Eunoia Junior College

Eunoia Junior College (EJC) is a junior college in Singapore which offers Integrated Programme (IP) with Catholic High School, Singapore Chinese Girls' School and CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School. It is located in Bishan, close to Bright Hill MRT station and Bishan MRT station.^[3]

Eunoia Junior College Maktab Rendah Eunoia 诺雅初级学院 யூனோய தொடக்கக் கல்லூரி
Eunoia Junior College Bishan Campus
Location
2 Sin Ming Place, Singapore 573838 Bishan, Singapore
Coordinates	1.3630442161452725°N 103.83948051861982°E / 1.3630442161452725; 103.83948051861982
Information
Type	Government Co-educational Integrated Programme
Motto	Beautiful Thinking, Goodwill to All[1]
Established	2017
School code	0714
Principal	Mr Andrew Tan Eng Hian
Teaching staff	120[2]
Enrollment	1,250[2]
Campus size	4 ha[2]
Color(s)	Blue   Gold   White
Affiliations	NA
Vision	Every Eunoian a Youth with Purpose, Thinker with Heart, Leader with Courage
Website	www.eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg

History

Plans for Eunoia Junior College were first announced on 1 September 2010 as part of an expansion of the Integrated Programme (IP) to seven more schools. The new Junior College was targeted to be set up by 2017, serving IP students from three schools as there was no model for such a Junior College at that time.^[4]

Eunoia Junior College was established alongside the Catholic High School – CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School – Singapore Chinese Girls' School Joint Integrated Programme (JIP), which accepted the first cohort of IP Year One students in January 2013.^[5] The name of the junior college was announced on 29 December 2015 by Acting Minister of Education (Schools), Ng Chee Meng, in an MOE ceremony at Shangri-La Hotel to appoint and appreciate the country's principals.^[3]

Eunoia Junior College welcomed its pioneer batch of students in 2017 and held its inaugural assembly on 20 February that year.^[6]

From 2017 to 2019, the college was located at an interim campus at 53 Mount Sinai Road, formerly the site of Raffles Junior College. It was announced that the college's permanent campus located off the junction of Sin Ming Avenue and Marymount Road will be ready in late 2019, owing to the delay in the construction of the Cross Island line.^[7][8]

The college moved to its Bishan campus on 6 January 2020, located at Sin Ming Place,^[9] starting with a 14km relay from Mount Sinai to Bishan.^[10] The new site is integrated with the future Marymount Community Club and is Singapore's first high-rise Junior College.^[11][10]

Principals

Name of Principal	Years Served
Cheang Mei Heng	2014–2021[12]
Andrew Tan Eng Hian	2022–Present[13]

Identity & culture

College Name

See also: Eunoia

Eunoia (yoo-noh-iea) means beautiful thinking, goodwill to all, and a bridging of the heart and the mind. Eunoia is an English word with Greek origins, and is made up of two parts: 'eu' meaning good and 'noia' referring to the mind.^[14]

College crest

The crest of Eunoia Junior College was designed by Kong Studio, a local design firm with strong portfolio of various oriental branding work. The crest is being annotated with three aspects of the college's strategic trust "All-round Development, Beautiful Thinking and Cultural Conversance".^[15]

The design of the crest is inspired by the neural networks of the human brain, and which portrays the motto of beautiful thinking. The circular shape of the crest signifies the holistic development of the students, while the oriental theme provides a contrast to the college's name "Eunoia" adapted from the western Greek. It encompasses the vision for the students to rooted to their own cultural heritage and to embrace and thrive in diverse cultural settings of a globalised world.^[16]

College attire and appearance

The white-and-grey school uniform of Eunoia Junior College was designed by two students, with optimisation by an appointed designer.^[17]

College anthem

The college anthem of Eunoia Junior College was composed by ten students from the Joint Integrated Programme in 2016. The anthem was officially launched in February 2017.^[18]

Admission and affiliations

Eunoia Junior College is the junior college (JC) partner of Catholic High School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School and Singapore Chinese Girls' School under the Joint Integrated Programme. The majority of its students will be enrolled through the Integrated Programme (IP) at Catholic High School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School and Singapore Chinese Girls' School, while a quarter of the enrolment places are reserved for students enrolling through the Junior College Joint Admission Exercise with their Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level results.^[19]

Academic information

Academic subjects

Eunoia Junior College offers the following subjects listed as in 2020.^[20]

H1 Level	H2 Level	H3 Level
General Paper Project Work Mathematics Economics Geography History Chinese Malay Tamil Chinese-B Malay-B Tamil-B	Knowledge and Inquiry Economics Geography History Literature in English China Studies in Chinese Chinese Language and Literature Translation (Chinese) Malay Language and Literature Tamil Language and Literature Art Music Mathematics Further Mathematics Physics Chemistry Biology French German Japanese	Biology Chemistry Physics Mathematics History Economics Geography Music Art Chinese Language and Literature Literature in English

External links

• Official website

References

1. "Identity - Eunoia Junior College". eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
2. "New S$100m Eunoia JC campus is Singapore's first 'high-rise' junior college". Channel NewsAsia. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
3. "New Junior College to be named Eunoia JC". Channel NewsAsia. 29 December 2015. Archived from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
4. "Investing in all learners, creating new opportunities and pathways". National Archives of Singapore. 1 September 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
5. "Implementation of Integrated Programme (IP) on Track" (Press release). Ministry of Education. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
6. "Induction Day". eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg. 21 February 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
7. Lee, Pearl (5 June 2015). "MOE confirms Mount Sinai as holding site for new JC, after reviewing other options". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
8. Lee, Pearl (17 April 2015). "New JC won't be ready by mid-2018 target". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
9. Hu, Jiemei (26 November 2019). "诺雅初院下月搬到碧山新校舍". Lianhe Zaobao (in Chinese). Singapore. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
10. Menon, Malavika (6 January 2020). "Eunoia Junior College moves in to new Bishan campus". The Straits Times. Singapore. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
11. "Classes to begin at Singapore's first high-rise junior college on Jan 6". The Straits Times. Singapore. 2 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
13. "59 schools to get new principals, including 3 junior colleges". CNA. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
14. "College Identity – Eunoia Junior College". Retrieved 19 January 2023.
15. "Eunoia JC's crest is so stylish that you'll almost forget it has a funny name. Almost". mothership.sg. February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
16. "Eunoia JC Crest". www.behance.net. KONG STUDIO. 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
17. "Students help create Eunoia Junior College's school spirit". The New Paper. Singapore. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
18. "Eunoia JC's focus on passion, purpose". The Straits Times. 14 January 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
19. Teng, Amelia (29 April 2016). "New JC named Eunoia; to take in CHIJ St Nicholas, Catholic High, SCGS IP students in 2017". The Straits Times. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
20. "Academic Subjects". eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg. Retrieved 11 May 2017.