The Academic Discovery Module (ADM) allows our young Josephians to inquire about the world or the self through a process guided by teachers. This process will get students to adopt lenses of the discipline in order to answer essential questions. As an example, this will give them opportunities to think and act like a scientist or historian.

Read about our Math Academic Discovery Module on 'Building Your Dream Home'.

The Independent Study Module (ISM) allows our Josephians to inquire about a topic of great interest through an independent research. Students get to pose any inquiry questions (E.g. What kind of lives do celebrities lead? Why do frogs croak after rain?) which may arise in their daily lives, and go through an independent research process to answer these questions. They will then do an oral presentation in order to communicate their learning.

The Josephian Innomakers Programme aims to provide students with the opportunities and platforms to learn through play, and through this playful learning, learn to be agents of change by innovating in service to the community. Creative Problem Solving framework and Design Thinking will be integrated into the curriculum to encourage students to Think, Make, Do and Share. Students will be introduced to the 21st-century workplace as they learn skills like coding, building robots, 3D printing, video-making and cardboard modelling. Skills and dispositions aligned with the IBDP Approaches to Learning (AtL) will be developed as the learning experiences challenge students to communicate, collaborate, self-manage, research, and think creatively as well as critically.

The Junior Researcher Programme (JRP) focuses on educating and equipping students with foundational research skills, which will be extended as they progress on to Year 3 & 4 IP and OP with Signum Fidei and Curriculum+ respectively. It is designed to encourage interdisciplinary learning and discovery by infusing research skills as a pedagogical tool in Level 1 & Level 2 learning. The programme also seeks to talent scout and develop IP & OP students, with aptitude in research work, to represent the school and participate in competitions and various research programme at the national level.

JAP Visual Arts is a four-year academic programme designed for Josephians in Years 1 – 4 to encourage and enable them to develop specific skills to create art, make purposeful connections between investigation and practice, communicate and express artistic thoughts, respond to and reflect on art to be socially aware and relevant.

JAP is compulsory for DSA Visual Arts students.

Signum Fidei Programme (SF) aims to achieve the goal of allowing Josephians to integrate and transform their learning into practical solutions. Through the design thinking processes, the students will innovate beyond their existing paradigm and offer a fresh perspective into real-world issues which they are passionate about.

In Year 3, students will learn the theoretical underpinning to design thinking, needs analysis, research methodology, communication, presentation, interdisciplinary approaches etc. This knowledge will be useful when students work in groups to investigate the needs of a local organisation assigned to them and will propose and present meaningful solutions/prototypes to the organisation. If possible, students will be invited to actualise their proposal with the organisation.

From the previous experience and learning, the students will once again be exposed to the needs of the community but will use the lens of innovation and enterprise to apply their learning. There are 2 anchor programmes at Year 4: Innovathon (competition for innovation and creativity) and SFgives (students will use their innovation and enterprising spirit to contribute to a charity).

Curriculum+ challenges our OP Josephians to grow and be better prepared to connect with life beyond the O-Levels. This is done by facilitating the discovery of their strengths and by building enduring skills through purposeful design modules. Through the use of authentic context in Project Work and Entrepreneurship, Year 3 students acquire values and dispositions of collaboration, self-directedness, risk taking and service orientation. As part of the Education and Career Guidance module, the Year 4s are exposed to traditional and non-traditional occupations through direct interactions with practitioners.

Gregory, Ping Yuan and 2 other group members investigated the social well-being of the visually impaired under the topic of Health. Through their primary and secondary investigations, they discovered that the visually impaired often felt socially excluded due to the limited social platforms available to them. They created a board game that could be played by both the visually impaired and those who are sighted.

Ayman and his group mates worked with a film production practitioner during the Year 4 ECG programme. They created and edited a video from scratch to share at the end of the programme.

English Language & Literature goes beyond the books...

Through the various programmes in SJI, Year 3 Josephian Owenn Phua has honed his public speaking skills through SJI's 'One-Minute Gem' (OMG) Challenge and discovered his passion for creative writing and his love for the English language. Read about his story in SJI's Lumen.

Mathematics is more than just algebra & formulas!

Learning about our space & our past

From conception to prototype building

Nguyen Thanh Tin and Joshi Mihir (Year 4) share their experiences from the Singapore Young Physicist Tournament (SYPT), the International Elementz Fair (IEF) and the Singapore Science and Engineering Festival (SSEF).