Houses
The school uses eight houses of the ACS family, namely Oldham, Thoburn, Tan Kah Kee, Goh Hood Keng, Lee Seng Gee, Cheong Koon Seng, Tan Chin Tuan and and Shaw Vee Meng. All students are assigned to a house for sporting and selected competitions in which they are divided into senior and junior teams. Each house appoints four captains of which two are from the junior team and two from the senior team (where there will be one girl and one boy selected from both teams). The house captains are considered to be student leaders and would therefore be installed at the annual student leaders investiture. Merits earned by students through good conduct, academic work, CCA, helpfulness would be added up to the total points of each house and therefore would be counted towards the House Challenge Shield which is presented to the school at its annual Speech Day.
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