Teachers’ Day 2019: Bet You Didn’t Know (Part 2)
By Emily Ni (20S03C), Rachel Leong (20A01A), Megan Soh (20A01B), and Mah Xiao Yu (20A01B) Bet You Didn’t Know was a column featured for Raffles Press’ Teachers’ Day 2019 Print Edition. NAME: MR GERALD...
View ArticleTeachers’ Day 2019: Just Joined
By Gabrielle Ng (20A01E) and Valerie Tan (20A01E) Just Joined was a column featured for Raffles Press’ Teachers’ Day 2019 Print Edition. NAME: MS ESTHER LEE DEPARTMENT: ARTS (LITERATURE) Ms Lee gets...
View ArticleTeachers’ Day 2019: If I Wasn’t a Teacher (Part 1)
By Ruchira Ramaswamy (20S03A) and Clara Shen (20A01A) If I Wasn’t a Teacher was a column featured for Raffles Press’ Teachers’ Day 2019 Print Edition. NAME: MS JESSLYNN GOH DEPARTMENT: ARTS (HISTORY)...
View ArticleTeachers’ Day 2019: If I Wasn’t a Teacher (Part 2)
By Jerome Tay (20S06Q), Rachael Koh (20S07C), and Kelly Leong (20S07C) If I Wasn’t a Teacher was a column featured for Raffles Press’ Teachers’ Day 2019 Print Edition. NAME: MR KOH SAY YONG DEPARTMENT:...
View ArticleRaffles Reads: How to Make Friends With the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
By Ng Jing Ting (20A13A) and Ng Ziqin (20S03H) Raffles Reads is a new column which aims to promote reading culture among Singaporean students. The books, reviewed by Raffles Press writers, have been...
View ArticleTEDxYouth@RafflesInstitution
By Val Yeo (20S03O), Gabrielle Ng (20A01E), and Jermaine Wong (20S03R) When students filed into the PAC slightly before 1 pm on Saturday, 3rd of August, the anticipation was thick in the air, eagerly...
View ArticlePutting the ‘Care’ in Healthcare: Raffles Business Symposium 2019
By Ruchira Ramaswamy (20S03A) and Rachael Koh (20S07C) Photos by Koh Jia Hao (20S06M) “Healthcare is the toughest of all the sectors, should you decide to venture into entrepreneurship.” Professor...
View ArticleMental Health Awareness Week: Im’perfect
By Benjamin Liew (20A03A) and Tay Jing Xuan (20S03C) Often we are told, as students, to achieve only the best and to be perfect. What does it mean to be perfect, though? Is it straight ‘A’s? Is it...
View ArticleJoker: The Rise of A New Kind of Comic Book Film?
By Ng Ziqin (20S03H) The growing love affair between the modern viewer and the comic book film is no secret. And with superhero films like Iron Man (2008), Wonder Woman (2017), Black Panther (2018),...
View ArticleKeeping Up With Kranji
By Raffles Press For most of the Year 5s, 3rd October 2019 only marked the end of their Promotional examinations, when all could finally run free with their friends to the nearest KTV or shopping mall...
View ArticleSpill the Tea: Team Raffles Tea 2019
By Ng Ziqin (20S03H) and Sophia He (20S03H) It was the Year 5s’ first day back at school after a blissful six-day marking day holiday, which had passed by in the blink of an eye. While many were out...
View ArticleSpider-Man: Far From Home—Our Peter Tingles Say This Is Another Marvel Hit
By V Shivani (20S06R) and Ruchira Ramaswamy (20S03A) Far From Home is the fast-paced sequel to Homecoming, following Peter and his high school classmates on a school trip to Europe, in the aftermath...
View ArticleA Word on Writing Paper
By Ng Ziqin (20S03H) and Sophia He (20S03H) While the recent Prelims and Promos may not have held many—or any—fond memories, the pain of churning out three-hour essay after three-hour essay may have...
View ArticleEvery Little Thing: Teachers’ Day 2019
By Huang Beihua (20A03A) and Gabrielle Ng (20A01E)Pictures courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society The first week of September was one of many emotions: joy, perhaps, at the dawning of a glorious...
View ArticleWhere Does the Fruit Go?
By Tay Jing Xuan (20S03C) Take a look at Singapore’s—no, the world’s daily food waste, and you’ll notice a very unsettling trend. Roughly 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year globally....
View ArticleInvestigating the Interchangeable House Shirt Phenomenon
By Ng Ziqin (20S03H) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if the house shirt one wore could be depended upon to accurately indicate the house one belonged to, RI would be way more than just 20%...
View Article5km²: Of Ruins and Roadway Detectors
By Ng Jing Ting (20A13A) and Sarah Lok (20A03A) Tucked away in the recesses of Upper Thomson Road, Thomson Nature Park is Singapore’s newest buffer park—it is a physical enhancement and extension of...
View ArticleLight It Up: Batch Night 2019
By Ng Ziqin (20S03H) The Albert Hong Hall isn’t a place which many RI (Y5–6) students set foot in on a regular basis. It’s quite different from the Multipurpose Hall (MPH) on our side of the school....
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Ultimate Frisbee
By Ultimate Frisbee “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.” To anyone watching Ultimate players tossing a mere piece of plastic on the field, it may be easy to underestimate the sheer determination,...
View ArticleCCA Previews ’20: Raffles Runway
By Raffles Runway The first question on everyone’s lips when they see “Raffles Runway” is: do I need to know how to sew? The answer: no—you don’t! (We’ll explain this later.) Now that that’s...
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