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Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) in Singapore opened in 1977 and is the junior college arm of the Anglo-Chinese School family of Methodist schools. ACJC offers the standard two-year pre-university programme, with students taking the GCE 'A' Levels in their second year. It was the first Junior College in Singapore to have a sports field and a running track on campus. ACJC's class of 2005 produced two out of four President Scholars. In the 2006 GCE A-Level results, a record 233 students scored at least three As. Bowling, Rugby, Swimming, Hockey, Netball, Track & Field, Football and Water polo are among the sports in which ACJC has done well over the years, often finishing the season either 1st or 2nd. Cultural activities include The ACJC Chinese Orchestra, Choir, Concert Band, Drama and Dance Societies, and the Debate Team. Kelvyna Chan has been principal since 2002 to 2013. The successor is former principal of Dunman Secondary School, Ms Beatrice Chong, started from 2014. ==History== The history of the school dates back to 1913, when Rev. William Oldham saw the need for a junior college for ACS. As a result, the Anglo-Chinese College building project and fund-raising initiative was started by Rev. J S Nagle, who started negotiations with the British colonial government about setting up a college to prepare students for British university education. The proposal was turned down by the government, who decided in favour of establishing Raffles College (now the National University of Singapore) to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Singapore.〔Earnest Lau & Peter Teo, ''The ACS Story'', Concordia Communications, 2003. ISBN 981-04-8746-0〕 In 1970 the ACS Board of Governors submitted their recommendations for a junior college to the Singapore government. A 6-hectare site at Rochester Park on a 30-year lease was given for the construction of the college. ACJC thus became the fifth junior college to be established in line with the Ministry of Education's policy on pre-university education, equivalent to a British Sixth-form college, welcoming 968 students in Pre-U 1 and Pre-U 2, on 3 January 1977. To start with, it was an all-male institution. Its main complex was equipped with three lecture theatres, a library, the Tan Chin Tuan Auditorium and eight laboratories. The Shaw Sports Complex housed a 400-metre bitumen track, tennis, volleyball, basketball and sepak takraw courts. Since then, more facilities have been added to the college, with an extension to the original block, and a refurbishment in the 1980s. The first principal of ACJC in 1977 was Mr Chee Keng Lim. He had previously been principal of ACS (secondary school). Mr Chee carried over to the new Junior College the long-standing ACS "family tradition" of corporal punishment, using caning to discipline misbehaving male students. However, ACJC practice was to deliver the strokes privately in the principal's room, whereas canings at ACS were administered in front of the student body.〔(Chee Keng Lim, in Development of Education in Singapore ), National Archives of Singapore No 1425.〕 In one case in 1987, seven ACJC students were caned for stealing audio equipment from the college. This form of punishment is no longer used in ACJC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anglo-Chinese Junior College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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