“I didn’t expect to go for work attachments, given the rigorous JC curriculum. But the school provided me with such opportunities, which were stepping stones for me to explore my interests.”
Cherianne Cheng
While Cherianne had always been interested in the Sciences, she wasn’t sure of what she wanted to pursue as a career when she first stepped foot in JC.
Through the school, Cherianne found out about work shadowing opportunities at St Hilda’s Community Services and St Andrew’s Community Hospital. She participated in them and saw firsthand what it was like to look after elderly patients in healthcare settings.
Cherianne also joined the “Saints Advocate” CCA in school, which focuses on community service. She planned befriending services for the elderly with the Lions Befrienders and Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital.
“I’m now very clear that I want to pursue a career in healthcare, because of all these opportunities I had in JC,” she says. “It’s a field that allows me to combine both my passions in Biology and in serving the community.”
“I went from being a triple science student in secondary school, to writing my own play and taking up university-level modules in History at JC.”
Advait Chidambaram
After Advait chose the Arts stream in JC, he struggled with his studies initially.
“I hadn’t taken Literature since Sec 2, and was unable to grasp how to analyse texts,” he says. With the support of his teachers, who provided him with consultations after school, Advait got better at Literature, and ended up topping his cohort at the Prelims.
His interest in the subject also deepened through the Creative Arts Programme, where he attended writing workshops and published his own play.
His teachers also encouraged him to take up H3 History. “I had to step out of my comfort zone because it was quite daunting to attend lessons at NUS after school, and I was the only student from SAJC there,” he shares. “However, it allowed me to broaden my perspectives about wars and colonisation.”
All these opportunities have also cemented his decision to study Law at university, as they have honed his critical thinking, analytical and writing skills.
“The school provided me a lot of opportunities for carrying out research, and gave me room to trailblaze and experiment.”
Isaac Boon
As someone who has always been interested in Chemistry and Physics, Isaac credits his teachers at SAJC for further deepening his passion in these subjects.
During his time in JC, he took part in the Singapore Chemistry Olympiad and represented the school in STEM competitions, such as the Singapore Physics League and the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair.
The school allowed him to use its science lab for his own research project, which involved the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles to remove toxins in wastewater.
It also gave him a platform to share his STEM research about the Tesla coil that he built on his own with arts students at the school’s “Discovery Fortnight”.
Isaac also started a science research interest group with his friends in school, and plans to study Materials Science in university.
