How To Apply?
Steps | Forms | Infosheets
Step 1: Decide on which programme to embark on.
Outdoor Education Programme (Local only)
Nature heals, sooths and restores. The programme serves as a platform to provide the student to enhance their general well-being and as an opportunity away from the screen.
It will provide an avenue for Character and Citizenship Education too. We hope to build resilience of the students and their physical, affective and cognitive domain away from their usual classroom setting, to prepare our students for a VUCA world, which they currently are already experiencing due to the pandemic.
To introduce students to Singapore, some may not have known. Singapore a “Livable and Sustainable” city, a city with its new normal and ‘adaptation to a disrupted world’. To express gratitude and appreciate the visions of our leaders who created such livable space and to envision the future ahead.
Learning Objective:
To provide a safe environment for the students to pursue outdoor activities in Singapore.
To create a platform for students to know their environment and the importance of sustainable environment.
To enhance well-being.
To provide leadership opportunities for students. (Successfully selected students will have to form committees to ensure smooth running of the programme.)
Overseas Community Involvement Projects
Students learn about community and societal issues in the countries surrounding Singapore, building relationships with different people and community groups, and reinforcing skills and values related to working with their peers, overcoming challenges, and creating real and sustainable value for others.
Learning Objective:
To provide a platform:
1) To give students the opportunity to learn and appreciate the richness and diversity of cultures and be more culturally conscious.
2) To develop innovative and passionate individuals who can lead with integrity, serve with empathy and possess a strong sense of civic responsibility.
3) To nurture students who are compassionate, sensitive and responsive to the needs in the community with a lifelong passion for volunteerism.
4) To develop in the students a strong social conscience.
Virtural Overseas Community Involvement Projects (Local only)
Since pandemic phase and with the affordance of technology, we are able to stay connected with our overseas partners, whom we may not be able to visit face-to-face, and still maintain a sustainable service continued rendering our service.
Learning Objective:
To provide a platform:
1) To give students the opportunity to learn and appreciate the richness and diversity of cultures and be more culturally conscious.
2) To develop innovative and passionate individuals who can lead with integrity, serve with empathy and possess a strong sense of civic responsibility.
3) To nurture students who are compassionate, sensitive and responsive to the needs in the community with a lifelong passion for volunteerism.
4) To develop in the students a strong social conscience.
Step 2: Ask a friend to join you or not?
You can choose to call your friends from your CT, your CCA, your ex-classmates, OR just simply ALONE!
Upon application, you must be committed to the entire course of the programme. That includes planning, preparation and post-programme tasks.
Interview may be arranged as part of the selection process.
If you have a group of at least 15 friends from either the SAME CT or CCA, contact Ms Teo Siew Nge directly. ( For 1 day OE programmes)
Step 3: Choose the programme.
Please read the guidelines for application before applying for any of the programmes.
Click Here to access the Infosheets for the programmes.
1) OCIP Ho Chi Minh 27 May – 1 June 2024 (6D5N) ( Via ISP)
Estimated Cost: $1750
Main Teacher-in-charge: Ms Puah Hui Sze
2) OCIP Hanoi 27 May – 1 June 2024 (6D5N) (Via ISP)
Estimated Cost: $1950
Main Teacher-in-charge: Mrs Violet Teo
3) OCIP Indonesia 17 June - 21 June 2024 (5D4N) (Via ISP)
Estimated Cost: $850
Main Teacher-in-charge: Ms Teo Siew Nge
4) VOCIP Vietnam 20 – 22 June 2024 (3 Days) ( approach us to register )
Estimated Cost: $100
Main Teacher-in-charge: Mrs Violet Teo
5) 1 day OE Johor Bahru (April / May - FLD or Saturday : Speak to us to finalise a date for your group)
Estimated Cost: $100
Main Teacher-in-charge: Ms Teo Siew Nge
Step 4: Application - BOTH ISP registration and parent consent are to be completed.
You MUST complete BOTH the following steps before you are being considered for the project:
A) Register via ISP, It will serve as an undertaking by the applicant.
Log on to ISP. Under <Student Services>, click <OE & OCIP> to apply for your project.
B) Consent to sign up for project - completed by parent (Click Here) (Please send this link to your parent)
Your parent/guardian must be aware and give you consent before you sign up for the programme.
Registration deadline : 4 March 2024 (late entries will not be considered)
Take note that the school reserves the right to terminate your participation in the project if your behaviour or conduct is inappropriate. You are also expected to fully cooperate with the instructors and staff, and participate in all activities (including pre-trip preparations and post-trip activities).
Step 5: Interview and selection
Only shortlisted students will be notify by the teacher in-charge for an interview.
Step 6: Adminstrative matters for successfully selected candidates.
Successful applicants, confirmed after interview, are required to submit the following:
1) Consent form ( Send out by the teacher IC through Parent gateway)
2) Health Declaration Form ( To be completed by parent and a medical doctor ) - please also ensure that you take the necessary vaccination required for the location )
3) Copy of the first page of your passport to the teacher in-charge.
FAQ
1) Are we allowed to take on more than one OE/OCIP/VOCIP project?
Yes you may, but the onus is on you to do ensure that the dates for both programmes do not overlap. When you are committed to a programme, you are expected to attend all the pre-programme meetings. Allocation of activities will be dependent on the number and quality of interested applicants.
TIE fund can only be used once a years per programme by each student.
2) Do we need to submit the health declaration before the application deadline, or do we submit it when a teacher contact us if we are successful?
Please log into ISP to register your interest before the application deadline.
Once the OE/OCIP Unit has allocated students to the programme, the teacher in-charge from the programme will contact you, then are you required to submit the completed health declaration formed.
For more information, you may contact any teacher from the OE/OCIP Unit.