The colours of the school crest are the standard colours of the House of Sir Stamford Rafles: Green, White and Black. The open book symbolises knowledge and the burning torch our commitment to forge character and develop life skills.
The school’s motto, Filiae Melioris Aevi, emblazoned across the crest, is Latin for Daughters of a Better Age. It is our pledge to the community that girls who pass through the portals of RGS will not simply inherit a fne tradition but will actively forge a fner future for her community.
To aspire, strive and dare to be active creators of a better age for all.
Nurturing the high ability girl to be a leader who will realise her talents in service of nation and community.
To develop fne character and wellbeing, nurture the intellect and fre the imagination of the RGS girl as a
• Person who is purposeful and aspires towards the greater good with integrity, empathy and resilience.
• Leader who values diversity, cohesiveness, and inclusiveness in exerting positive infuence and impact on the community.
• Thinker who demonstrates a disposition for refective and fexible thinking, and is willing to take intellectual risks, especially in the face of complex and ambiguous situations.
• Pioneer who seeks opportunities and embraces challenges with courage to innovate for the common good.
We take pride in our work, accept responsibility for our own learning and exercise discernment and openmindedness in our interaction with others.
TYou’ve had to adapt to new formats, platforms, schedules for lessons and school activities. At times, you had to face up to disappointments when programmes that mattered like OBS, CCA camps and competitions could not be carried out when Singapore swung into the diferent phases of heightened alert. As the adults around you, we felt this disappointment with you. Then we observed, how after the initial news, you and your peers just moved forward, focused on the activities that we were still able to have, and took these changes
Colleagues and teachers too, had a challenging time. These past months, RGS teachers have been working hard, supporting one another to respond to changes that sometimes came at the eleventh hour. At each point, despite the fatigue we sometimes felt, we kept our eye on what we wanted our girls to learn in our RP curriculum. Then we adjusted how we would deliver the learning content and skills within the constraints faced. I’d like to spend the next couple of moments refecting on and celebrating the past year together – how
The highlight of last year was the Re-envisioning Exercise, to ensure that school directions remain relevant, and will enable us to navigate changes in our landscape towards a compelling future for RGS. By November last year, we had drawn up the new fve-year RGS Strategy Map. This year, we started implementing the initiatives that support our vision of future learning at RGS. First, we took steps to deepen the sense of empowerment, personal agency, and autonomy amongst our girls. We made the
decision to accelerate changes to school structures and to design unstructured spaces for our girls to own and self-regulate their learning. As we did this, we drew confdence from the circuit breaker and full-HBL experience, which had aforded great opportunity to rethink the way we teach, and to be bold about new possibilities for empowering learners.
At the start of Term 2, we embarked on regular fortnightly HBL, confdently implementing this for all levels, ahead of most schools in Singapore. I’d like to commend and thank our teachers for their experimentation and for designing well-crafted and often delightful HBL activities for your girls. We sought input from our students in June this year to hear what they liked about HBL, and many of you said you found the experience meaningful and enjoyable with just the right amount of challenge and support. It is early days yet for us in this, so as a team of educators, we are moving forward thoughtfully. We’re thinking hard about designing for just that optimal blend of face-to-face, ICT-mediated, on-site, and homebased learning.
As a parallel efort, we have launched a research study headed by the RGS PeRL team to help us better understand how teachers use blended learning to enhance learning opportunities. The study will follow our teachers’ and students’ experiences of blended learning over the next one to two years.
Another initiative we’ve moved forward on is the RGS Digital Curriculum. This curriculum is guided by our school’s mission
to contribute back to society, turning ideas into products that are useful to the community. In March, we launched the Keppel Sandbox at RGS, a digital makerspace for our girls to ideate, incubate their ideas, create prototypes, and gather feedback as they work on their technological solutions. We also introduced new programming workshops to cater to diferent levels of readiness and made these workshops available to girls across all the four years.
Next, we took steps to build on the strengths of our 10-yearold RGS 1:1 programme to move it forward to a diferent phase. In February this year, RGS became the frst school in Singapore to rollout the use of iPads for Year 1 students as part of the National Digital Literacy Programme. We took this step, in response to the digital revolution around us so that our girls will be able to contribute to and lead in the digital world as confdent and empowered young women.
We also took steps to adjust the RGS Experience in response to geopolitical and economic developments. Southeast Asia is one of the fastest growing regions and this presents tremendous opportunities for Singapore and Singaporeans. While the region is facing severe challenges with COVID-19 at the moment, we must be ready for the trajectory of growth to continue, post-COVID. So, starting this year at RGS, we took steps to widen our girls’ perspectives on entrepreneurial activities in the region through work experience programmes and career talks.
Perhaps the initiatives I personally am most proud of this
the Peer Helpers Programme and the Filiae Centre conducted Thrive and Art Therapy sessions. We also saw many student-led initiatives that gave focus to mental health and self-care, and resilience in the face of adversity. Some of the student-led projects include Project Felicis (helping teenagers better cope with stress), Project Peersonal (advocating for better personal awareness to deter peer pressure) and Project Kokoro (advocating for improved emotional well-being among elderly). I commend all the girls involved in this important efort of deepening empathy and raising awareness about actions we can take in caring for one another and for ourselves.
RGS has called our Braddell campus home for almost two years now, and we continue with eforts to sink our roots and make this a warm and inviting home. I’d like to highlight some steps our girls have made to do this. This year, the RGS Cogitare Club planted a Butterfy Garden for RGS girls and staf. I’d like to thank them for this beautiful and green space where you and I can take a rest in the company of butterfies that have been attracted to our garden.
I’d also like to commend and thank our students for using their talents to inspire us, their audience, and readers, and to allow us to draw deeper connectedness with one another. in.re.trospect is an anthology of creative works by Year 1 to 4 students that they’ve created to provide an escape from the gloom of the pandemic and to connect the
RGS community through their creative works. Capturing the refection of students on diverse issues through works of poetry, photography and art, these original works convey the unique perspectives and voices of RGS girls. Thank you, girls, for sharing and using your talent to provoke, to inspire and to
I’d also like to celebrate the way we have all reached out for greater connectedness with the communities around us. Our students did not let COVID get in the way of their eforts to serve the community. You’ve simply adjusted your eforts as the safe management measures changed. When it was safer to do so, activities like cleaning homes of the elderly in our neighbourhood were carried out. When safe management measures were heightened, you pivoted and found other ways to serve and engage virtually via Zoom. There
for 75 families around the Braddell-Toa Payoh community. Leading up to the festive season of Hari Raya, Muslim staf raised funds as part of a longrunning CSR initiative, the Ramadan Rations Project. Our students taking Higher Malay and Malay Special Programme produced beautiful handmade cards that accompanied the NTUC vouchers for the seniors living in the vicinity of Mei Ling Street.
This third activity was a collaboration between RGS girls and the alumnae. Our former campus, as all of you know, at Anderson, now serves as a space where foreign domestic workers can gather and participate in activities safely. To make the ladies feel welcomed, RGS girls penned messages of appreciation on specially designed cards that were then distributed to them. The RGSA donated yoga mats and conducted a yoga wellness session and a well-being talk. Thank you, RGSA, for role-modelling giving back to society for your younger sisters.
The RGS Experience has enabled our girls to shine and excel. The ‘A’ Level results, a culmination of the six-year Rafles Programme, has consistently seen good results by our girls. 25 of our girls achieved at least 8 distinctions, while 104 of them achieved 7 or more distinctions. 126 of our girls or about one-third of the cohort achieved a perfect university admission score. This is very good performance girls,
produced outstanding performances at this year’s Singapore Youth Festival Arts Presentation with 11 Certifcates of Distinction, 1 Certifcate of Commendation and 2 Certifcates of Accomplishment. This is no mean feat as the groups faced many constraints due to safe management measures. Well done girls!
The National School Games (NSG) adopted a calibrated approach – there was a small handful of selected sports allowed in the NSG. Even under such circumstances, RGS girls rose to the occasion and attained excellent results for all the games we participated in. Well done, team RGS!
For the uniformed groups, the usual team and unit competitions could not be carried out because of COVID-19, and only individual awards were presented in the past two years. Still, these pinnacle individual awards are possible only because of the strong teams that our cadets came from, the strong esprit de corps in every one of our UGs. Congratulations to the award winners and to our uniformed groups!
Our teams continue to turn in excellent results in diferent competitions this year. I’ll highlight just a couple of them. At the Singapore Young Physicists’ Tournament this year, the RGS category A team set a new record with a silver award after pitting their skills against other teams, including teams from the junior colleges. This achievement is the best showing by RGS since taking part in category A of the tournament. Our category B team also clinched a silver award.
Despite the constraints of COVID-19, our girls adapted and
At the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair, 19 projects were shortlisted for fnal judging. RGS projects achieved 2 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze, 3 merit and 4 special awards. In addition,
two outstanding projects were selected to represent Singapore internationally at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and the Broadcom Masters International. The team made up of Celyn Chng, Low Iing, and Tay Li Ann were given the 2nd award for their research on supplementation of Lactobacillus casei to reverse the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Congratulations to the teams and their teacher-mentors.
For the competitions that went on for the clubs and societies, many of them had to take an online format. RGS debaters emerged overall champion at the Youth Debate Open Tournament this year, and runners-up at the Debate Association Championships. After a hiatus, RGS participated in the National Malay Debate Competition and emerged overall champion. My thanks to RGS alumnae and former RGS debaters Nazihah Husna and Murni Nadra for volunteering and coming back to support their younger sisters and to mentor our debaters. Well done, girls!
All our success and achievements mean nothing if it doesn’t come hand-in-hand with the appreciation of the people behind the scenes, who contribute to them, and they are our team of staf. Our teachers and staf role model the ethos of our school. They collaborate, not only towards enriching the RGS community, but they reach out to enrich the teaching fraternity as a whole, through initiatives such as the PeRL Refective Practitioner Symposium, which benefted 62 schools in Singapore and the PEDTalks.
I’d like to specially highlight this group of teachers, who out of a sense of fun and curiosity over the past June holidays decided to team up. They named themselves RGSandbox and they took part in the Microsoft Singapore Power
to thank several members of the RGS family. First, former Principal Mrs Poh Mun See, who played an instrumental role in the move to our Braddell Rise campus. Thank you, Mrs Poh, for your leadership of the school, for settling us all safely here at the end of 2019, just in time before COVID-19 hit.
I’d also like to thank someone very special and well-loved by many generations of RGS girls, and by our staf – Justice Judith Prakash. Justice Prakash served as Chairperson of the RGS Board of Governors for 25 years with dedication and tenacity, leading the school through many key milestones, such as the implementation of the Rafles Programme and the move to our campus here at Braddell Rise, never finching in the face of dificult decisions. Her roots in RGS run deep, and the legacy that she has built during her tenure will remain as important chapters of our RGS story. We as a whole RGS family honour and thank Justice Judith Prakash for her contributions to the RGS community. It is ftting then, that our Leadership Development Centre is named after Justice Prakash. The Justice Prakash Leadership Development Centre is a space where students lead the way and work together to make a positive
to guide the school.
Our heartfelt thanks also to all the members of the RGS Board of Governors for your strong support of our school programmes and confdence in our leadership team. To the parents, the wonderful members of the Parents for RGS Association and the RGS Alumnae who role model and do so much to connect RGS girls past and present.
The pandemic presented great challenges and devastation, but also opportunities and hidden blessings. It has been a challenging but rewarding year, and it has made us all see more clearly how our fne tradition of excellence has never been just about our excellent results and achievements – our excellence is the indomitable RGS spirit itself, passed onto us by our predecessors. Our excellence is in our commitment to care for, lift up and inspire one another to always aspire, strive and dare to be active creators of a better age for all.
Filiae Melioris Aevi.
Yours sincerely,
Ms Haslinda Zamani Principal Rafles Girls’ School
I am grateful for this opportunity to show my appreciation to a community which has given me so much.
From my last month as a Year 4 student in RGS, I wondered what RGS would mean to me after graduation. I thought of the seniors who visited the campus to catch up with teachers, the alumnae in university robes who took graduation photos in the campus, and the many faces I saw at the Homecoming held in the Anderson campus a while back. It was hard to understand their jealous expressions and nostalgic sighs when they saw us having PE at the netball court. Now, I cannot help but put on the same expression, reminiscing about the memories I’ve made here.
As such, I would like to share with you some of the insights I have gained in my story of soul-searching as an RGS girl. I sincerely hope that these chapters of thoughts from my story may provide some
guided me to become the person I am today.
When facing a challenge, a single sentence guides my actions: I am grateful for my struggles, for without them I would have no opportunity to discover my strengths. While never quite a “wall”, the challenges I have faced in my life as a student have stood as a tall mirror in front of me. From research projects, to leadership positions, to balancing family time with schoolwork, when faced with an obstacle, I was compelled to make sincere choices. Upon refecting on these choices, I would discover my inner motivations and abilities. As the owner of your own headspace, you have the will and agency to overcome these challenges. It is with this sense of responsibility and awareness, that you will learn to start choosing for yourself. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes now – RGS is the ball pit to your
This is the struggle RGS girls face today – as daughters of the future where should we look towards? In this evolving world, what should we fght for? And how much of myself do I have to overcome to reach my full potential? Truth be told, I still don’t have the answers to these questions myself. But my time at RGS has given me opportunity to dwell upon these questions and my place in this world. Believe me, being able to dwell on your place in society, and having choices to decide where that is, is a privilege. I hope that no matter which path you decide on: the lone path through the Gobi desert in search of water for a parched community; or travelling to the heart of the Amazon past the lurking shadows to test your bravery, you will do it out of love and respect for your work, for the people around you, and for yourself.
Wherever you go, remember where you came from and who lifted you on their shoulders to bring you to where you are. They say that the more grateful you are, the more you have to be grateful for. To me it’s more than opening the mind to positivity – it is acknowledging the love and support from the people around you, be it your family, your friends, or the staf and teachers you meet in school. The thing I miss most about RGS is the community. In retrospect, there were so many opportunities for us to show appreciation, not just on the special days which called for it like teachers’ day and friendship day, but also during everyday interactions. I hope that you will remember not to take things for granted and learn to appreciate the little things.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have shaped me into the person I am today. All my subject teachers who have guided me endlessly, especially my Year 4 Form Teacher, Miss Hii, my Prefectorial Board teachers, Ms Angel Lim, Ms Chen. Special thanks goes to my
Treasurer Mr Daniel Soh Retired Ms Haslinda Zamani Principal, Rafles Girls’ School
Ms Chong Lo Lan Pearlyn Managing Director, Oaktree Capital Management Pte Ltd
Member Mr Christopher Gee Kok Aun Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
Member Dr Kong Hwai Loong Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist, Icon Cancer Centre Adjunct Associate Professor, NUS
Member Mr Lim Soon Hock Managing Director, Plan-B ICAG Pte Ltd
Member Ms Ong Yeng Fang Head, UOB Private Bank
Member Mr Kwee Chin Wei Kevin Executive Director, Laguna National
Member Dr Elaine Lim Hsuen Doctor, National Cancer Centre
Member Dr Lee Jong Jian Ophthalmologist and Senior Partner, Rafles Hospital
Member Ms Mariam Jaafar Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Member Prof Jackie Yi-Ru Ying Director, NanoBio Lab and A*STAR Senior Fellow
Tribute
Rain and cloud and empty night And the weight of the helm; Her moon-clear eyes, burning bright, Steer on towards land.
The surge of the pilot’s fight Carves paths through sweeping time –Viscous dark and murky light Part around nib-silver wings.
And so today our pilot alights, Come through thunder and lightning; The craft continues to starry heights, Etched with her steadfast touch.
“We have reached a situation in Singapore where women have attained equal opportunity in education. My vision for the future is for RGS to produce students not just of exceptional scholastic calibre, but girls who have imbibed from a highly charged cultural and nurturing atmosphere, a high sense of moral and social responsibility and grace and ability with which to handle such responsibility.”
Armed with that vision, you have served on the Board for 25 years with dedication and tenacity, leading us through key milestones and never finching in the face of dificult decisions.
Your roots in RGS run deep, and the legacy that you have built during your 25 years of tenure will remain as important chapters of our RGS story.
For your 25 years of leadership on the RGS Board of Governors…
Thank you , Justice Prakash .
Chairperson, RGS Board of Governors (1995-2020)
Poem ‘The Pilot , composed by RGS Year 2 (2020) student, Veronica Shen
Dr Prama Sundari (Head, Science) 89. Ms Lee Tien (Assistant Head, Biology) 90. Ms Cheong Szu Chuang (Assistant Head, Physics) 91. Mrs Rachel Pang (Assistant Head, Chemistry) 92. Mr Yang Kian Hong 93. Dr Lim Ai Khim 94. Mrs Angela Teo 95. Ms Tan Siu Guan 96. Ms Cindy Tiong 97. Dr Jefrey Lee 98. Mr Tan Wei Lun 99. Mr Joseph Lim 100. Ms Chia Wei Ling 101. Ms Angel Lim 102. Mr Tan Hup Yew 103. Ms Norazlin Binte Normin 104. Ms Neo Yining 105. Dr Choong Tsui Wei 106. Ms Khng Umay 107. Mr Lim Seow Yi 108. Ms Chua Xin Yu 109. Mrs Lucille Yap (Head, Consultancy) 110. Miss Foo Ling Ling (Head, Professional Development) 111. Mrs Tan Kum Chee (Lead Teacher) 112. Mrs Chew Meek Lin (Lead Teacher) 113. Mrs Leung Hui Leng (Senior Teacher) 114. Mrs Jassie Teo (Senior Teacher) 115. Ms Sandi Kum (Senior Teacher – Special Educational Needs) 116. Mr Lim Er Yang (Senior Teacher) 117. Mr Chan Sau Siong (Senior Teacher) 118. Mr Azahar Bin Mohamed Noor (Specialist) 119. Ms Tan Yen Chuan (Specialist) 120. Ms Regina Lee (Head, Character & Citizenship Education) 121. Ms Audrey Chen (Assistant Head, Student Leadership Development) 122. Ms Tifany Cheong (Assistant Head, Citizenship Education) 123. Mr Lim Shi Zhi (Assistant Head, Service Learning) 124. Mrs Tan Yin Lai (Head, Information & Communications Technology) 125. Mrs Eriyanty Mohammad (Head, Student Management) 126. Mrs Lee Hwee Ling (Head of Year, Year 1) 127. Mrs Sulastiri Anis (Head of Year, Year 2) 128. Mrs Hasanah Alfe (Head of Year, Year 3) 129. Ms Nora Kamsir (Head of Year, Year 4)
Ms May Tan (Deputy Principal, Student Development)
First row: Ms Chin Jen Fu (Deputy Principal, Academic Studies), Ms May Tan (Deputy Principal, Student Development), Ms Haslinda Zamani (Principal), Mrs Mary George Cheriyan (Deputy Principal, Centre for PeRL & Community Engagement), Ms Yeo Soo Ling (Director, Student Development)
Curricular Activities), Ms Regina Lee (Head, Character & Citizenship Education), Ms Stella Picca (Head, English Language & Literature), Ms Carmen Hoo (Head, Mathematics)
Third Row: Mr Joseph Toh (Head, Talent Development), Mr Mohammad Faizal (Head, Humanities), Miss Yeo Soo Ling (Director, Student Development), Ms Lee Szer Yuen (Head, Languages), Ms Anna Loo (Head, Aesthetics), Mrs Eriyanty Mohammad (Head, Student Management), Mrs Tan Yin Lai (Head, Information & Communications Technology)
First row: Mdm Tan Lee Khim (Assistant Head, Languages), Dr Prama Sundari (Head, Science), Mdm Tan Bee Lain (Assistant Head, Languages), Mrs Mary George Cheriyan (Deputy Principal, Centre for PeRL & Community Engagement), Miss Ong Shu Juin (Assistant Head, Inquiry & Advocacy), Miss Yeo Soo Ling (Director, Student Development)
Second row: Mrs Lee Hwee Ling (Head of Year, Year 1), Mrs Sulastiri Anis (Head of Year, Year 2), Mrs Alina Wee (Assistant Head, Physical Education), Mrs Hasanah Alfe (Head of Year, Year 3), Mrs Eriyanty Mohammad (Head, Student Management), Miss Foo Ling Ling (Head, Professional Development), Mrs Rachel Pang (Assistant Head, Chemistry)
Third row: Mr Lim Shi Zhi (Assistant Head, Service Learning), Mr Michael Jalleh (Director, Academic Studies), Mr Mohammad Faizal (Head, Humanities), Mr Yeo Jun Han (Assistant Head, Geography), Mr Nicholas Tan (Assistant Head, English Language)
Fourth row: Mr Shaun De Souza (Assistant Head, Talent Development), Mr Joseph Toh (Head, Talent Development), Mr Koh King Koon (Assistant Head, Mathematics)
First row: Ms Goh Lee Kian (Director, Planning & Infrastructure), Ms May Tan (Deputy Principal, Student Development), Ms Chin Jen Fu (Deputy Principal, Academic Studies), Ms Haslinda Zamani (Principal), Ms Juliana Chia (Bursar), Ms Lee Su Yin (Director, Communications & Partnerships)
Second row: Ms Stella Picca (Head, English Language & Literature), Ms Tifany Cheong (Assistant Head, Citizenship Education), Ms Cheong Szu Chuang (Assistant Head, Physics), Ms Lee Szer Yuen (Head, Languages), Ms Regina Lee (Head, Character & Citizenship Education), Mrs Tan Yin Lai (Head, Information & Communications Technology)
Third row: Ms Lee Tien (Assistant Head, Biology), Ms Nora Kamsir (Head of Year, Year 4), Ms Audrey Chen (Assistant Head, Student Leadership Development), Ms Malyanah Mawar (Assistant Head, Literature), Ms Magdalene Suey (Head, Physical Education & Co-Curricular Activities)
Fourth row: Ms Chrislin Lee (Assistant Head, Co-Curricular Activities), Ms Goh Li Meng (Assistant Head, Mathematics), Ms Anna Loo (Head, Aesthetics), Ms Carmen Hoo (Head, Mathematics)
From lef to right: Ms Goh Lee Kian (Director, Planning & Infrastructure), Mr Muhammad Mutakabbir Not in frame: Mr Arul Victor 2. Mr Leong Fook Weng (Manager, Operations)
From lef to right: Ms Azreena Mohd, Ms Cindy Liu, Ms Juliana Chia (Bursar), Ms Gina Soh (Manager, Finance)
From lef to right: Ms Haslinda Zamani (Principal) Ms Adelene Ng (Personal Assistant)
First row: Mr Zhang Runsheng, Ms Goh Lee Kian Mr Morris Gabriel (Assistant Manager, Information Technology) Second row: Mr Muhammad Shahid, Mr Myo Thura Lwin, Mr Muhammad Ameen, Ms Teo Yen Li
(101) Vikki Wong Ziqi
(101) Sarah Jane Kesavan
(101) Adlyn Binte Rizal
(102) Lee Renny Yi Qi
(102) Shaine Pang Wan Xuan
(102) Adabelle Tan Siying (Chen Siying)
(103) Teia Lee En Ting
(103) Wu Sophia
(103) Lai Qi Xuan
(104) Chloe Low
(104) Janani Balamurugan
(104) Chloe Ming Lee
(105) Lim Yi Hui Chloe
(105) Srenidhi Perinbanathan
(105) Tan Yan Ting Japhanie (Chen Yanting)
(106) Kaiyama Sayu
(106) Mok Yi Xuan, Andrea
(106) Koh Chloe (Xu Shaohan)
(107) Tan Rui Yin
(107) Vanshika Vijay
(107) Hannah Chung Xin Yew
(108) Then Wan Yee
(108) Smrithi C Iyer
(108) Alyssa Aw Yong Huey
(109) Balakrishnan Shamita
(109) Ruddock Vanessa Fei
(109) Shi Xuanyi, Claire
(110) Wong E Vee
(110) Tan Shi Qi Jovie (Chen Shiqi)
(110) Hannah Chua Yun Han
(111) Patricia Cayadi
(111) Wong Yu Wen Sarah
(111) Tang Wanyu Hannah
(112) Tammy Cheong Jing Wen
(112) Hong Jimin
(112) Anne Mathea Yap Ee Kuan
(101) Lee Guat Ghee (Li Yueyi)
(101) Lisha Annika Jaya Shankar
(101) Gladys Koh Wei Le
(102) Ho Ying En, Luanne
(102) Diya Ashik
(102) Yang Wangyi
(103) Joshuanne Yeh Su En (Ye Su’en)
(103) Hajar Binte Mohamed Hanes
(103) Celeste Keira Ng Qi Qi
(104) Kee Ya Han
(104) Tan Jacinth
(104) Zafrah Binte Sabir Mohamed
(105) Yeo Xuan Hui (Yang Xuanhui)
(105) Zhou Linxuan Sophia
(105) Lau Yan Jun Angelina
(106) Katelyn Lai Jia Yee
(106) Trinity Lee Ju Hoong (Li Rouyun)
(106) Tan Ashley
(107) Ho Wan Hoon (He Wanyun), Charlotte
(107) Leong Way Shann Clara
(107) Drinah Sim Si Yin
(108) Jin Bofang
(108) Sui Ziqian
(108) Magesh Gayathri
(109) Rino Hossain
(109) Chloe Ng Kai Yi
(109) Lai Rei En (110) Zhang Yunxuan (110) Kaylyn Tjhin (110) Lim Xuan Yu, Julia (111) Liu Xiting (111) Dana Heng (111) Nandini Mandal (112) Chiara Jane Wee (112) Chia Jia En (112) Chen Kaixuan Michelle
Mrs Lee Hwee LingToh Yih Chern (201)
Erin Helena Nur Efendi (201)
Alethea Ong Joh Woon (201)
Eva Reiko Taguchi (202)
Lu Renyi (202)
Zhu Yixuan (202)
Yeo Eng Hsi Chelsea (203)
Queck Jing Er (203)
Bao Tianrong (203)
Sarah Toh Si Min (204)
Janarakshini Gnanaprakash (204)
Loh
Xuan Lin, Natalie (204)
Lucia Znidaric (205)
Chang Zixin (205)
Lu Zhiyue (205)
Yeo Hui Yu (206)
Trisha Sivakumar (206)
Kim En Bi (206)
Mrs Sulastiri Anis
Vijayakumar Taralekha Rani (207)
Tay Yi Xuan, Sharie (207)
Meredith Ng Min (207)
Sarah Dharmarasu (208)
Natalie Ang (208)
Pan Luo (208)
Saravanan Neha (209)
Ethel Kam Tien (209)
Megan Goh Luay Min (209)
Prajna Mathaley (210)
Tian Yuhan (210)
Teo Hui Sian (210)
Ananya Sinha (211)
Tan Xinyi (211)
Hailey Sim Zhi Rui (211)
Ng Ray Qi Rachel (212)
Tan Jie’En (212)
Rhea Sharma (212)
Nicole Wong
Juha
Jiyeon
Sally Shi Yun
Rene
Jia Shing
Zenia
Valencia
Evelyn
Xin Yue
Ashlyn
Yue Sing
EH 我跟你讲啊
ggressive chinese mbling* -Ms Lim
Are y ' all tired? I'll give you 5min to nap -Ms Lee
YES OR YES
Yoohoo girls - Mrs Chan
*pulls out xbox controllers * today we ' re gonna play street fighter - Mr Fadhly
If you have a new discov ah, don 't tell anyone,, exce for me. -Mr Yang
Have FUN! =) - Dr Choong
Do I look like I drink bubble tea? -Mr Lim
Where ' s the class? In the toilet again ah...- Ms Mo
Mr Lim Seow Yi
Mdm Aliah Binte Mohamed Sharif
Ms Chang Jia Yin
Ms Hing Siew Bee
Mr Nicholas Tan
Ms
Teachers in-Charge
Mdm Ng Peck Wee
Mrs Alina Wee
Mdm Zhang Hao
Coaches
Coach Shen Yang Coach Tan Jun
Captain: Summer Koh Kai En (404)
‘B’ Division Group event at NSG 2021.
Vice-Captain: Chloe Tan Xue Ying (404)
Secretary and Treasurer: Kate Wu Ruiqi (411)
‘C’ Division Captain: Sheer Ng Xi Er (203)
‘C’ Division Vice-Captain: Tan Xin Yi Hannah (202)
Achievements/Notable Mentions
National School Games Rhythmic Gymnastics
Championships 2021
‘B’ Division Runners-Up
Individual Category
Olivia Low (307) - 4th Clubs, 5th Individual All-Around
Ariel Teo (310) - 2nd Hoop, 5th Clubs
Vera Tay (311) - 1st Hoop, 6th Clubs
Chloe Tan (404) -
Kate Wu (411) -
Group Event Category - 1st
Olivia Low (307), Ariel Teo (310), Vera Tay (311), Chloe Tan (404), Kate Wu (411), Summer Koh (414)
FIG Optional Routine Category
Kaitlyn Chia (314) - 3rd Hoop, 6th Clubs, 3rd Ribbon, 3rd Individual All-Around
Faith Luah (405) - 6th Ball
Achievements/Notable Mentions Singapore Youth Sailing Championship
25th out of 92: Grace Ling Koy (102) 27th out of 92: Nicole Ng Hui Hong (102)
14th out of 92: Ong Ee Shyen Ella (102)
17th out of 92: Fang Si Wei Hayley (202)
Individual Windsurfng Class 9th out of 12: Ariel Chang (202)
12th out of 44: Lim Yuting Elisha (202)
3rd out of 5: Annika Chui Chia En (301)/
2021 has been an eventful year for the RGS Sailing Team. Being a small team with eight members, we have become a closer, tight-knit family through the ups and downs of the year. We have forged invaluable memories with one another through CCA training and competitions, all fueled by our passion and love for sailing. Unfortunately, we were unable to take part in the National School Games this year as it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Despite all the disruptions, we will continue to work hard and support one another to scale greater heights together!
Our Optimist Sailing Team launching during CCA.
Our CCA prepared a board with well wishes from past and present sailors for our teacher-in-charge, Ms Chrislin Lee, during Teachers’ Day!
Teacher-in-Charge
Mrs Jonathan-Tan Hai Nee
‘B’ Division Vice-Captain: Yau Mei Hui, Tricia (402)
Secretary cum Treasurer: Rachael Tay Wei Hui (402)
Rachael Yeo Ying Xuan (202)
‘C’ Division Vice-Captain: Lynette Some Xuan Hui (203)
For the past year, due to SMM restrictions, we have had to formulate new ideas and be creative in planning for our CT sessions. For example, we organised hands-on crafting sessions to stimulate creativity. In addition, we kept the focus for each session to a central theme, with the main objective being to foster a stronger bond between the team members. During the period where we had HBL, we shifted our focus to online platforms with monthly zoom meetings so that we could not only check up on each other, but also continue to maintain the strong bonds that had been established.
The RGswim team participating in a CT session.
Presenting the 2021 ‘C’ Division: (front row, left to right) Emily Ong, Josline Leet, Kayla Koh, Rachael Yeo, Muse Goh, (back row, left to right) Chloe Hua, Charlotte Chiang, Reanne Tan, Lynette Some, R’yen Ong, Phoebe Ng, Jesslyn Goh, Elisa Tho, Klaire Ho.
CT Group 3 showcasing their creative product built via teamwork and innovation.
April 2021
RGS students penned messages of appreciation on specially-designed cards that were distributed to participants of the Centre for Domestic Employees (CDE). The event was extra special because it was held at the Anderson campus where RGS was located before moving to our present site at Braddell Rise.
Gracing the event was Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Manpower, Ms Gan Siow Huang, who is herself an RGS alumna. The RGS Alumnae Association also conducted a well-being talk followed by a wellness yoga session, as well as provided yoga mats for the session.
It is heartening to see RGS girls, past and present, pitching in to build a more caring and inclusive society by spreading positivity through words and action.
As part of a green initiative by the RGS Cogitare Club (a Mathematics, Science and Environmental CCA in RGS), a Butterfy Garden was oficially launched on 23 April 2021!
The Butterfy Garden, located across the school’s Eco-Garden on level 1, aims to:
• Create a colourful and green space for staf and students alike to learn about and enjoy nature
• Increase awareness of green spaces in RGS
• Protect butterfies, bees and other pollinators (these species, while vulnerable, are essential in the reproduction of many fowering plants, preserving the genetic diversity of the garden by allowing natural selection to continue to take place)
“Along with other members of the RGS Cogitare Club, we started working on the Butterfy Garden at the end of 2020 by frst brainstorming ideas for the type of plants that we wanted to have in the garden. We also talked about whether we wanted a Spice Garden, Vegetable Garden or a Butterfy Garden, which was eventually decided on through a vote by all of our members.
Our CCA teachers-in-charge also engaged an instructor to teach us how to garden properly and not just swing spades around, and thereafter, over three to four sessions this year, we enlisted our CCA members to plant the plants, prune, do stem-cutting, and overall, learn the workings of the garden so that we can propagate the Butterfy Garden.
We hope that visitors to the Butterfy Garden will understand the biodiversity that it can attract to the school because with such a great variety of plants, we have noticed that it has already been attracting quite a few species of butterfies, more than four at any given time! We also hope that visitors realise the importance of having shared green spaces and how we should provide for nature, because within this same environment, it is not only a relaxing green retreat for our students and staf to enjoy and a nice view to have, but it also allows the butterfies to have a home here in RGS.
Over time, we want to expand the garden so that it will no longer just be individual plots of plants, but rather, a larger expanse of greenery. We also hope to create a path for the garden made up of recycled materials.”
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, both our Open Houses for the year remained as virtual experiences for all our visitors with the Open House Committee and key personnel working on the microsite to ensure that visitors to our virtual Open House had as informative and immersive an experience as being at the RGS campus in person.
More than 300 participants from 61 secondary schools attended the RGS PeRL e-Symposium. With the theme “Transformative Teaching and Learning”, participants of the e-Symposium were invited to ‘pursue, discover and develop’ best practices, technology-enhanced pedagogy and high-yield instructional strategies to maximise the impact on student learning.
For the frst time, a series of Masterclass sessions were held. These sessions were conducted in response to our own observation that teachers are keen to source out ideas and perspectives beyond their own school walls.
We are grateful to our keynote speaker, masterclass speakers and all the presenters for sharing their insights and wisdom. Our many thanks also go out to the session hosts and participants for making this event a success.
guests, Ms Adele Tan (Class of 1990), Group Director of Strategic Planning, Urban Redevelopment Authority and Ms Attiya Bte Ashraf Ali (Class of 2011), Vice President, Mendaki Club, to deliver their pre-recorded speeches, which left food for thought for many of us.
The highlight of the concert segment was the “LoveSG”and Fashion Parade items. The “LoveSG” item requires the Year 4 classes to plan and execute creative and humorous skits that highlighted their iteration of the Singapore Spirit. Similarly, the meticulously designed Singapore themed outfts by the Year 4 classes during the Fashion Parade had everyone in awe too! The celebrations culminated in a Prize Presentation and a formal Recognition of Staf Recipients of the National Day Commendation and Long Service Awards.
Overall, the celebrations ended with a fourish and we could not have done it without everyone chipping in together, our RGS and Singapore spirit!
Happy National Day, Singapore!
2 September 2021
The theme for this year’s Teacher Day Celebrations was ‘Colour My World’, which aims to convey how teachers have brought colours into the lives of their students. Everyone was encouraged to dress in their House Colours, which brought about a cheery atmosphere on a rainy morning.
Numerous awards were given out this morning as well, including appreciation notes to respective groups of non-teaching staf, RGS Staf Awards 2020 as well as the National Day Awards 2021.
Special thanks to the Parents for RGS Association for preparing a sumptuous Staf Appreciation Day Lunch for the school staf, complete with customised cupcakes and an eco-friendly door gift, as well as the RGS Alumnae Association for sending over an exquisite fower arrangement accompanied by a lovely Thank You note for all our staf.
Happy Teachers’ Day to all our teaching staf. Your dedication in nurturing Daughters of a Better Age is truly unparalleled!
Five RGS Year 4 school-based research project teams took part in the 22nd International Elementz Fair, of which two were shortlisted for the fnal judging on 20 April 2021. Congratulations to the teams and teacher-mentors for their good work!
Sanjuana Jensine Dharmaraj
Sabrina Tong Ning En
Selee Wele D/O Sanjay Wele
Naomi Wang Chencheng
Faith Ang Xin Ying
Edith Lim Li Xin
Loh En Hui Vivien
Leng Wen Si
Gnanavelou Mirudhula
Hsiao Jia Ying Meneha Ravichandran
Amrita Anbuchezhian
Phang Sher Hui Janelle
Tan Xiao Zhuang
Inhibition of microalgal growth by utilising allelochemicals found in local plant species
Optimising of algae-based fertilisers on growth of Brassica rapa var. parachinensis
Investigating the effects of LED light and sunlight on bean plants
Effects of nitrogenous compounds in soil on plantpollinator (bees) interactions
Plant seeds as biofuels - An approach to conserving biodiversity, reducing carbon footprint and strengthening food security
Gold Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Bronze Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Commendation Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Commendation Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Commendation Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Through their research journey, the students learnt the value of group work, tenacity and a systematic approach to understand and solve a problem through their projects.
On 9 April 2021, our very own Srikandi Rafles – consisting of Year 3 students Arissa Kamaruzaman, Falisha Dina, and Year 4 students Iman Nabilah Yasmeen, and Sherlita Almeyra – managed to emerge as champions out of a pool of 16 teams for Bahas 4PM 2021 (Secondary Level).
From February until April, they underwent intensive training sessions, and competed in the Preliminary, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Finals in consecutive weeks. Eventually, they emerged as the grand champions after tough battles with many worthy opponents.
We would like to thank our teachers and alumni, Cikgu Nuraini, Cikgu Nadiah, Ms Murni and Ms Nazihah for their unwavering guidance and support throughout the competition as they helped the girls refne their speeches and hone their debating skills.
Organised by The Malay Youth Literary Association (4PM), Bahas 4PM is a national Malay-language debating competition which has been well received among the national oratorical competitions since 1993.
The East Zone A*STAR Science Fair is part of the annual STEM Festival organised by the Science & Technology Centre @ VJC. The Fair aims to inspire and foster an interest in STEM amongst secondary students. It allows participants to develop an appreciation of the impact of STEM on their life, the environment, and society. The Fair was held entirely online this year.
Two Year 4 school-based research project teams from RGS took part in the fair and achieved the following results:
Sanjuana Jensine Dharmaraj
Inhibition of microalgal
Sabrina Tong Ning En Selee Wele D/O Sanjay Wele
growth by utilising allelochemicals found in local plant species
Bronze Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Naomi Wang Chencheng Faith Ang Xin Ying
Optimising of algae-based fertilisers on growth of Brassica rapa var. parachinensis
Participation Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Congratulations to Team Rafles!
Srikandi Rafles (from left) Arissa, Falisha, Iman and Sherlita.
The Future Problem Solving Program Virtual International Conference was held from 9-14 June 2021 with participants from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States of America. During the conference, 63 Community Problem Solving projects were shared, 203 Global Issues Problem Solving teams wrote booklets and 138 Scenario Writers responded to a Neurotechnology Future Scene.
The following are the achievements of our Year 4 RGS teams who participated in the conference:
The team aims to cultivate a responsible mindset towards animal welfare in the community on the signifcance of responsible pet ownership and to see people actively cultivate responsible pet ownership habits in order to lower pet abandonment. The team plans to target the general population because there should not be a demographic bias for cultivating habits for pet ownership, but more eforts will be targeted at young and impressionable youths who are mature enough to understand, cultivate and practice responsible pet ownership.
Team
The team advocates against cyberbullying among youths aged 13 to 17 in Singapore. Cyberbullying is an issue that is becoming increasingly prevalent in Singapore, with three in four youths being afected by it. In recent times, the global pandemic has forced structural changes in their learning environment and our youths have become more vulnerable to cyberbullying with increased curriculum and studying time spent online. This project aims to empower youths, both victims and bystanders, to take a stand against cyberbullying and deal with it appropriately and safely. Through its initiatives, the team hopes to increase the number of youths who are proactive and confdent in deterring cyberbullying, so as to promote and establish a safer online environment for students in Singapore schools in the year 2020 and beyond.
Members: Sarah Claire Ng Yan Rong, Manya Sethi, Lee Xuan and Reine Ong Eng Qin
mentored by Mr Yeo Jun Han placed 4th in the Civic/Cultural & Environmental Concerns’ category.
Team Members: Esther Woon Sue Ann, Wang Yining Marianne, Chew Shao Yee, Clarissa Lee Yen Yee, Gwen Chong Jia Yng, Joyce Yeo Fu Xuan, Aw Kai’En and Lim Yann Ying, Kayla
mentored by Mdm Aliah Sharif placed 5th in the Education category.
mentored by Ms Nora Kamsir placed 6th in the Education category.
The team advocates for the cultivation of healthy device usage habits in children aged 5-9. In normal times, the risk of addiction to electronic devices is high. The unprecedented onset of COVID-19 that resulted in quarantine measures has increased the likelihood of children growing increasingly reliant on their devices especially with the implementation of Home-Based Learning (HBL). Parents also rely heavily on devices to entertain their restless children at home. Hence, Project deVICE has found it imperative to continue with their project so that the team would be able to alert parents and caregivers to the danger of device addiction.
Members:
The RGS team, mentored by Miss Foo Ling Ling, was awarded 9th place.
Charlene Ong Yingxin (class of 2020), mentored by Ms Ong Shu Juin, was awarded 8th place.
The Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) is an international student science project competition in biology, chemistry, physics and engineering, organised by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups.
The competition is a showcase of global youth scientifc achievement and innovation, which aims to promote science and technology. In addition, this competition aims to provide a platform for global youth to develop their creativity and scientifc mindsets, and facilitate the exchange of scientifc ideas, interests and abilities among young scientists all over the world.
In this year’s edition of the competition, a project from RGS was one of fve projects selected during the Singapore Science & Engineering Fair by MOE to represent Singapore. It was a project that the students worked on under Research@YDSP while they were in Year 4 in RGS in 2020.
We are proud to announce that the team consisting of members Glenda Tan Hui En and Goh Xin Ru Karin, performed very well and attained the Grand Prize – Bronze Award!
Team Tan Gin Juat, Megan Kwek Tze Ying, Lau Jia Shing, Atiqah Zahra Ahmed, Lim Xuan Qi, Aisyah Nur Humyra and Chloe Foo Team Members: Angela Meng Fantian, Liu Yihua, Mo Fei Ran and Ong Yi XinEight RGS teams represented the school in Category B – Unpowered Gliders of the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition (SAFMC) 2021, for which teams have to design and build small unpowered gliders to be bungee-launched in a bid to test the fight of their planes. The qualifying round involved a presentation via Zoom and the submission of a pre-competition video, while the fnal round involved the launch of their gliders.
Eventually, two RGS teams were shortlisted for the fnal round and Team The Soaring Kiddos won frst for the Most Creative and Aesthetic Award, while Team Era won frst for the Best Video Award!
In this year’s edition of the Singapore Energy Grand Challenge (Youth), students were invited to form teams of two-four students, and develop creative and impactful submissions based on the challenge statement “How would your carbon-free school, or neighbourhood in Singapore look like in 2050?” Participating teams had to develop their submissions using Minecraft, and submit a three-minute video.
Of the 10 participating RGS teams, four teams were shortlisted for the semi-fnals, where they attended a virtual clinic session designed to them understand Singapore’s Energy Story, the Energy Trilemma, and to learn useful Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE) skills that would aid them in the fnal submission.
Team 3R, consisting of Year 1 students Victoria Teo Yue Tong, Tan Xuan Ying and Kong Zi Yau Bernadette, was shortlisted for the fnals, and emerged eventual champions in the youth category!
Watch their winning entry at https://youtu.be/CsLMBzLRm2E
The Soaring Kiddos, consisting of RGS Year 1 students (from left) Chloe Lim Le Xuan, Lisha Annika Jaya Shankar and Jiang Yilin Corrine, presents their awardwinning glider. The team was mentored by teachers Mrs Angela Teo, Dr Jefrey Lee, Ms Neo Yining, Mr Shaun De Souza, Mdm Tan Siu Guan and Dr Prama Sundari.
Team Era is made up of RGS Year 4 students (from left) Kong Kei-Lyn, Liu Jiajia, Kwee Kayli, Avanie Joshi and Tan Jingyu Axil. Here they are presenting their glider prototypes. The team was mentored by teacher Mr Tan Wei Lun.
Team 3R being presented their trophy at the virtual prize presentation ceremony.
The Singapore Science & Engineering Fair (SSEF) is a national competition organised by the Ministry of Education, A*STAR and Science Centre Singapore, and is afiliated to the prestigious Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which is regarded as the Olympics of science research competitions.
Just as in 2020, SSEF 2021 took place virtually in lieu of safe distancing measures. A total of 470 projects were entered for the competition, of which 320 were shortlisted for the fnal judging on 31 March. RGS registered 24 projects for the competition, of which 19 were shortlisted for the fnal judging. Under the guidance of RGS teacher-mentors, the RGS projects achieved 2 Gold Awards, 3 Silver Awards, 2 Bronze Awards and 3 Merit Awards. 4 teams also received special awards for their projects:
NAME OF STUDENTSPROJECT TITLE
Celyn Chng
Tay Li Ann Low Iing (Class of 2020)
Glenda Tan Hui En
Goh Xin Ru Karin (Class of 2020)
Maggie Yao Chai Yinzhi
Aw Si Yu (Class of 2020)
Tham Yun Xin (Class of 2020)
Amrita Anbuchezhian Phang Sher Hui Janelle Tan Xiao Zhuang
Alysa Lee Mynn (Year 4)
Hong Wan Jing Bay Kai Fen, Kylie Yvette Teo Jin Yin (Class of 2020)
Lu Shiyi Rachel Sheryl Tay Ke Ying (Year 4)
Supplementation of Lactobacillus casei reduces -amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer Drosophila melanogaster
Stool Recognition for Colorectal Cancer Detection through Deep Learning
Supplementary DHA ameliorates motor and cognitive dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster model of Alzheimer’s Disease
AWARD
Gold
TEACHER-MENTOR
Dr Lim Ai Khim
Gold
SUTD R&I Award: Healthcare
Silver
Quantifcation of Kinetic Friction Coeffcient with Timoshenko Silver
Plant seeds as biofuels - An approach to conserving biodiversity, reducing carbon footprint and strengthening food security
Commendation
Cross-lingual Information Retrieval Silver
Investigation of Lactobacillus casei in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease in the Nematode Model Caenorhabditis elegans
Elucidating the role of MAMDC2 in head and neck squamous cancer
Bronze SUTD R&I Award: Healthcare
Bronze SUTD R&I Award: Healthcare
Mr Shaun De Souza
Dr Lim Ai Khim
Ms Cheong Szu Chuang
Dr Choong Tsui Wei Dr Jeffrey Lee
Mr Shaun De Souza
Ms Carmen Hoo
Ms Carmen Hoo
NAME OF STUDENTSPROJECT TITLE AWARD
Wee Jie Minn Phoebe
Sarah Wong Ee Min (Class of 2020)
Sun Xiaoqing (Class of 2020)
Komati Reddy Nikhita (Year 4)
Bernice Chong Boon Yen (Class of 2020)
Eddula Jyotsna Reddy
Aina Afrina Binte Mohd Faizal
Adeena Ansari (Year 4)
Where Does the Signal Come From?
Viscous flow around a bottle
Determining feasibility of mixed integer linear programming problem by machine learning
Merit
Merit
Merit
Reliability Design and the In-Orbit Lifetime of SatellitesParticipation SUTD R&I Award: Aviation
Investigating Methods of Producing Bioplastics and its Physical Properties with Different Amounts of HCI
Participation SAAS Special Award
Mr Shaun De Souza
Ms Cheong Szu Chuang
Mr Shaun De Souza
Mr Shaun De Souza
Ms Carmen Hoo
In the Junior Scientist category, a total of 32 projects were shortlisted, and under the guidance of our RGS teacher-mentors, all three of the RGS registered projects were shortlisted for the fnal judging, and the following are the teams’ achievements:
NAME OF STUDENTSPROJECT TITLE
Hilary Chee Xin Yi
Zhang Haiyun
Samushkova Anastasiya
Isabel Kye Li Ho
Chan Kai Ling
Joella Hau Ryae Ning
Constructing a Prototype of Air Filter out of Plant Materials
Prototyping Biodegradable Food Containers made from Durian Rind Material
Distinction (for Project)
Merit (for Video)
Merit (for Video)
Mr Chan Sau Siong
Dr Prama Sundari
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE TEAMS AND TEACHER-MENTORS FOR THEIR EXCELLENT WORK IN THE COMPETITION!
Two teams of RGS students represented the school at the Singapore Young Physicists’ Tournament (SYPT) 2021 under both Category A and Category B. After months of preparation, with both teams clearing the Shortlisting in January earlier this year, the teams entered the virtual tournament held on 6 March (Category B) and 13 March (Category A) respectively.
After four rounds of challenges, the Category B team comprising team leader Isabelle Ong Li Xin, members Noh Sangeun and Ye Qianshu (all from Year 4) clinched a Silver (5th) Award, while the Category A team comprising team leader Sun Xiaoqing, members Koay Tze Erhn and Xie Yunyin (all from the class of 2020) set a new record with a Silver (3rd) Award after pitting their skills against other teams, with some from Junior Colleges! The achievement by the Category A team is the best showing by RGS since taking part in Category A of the tournament.
Congratulations to the teams and also to our teachers Ms Angel Lim, Mr Tan Hup Yew, Mr Yang Kian Hong and Ms Cheong Szu Chuang who mentored the girls.
SYPT seeks to bring students through a process of what physicists do, from research to modelling, experimentation and fnally to an oral defence before peers and experts. It provides authentic learning experiences in the learning of physics. Participants of the SYPT stand to represent Singapore in the International Young Physicists’ Tournament. Traditionally held as a face-to-face competition, changes to the format of the tournament was made to adhere to Safe Management Measures, where teams have to go through a full-day of challenges held via Zoom meetings.
Category B team members (from left) Qianshu, Sangeun and Isabelle.
Te 2020 batch of RGS students in the Rafes Programme gave a strong showing in their GCE ‘A’ Level examination performance. 25 of our students (or 6.4% of the RGS candidates) achieved at least 8 distinctions, whilst 104 (or 26.7% of the RGS candidates) achieved 7 or more distinctions. 126 of our students (or 32.3% of the RGS candidates) achieved a perfect university admission score, achieving a mean university admission score of 84.0. 148 students (or 48.7% of the RGS candidates) achieved at least 4 H2 distinctions while 214 students (or 54.9% of the RGS candidates) attained at least 3 H2 distinctions.
From the 2020 ‘A’ Level cohort, the number of undergraduate scholarships ofered to RGS students by various agencies and universities are as follows:
• 3 Ministry of Defence (Mindef) Defence Merit Scholarship
• 3 Ministry of Defence (Mindef) Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Merit Scholarship
• 1 Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) Merit Undergraduate Scholarship
Alyssa Marie Loo Li Ann, a 2017 RGS alumnus and a student of the 2019 ‘A’ Level cohort, was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 2020 (information was embargoed till afer 2020 RGS Founder’s Day). From the earlier ‘A’ Level cohorts, the number of undergraduate scholarships ofered (afer 2020 RGS Founder’s Day) to RGS students by various agencies and universities are as follows:
• 1 President’s Scholarship
• 1 Public Service Commission (PSC) Scholarship - Medicine
• 1 Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) Information Service Scholarship
• 1 Ministry of Defence (Mindef) Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Scholarship –Medicine
• 3 Ministry of Education (MOE) Teaching Awards
• 1 Ministry of Education (MOE) Teaching Scholarship
• 1 Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Merit Scholarship
• 1 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) CN Yang Scholarship
• 2 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) College Scholarships
• 9 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Nanyang Scholarships
• 1 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School Scholarship
• 1 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Toh Kian Chui Scholarship
• 1 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) University Scholars Programme Scholarship
• 6 Singapore Management University (SMU) Global Impact Scholarship Awards
• 7 Singapore Management University (SMU) Lee Kong Chian Scholars’ Programmes
• 2 Singapore Management University (SMU) Merit Scholarship Programmes
• 1 Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Information Systems (SIS) Aspirations Scholarship
• 1 Singapore Management University (SMU) Sing Lun Scholarship
• 2 Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Scholarships
• 1 Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) Scholarship
• 3 Enterprise Singapore (ESG) Global Executive Scholarships
• 1 JTC Undergraduate Scholarship
• 1 People’s Association (PA) Undergraduate Scholarship
• 1 Public Utilities Board (PUB) Singapore Sustainability Scholarship
• 1 Singapore Food Agency (SFA) Singapore Sustainability Scholarship
• 2 Singapore-Industry Scholarship (SgIS)
In 2020-2021, our Year 1 to 4 students’ academic excellence was recognised in a number of awards and scholarships:
• 28 Ministry of Education (MOE) Edusave Character Awards
• 32 Ministry of Education (MOE) Edusave Good Progress Awards
• 1 Ministry of Education (MOE) Edusave Merit Bursary
• 76 Ministry of Education (MOE) Regional Studies Programme Scholarships
103Keira Natasha Simon Chinese Language
110Kim Jisoo Chinese Special Programme
107Mai Shia Glenys Khor English Language
110Ong Kai Ning, Elizabeth English Literature
102Ang Yu Xi, Sophie Geography
105Lu Zhiyue Higher Chinese
101Marisa Binte Rizal Higher Malay
108Kondareddy Iniya Higher Tamil
101Sim Jin Yen History
105Ling Sheng Ying Elizabeth Lower Secondary Science and Malay Special Programme
107Shu Yinjia Mathematics
101Yuen Wai Mun Janelle Music Elective Programme
103Beverly Seah Special Art Programme
• 3 Young Defence Scientists Programme (YDSP) Scholarships
• 2 Singapore Olympic Foundation – Peter Lim Scholarships (Encouragement Award)
203Levine Chin Sze Ing Chinese Language
211Gauri Lather Chinese Special Programme
203Chloe Saw Li En English Language
204Eashaa Pillai English Literature
206Yin Yue Geography
201Qian Yanyi Higher Chinese
203Falisha Dina Abdul JabbarHigher Malay
204Pandipperumal AaradhanaHigher Tamil
205Chandrasekaran Shreya History
205Hilary Chee Xin Yi Lower Secondary Science
205Khoo An Ying Malay Special Programme
203Wong Shi Xuan Mathematics
201Yu Jingwen Music Elective Programme
203Lei Siqi Special Art Programme
YEAR THREE 2020
309Tan Jingyu Axil Biology and Chemistry
301Ainsley Tan Nuan Leng Chinese Language
305Avanie Aniruddha Joshi Chinese Special Programme
305Huang Xinrui English Language
303Lim Tze You English Literature
307Loh En Hui Vivien Geography
302Chen Guo Higher Chinese
307Atiqah Zahra Ahmed Higher Malay
301 Hemalatha Anbukkani Vevega Vathani Higher Tamil
310Yeo Su Lyn Chloe Aiko History
305Wang Yining, Marianne Malay Special Programme
302Tan Jia Xuan Mathematics
303Isabelle Ong Li Xin Music Elective Programme
302Wang Lingyue Physics
310Esther Woon Sue Ann Inquiry and Advocacy
301Audrey Lim Huei-Li Special Art Programme
410Amanda Lai Mun Yee Biology
413Chloe Neo Yi Ting Chemistry
406Tan Si Min Nicole Chinese Language
410Sasaki Yuka Chinese Special Programme
401Goh Su En English Language
405Ujjayini Mukhopadhyay English Literature
405Goh Xin Ru Karin Geography
403Wan Yi Higher Chinese
407Sarrah Rose Binte Mikhail LeungHigher Malay
406Vencillaa Hendry Daniel ChitrarasuHigher Tamil
414Chua Jean Ee History
410Tham Yun Xin Malay Special Programme and Mathematics
405Chen Xinyu Music Elective Programme
408Koay Tze Erhn Physics
411Glenda Tan Hui En Physics
406Mei Feifei Inquiry and Advocacy
407Chua Han Ya Special Art Programme
101Sim Jin Yen
103Thecla Viyoshi Magha Anagaleka
103Yin Chengyan
105Ng Yi Poh
109Lee Min Jia
110Ashmi Chatterjee
110Lee Ze Pin Aretha
110Madupu Sanjana Reddy
112Lim Shi Hui Katrina
112Pan Wan Ting Christina
112Rashee Jha
112Sanvi Gupta
TOP IN LEVEL 2020
102 Ang Yu Xi, Sophie
201Wong Enya Claire
203Lei Siqi
204Eashaa Pillai
205Chandrasekaran Shreya
206Claudia Lim Zhi Xi
206Yin Yue
207Wang Xinning
208Liu Yiming
209Carolyn Por En Sze
209Heidi Lim Shih Ying
209Jemma Lee Miin Yee
211Gauri Lather TOP
205 Hilary Chee Xin Yi
302Chen Guo
302Sonakshi Nag
303Isabelle Ong Li Xin
305Wang Yining, Marianne
306Gnanavelou Mirudhula
306Meneha Ravichandran
306Wong Li Heng
307Atiqah Zahra Ahmed
308Sharifah Nur Hanisah Binte Shaik Mohd Danial
309Tan Jingyu Axil
310Lubna Maryam Shah
311Liu Jiajia
TOP IN LEVEL 2020
305 Peruri Shriya
THE VENERABLE DR & MRS D D CHELLIAH SCHOLARSHIP
410Chong Jia Yan
CINDY LOH RAY-WEN MEMORIAL BURSARY
301Tan Sze Qi
314Cheok Yin Jia
411Zion Seng Zi Ting
413Rebekah Sew
FILIAE AWARD
103Debbie Lee En Ni
103Qisthi Hamdan
105Goh Zu Yi
105Netanya Teo
105Tan Yan Ting Japhanie (Chen Yanting)
106Yeap Jia Yi
109Pang Jing Qi
110Toh En Ning Michel
111Keira-Ann Srinivasan
112Clarice Tan Hiang Yee
202Nur Lylia Natasha Binte Mohamad Fauzie
203Calia Tan
206Genella Gan
FILIAE AWARD
207Kamaraj Prithvika
207Ow Yang Jia Xuan
208Celeste Loo Siang Yi
209R Rishmitha
210Ning Wanqing
303Dee Pei Rong, Melissa
304Chanz Boo Rui Yan
401Wong Yin, Rebecca
402Jiang Chen
402Saadhana Ramesh
404Yong Kye Qin
405Ujjayini Mukhopadhyay
406Mei Feifei
408Fang Rui Ling
410Amanda Lai Mun Yee
410Sun Yining
410 Tham Yun Xin
411Annika Liu Xinan
411Du Hanyang TOP IN LEVEL 2020
401 Sivakumar Avanthika
305Eva Yusrina Putri Mohd Yusoff
305Khoo Qi Xuan
305Siah Zi En
308Dang Tran Minh Phuong
310Kang Ming Kee
404Kay Yi En Emmanuelle
404Putri Nur Dini Abdil Rahim
410Lubna Maryam Shah
410Megan Kwek Tze Ying
411Chiar Hanqian
411Leng Wen Si ONG
ONG FONG WEE SCHOLARSHIP
206 Maggie Yong Yu Han
306Pan Haotian
313Yu Di’En
401Sabrina Tong Ning En
414Iman Nabilah Yasmeen Binte Yunus
JUSTINA LI CAIXIA SCHOLARSHIP
101 Adlyn Binte Rizal
101 Lee Guat Ghee (Li Yueyi)
102 Alesha Sofea Binte Ahmad
109 Boy Chai Ling 109 Z Saliha Zaib 201 Nur Aadila Binte Anuar 205 Lu Shaoying
212 Pan Wan Ting Christina
306Aseera Jannath
306Jodie Yam
402Huang Anni
405Naomi Wang Chencheng
411Jolene Yee Xin Yi
THE
410(2020)
ORA
405Wang Yining, Marianne
GUTHRIE & SHAW AWARD
405(2020) Chen Xinyu
406(2020) Kriti Raja
DOROTHY BUCKLE TOP MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE AWARD
414 (2020) Hu Xinghui
EVELYN NORRIS TOP STUDENT AWARD
412 (2020) Faith Hailey Toh
NOËLLE GEORGE EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AWARD
401 (2020) Goh Su En
NOËLLE GEORGE EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AWARD
405 (2020) Ujjayini Mukhopadhyay
Adele is the Chairperson of the 45th Girls’ Brigade (GB) Company and an awardee of the Pioneer Brigader Brooch (PBB), the highest level of achievement a brigadier can attain. As a leader, Adele models the way for her juniors in behaviour and action. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, she is always vigilant and constantly looking out for the safety of everyone.
Adele always has GB in her heart and thinks of ways to do things diferently and meaningfully. To prepare the Year 3s to take over the leadership baton, she initiated a coaching system to have them mentored and trained by the Year 4s. She also taps on her leadership experiences and enlists the help of her peers to conduct training sessions to encourage the juniors to take ownership and be accountable for their decisions and actions.
Adele has also taken part in HQ events to bless the LENS (Lonely, Elderly, Needy and Special Needs) in the community. She has also been giving online tuition to children from low-income families in Jalan Besar Constituency. Her love and passion to serve the company and community has enabled her to grow into a mature and steady leader.
Outstanding Achievement Award (Uniformed Group)
Master Sergeant Anamika is the Chairperson of RGS’s National Cadet Corps (NCC) (Land) Unit from 2020-2021. She has blossomed as a leader in the CCA and, under her leadership and in collaboration with teachers, RGS NCC has initiated fve sub-committees meant to enhance leadership opportunities, interbatch bonding and increase appreciation for the CCA.
Anamika is a good role-model and consistently conducts herself with professionalism. An infuential and respected leader in the unit, she is able to inspire a shared vision by empowering her platoon-mates to excel in their tasks. Her contributions and active participation in various activities are testament to her passion and commitment to the unit and the corps.
Her passion and dedication to the unit led her to clinch the Outstanding Cadet Award, the highest award presented to a NCC cadet for her exemplary character and leadership.
Anamika’s strong sense of purpose and passion for her CCA has fuelled her tenacity to bring the unit to greater heights, and to serve with pride and dedication.
Outstanding Achievement Award (Uniformed Group)
Francine was the Assistant Company Leader of the frst Company and an awardee of the President’s Guide Award (PGA), the highest level of achievement a Guide can attain.
As a leader, Francine strives to uphold the level of discipline among Guides while making CCA sessions meaningful. She take the initiative to lead others to achieve shared goals and works well with her fellow Company Leaders to drive the CCA forward, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. She holds herself to high standards and fulfls her responsibilities to the best of her ability. Tis is especially clear through her PGA journey where she showcases her skills and adaptability in the tasks of each stage of the award.
Aside from Guiding, Francine also manages her commitments well and fnds time to give back to the community, such as by promoting female empowerment in the school community through her student-led values-in-action (VIA) project, Project EmpowHER. Her determination in the pursuit of excellence and community service has enabled her to grow into a mature and steady leader.
Faith is a recipient of the Girls’ Brigade (GB) Pioneer Brigader Brooch (PBB) –the highest national award a GB girl can attain afer a rigorous national selection programme. As a PBB awardee, Faith is self-disciplined, has a positive attitude and treats others with genuine care and respect. She also leads with integrity and serves others with a spirit of excellence, no matter how big the project or how mundane the task may be.
Faith has made an impact on GB with her confdent yet unassuming leadership style, doing her part to create an inclusive and kind environment in GB. Faith is an astute leader with a genuine concern for people, ofen taking the initiative to ensure that CCA are conducted efectively. Despite having multiple school responsibilities, she fnds time to encourage hearts in GB by reaching out to more reserved juniors, mentoring Year 3s and tutoring underprivileged children. Faith has indeed inspired her juniors with a shared vision of what it means to be a true servant-leader at heart and in action.
Station Inspector Ashwika Gupta is the Chairperson of RGS’s National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC) (Sea) Unit from 2020-2021. Holding the pinnacle rank of Station Inspector, Ashwika is also the recipient of the prestigious Singapore Police Force (SPF)-NPCC Badge award, the highest award a cadet can vie for.
As leader of her unit, Ashwika is well-disciplined and leads by example. She is an infuential fgure in the unit and ofen rallies her batch-mates and juniors to do better. She also oversaw and organised training programmes in the unit on a regular basis, and is integral in putting in place sound processes that helped the unit attain the Unit Overall Profciency Award (Gold) in 2019 and 2020.
Ashwika was also an important member of the National Inter-Unit Campcraf Competition 2020, which was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Enthusiastic and responsible, she inspires her fellow cadets with passion and assists ofcers and cadet inspectors well.
Cheryl-Anne is the leader of Squad Agape, the squad that looks afer the welfare of all members of the 45th Girls’ Brigade (GB) Company. Naturally, her goal is to ensure that nobody gets lef behind and that her squad-mates can turn to her for a listening ear or someone to confde in. Her approachability and words of encouragement are the key attributes that enable her to earn the trust and love of her squad-mates.
To enhance bonds among her juniors, Cheryl-Anne encourages greater involvement among GB members, and the opportunities she provides for everyone to work together have enabled them to know each other better and have built synergy and enthusiasm.
As a recipient of the Pioneer Brigader Brooch (PBB), Cheryl-Anne leads by example. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many members are not motivated to join online squad meetings. She perseveres and shows her enthusiasm, taking time to greet and check-in with everyone. By doing so, many are inspired and are following her footsteps to attend the squad meetings regularly.
Troughout her years in the brigade, Cheryl-Anne has also volunteered to serve the community during the annual GB Friendship Day. She has realised through her service that her contribution, no matter how small, matters. Tis has spurred her to continue serving the community in her many diferent capacities.
Ashwika Gupta (405) National Police Cadet Corps (Sea)Station Inspector Emma Peh En Jia is the Vice-Chairperson of Training of RGS’s National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC) (Sea). She is also a recipient of the Singapore Police Force (SPF)-NPCC Badge award, the top award for a cadet in NPCC, which serves as a testimony to her leadership qualities, selfess nature and contributions to the unit.
Emma works very well with her ofcers, cadet inspectors and peers to help the unit attain the Unit Overall Profciency Award (Gold) in 2019 and 2020. Competent yet humble, she leads by example. Disciplined and a good teamplayer, she was a key member of the National Campcraf Competition 2020 (which was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), as well as the contingent that took part in the National Inter-Unit Drills Competition 2019. RGS NPCC (Sea) achieved 11th in the national placing at that competition.
Emma readily works with her peers and commands respect among her junior cadets. She is helpful and is always on task, handling every task assigned diligently and meticulously. Her contributions and active participation in various activities are testament to her passion and commitments to the unit and the corps.
Isabelle started learning the violin at the age of four and completed her Licentiate in Violin Performance (Trinity College London) at 11.
An active participant of international music competitions, Isabelle was one of 11 fnalists worldwide at the 4th Leonid Kogan International Competition for Young Violinists, October 2020.
As Student Conductor and Concertmistress of String Ensemble, she leads the CCA to bring the ensemble to greater heights. Under her leadership, the CCA clinched a Certifcate of Distinction at the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) 2021. She also conducted the ensemble Chinese New Year concert in 2021. In recognition of her contribution, she received the RGS Outstanding Colours Awards in 2019 and 2020.
Moreover, Isabelle is passionate about contributing to the music scene in school. In 2020, she was the student director of the school’s own talent show, R-Factor, and was successful in conducting the frst online version of the show.
Isabelle was uses music to serve the community. In 2020, she organised rafes. mp3, an initiative to perform songs of comfort during the Covid-19 pandemic. Te initiative also served as a dedication platform for students and teachers to encourage one another. Such performances have been posted on the ofcial RGS Facebook and Instagram pages.
Jennis is a even-tempered but decisive leader, rarely seen frantic or angry when problems arise. She is amiable and polite to her peers and juniors, but can be frm and serious when she needs to get a message across or when she disciplines her juniors.
She is receptive to advice and comments from teachers, and can adjust her plans to last-minute changes with fexibility. Able to keep her cool, stay on track and get her team to complete tasks, Jennis is a valuable leader to the CCA.
Jennis is also a responsible leader who reports on the progress of her team to teachers and helps to emcee unit activities. Over the years in her CCA, Jennis has matured from being a sof-spoken and shy young cadet into a confdent and steady young leader.
Vivian started playing the piano at the age of 5 and currently studies under Steinway Artist Benjamin Loh.
As a seasoned pianist, Vivian actively takes part in various competitions and festivals locally and internationally. Her accolades include First Prize at the 2nd Piano House International Piano Competition, and she has also qualifed for the prestigious e-Piano Junior Competition held in June 2021. Vivian was also invited to perform in a masterclass given by renowned professor Alan Chow as part of the 2021 Global Piano Summit, where only a handful of pianists were chosen worldwide.
As the sole organiser of Project 1989, Vivian was in charge of the logistics of the projects as well as the production of the videos in which students performed on the piano donated by the batch of 1989. Tis gesture of appreciation for the generous alumni was then published on the school’s YouTube channel.
Apart from her pianistic endeavours, Vivian is also an active member of Guitar Ensemble, where she takes on the role of section leader and student conductor. Her eforts in leading the ensemble during practice has led to the ensemble attaining a Certifcate of Distinction at this year’s Singapore Youth Festival. Moreover, she was also a core organising team member of R-Factor 2019, a school-wide competition that provides a platform for students to showcase their talents in visual and performing arts.
Alysa completed her frst diploma from Te Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, has taken her Grade 8 Music Teory exam (ABRSM) and will soon be submitting her registration for the Licentiate of Trinity College London. A very dedicated Choir student conductor, Alysa has gone beyond her role to enable the choir to share music with the community. She demonstrated her music mastery by arranging pieces for her peers to perform, which includes a piece video-recorded for All Saint’s Home as part of the CCA’s New Year greetings. She also took on the role of emcee and performer with the rest of her peers in these video. With Choir facing a challenging time preparing for this year’s Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) production, Alysa went beyond her role as a student conductor to respond to lastminute changes in supporting the rehearsal of the SYF set pieces. Her contribution in planning, leading in rehearsals and vetting the recordings of members lead to a successful, quality submission.
Alysa is an unassuming musician with a heart to serve the community. In 2020, she was part of the organising team for rafes.mp3, an initiative to perform songs of comfort during the Covid-19 pandemic. Te initiative also served as a dedication platform for students and teachers to encourage one another. Alysa is also passionate about contributing to the music scene outside of school. She was one the participants of the online 2020 National Day Celebration video (“We Are Singapore”), and was key to the technical production of many online videos performed by our choir. She also contributed as a performer and producer in several school events.
Outstanding Achievement Award (Visual and Performing Arts)
Te Rafesian Award is the highest honour the school bestows on an RGS student in recognition of her all-round excellence, invaluable contributions and service to the school. Te recipient of this award embodies the ethos and values of the school, and this year’s recipient of the Rafesian Award is Miss Karin Goh Xin Ru from the Class of 2020.
Karin was a distinguished student at RGS from 2017 to 2020. Having been chosen by her school mates and teachers as Head Prefect speaks highly of her leadership abilities and outstanding personal qualities. Karin is a role model to her peers and juniors, and has demonstrated exemplary leadership, as well as drive, passion and humility in leading the student body. Troughout her four years in RGS, she shouldered her school commitments with great enthusiasm and a strong desire for excellence, leading with a foundation of sound values and a clear understanding of and commitment to her role in school.
Karin’s term as Head Prefect was unique, marked by two events of great change: RGS’s move to the Braddell campus and the unprecedented Covid-19 situation. In both situations, Karin’s strength in mobilising the leadership boards and school towards common goals were demonstrated to its fullest. Even in the face of fux and ambiguity, Karin was unwavering in purpose and consistent in practice, enabling her teams to collaborate well so that objectives were communicated and met. She empowered her teams to take ownership of broad ideas and turn them into realistic actions, while ensuring that those they served received close attention and genuine care. Her immeasurable faith in others and her indomitable spirit inspires everyone around her to believe that ‘we can all do better!’
Recognising her purpose of being a custodian of school values and pride, she led the re-examination of the code of conduct, making it contextually relevant by engaging all stakeholders and communicating the revisions to the school. She led by example and embodied the school values when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, demonstrating a sense of community by supporting the leadership boards to carry out online initiatives and back-to-school measures that attended to the well-being of the RGS community and helped everyone adjust to the new Covid-19 context.
Karin’s intelligence, curiosity and readiness to explore new opportunities has also allowed her to have a full RGS experience. Besides her extensive contributions to the school and outstanding scholastic achievements in every subject she read, she also excelled in various talent development programmes and represented the school and country in the ‘F1-in-Schools’ Programme National and World Finals and the Future Problem Solving Programme virtual National Finals and International Conference. Her participation in the Research@Youth Defense Scientist Programme, National Geography Challenge and the Rafes Business Symposium attests to her being a multi-talented student with a wide range of interests.
Karin’s strong belief in giving back to communities beyond school stems from her empathy for others and her dedication to service. Her sincere desire to help others in need can be seen in her involvement in various Values In Action (VIA) projects, such as helping the residents at hospice care facilities, the elderly at community hospitals and tutoring children in care homes. Her sustained interaction with these communities while she was a student at RGS has motivated her to extend her commitment to them even afer she graduates to RI (Y5-6).
Karin is a mature, intelligent and driven young lady who has demonstrated exemplary personal and organisational leadership, excellence in multiple aspects of school life, and a strong conviction towards serving the greater good. Her ability to fnd balance and to devote herself equally to all pursuits, great or small, reveals the wellrounded individual that she is. When not taking the lead, she is equally comfortable supporting others to achieve their goals. Such is her selfessness and ability to empower others to do good. Te Rafesian Award recognises Karin’s all-round excellence and how she embodies the school’s motto. She is an inspiration to all who have had the opportunity to meet or work with her, or be touched by her thoughts and deeds.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (MINDEF) SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES (SAF) MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
404 (2018)Cheri Teo
408 (2018)Ashley Tan Ying En
410 (2018)Lim Jia Xuan Cherie
INLAND REVENUE AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE (IRAS) MERIT UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
405 (2018)Isabelle Ong Li Xin
PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP (2020)
407 (2017)Alyssa Marie Loo Li Ann
ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE (ESG) GLOBAL EXECUTIVE SCHOLARSHIP
403 (2017)Angeline Lee Ying Kee
405 (2017)Loh Qin Chun, Alexis
412 (2017)Alicia Bee Jing Xuan
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (MHA) MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
410 (2017)Low Jia Yi
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (PSC) SCHOLARSHIP - MEDICINE
404 (2014)Freda Mah Cheng Yee
JTC UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
413 (2017)May Lee Yung May
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (MINDEF)
SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES (SAF)
SCHOLARSHIP – MEDICINE
414 (2017)Chua Shi Min
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (MINDEF) DEFENCE MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
402 (2018)Sia Xinyu
402 (2018)Wong Shao-Yi
407 (2018)Chen Yunxi, Wynsey
DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (DSTA) SCHOLARSHIP
403 (2017)Chua Wan Ning
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION (MCI) INFORMATION SERVICE
SCHOLARSHIP
405 (2017)Lin Ji Hong Amy
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (MOE) TEACHING SCHOLARSHIP
402 (2017)Jian Xingmin
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU) COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP
401 (2017)Tan Xiao Wei
411 (2017)Milanpreet Kaur Bajwa
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (MOE) TEACHING
401 (2017)Lim Xin Hui
404 (2017)Loo Yi Xuan, Clara
413 (2017)Ong Yan Lin
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU) NANYANG SCHOLARSHIP
407 (2016)Poh Liwen Meghan
402 (2017)Dan Yuet Ruh
409 (2017)Nadia Houti
409 (2017)Saniya Nangia
410 (2017)Lee Si Ying Shervon
411 (2017)Tan Yu Ling
412 (2017)Choy Xin Yun
412 (2017)Leo Qi En
413 (2017)Clarissa Bella Jew
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY (SMU) LEE KONG CHIAN SCHOLARS’ PROGRAMME
403 (2017)Rachel Chew Shu Yan
404 (2017)Chia Yan Lin Cherilyn
405 (2017)Chen Wei Li
406 (2017)Felice Png Song Ting
406 (2017)Shirley Chee Jiaxuan
409 (2017)Seow Bai Jun Patricia
413 (2017)Esther Lam Xuan Yi
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU) CN YANG SCHOLARSHIP
406 (2017)Fu Xiaoxuan
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU) SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP
412 (2017)Jiang Wenjie Lydia
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU) TOH KIAN CHUI SCHOLARSHIP
402 (2017)Maegan Ng Yingrui
SINGAPORE-INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP (SGIS) FULL TERM
407 (2017)Kuang Shane Qi
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY (SMU) SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SIS) ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP
408 (2017)Gopikka Narasa Lakshmi N
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY (SMU) GLOBAL IMPACT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
405 (2016)Chow Shaune
404 (2017)Tasha Sonia Kaur
405 (2017)Amanda Tan Yan Bin
409 (2017)Natalia Mai Do Ngoc
410 (2017)Chiang Jun Ryo
413 (2017)Chia Yee Wei
YOUNG DEFENCE SCIENTISTS PROGRAMME (YDSP) SCHOLARSHIP
302Hilary Chee Xin Yi
307Gan Kah Shuen
311Wong Shi Xuan
PETER LIM SCHOLARSHIP –ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD
202Lim Yuting Elisha
413Rebekah Sew
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (MOE) EDUSAVE CHARACTER AWARD
401 (2020)Goh Su En
401 (2020)Lao En Xing
404 (2020)Neha Rajkumar
405 (2020)Goh Xin Ru Karin
406 (2020)Charlene Tay Yu Hui
407 (2020)Phang Li Ren, Alina Mesney
408 (2020)Julia Ann Yinn Sunil
408 (2020)Koay Tze Erhn
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (NTU) UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS PROGRAMME SCHOLARSHIP
409 (2017)Mahima Sowrirajan
PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION (PA) UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
409 (2017)Jin Xuan
PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD (PUB) SINGAPORE SUSTAINABILITY
SCHOLARSHIP
403 (2017)Ban Yinyi, Dorothea
SINGAPORE-INDUSTRY SCHOLARSHIP (SGIS) MID-TERM OVERSEAS
409 (2016)Xu Ruochen
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY (SMU) SING LUN SCHOLARSHIP
402 (2017)Tay Shu Xian, Valerie
SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY (SMU) MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME
401 (2017)Ng Yan Ying, Chrislyn
405 (2017)Nicole Chan Yanrong
SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN (SUTD) SCHOLARSHIP
403 (2017)Valerie Lu Xuanhui
409 (2017)Charlotte Ng Si Min
SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY (SFA) SINGAPORE SUSTAINABILITY
SCHOLARSHIP
414 (2017)Sarah Tang Hui Qin
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (MOE) EDUSAVE CHARACTER AWARD
409 (2020)Sia Jia Rui
410 (2020)Lim Xin Yi
410 (2020)Ding Qichen
410 (2020)Tay Ee Shuen, Megan
410 (2020)Boo Xuan Pei Alyssa
410 (2020)Wee Jie Minn Phoebe
410 (2020)Tham Yun Xin
410 (2020)Josephine Iksan
401Zhang Chenxi Raffles Mind Sports
407Yu Grace Chenxi Raffles Mind Sports
410Goh Dai Ting Raffles Mind Sports
410Lubna Maryam Shah Raffles Mind Sports
412Yu Hanzhang Raffles Mind Sports
413Tay Yu Ning Raffles Mind Sports
204Tan Yu Rou Robotics Club
205Rebecca Sim Zhi Ning Robotics Club
206Rithikaa Kumar Robotics Club
207Peng Ruijia Robotics Club
209Chan Chelsea Marie En-Hui Robotics Club
210Low Li Ying Amy Robotics Club
211Hailey Sim Zhi Rui Robotics Club
307Benita Yalini Benedict Robotics Club
307Cadence Wern Sea Loh Robotics Club
308Emma Phyu Phyu Chain Robotics Club
311Vera Ong Liwen Robotics Club
313Chloe Ong Su Neng Robotics Club
314Tan Min Min Robotics Club
401Ashlee Chang Yee Ting Robotics Club
402Wang Lingyue Robotics Club
404How En Hsin Robotics Club
407Angella Feyne Neolani Nocon PielagoRobotics Club
410Esther Woon Sue Ann Robotics Club
414Kang Wendolyn Robotics Club
302Jennifer Wu Chujie Badminton
306Nicole Chiam Hsing Yuin Badminton
312Wang Xinxuan Badminton
406Lin Ying Ying Erin Badminton
408Sharifah Nur Hanisah Binte Shaik Mohd Danial Badminton
409Ling Shi Hui, Alicia Badminton
410Goh Shan Fei Faith Badminton
411Zion Seng Zi Ting Badminton
413Ashlyn Chua Badminton
413Tan Li Ting Badminton
414Chloe Chan Ying Xuan Badminton
414Tan Shi Bin Badminton
409Lim Yann Ying, Kayla Basketball
202Elle Koh Meihui Fencing
202Helena Katherina Chan Ying SeeFencing
305Lim Eyi, Elysha Fencing
413Rebekah Sew Fencing
304Dasari Tanisha Netball
308Amelia Umairah Binte Suadi NoorNetball
310Chin Xin Hui, Ezanne Netball
311Lim Sun Hei Dawn Netball
405Foo Wen Jing Chavonz Netball
406Anna Macinnes Netball
409Tan Hui En, Clara Netball
411Lim Xiao Tian Netball
108Chloe Chin Shu-En (Chen Shu'en)Rhythmic Gymnastics
108Megan Tan Jiahui Rhythmic Gymnastics
203Lae Ein Ee, Raelene Rhythmic Gymnastics
203Pan Annan Rhythmic Gymnastics
203Sheer Ng Xi Er Rhythmic Gymnastics
204Tan Rui Xuan Rhythmic Gymnastics
210Breeze Ong Ler Sing Rhythmic Gymnastics
210Ong Kai Ning, Elizabeth Rhythmic Gymnastics
307Olivia Clare Low Rhythmic Gymnastics
310Teo Rei-Ann Ariel Rhythmic Gymnastics
311Vera Tay Xiang Yu Rhythmic Gymnastics
314Kaitlyn Joy Chia Rhythmic Gymnastics
404Chloe Tan Xue Ying Rhythmic Gymnastics
405Faith Luah Yi Fei Rhythmic Gymnastics
411Kate Wu Ruiqi Rhythmic Gymnastics
414Summer Koh Kai En Rhythmic Gymnastics
102Ong Ee Shyen Ella Sailing
202Fang Si Wei Hayley Sailing
202Lim Yuting Elisha Sailing
311Fiona Ting Zi Ying Shooting
313Zhang Aiyan Shooting
401Ng Ziyi Zoe Shooting
402Teo Jing Tong Shooting
403Shreya Menon Shooting
409Koh Hwee Ann Olivia Shooting
409Miyen Chua Shooting
409Park Claire Shooting
204Alexis Choong Tongwei Softball
204Sarah Toh Si Min Softball
206Natalie Koh Si Qi Softball
208Zhang Ning An Serene Softball
211Wani Vaishnavi Daulat Softball
301Nydia Chew Shi En Softball
307Sophia Muhammad Ishak Softball
308Yeo Hui Qi Softball
309Chloe Liang Chunyi Softball
313Chua Jingxia, Judy Softball
404Caitlin Cheah Kai Ling Softball
407Nurul Hannah Binte Mirza IrwanSoftball
409Tan Jingyu Axil Softball
411Goh Sephine Softball
411Kong Jia En Softball
414Foo Chloe Softball
201Lim Seow Rae, Melanie Squash
201Saiesha Ranjan Squash
306Nandan Kumaar Janani Squash
312Lee Jae Yan Squash
313Lai Yue Ying Vicky Squash
407Aina Afrina Binte Mohd FaizalSquash
408Isabelle Koh En Qi Squash
410Megan Kwek Tze Ying Squash
413Shin Jiyeon Squash
103Goh Ga Un (Wu Jia'en) Swimming
103Koh Kar Xuan Kayla
104Emily Ong Li Yan
202Ong Jing Qi R'yen
202Phoebe Anne Ng Yan Yi
202Rachael Yeo Ying Xuan
203Charlotte Chiang Ya Yuan
203Lynette Some Xuan Hui
304Joella Hau Ryae Ning
306Ong Qian Yi Ricole Swimming
313Sin Ying Jie Swimming
402Rachael Tay Wei Hui Swimming
402Yau Mei Hui, Tricia Swimming
407Bernard Sarah Jun Xin Swimming
303Lim Qi
305Chan Lu Wen
306Tricia Ong Zi Qing
310Lynel Chiang
313Ho Ee Shann
405Wang Yining, Marianne
406Jade Ng
407Chong Wen Hui
409Tan Shiqi Zennieve
Tennis
Tennis
Tennis
Tennis
Tennis
Tennis
410Chloe Tan Yong Han Table Tennis
413Lim En Qi, Zenia Table Tennis
414Chai Yi Yun Janna
Table Tennis
305Sarah-Anne Wong Anqi Tennis
306 Sofa-Jane Wong Enqi Tennis
312Ashley Goh Yu Xuan Tennis
203Kimberly Chew Pei Min
Track & Cross-Country
210Tian Yuhan Track & Cross-Country
210Wang Siang Ning, Shannon Track & Cross-Country
212Heng Sing Yee, Charissa Track & Cross-Country
312Ang Tze Yen, Claire Track & Cross-Country
407Chloe Ong Si Yi
411Faith Ang Xin Ying
Track & Cross-Country
Track & Cross-Country
411Kong Kei-Lyn Track & Cross-Country
411Ng Hui Jun, Regina Track & Cross-Country
412Ng Rui Shi Track & Cross-Country
412Wong Sze En Chloe
401Edith Lim Li Xin
402Avon Lee Jieyi
402Eu Mei Yi
402Rachel Chan Shurui
409Alexandra Tan Ray Shan
413Nicole Ong Yu Ting
Track & Cross-Country
Trampoline Gymnastics
Trampoline Gymnastics
Trampoline Gymnastics
Trampoline Gymnastics
Trampoline Gymnastics
Trampoline Gymnastics
404Arthi Venkataramanan Girl Guides
404Balakrishnan Vaisiya Girl Guides
206Toh Wen Xi, Cara Girls’ Brigade
207Alyssa Liew Gya Xuan Girls’ Brigade
209Tan Wen Jun, Karissa Girls’ Brigade
210Chow Wing Hyun Gracelyn Girls’ Brigade
TEAM C
TEAM – CERTIFICATE OF COMMENDATION
105 (2021) Samiksha Girish
201 (2021) Choo Zi Xuan
201 (2021) Vidhi Magoo
204 (2021) Rae-Ann Lim
206 (2021) Kim En Bi
207 (2021) Lim Xin Ying, Valerie
209 (2021) M.B.Dharshni
305 (2021) Woon Yun Xi Clarice
307 (2021) Yasmin Binte Noh
311 (2021) Tham Yun Qi
313 (2021) Sun Yingshan
404 (2021) Muthu Dharana
405 (2021) Jamie Soh Kai Lin
406 (2021) Meneha Ravichandran
407 (2021) Alicia Wong Xinyi
408 (2021) Pitta Harithapriya
408 (2021) Saara Katyal
413 (2021) Jonelle Tan Wen Qi
SINGAPORE YOUTH FESTIVAL ARTS PRESENTATION (2021)
TEAM – CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION
109 (2021) Lerraine Neo Le Xuan
205 (2021) Lu Shaoying
211 (2021) Yeo Jin Rui Ariel
302 (2021) Andrea Ang Min Yi
303 (2021) Dee Pei Rong, Melissa
303 (2021) Isabel Kye Li Ho
303 (2021) Liu Yuqi
304 (2021) Veronica Shen
306 (2021) Lam Eu Ann
307 (2021) Qian Yanyi
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herself as she slumped against her bedroom wall, an odd feeling of estrangement
Ahead, she fnally spotted rows of cheongsams hung up in a shop. She wondered why her friends voluntarily wore this to school - it was so tight and uncomfortable, and
“Hello ah, girl? You want buy anot?” The shopkeeper appeared beside Isla, causing her to wince at the excessive use of Singlish. It was not that she wasn’t used to it, but she refused to accept it. Every now and then when a lah or lor threatened to slip of her tongue, she would remind herself, pull it together. She was determined not to let this “language” strip her of what made her special, a
“I’m looking for something a little more contemporary, perhaps,” she made sure to enunciate each word slowly, rolling her “r”s when she had the chance to. To Isla’s incredulity, the woman
In fact, she looked rather unimpressed, responding, “This is all the design auntie has. Got more colours inside. Which you like?” Isla had been so sure the woman would ask her where she was from, but instead she didn’t care one bit. To her, she was just another Singaporean girl. Just another? Isla’s eyes widened, a fragment of herself seeming to fall apart.
“I think hor, red suit your fair skin best.” The woman presented her with a blazing red foral cheongsam that glistened in the sunlight. Isla ignored that, looking at it with disdain. It was just like the cheongsams her friends had gotten for themselves. But as she locked her eyes onto it, she noticed the fne threads of the intricate foral pattern and the scallop lace trimming at the neckline. Maybe it wasn’t as shabby as she’d
She imagined herself wearing it in school with her friends. Flashes of colour flled her vision - the red lanterns draped over them, the bright yellow lion dancers on stage, everyone spread across the green feld to take photos together as they sang along to the “Gongxi” song (she did not know what it was called) blasting through the speakers. She felt her heart beating in sync with theirs, and for that one moment, an
intoxicating brew of awe and comfort enveloped her, flling the void within her. In her reverie, she was just another one of them. The idea fascinated her.
That is, until it hit her. Or am I already one of them? The woman here seems to think so. Is that really all I am? This realisation punctured her vision - no, illusion. Everything faded back to dullness. She peered across the street, taking in once again her hot, congested, dingy surroundings. Singapore, Singaporeans - she refused to tie herself down to any of that, to diminish herself like that. Forcefully shoving the limp piece of fabric back into the woman’s arms, she ducked out of the store, adamant to escape the pungent smell
Ah boy, dinner’s ready!
He sat listlessly on his side of the dining table, resting his cheek on the plastic table sheet. Snatches of conversations foated to him like fotsam on the evening breeze. A light chill hung in the air, as if there were a gaping hole in the wall in front of him. But he knew there was nothing - no one - there.
He looked away from the picture he’d put up of Ma on the altar yesterday, away from the incense smoke curling like snakes around her smiling face. The evening trafic pulsed through the fat, a low rumble that seemed to shake his very body. She’d been crossing the road. He’d been at university in Britain. She was dead long before he got the call.
He hadn’t been able to come back, coronavirus and all; distant relatives in Singapore had arranged the funeral. He’d watched over his laptop as they’d lowered her into the grave. When he’d opened the front door for the frst time in almost a year days ago, he’d found the groceries
Somewhere, someone was frying eggs; the familiar smell of onions and oil wafted through the windows, flling the fat. He blinked, and he was seven and twelve and
seventeen again, Ma setting a bowl of steaming egg fried rice in front of him. The image of the glistening rice grains, yellow-gold with the eggs, interspersed with pieces of green onion and fshcake, foated before his eyes. Saliva pooled in his mouth. His heart seized with longing so intense he thought it might burst.
He reached for it, but it was cold plastic his fngers brushed against. The afterimage of the memory lingered for a second more before dissipating slowly. He stared at the now empty table, his heartbeat thundering in his ears.
He didn’t know when he’d started looking for the rice. It took him ten minutes to fnd the rice container - not beside the pans, like he remembered it being the last time he’d helped Ma cook, but beside the fridge. With a start, he realised it’d been in primary school. Heart twinging, he scooped a few cups of rice into the pot. The rice swirled in circles like tiny fsh as he flled it with water. He tried to imitate how Ma washed rice, sifting it with her fngers, rinsing and draining the water over and over, and spilled half the rice and water in the sink.
With pruning fngers, he picked up what he could - was it supposed to be this wet? - and put it into the rice cooker. He opened the fridge for eggs before he realised they were rotten.
When he came back from the provision shop downstairs with the new eggs, he realised the rice cooker wasn’t turned on.
I ask you on the rice cooker only, never even ask you to cook dinner, how you still get it wrong?
Forgot forgot. Last time also forgot. Sorry that
and it immediately leapt hissing out of the wok and onto his hands, burrowing into his fesh like fre ants. He let go instinctively. The oil and the eggs fell into the pan with a great splash, and immediately started to bubble viciously. The wok ignited in a brilliant blaze of orange. Burns bloomed like red spider lilies on his skin, screams ringing in his ears. He scrambled to the sink for water, before he realised belatedly the water was what had caused this in the frst place.
What to do? What had Ma said to do? He couldn’t remember. He didn’t know. Why had he never been listening?
He turned it on quickly, pressing the palms of his hands into his face. The tears were hot against them. He blinked them away, and cracked the new eggs into a bowl. The sharp edges of the eggshell dug into his fngers, a few shards breaking of and falling in. They evaded his clumsy fngers with ease, sliding around in the egg whites as he chased them around in circles. He ended up leaving them inside. He hadn’t apologised, back then.
The rice cooker dinged. He opened it, heartened to fnd the rice looking relatively like Ma’s, until he tried to scoop it out and realised the bottom was black, the rice hard. What’d gone wrong? Nevermind. It was fne. The top parts were still white. It would probably become fufier when he fried it with the eggs. It would work the second time round. It wasn’t too late, not this time -
He rinsed the wok roughly and put it on the stove, the water sizzling
Ma’s hands had been warm on his, her left hand pouring the oil with him, the right pouring in the eggs, that one time they’d cooked together. His hands were cold when he poured in the oil,
Your heart wasn’t here. She’d been right. He’d never bothered to listen or learn, hadn’t thought he’d needed to. The fre hissed fool, fool, fool. Ah boy, turn the stove of!
Ma? For a split second as he fumbled with the knob he thought maybe, just maybe, they’d misidentifed the poor woman who’d been hit that day, that Ma had just gotten extraordinarily lost. She’d yell at him, I told you the wok must be dry while starting dinner and this time he’d help out and apologise for all the times he hadn’t been listening, and they would sit down in their respective places at the dining table and eat egg fried rice together. But as the fre fell away like curtains to reveal the charred, blackened eggs, he knew there was no one there.
He sat alone on his side of the dining table. The smell of burning food hung like a shroud over the fat. Too late, too late, the dying fre crackled. The tears landed on his foot, cold and wet.
夜幕降临。夜晚如黑暗与星星织成的被覆盖 着整座城。购物区中还挤满了人，贫穷的孩子们 在人群中穿梭，拉着游客们跟他们买东西。游客 们把闪耀着微微亮光的帽子戴在了头上，开心地 在无知中为孩子们提供了下个星期买饭的钱。摊 主与客人们讨价还价的声音让整个城市充满了活 力。天黑 了， 但城市的夜生活才刚刚开始。
市场的吵闹声中，一个青年 默默地走了出来。出了市场，拐了 个弯，过了条马路，走下了一条 小街，青年的脚步才慢了下来。
这时，城市中心传来的声音已经 像电影里的背景音乐，小得几乎
他的长相清秀，乌黑的 头发偏长，挡住他视线的缕缕 黑发也经常被他视而不见。一
眼望过去就能看出他有多么缺 乏自信。他的身高中上，双 手深深地插在兜里，沉重的 脑袋死死盯着脚下轻轻踢来 踢去的小石头，腰板恐怕与 挺直沾不上边。他缓慢而沉 重的步子暴露了他内心的失
这世界上，能够过着 无忧无虑的生活的恐怕只 有尚未懂事的小孩。
此时，一位年轻的 作家独自坐在窗口旁的 书桌，怔怔地盯着一张 张洁白的纸，久久也写 不出半个字。她伸了伸 懒腰，决定到街上走
她：“叫我吗？”
不叫你叫谁。她点了点头，向他招 了招手。
“姑娘找我有何贵干？”
哦，可能真的是王子呀？都二十一世 纪了，谁还这么说话？作家不急不缓地走到 他面前，抬起头来，仰望着他，纤细洁白的 双手不停摆弄着她家的钥匙，淡淡地说：“ 初次见面，定然有些不妥，但你...... 一直在担 心什么呀？”
青年毕竟比她高出了个头，当眼中闪耀着 的是不满的眼光，那气势可不是开玩笑的。女作 家打了个寒战。“要不你先告诉我吧，你也不是 无忧无虑的。”
“你是作家？” 青年的注意力被她深深 吸引住了。
“写不出文章的作家，可能不配自称作 家吧？” 她有点自嘲地笑了笑。“只是个记者 罢了，这次要写一个看上去平凡，但有趣的人， 但我不知道该写谁。”
青年沉默着。过了良久，他才开口了：“
轮到我了吧？我是个画家，可是我的画一直卖不 出，也没人愿意在画展上展出我的画作。感觉上 是挺伤感的，特别是因为当初我的父母都不同 意我走画画这条路，现在...... 落到这个地步，也 不知道怎么去面对他们。可能当初我不应该坚持 画画......但我只是追求自己的梦想，也没什么错 吧？”
“不瞒你说，其实我当初叫你的时候就是因 为想写你，对你挺感兴趣的。” 女生仔细地观察 对方的表情。“你...... 意下如何？”
本以为青年会婉拒，但他却向她伸出了手。
“手机。”
“强盗都是这么直接的吗？” 女人惊讶地 看着他的手。男生翻了个白眼，这女孩干嘛这么 傻？
最后女生还是把手机交给了他。他把自 己的电话号码输了进去，把手机还给了女生。女 生无语地看着手机，眼中全是不解。男生叹了叹 气：“写完了发给我，我想读读看。”
“无条件？” 她笑了笑，露出了两个浅浅的 酒窝：“那谢谢你。”
“条件有是有。我要帮你画一幅画。我是你 的缪斯，你也做一次我的吧。” 挺公平的。她让 男生拍了张照后，他们俩就各走各的。
他的嘴角往上提了提：“其 实我今天是来感谢你的。我画的那幅画终于卖出 去了，要看看卖了多少吗？” 她把头凑了过去， 看着男孩手机上的数目后，吃惊得叫了一声。“ 挺多的吧？我把这笔数目回去给我父母看，向他 们证明当初我走上这条路并不是错误的选择。”
他转过身，紧紧地抱住她：“谢谢你。因为 你，我才没有放弃。因为你，我才能够继续追逐 我的梦想。”
这样一说，女生竟无语了。当天她和男生 交了个朋友仅仅是为了用他的故事写一篇文章， 却从没想到自己会对他的生活产生这么大的影 响。她轻笑了一声，把手伸过去拍了几下青年的 背：“别再这么悲伤地在街上走了，好吗？”
他嘴角微微翘起，好一会儿才吐出一个 字，“嗯。”
几个星期后，女生的手机响起了。她歪头想 了想，距离文章发布已经有几天了，这应该是男 生给她打的电话吧？接了电话，对方只是说声 “ 我在楼下” 就挂了。好奇心的驱使下，女孩还是 到楼下与他见面。
“文章写得不错啊。” 他朝她微微笑了笑， 这还是记忆中唯一见过他笑的一次。
“过奖了。你画的画呢？”
“没灵感。” 女生耸肩。“写不出文章。”
“你还记得。”
BAIK? ATAU BURUK?
Imbas kembali perasaan apabila anda menerima sijil Peperiksaan Tamat Sekolah Rendah (PSLE). Jantung anda yang berdebar-berdebar. Mata yang melirik kepada satu perkataan di akhir sijil itu: Ekspres/ Normal Akademik/ Normal Teknikal. Aliran ini akan membentuk pengalaman sekolah anda di sekolah menengah.
Wahai pembaca, saya pasti apabila anda menerima ekspres sebagai pilihan aliran, rasa bangga dan gembira menyelubungi diri. Namun, bagi yang hanya meraih pilihan NA/NT, ini mungkin dianggap sebagai kurang memuaskan. Marcapada ini, ramai orang menerima jurang ini sebagai sesuatu yang baik kerana melengkapkan mereka yang lebih arif dengan kerja yang lebih mencabar. Malah, bagi mereka yang lemah, mereka dapat menerima lebih bantuan daripada guru mereka. Namun, menurut kajian yang dijalankan oleh Womens Weekly, lebih ramai orang yang sebenarnya kurang puas dengan sistem aliran. Ayuh kita terokai sejarah sistem aliran, sebab-sebab ia dilancarkan dan perubahan kepada sistem ini seperti SBB!
Pada tahun 1980-an, sistem aliran dimulakan di sekolah menengah. Saya pasti anda pernah mendengar gambaran sistem pendidikan Singapura sebagai sistem meritokratik. Sistem meritokratik dilancarkan untuk memastikan bahawa kejayaan seseorang hanya disebabkan bakat dan minat, dan bukan faktor-faktor lain seperti kekayaan atau kedudukan sosial. Dengan adanya sistem di mana kejayaan bergantung pada gred peperiksaan seseorang, Singapura memulakan sistem aliran untuk memaksimumkan potensi murid-murid. Bagi mereka yang sudah mahir dalam sesuatu subjek, mereka boleh mencabar diri, sama ada dengan belajar lebih
pantas ataupun belajar topik yang lebih payah. Maka, mereka tidak akan dihambat oleh muridmurid lain, yang mungkin memerlukan lebih bantuan. Malah, pelajar-pelajar sebegini yang mempunyai aliran tersendiri boleh mengulang kaji konsep-konsep kurikulum yang asas dahulu, jikalau mereka memerlukan lebih masa untuk memahami konsep-konsep demikian.
Dalam kelas yang berbeza pada tahap kemahiran, ini juga dapat mengurangkan budaya kompetitif antara pelajar. Mereka boleh menumpukan lebih banyak perhatian kepada matlamat bagi diri sendiri, serta mengelakkan daripada membandingkan diri mereka dengan rakan lain. Justeru, pelajar akan mempunyai lebih motivasi untuk meneruskan pembelajaran dengan hati yang terbuka kepada ilmu pengetahuan yang baharu.
Walau bagaimanapun, yang dirisaukan adalah jurang antara aliran-aliran akan melahirkan corak pemikiran “elitis”, di mana murid-murid Ekspres mungkin menganggap diri sebagai lebih daripada mereka di dalam aliran yang lain. Lebih-lebih lagi, masyarakat luar membuahkan stereotaip yang amat menyakitkan hati bagi pelajarpelajar dalam aliran Normal Akademik dan Normal Teknikal.
“Masyarakat selalu kata bahawa usaha saya tidak mencukupi. Apa-apa sahaja yang saya cuba saya akan gagal,” kata Dr Felix Tan, seorang pensyarah bersekutu (associate lecturer) di SIM Global Education, yang mengongsikan pandangannya dengan the Straits Times. Dr Tan merupakan alumni aliran Normal di Sekolah Menengah Bukit View pada tahun 1987 hingga 1990.
Pengalaman ini tidak asing bagi pelajar-pelajar Normal yang lain. Menurut kajian, sistem aliran akan menjejaskan pencapaian akademik seorang pelajar, kerana mereka mempercayai stereotaipstereotaip yang dikenakan pada mereka, lalu ini menjejaskan persepsi diri mereka (Kilgour, 2007; Liu, 2009; Marks, 2011; Page, 2001; Pare, 2004; Rudowicz, 2003; Smith, 2011; Md Nor et al., 1998; Dukmak, 2009; Adam Gamoran, 1995).
Tambahan pula, sistem aliran tidak dapat membuka peluang bagi pelajar-pelajar daripada latar belakang yang berbeza untuk berinteraksi. Kebanyakan pelajar dalam aliran Ekspres merupakan pelajar daripada keluarga-keluarga yang lebih kaya berkemampuan, berbanding pelajar di aliran Normal Akademik atau Teknikal. Dengan mengasingkan pelajar-pelajar dalam aliran-aliran yang berbeza, tentunya ini akan mengehadkan interaksi antara mereka. Oleh hal yang demikian, stratifkasi sosial (social stratifcation) masih wujud dalam sistem pendidikan, dan jurang sosioekonomi tidak dapat dirapatkan. Sebaliknya, pendidikan harus menyamaratakan peluang bagi orang dalam masyarakat. Maka, adakah sistem aliran akademik masih relevan untuk menangani isu-isu sosio-ekonomi dalam konteks negara?
Beberapa tahun lalu, bekas Menteri Pendidikan, Ong Ye Kung, mengumumkan bahawa sistem aliran akademik akan dimansuhkan. Sistem ini akan digantikan dengan sistem yang baharu, iaitu Skim Pengumpulan Berdasarkan Subjek Secara Penuh (SBB Penuh), bermula daripada tahun 2024.
Sistem ini dilancarkan untuk memenuhi matlamat MOE yang berubah dengan landskap akademik yang jauh berbeza daripada beberapa tahun lalu. Kini, terdapat ramai
ibu bapa yang mengalu-alukan Skim SBB sebagai pengganti yang baik bagi sistem aliran akademik. Dengan adanya skim SBB, para pelajar dari aliran berbeza akan dimasukkan ke dalam kelas yang sama, serta mengambil mata pelajaran pada peringkat yang sama bagi sepertiga masa kurikulum (contohnya, kelas seni dan muzik, pendidikan jasmani, D&T atau F&D). Bagi subjek-subjek akademik yang lain, para pelajar akan mengikuti kelas mengikut peringkat G1, G2 dan G3, berdasarkan keupayaan mereka.
Dengan adanya peringkat-peringkat yang berbeza bagi setiap subjek, pelajar dapat mengenal pasti kekuatan dan kelemahannya dengan lebih mudah, dan meningkatkan motivasinya untuk berjaya di sekolah.
Namun, penulis mahu mengajukan perspektif yang lain: jika SBB dapat membuka lebih peluang bagi pelajarpelajar daripada aliran lain untuk berinteraksi, adakah ianya dapat merapatkan jurang ini dengan sepenuh-penuhnya? Kini, pemikiran pelajar-pelajar terhadap rakan daripada aliran berbeza mungkin belum berubah. Memanglah bukan mudah untuk mencetuskan anjakan paradigma kepada sistem baharu. Namun, kita harus menjejaki langkah pertama kepada arah demikian. Ini harus bermula dengan kita mengakui bahawa stigma kepada aliran-aliran seorang pelajar wujud dalam sistem pendidikan, dan tidak meremehkan hal ini. Dengan mengakui stigma itu, barulah pelajar-pelajar dapat menunjukkan empati dan menghargai satu sama lain, tidak kira latar belakang.
Secara kesimpulan, sistem aliran akademik telah menjejaskan kehidupan para pelajar dahulu secara negatif. Namun, dengan adanya sistem SBB yang baharu, kita tidak boleh bersangka baik sahaja dan menghentikan usaha untuk merapatkan jurang yang akan tetap wujud dalam sistem pendidikan. Sebagai pelajar, kita perlu mencontohi teladan yang baik dan memperkasa rakan-rakan sekeliling untuk mengatasi stigma aliran-aliran yang susah dipadamkan, walaupun sistem itu sudah dimansuhkan.
This work published in the Bingkisan Srikandi, RGS Malay Language e-newsletter
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