For the past 170 years, SJI has continuously empowered men and women to learn how to learn and to learn how to live.

As one of the few schools in Singapore that offer the IB curriculum, an SJI education is more than ordinary.

What does life in SJI hold?

Every journey begins with the first step.

From your very first day here, look forward to a WILD start to your journey. Cheers. Songs. Games. Campfire night. Orientation is sure to be a blast like no other.

Above all, orientation is a recognition of the gifts each of us bring to this school. The gifts we bring collectively make up the SJI significance that we embrace in all our hearts.

Faith is our foundation.

As we settle into the normalcy of school life, we refresh ourselves everyday with the spirituality of prayer. At 7.10am daily, Catholics join together for morning prayer, while non-Catholic students remain in class. Once per week, Catholics are also invited for mass.

Although SJi is a Catholic institution, we welcome students of all faith traditions. Here is where all can find a home.

On a typical day, lessons begin at 7.50am and end at about 3.30pm. IBDP Students are prescribed an individualised timetable for academic lessons, free periods for rest and consultations with teachers and lunch breaks.

In classes of about 20 students each, Josephians engage academically through discussions, presentations and research.

In tandem with the IB aims, we strive to develop students who possess both breadth and depth of knowledge - students who are critical thinkers and curious inquirers.

Service is our way.

Following in the footsteps of our founder St. John Baptist de La Salle, SJI encourages students to reach out and beyond.

Josephians engage frequently and meaningfully with the community as we reach out to the last, the lost and the least.

Beyond service learning, Josephians also have the opportunity to engage in creative works based on their passions, talents and inclinations.

Josephians in the IB programme do so through their CAS groups and projects which they may initiate independently. All students are required to accumulate 50 hours of activities and projects in each of the three strands of Creativity, Activity and Service.

For example, this group of students coded this open house website from scratch together. They are testament to the innovation and creativity Josephians bring to our community.

Community is our support.

We celebrate community in many different ways. During major school events: our Inaugural assembly, the Founder's Day celebrations, Thanksgiving ceremony and the occasional ice cream days.

And yet, above all the big school events we hold, it is the small things that mean the most to us.

It is the simple friendships we are surrounded with. The simple good morning, the simple please, the simple thank you.

The simple Discord movie nights we enjoy together, the simple study sessions we have, the simple conversations we have with each other over lunch.

The small and simple, yet ever compelling things school brings for us.

The magic of SJI, to us, lies in the hope that, together, we can be better. Even during this pandemic, we hold strong to this hope.

Hope, not so much that life will be the same again, but hope that we can walk through our challenges together.

Hope, that we will make the most of these times. Hope that we will always remember these times, not for its empty promises, but for our growth through its difficulties.

As we grow from “I” to “We”, this is the place where we become brothers and sisters to one another. It is here that we truly discover that we are one, but we are many.

What are we to discover on our journey in SJI? What is it that we can hope for?

Perhaps the simplest of things: the goodness of changing for the better. That is God's gift to all of us. That is the mission and commitment we bring to school. The gift to be transformed so that we, in turn, can make the world better.

It is a transformation that happens subtly, and quietly, almost organically and very ordinarily in our daily lives of teaching and learning, of interacting and caring here in SJI. It is a change that happens because of the community we are.

And even after our journeys come to an end, you can take a Josephian out of SJI, but you can never take SJI out of a Josephian.

Why? Because SJI is not just any other school. It is a special place. It is our home. It is our family.

Here at SJI, our stories can be more together. This is the story we continue to write.

And YOU can be part of it too.