even an experience as short as mine would be worth sharing, given that it has changed me quite a fair bit.

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