CCA Matters
Coordinator
Ms Chen Phi Fern (chenpf@hci.edu.sg)
CCA is an integral part of education. With a wide range of CCAs including Sports, Cultural, Visual and Performing Arts, Service and Enrichment, students would have the chance to continue their passion from their secondary school years as well as exploring new activities CCAs also seek to consciously expose students to real-life situations or authentic contexts, to facilitate perspective taking, relationship management and moral action. Structured reflection, guided discovery and facilitative problem-solving will help students to internalise the institution’s core values of Passion, Integrity, Innovation, Empathy and Resilience. Each student is expected to take up at least one CCA during their years in college.
There are 3 Main Categories of CCAs:
Sports & Games: 19 (with 14 Sports CCAs with Girls and Boys Teams)
Visual & Performing Arts: 8
Service & Enrichment: 14
*Number of CCAs subject to change.
Click here to find out more about the various CCAs offered in Hwa Chong.
1) CCA QUOTA
Each CCA can enrol members up to a certain number called the CCA Quota
Calculation of the CCA Quota are as follows:
Sports & Games
Based on 2019 Pre-Covid19 Maximum Registration for National School Games and Major Sports Competitions (non-NSG sports) for ONE TEAM:
50% Max Registration +3 OR Two-Thirds Max Registration, whichever is higher.
Visual & Performing Arts, Service & Enrichment
Past 3 years average membership numbers or Highest Past 3-years Year-Membership
[dependent on other factors such as venue capacity requirement. CCAs with flexible venue arrangement will have higher quota)
2) CCA Recruitment Process
Students may register for their choice of CCAs via ISP based on the different phases as listed below.
PHASE 1
For IP and DSA students who are continuing in their secondary school CCA.
6-year IP CCAs
IP students are encouraged to continue with the development of their CCA.
Early Integration into CCA
CCAs have a choice to accept IP students up to two-thirds of their CCA quota.
IP students may register in this phase if the CCA has confirmed to accept him/her.
PHASE 2
For all JAE (Joint Admission Exercise) students and remaining IP students who do not want to continue with the CCA that is the same as year 1 to year 4 CCA.
PHASE 3
For students who have yet to select/ not assigned a CCA during phase 1 and 2.
Students may appeal through the CCA teacher advisors if the CCA quota* is yet to be filled fully. Students should seek for alternative CCAs when the desired CCA's quota is already filled.
PHASE 4
For students who want to register for a 2nd CCA may contact the CCA teacher ICs directly to enquire.
Applying for 2nd CCA and/or Student Leadership Committees
Students must meet the following criteria to apply for more than 1 CCA:
IP students whose Sec 4 MSG ≤ 2.5 are eligible.
All JAE students are eligible
Both the 1st and 2nd CCA Teacher ICs must be in mutual agreement regarding the student's ability to manage the workload of both CCAs.
Joining the Students' Council Elections
Students should apply for a CCA prior to running for the Students' Council Elections or other student leadership committees.
Students are to inform their CCA teacher advisors of their intention to run for the Council Elections before submitting their application.
Students who are not elected as Students' Council members will continue in their CCA.
Students who are successfully elected may continue in the 2nd CCA if approval is given by the Students' Council teacher advisor(s) AND the CCA teacher advisor(s).
UNIFORMED GROUPS
EXTERNAL CCAS
Please contact the respective coordinators for more details.
3) Registration on ISP
Pre-Registration
If the student is not sure if the 1st choice CCA will accept him/her, and he/she registers it as 1st Choice in ISP registration. In the event that the student is allocated to your 2nd or 3rd Choice, appeal to your 1st choice will not be accepted.
Each student should consider his/her 3 choices carefully. It is not mandatory to select all 3 choices.
If you see your CCA under "Current CCA Records", this means the CCA Teacher has manually keyed in. Then you do not need to register.
4) Other CCA Policies
a. Membership
Membership commitment is for 2 years. Students are to take CCA registration seriously and make their CCA choice/s carefully.
Students are not allowed to change their CCA after they have registered on ISP and are approved regardless of Phase 1 or Phase 2.
Students s are not allowed to change their CCA midway in their C1 or C2 year without a valid reason.
Students with 2 or more CCAs, are required to fulfil required minimum "Expected CCA hours" required by each of his/her CCAs.
Required "Expected CCA hours" refer to what the CCA teacher is willing to accept as minimum requirement in instances where there are clashes in schedule.
b. Leadership
Student holding highest top 2 leadership position in one CCA i.e Captain, Vice-Captain, President, Vice-President cannot run for faculty committee and other student committees, (with the exception of CCA Council).
Students who are running for exco positions other than the top 2 should check with the CCA if they can run for Faculty Committees and other student committees.
If a student steps down from the leadership position midway of the term of office without a valid reason, he/she will not be recognised for his exco leadership in his/her CCA portfolio.
HCI Diploma will recognise all CCA leaders in all exco leadership positions as eligible for HCI Diploma with the endorsement of the respective CCA teachers.
Student Committees (CIP, Green Council & SNEC) and Faculty Committee are considered exco leadership positions and endorsed by their teachers-in-charge for eligibility for HCI Diploma.
Students who hold appointments in Academic Student Committees such as SMTP-GATE, LEP, BSP, Entrepreneurship Committee, Economics Committee are NOT considered exco leadership positions.
[Refer HCI Diploma for more details]
c. Leadership [Uniformed Groups and External CCAs]
Only approved external CCAs such as SNYO, SNYCO, Singapore National Debate Team, National Youth Sports Teams, Singapore Youth Flying Club and evidence of leadership over a least a period of 12 months.
If you have an appointment in an external CCA other than the abovementioned, you are advised to have your involvements recorded on the organisation’s letterhead for your own perusal.
UG leadership positions will be assessed by PC/PE&CCA.
d. CCA Appraisal
By adapting from adult work environment where staff/performance appraisal is a common practice, CCAs will also undergo CCA Appraisal.
The CCA appraisal is an evidence-based reflective tool for assessing the processes and the quality of the CCA programme.
5) GENERAL CCA CALENDAR
6) CCA Leadership & Development Framework
Art of War 孙子兵法
Adapting the concept in Sun Tzu's Art of War. Our CCA programmes adopt the key factors of success and inculcate the key attributes of leaders in developing the CCA programme and the CCA leaders. The annual CCA Appraisal, a tool for reviewing the effectiveness of the CCA, is structured according to the key factors of success of the Art of War.