College Awards and Achievements
The Sustained Achievement Award (SAA) was inaugurated by MOE in 1999. The College has won the SAAs for Academic Value-Added for three consecutive years; for Physical Fitness for five consecutive years; and the SAA for Arts for two consecutive years. The College was the top Value-Added College from 1996 to 2000 and in 2003.
TJC officially received the Singapore Quality Class Award from Spring Singapore in 2003.
The College is a recipient of the Best Practice Award (BPA) in Teaching and Learning, as well as the School Distinction Award (2004–2008) from the Singapore Ministry of Education. The School Distinction Award is awarded to schools with a system to bring about a holistic development in students, not just academically.
In 2008, the school won the School Excellence Award, the pinnacle award under the Singapore Ministry of Education Masterplan of Awards, as well as BPAs in Staff Wellbeing, Student All-round Development and Teaching and Learning. The school had also been awarded SAA for Aesthetics and Physical Fitness in both JC and Secondary section, bringing the total number of awards in 2008 to 7.
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