More than 200 students and teachers shaved bald to show their support for children with cancer at Wednesday’s Hair for Hope 2012, a satellite event organised by the Raffles Community Advocates together with the Children’s Cancer Foundation (CCF).
The RI school mace carried by the Standard-Bearers at Founder’s Day, commissioned in 2009. Photo Credits: RI
This morning, RI commemorated its 189th Founder’s Day. The annual event was steeped in ritual and tradition, taking a leaf out of the book of Harry Potter and placing RI on par with Hogwarts. For the uninitiated, the programme included:
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”. This week, we introduce readers to the lecture-tutorial system.
By Chua Jun Yan (13A01A)
One of the most drastic and intimidating changes in JC is the transition from classroom learning to the lecture-tutorial system. Unlike in Year 1–4, where you would have been handheld by smiling and amiable teachers alongside, say, 30 familiar faces, you will find yourself spending most of your curriculum time in a freezing Lecture Theatre, packed with hundreds of other strangers in green skirts and white trousers. (Thankfully, though, you will still be seated in your classes.) These lectures will be interspersed with tutorials—sessions where you meet up in smaller groups to go over homework questions or discuss the topics in greater detail.
We now release the results from our poll on the institution anthem: as it turns out, the line ‘the sons of Singapore’ is not actually very disagreeable to Rafflesians. It has, however, sparked some creative suggestions from respondents, which we reproduce below in a handy pie chart.
