National JC IP: 2025 Junior High Curriculum & DSA Criteria

Q: What does the National Junior College IP guide cover?
A: How NJC’s Junior High sets up deep, interdisciplinary learning (SPIRE, STEAM, Advanced subjects) and what the current DSA-Sec selection criteria look like across sports, arts, and leadership.

TL;DR
• NJC’s Junior High delivers a customised 6-year programme emphasising ability-driven, broad-based and interdisciplinary applied learning to nurture deep learners, collaborative thinkers, and active citizens (Junior High IP overview).
• Every student experiences milestone research programmes—SPIRE and STEAM—and, in upper Junior High, can pursue Advanced Science, Advanced Inquiry in Mathematics, Advanced Humanities, Advanced Language Arts, and Man & Ideas to stretch disciplinary mastery (same source).
• The 2025 DSA-Sec exercise assesses passion, character, commitment to serve, and academic potential; talent domains include Sports & Games, Visual/Literary/Performing Arts (Band, Choir, Dance, Media), Student Leadership, STEAM, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship, each with detailed skill criteria and a four-year CCA commitment (DSA selection criteria).

Quick facts for families

• NJC keeps all six IP years within the same college, starting with Junior High and ending in Senior High (Junior High IP overview).
• Every cohort completes SPIRE and STEAM projects, so research and presentation habits grow step by step (same source).
• Upper Junior High offers Advanced Science, Maths Inquiry, Humanities, and Language Arts so students can go deeper before JC1 (same source).
• DSA 2025 needs a four-year CCA promise; shortlist decisions weigh passion plus fit, not just medals (DSA selection criteria).

1 | Junior High learning philosophy

• NJC positions its IP around key talent-development models, aiming to “add value to the lives of others” through Service with Honour (Junior High IP overview).
• The curriculum foregrounds interdisciplinary connections so students can transfer knowledge to real-world contexts; SPIRE (Structured Programme for Innovation, Research & Enterprise) and STEAM research programmes embed collaboration, experimentation, and presentation for all cohorts.
• Lower Junior High includes dedicated