2011 Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) Crescendas Medal and Award for Outstanding Physics Teacher (JC)

Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) medals are awarded in recognition of outstanding and innovative physics teaching at institutions in Singapore.  Teachers who nurture and inspire new generation of potential physicists are given the recognition for their outstanding and novel ways of physics teaching. The Medal is also awarded to creative teachers who have made outstanding contributions to school Science Societies and fostered physics collaborations with other schools and organizations

ACJC is proud to announce that our Senior Teacher Mrs Fabiola Soong has been awarded the 2011 IPS Crescendas Medal. Mrs Soong has been a dedicated and committed Physics teacher for many years.  She has also been actively involved in various outreach programs that helped promote science to schools at the

Mrs Soong (2nd from RIGHT) with the ACJC Team at the Beijing Youth Creation Competition 2011

Our College would like to congratulate Mrs Soong on her achievement, and thank her for her many years of dedication in providing an engaged learning environment for our students, and in the nurturing of our budding scientists.

GP/KI Overseas Learning Journey to Germany

27 November to 6 December 2011

Guten Tag (good day) to all! The days we, a group of 30 General Paper (GP) and Knowledge and Inquiry (KI) students, spent in Germany, accompanied by Madam Annie Yong, Miss Sabrina Lim, Miss Tan Jie Qi and our tour manager, Miss Cheyenne Lu, were good days indeed.

We began our exciting expedition in Berlin, visiting the iconic Reichstag building, the Brandenburg Gate, the Holocaust Memorial, the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, and of course the remains of the Berlin Wall. After an intense lesson on politics and history, we visited the John F. Kennedy School, a unique bicultural school, which offers both the German Abitur and the American high school diploma. We also learnt about Berlin’s investment into Research and Development (R&D) at the Adlershof – Germany’s leading science and technology park. This was followed by a cultural immersion at the Old National Gallery and the Pergamon Museum, located on the museum island, which was granted the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) National Heritage Site status in 1999.

Departing from Berlin, we continued on to Nuremberg where we visited the Palace of Justice and the Documentation Centre, gaining insight into the Nuremberg Trial and life during the Nazi Regime. Our final destination was Munich, where we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany. We ended our learning journey on a lighter note, visiting the BMW museum and leaving impressed with German technology.  We even made one last school visit, to the Bavarian International School and made some new friends before we flew back to Singapore!

To prepare for this trip, we engaged in collaborative and independent research, sharing our knowledge with our peers, and sowing the seeds of curiosity. The nightly discussions during the trip allowed us to share and listen to one another’s opinions and thoughts in response to what we learnt in the day. We have not only acquired knowledge, but also important values and life skills, as well as friendships, which made the trip an even more memorable one.

Reported by Tan Hui Shan, 2AH

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