Gap Semester 2.0 Scorecard
Gap Semester 2.0
Scorecard
With this new curriculum innovation of the Raffles Programme, Rafflesians will be able to learn, grow, and have fun— while discovering what is truly meaningful and significant to them.’
Gap Semester Portal
What a difference one year makes. Ask a student from the batch of 2012, and he will tell you about the invaluable learning experiences he enjoyed during his last year in school. Ask a student from the batch before, and he will lament about how he did not receive that same experience. And the same reason invariably comes up— the Gap Semester.
Informally known by students and teachers alike as‘ Gap Sem’, the programme has significantly altered student life in RI. It is meant to be a time of learning away from the mundane monotony of school life, and in just its first cycle, it has become intertwined with what we would consider the quintessential
‘ Raffles Experience’, even though it directly engages only an eighth of the student population. While the Gap Semester is a programme open solely to Year 4 Rafflesians, practically the whole institution has become aware of its existence.
Practically, the Gap Semester is an expanded yet also more focused version of the earlier Differentiated Modules Programme( DMP), with one term set aside exclusively for Year 4 students to attend four categories of extra-curricular courses. Whereas DMP offered only in-school enrichment courses, Gap Semester crucially includes student-initiated, work attachment and( highlyanticipated) international courses.
DIFFERENTIATED MODULES PROGRAMME
3 weeks long Before the EOYs
No international or work attachment courses except for Overseas Immersion Programme
Limited range of courses Generally conducted in-house by school teachers
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GAP SEMESTER 9 weeks long After the EOYs
Has international and work attachment courses
Expanded range of courses Involvement of a range of external trainers and agencies
Dedicated corporate portal / website
Rafflesian Times
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