陈彦伟（中一启元一班 1O1, 2026） 2026年的学期转瞬即逝，随着考试结束的铃声响起，原本以为会伴随着无聊与空虚的考后时光，却被学校精心安排的丰富活动彻底点亮。尤其是10月28日那个星期三，大家期盼已久的“华中杯”及Hwachella嘉年华终于如约而至，为校园注入了无限的活力。 一大早，同学们便怀着激动的心情来到学校。在前往嘉年华主会场之前，大家先是被激烈的“华中杯”决赛所吸引。台球桌前的屏息凝神、足球场上的奔跑追逐、篮球架下的精彩投篮，伙伴们争夺冠军的英姿让大家热血沸腾。看完这些刺激的比赛后，大家迫不及待地涌向了当天的重头戏——钟楼下的嘉年华活动现场。 走近钟楼和黄仲涵堂附近，热闹的氛围就扑面而来。五颜六色的摊位错落有致，空气中弥漫着现做美食的诱人香气。不过，想要品尝这些免费的美味，可没那么容易——大家必须先通过摊位游戏的挑战，集齐学长们盖下的印章才能兑换。起初，我还以为这不过是些简单的游戏，没想到学校竟然邀请了校外的专业团队来设计关卡，其精彩程度远超我的想象！ 钟楼下方的广场、嘉庚堂里外都成为了欢乐的海洋，充气机械牛、接棍机、拳击

Written by: Poh Li An Liam and Toh Yu Qing Tristan (4i4, 2026) Humanities-in-Celebration (HiC) 2026 brought to mind an observation by Joel Uili: while the arts and humanities are sometimes dismissed as impractical, people continue to turn to them in moments of joy, grief and reflection. As he puts it, “Surviving is one type of practicality, knowing why we bother is another.” The evening opened on a musical note, with Jiansheng performing a solo rendition of a Tchaikovsky pie

林政頡、罗涌智（中一汇聚三班 1A3, 2026） 10月27日，我们报名参加了学校主办的“城市漫游”活动。在活动中，我们有机会重新认识并体验自己熟悉的国家。这个活动与众不同之处在于，我们有机会跟随作家、出版家、旅行记者及教育工作者叶孝忠先生，一同探索新加坡的各个角落。凭借丰富的经验，叶先生带领我们以不同的视角看待这个城市国家，并引导我们发掘各个地方背后的故事。 我们的导览从国家博物馆开始。在这里，叶先生与我们分享了国家博物馆背后的历史。他告诉我们，国家博物馆的前身是莱佛士图书馆与博物馆，并分享了一则有趣的历史：图书馆与博物馆是在维多利亚女王登基五十周年之际开幕的。因此，如今新加坡国家博物馆的圆形穹顶上，仍镶嵌着五十块经过修复的维多利亚时代彩绘玻璃嵌板。除此之外，连博物馆旁边的游乐场也有一段属于自己的“故事”！游乐场中的鲸鱼造型，其实是以一具长达13米、曾于1907年至1974年间在莱佛士图书馆与博物馆展出的须鲸骨架为灵感设计的。 其中，最让我们印象深刻的是位于新加坡管理大学（SMU）Connexions一楼的餐饮区。虽然这个食阁看起来十分普通，

Following the end-of-year examinations, our Secondary 1 iSpark students visited the URA Centre on 29 October 2026 to learn more about Singapore’s approach to urban planning and development. Kieran reflects on what he learnt about the challenges of balancing limited land, competing needs and the preservation of Singapore’s heritage. Written by: Lee Zhuo Yuan, Kieran (1i1, 2026) My learning journey to the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Centre gave me valuable insights into

Written by: Yu Zichen (2A3, 2026) On 17 July 2026, we took part in the 10th Singapore International Choral Festival (SICF) at Victoria Concert Hall, where we received a Silver Award in Category A2 (Equal Voices, 17 Years and Below). The performance marked the culmination of nearly a year of preparation. For the competition, we presented three contrasting pieces: Kruhay by Beny Fruto Castillon, Yomosugara by Hideki Chihara and Daemon Irrepit Callidus by György Orbán. Each piec

郭宇航（中一启元二班 1O2, 2026） 2026学年接近尾声，学校给同学们组织了各项考后活动和学习之旅，让大家在没有压力的情况下继续充实学习生活。10月29日早晨，启元共识联的同学们走出校园，参加历史学习之旅。我们在市中心一带，从国泰大厦出发，走访了几处与日本占领时期有关的历史建筑和纪念碑。以前我常和家人来这里逛街，却很少留意，在光鲜的现代建筑背后，竟藏着新加坡在二战期间被日军侵略的一段沉重历史。 在讲解员的带领下，我们首先来到国泰大厦。如今它的外墙崭新明亮，但很难想象1941年刚落成时，它曾是东南亚第一座摩天大楼，里面还有新加坡第一家装有空调的戏院，是许多上流社会人士聚集的地方。可是这份繁华很快被战争打断。1942年新加坡沦陷时，英国人就是在这座大楼顶端升起白旗和日本国旗，宣告投降。随后，国泰大厦被日军征用，成为广播电台和军事宣传总部。当时，日军强迫民众收听日语广播，试图控制人们的思想。站在楼下，我忽然觉得课本上的年份和事件不再遥远，仿佛能看见当年的人们在刺刀下小心翼翼地走过街头，心里变得格外沉重。 离开国泰大厦后，我们经过YMCA一路来到

Written by: Joshua Yam, Ng Chen-Xuan, Henry Low Cheng Hao, Teo Yu Ze Ashton (3A3) Introduction As students, we are all familiar with the frustration of keeping track of homework. With assignments scattered across platforms such as Google Classroom, Student Learning Space and Coursemology, alongside classroom homework boards and verbal reminders from classmates, staying on top of our workload can sometimes feel like a task in itself. While each platform serves its own purpose,

English Literature teacher Jocelyn Low recently shared one of her lesson designs with educators in Singapore and overseas through the Global Artificial Intelligence Nexus of Schools (GAINS) Global Sparks: Innovation Sprint Series and Future Makers 2.0, an OECD-backed independent project. In this article, she shares how drama, found objects and digital tools can help students engage more deeply with literary texts and ideas. Written by: Jocelyn Low Bee Hong (Teacher, English L

徐铭卓 （中一汇聚二班 1A2, 2026） 为了让我们更了解新加坡本土华族文化，学校组织学生在十月份到位于中央商业区的新加坡华族文化中心展开学习之旅。这里不仅展出华族历史、习俗和美食资料，也通过各种艺术呈现形式，推广我们独特的新加坡华族文化。 这次参观最特别的地方是：导览员竟然都是我们学校的中一同学！二十多位中一学生事先接受了专业培训，这次在各展区为同年级同学进行详细解说。平时在课本里学到的知识，由我们的同学用亲切的华语讲解，听起来格外有共鸣。他们准备充分，讲解清楚，也让我们看到同龄人参与文化传承的认真模样。 一走进展厅，我就像翻开了一本“新加坡华人故事书”。展板告诉我们，十九世纪时东南亚贸易长期被荷兰人掌控，英国为了改变局势，把新加坡发展成殖民地。后来贸易和工业迅速发展，新加坡需要大量劳动力，许多中国人便离开家乡，漂洋过海来到这里找工作，“下南洋”成了当时的一股风潮。 我认为最有趣的是不同方言群的聚居情况和职业分工。海南人多住在美芝路和武吉知马一带，很多人从事酒店业或当家庭佣人；广东人则多聚居在牛车水水车路一带，从事工匠等行业，当中也

Written by: Ethan Goh Eu Theng, Wu Yanhong (3O3, 2026) and Zhang Hanwen (3P2, 2026) “Service staff” is a phrase we hear all the time. Schools and community programmes teach us to appreciate the people who help us every day, but when we stopped to think about it, we realised that we barely knew any of them. Most of us knew little more than their names from the occasional greeting. Did we truly know them for who they were? This was the question that drove Project Beyond the Cou

Written by: Teo Jia Hao Jason, Ethan Tan Jian-Yi, Zhu Tianyou Jordan (2O2, 2026) When we first started our Project Work journey, our goal was to help students become more confident in public speaking. We knew that many students struggled with stage fright and delivering speeches, so we created Speak to Lead, a platform where students could learn useful techniques, practise their speeches and develop their speaking skills. However, as we began turning our ideas into an actual

Written by: Jairus Ong Qi Le, Jovan Yap Zhuo Wen and Jovier Yap Jun Le (2A1, 2026) We decided to explore Category 3, Inventions and Engineering Solutions, because we already had some experience with similar projects. The next step was deciding on a direction, which turned out to be more challenging than we expected. Our idea had to be innovative, but also realistic enough for us to develop and test. Our eventual idea came from an everyday problem experienced by one of our tea

Written by: Albert Sui Wenzhuo and Koo Sheng Rong (3i4, 2026) What started as a light-hearted joke slowly developed into a serious exploration of freedom, fate and choice. Before settling on philosophical analysis, we had considered projects in linguistics and the social sciences. Looking back, however, none of those ideas excited us quite as much as the direction we eventually pursued. Taking inspiration from a senior who had analysed nihilism in Monster, I suggested that we

Written by: Jiang Yuxuan (4i2, 2026) and Zhao Zilin Wesley (4i3, 2026) Our overarching vision for the project was simple: to construct a microreactor that could combine the catalytic functions of enzymes and metals without risking their mutual inactivation, a major and widely cited challenge in the field. Enzymes are highly selective catalysts that can operate under relatively mild conditions. Metal catalysts, on the other hand, can facilitate reactions that enzymes alone may

组长：黄胜杰（中二启元一班） 组员：陈炳勳 （中二聚英一班）、许俊喆 （中二聚英二班）、余健鹏 （中二启元一班） 组屋是新加坡人再熟悉不过的风景。每天上学放学、乘搭电梯回家，或经过楼下商店时，我们或许早已习惯身边一栋栋高耸的建筑。然而，我们是否曾停下脚步，思考组屋背后的历史、设计理念，以及它们如何随着新加坡的发展而改变？ 带着这些疑问，我们开展了专题研究《组屋——新加坡一道美丽的风景线》，希望让青少年认识组屋的发展与重要性、不同地区的特色组屋及建屋发展局与时俱进的设计理念，同时了解组屋与国家认同、社区认同及年轻人购房压力之间的联系。 一、研究与实地考察 我们以新加坡青少年为研究对象，通过线上问卷了解他们对组屋历史、设计及特色组屋的认识。调查发现，中学生对组屋的了解明显不足，也让我们更加确定开展本专题研究的必要性。 为了深入了解组屋的发展，我们查阅了建屋发展局（HDB）官方网站、《联合早报》相关文章、学术论文及相关书籍，并于2026年6月前往女皇镇、登加、甘榜海军部及榜鹅水道梯田组屋进行实地考察。看似相似的组屋，其实拥有各自独特的设计与背景。例如

Written by: Ong Yi Quan, Aidan (4P3, 2026), Lim Jun Lei Clayden (4i4, 2026) When we first began this project at the start of the year, we were unsure of what to expect. We were excited about our internship with Hotel Indigo Singapore Katong, particularly the freedom we were given to innovate and create. We knew we would have the opportunity to gain a better understanding of how a hotel operates and appreciate all the work that happens behind the scenes. However, we did not fu

Written by: Daniel Goh Hao Yang, Lee Xuan Rong Scott, Chen Yanjun , Zhao Bozheng (3i1, 2026) At first glance, our project seemed almost too simple. Take a circle, place an even number of points along its circumference, and connect the points in pairs with chords. What could possibly be so complicated? As we began exploring these arrangements, however, we discovered that a simple circle could lead to surprisingly challenging mathematical questions. When the chords intersected,

Written by: Tan Zheng Kai (4A3, 2026), Kenneth Toh Jia Yang (4A3, 2026), Lucas Tang Zheng Jie (4i1, 2026), Chen Xuesen Delmar (4A3, 2026), Quek Jin Shyan (4A1, 2026) Imagine attending a dance lesson with an impaired vision, being unable to clearly see the actions performed by the instructor, unsure whether you yourself are performing the actions correctly. Imagine going on a nature walk, unable to enjoy yourself in the very nature you are surrounded by due to your impaired v

Written by: Teo Jia Hao, Lucas (4i4, 2026) What happens when hard work no longer guarantees success, and confidence does not come easily? For Lucas, the answer is to keep moving forward despite uncertainty. From competing in his first National School Games at eight to representing Singapore at the World Junior Wushu Championships, his Wushu journey has been shaped by setbacks, injuries and moments of self-doubt. As a proud recipient of the Singapore Schools Sports Council (SS

Written by: Gooi Cheng Kai Jed (3P3, 2026) What does it take to pursue excellence in sports while keeping up with school? For Jed, it has meant years of demanding training, setbacks, sacrifices and perseverance. From picking up gymnastics at five to competing on the international stage, his journey has shaped not only him as an athlete, but also as a student and individual. As a proud recipient of the Singapore Schools Sports Council (SSSC) 2026 Colours Award – Best Sportsboy