Eunoia Junior College

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.{{cite web |title=Investing in all learners, creating new opportunities and pathways |url= https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/20100908003.htm |website= National Archives of Singapore |access-date=6 January 2020 |date=1 September 2010}}

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.{{cite press release |title= Implementation of Integrated Programme (IP) on Track |url= http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2011/11/implementation-of-integrated-programme-on-track.php |publisher= Ministry of Education |access-date=29 December 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120110034203/http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2011/11/implementation-of-integrated-programme-on-track.php |archive-date=10 January 2012 |url-status=dead}} 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.

Eunoia Junior College welcomed its pioneer batch of students in 2017 and held its inaugural assembly on 20 February that year.{{Cite web |url= http://eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg/induction-2017/ |title=Induction Day |date=21 February 2017 |website= eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170511133108/http://eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg/induction-2017/ |archive-date=11 May 2017 |access-date=11 May 2017}}

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.{{Cite news |title=MOE confirms Mount Sinai as holding site for new JC, after reviewing other options |url= https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/moe-confirms-mount-sinai-as-holding-site-for-new-jc-after-reviewing-other |work=The Straits Times |location= Singapore |access-date=30 December 2015 |last=Lee |first=Pearl |date=5 June 2015}}{{cite web|title = New JC won't be ready by mid-2018 target |url= http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/new-jc-wont-be-ready-by-mid-2018-target |work=The Straits Times |location= Singapore |access-date=29 December 2015 |date=17 April 2015 |last=Lee |first=Pearl}}

The college moved to its Bishan campus on 6 January 2020, located at Sin Ming Place,{{cite news |title= 诺雅初院下月搬到碧山新校舍 |url= https://www.zaobao.com.sg/znews/singapore/story20191126-1008241 |work= Lianhe Zaobao |access-date=31 December 2019 |date=26 November 2019 |last=Hu |first=Jiemei |lang=zh |location= Singapore}} starting with a 14km relay from Mount Sinai to Bishan.{{cite news |last1=Menon |first1=Malavika |title=Eunoia Junior College moves in to new Bishan campus |url= https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/eunoia-junior-college-moves-in-to-new-campus-in-sin-ming-avenue |work=The Straits Times |location= Singapore |access-date=13 January 2020 |date=6 January 2020}} The new site is integrated with the future Marymount Community Club and is Singapore's first high-rise Junior College.{{cite news |title=Classes to begin at Singapore's first high-rise junior college on Jan 6 |url= https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/classes-to-begin-at-singapores-first-high-rise-junior-college-on-jan-6 |work=The Straits Times |location= Singapore |access-date=13 January 2020 |date=2 January 2020}}

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.{{Cite web |title=College Identity – Eunoia Junior College |url=https://eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg/about/identity/ |access-date=2023-01-19 |language=en-GB}}

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".{{Cite news |url= http://mothership.sg/2017/02/eunoia-jcs-crest-is-so-stylish-that-youll-almost-forget-it-has-a-funny-name-almost/ |title=Eunoia JC's crest is so stylish that you'll almost forget it has a funny name. Almost. |date=February 2017 |website= mothership.sg |access-date=4 February 2017}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.behance.net/gallery/42728495/EUNOIA-JUNIOR-COLLEGE-CREST|title=Eunoia JC Crest|date=13 September 2016|website=www.behance.net|publisher=KONG STUDIO|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204105056/https://www.behance.net/gallery/42728495/EUNOIA-JUNIOR-COLLEGE-CREST|archive-date=4 February 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=4 February 2017}}

The white-and-grey school uniform of Eunoia Junior College was designed by two students, with optimisation by an appointed designer.{{Cite news |url= https://tnp.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/students-help-create-eunoia-junior-colleges-school-spirit |title= Students help create Eunoia Junior College's school spirit |date=10 January 2017 |newspaper=The New Paper |location= Singapore |access-date=4 February 2017}}

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.{{Cite news |url= https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/eunoia-jcs-focus-on-passion-purpose |title=Eunoia JC's focus on passion, purpose |date=14 January 2017 |newspaper=The Straits Times |access-date=4 February 2017}}

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.{{cite news |url= http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/new-jc-named-eunoia-to-take-in-chij-st-nicholas-catholic-high-ip-students-in |title=New JC named Eunoia; to take in CHIJ St Nicholas, Catholic High, SCGS IP students in 2017 |work=The Straits Times |access-date=29 December 2015 |date=29 April 2016 |first=Amelia |last=Teng}}

Eunoia Junior College offers the following subjects listed as in 2020.{{Cite web|url=http://eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg/curriculum/academic-subjects/|title=Academic Subjects|website=eunoiajc.moe.edu.sg|access-date=11 May 2017}}

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