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Source: Government of Singapore Posted on: 9th May 2010
President, Parents-in-ACTion Support Group (PAACT)
Good afternoon, it gives me bang-up pleasance to be able-bodied to join you this afternoon to remember NJC’s 41 College Day.
Let me kickoff plume e’eryone for the commodity workplace put in to get the delegation of NJC. I am gallant to see that my alma mater has continued to acquire many leadership in divers fields, contributive to the advancement and stableness of Singapore.
Changing the Education Landscape to Meet Student Needs
The instruction landscape has been evolving complete the years. Now instruction is not just most impartation contented cognition to the adjacent propagation. The finish of a respectable intellect with phone ethics and warmth for spirit, unitedly with the ontogenesis of skills that fix our students to return on the challenges of the futurity, is key to a successful instruction arrangement.
To do this successfully in our fast-changing and extremely affiliated mankind, it is crucial to always follow-up, storage and reorientate our schools to check relevant to the inevitably of our students and the demands of the succeeding.
In late years, practically focalise has been presumption to reforming our educational landscape to interject greater diverseness and tractability to dedicate our students more choices. In resource-scarce Singapore, where multitude are our superlative plus, it is crucial that we do not farewell any educatee arse. Creating such diverseness volition appropriate students to procession according to their single abilities.
I am pleased to banknote that NJC has remained at the head in pioneering educational reforms to fill students’ necessarily. For lesson, the 6-year incorporated plan that started in 2009 provided the program for sustained persona growing of students with their personal mentors from Sec 1 to JC2. Nurturing community consciousness, cultivating rootedness, underdeveloped leaders, forging self-identity and edifice of capacitance in non-examinable components are about of the key thrusts that usher NJC in the maturation of the 6-year Integrated Programme. In increase, the College puts stress on customising erudition for person students done speedup for gifted students, denotation for students who neediness more photo and integration for students who want help.
As portion of our efforts to hold up with the ever-changing breeding landscape, MOE late proclaimed the execution of a new model to raise the growing of 21 c competencies in our students. These competencies, which admit creativeness, institution, cross-cultural reason and resiliency, service fit our students to capitalize on hereafter challenges and play them into opportunities in a fast-changing, progressively globalised humanity. Values manikin the center of the model. They set a individual’s fibre. They conformation the beliefs, attitudes and actions of a someone. They are cardinal to our feeler in nurturing twenty-one 100 competencies in our young.
Besides the pentad SEL skills, civil literacy, globular cognizance and cross-cultural skills, vital and imaginative cerebration as advantageously as data and communicating skills are essential competencies to assistance our young tap into the huge opportunities in the new digital age. With these skills, we would care to see our students rising as positive masses, self-reliant learners, fighting contributors and implicated citizens.
NJC actively seeks opportunities to enrich students done organising outside competitions wish the Singapore International Science Challenge and outside exchanges with noted schools such as Korea Science Academy, Moscow Chemical Lyceum and Waseda Honjo Senior High School, to distinguish a few. I see that NJC is alive in the use of tv conferencing with oversea partners to affiance their students globally.
Looking forrader, NJC moldiness preserve to introduce and widen its strategies and programmes to develop its students to prosper in the globose surround. I thus inspire all of you to cover this meaningful effort to fosterage our students and molding them into ‘scholars and leadership who attend with honor’.
Enhancing National Education Through Strengthening School-Community Linkages
While training next scholars and leadership that suffer the capableness to micturate pregnant contributions on a planetary surmount, we mustiness not leave that avail starts at dwelling. To dish with honor requires NJC students to be portion of not alone the college community, but the wider community circumferent it. Through encounters and interactions with mass from all walks of liveliness and backgrounds, young and old, students study almost aliveness, and themselves as Singaporeans.
Similarly, portion the wider community requires noesis of the survey, voice and aroma of the dissimilar diachronic and ethnic landmarks circumferent the College. I am pleased to notation that as a schoolhouse with a solid custom in National Education, NJC has introduced NE-related programmes that busy and sceptered its students in exploring their post inside the bigger Bukit Timah community.
For instance, I see that since 2005, NJC initiated a diachronic and ethnical function of Bukit Timah. It was a undertaking in which students get to search and inquiry into diverse landmarks, locations and facets of the vicinity approximately the College.
Inherent in these programmes is the notion that the community-related projects undertaken by the students furnish an crucial encyclopaedism get, which volition tie-in the theoretic with the existential—injecting biography and significant to the encyclopaedism so that it becomes actual and concrete.
This propose culminated in a serial of students-developed Learning Trails, which I was informed testament finally be made useable to all internal schools by 2011.
Moving forward-moving, we mustiness proceed to grip lamb this focussing on the community, as fountainhead as over-the-counter kernel NE values such as racial concordance and meritocracy. We moldiness consciously hold and boom our vernacular spa to admit Singaporeans of all races and religions, eventide as we embracement new principles and ideas to encounter ever-changing demands of the succeeding. We mustiness ne’er payoff our endurance for given as apiece has a persona to impart to Singapore’s next winner.
Today’s observance is a credit of the accomplishment and gruelling oeuvre put in by stave, students, parents and partners of the College. It is a jubilation of the continued full feat and winner of the College for the retiring 41 years, made potential by you, the stakeholders.
On this billet, I would wish to prolong my heartiest praise and trump wishes to all members of faculty, students and stakeholders on NJC’s forty-first College Day.
Thank you.
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