Serangoon Junior College

Foundation years

Serangoon Junior College was established in March 1988 as the fourteenth junior college in Singapore.^[1] The College initially operated from a temporary campus in Hougang, which is now the premises of Xinmin Secondary School, with a pioneering staff strength of 45 teachers. Lessons for the first batch of 673 students commenced in April of the same year. In December 1990, the College relocated to its present campus along Upper Serangoon Road, in Hougang New Town. It was officially declared open on 29 May 1992 by Mr. Lee Yock Suan, the then Minister for Education.

In recent years, the academic standards of Serangoon Junior College had been improving consistently, as it gained recognition as one of the leading government colleges in the district.^[2] This was complemented with the rise in admission standards of the college, from a cut-off point of twenty in the 1989 intake to eleven in the 2016 intake at the annual Joint Admission Exercise (JAE).^[1]

Merger into Anderson Junior College

On 20 April 2017, it was announced that Serangoon Junior College would merge with Anderson Junior College (AJC), with the merged school located at the current site of Anderson Junior College, and operating under the name of Anderson Serangoon Junior College.^[3][4] This was in view of the declining enrollment into junior colleges since 2014, attributed to the fall in Singapore's birth rate.^[5] As a result of the merger, Serangoon Junior College no longer admit students from 2018 to minimise the need for students to physically relocated to the new site. The merger process is to be completed by January 2019.^[4]

Vision, mission, values

The vision, mission and values of SRJC was revised in 2016.

Vision – Leaders and Learners driven with values and imagination
Mission – Inspiring all students to have the passion to learn, the heart to serve and the courage to lead.
Values - Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, Integrity, Care, Humility

Houses in SRJC

For competitive intra-school events, the student body is divided into five houses. Each house is led by House Captain(s) nominated from the Student Council.

The five houses are:

• Aquila (Yellow Eagle)
• Cetus (Purple Hydra/Sea Monster)
• Draco (Red Dragon)
• Orion (Blue Warrior)
• Pegasus (Green Horse/Pegasus)

SR Global Classroom Experience

SR Global Classroom Experience (SR-GCE) takes students’ learning beyond the shores of Singapore. With a service learning component designed into the programme, students are given opportunities to apply service learning within a larger community, while gaining cultural awareness and a global perspective. Destinations include Hong Kong, Java, Taiwan, Melbourne and Li Jiang and vary depending on availability and safety.

Since 2007, SRJC has established a twinning programme with Sacred Heart Canossian College in Hong Kong.

WILL Run

The WILL Run is an annual fundraising event founded in 2008 that is integral in SR’s pursuit of perseverance and selflessness. The term WILL evokes the willingness of an individual to run at least 10 km to raise funds for the community and for the college building. The minimum annual total distance targeted for completion is set at 20,014 km – the distance from the North to South Pole.

Get REAL@SRJC

Get REAL@SRJC, the service learning framework in SRJC, stands for Reaching out to the Environment, the Aged, and the Less fortunate. The strong emphasis in service learning is aligned to the college motto “To Learn, To Serve”.

Annual Fundraising

The annual college fundraising event focuses on giving back to the community. Since 2008, the college has committed the first $50,000 of the donations collection to an identified beneficiary each year. The rest of the collection is channelled towards college improvements. The former annual event also incorporated the SR Friendship Games, which was an annual sports event participated actively by the staff and the student body.