1. Name of the School: Raffles Institution
Address : Raffles Institution, One Raffles Institution Lane, Singapore 575954
School Leader:
Story Title: Slow Bus Services
Tel.: Email:
Mentor Teacher : Mrs Ramesh
STUDENT INFORMATION
1) Name: Jordan Ng
Age: 14 Grade: Secondary 2
2) Name: Leben Chew
Age: 14 Grade: Secondary 2
3) Name: Jovan Chan
Age: 14 Grade: Secondary 2
4) Name:Aaron Choe
Age: 14 Grade: Secondary 2
5) Name:
Age: Grade:

2. August
Our plan was simply to write to SBS transit
Many students and teachers from our
about our problem and hope for changes
school take the bus to school every day.
We ourselves do take the bus too, and we to be made, but if we were to do that, we
probably will not be able to make much of
felt that the waiting times for the buses
any impact. Therefore we needed evidence
around our school were getting more and
more erratic, and think that it may pose a to back up our claims, and also a person of
problem to other students who take the higher authority to endorse our claims to
make it more impactful.
bus. Therefore we wanted to change this
problem.

3. To start off, we began by conducting a survey given to 60 students that take the bus from our school. From this, we
gathered evidence of the bus waiting times being long and indeed being a problem for the students. With this, we
started our action week.
We set up a facebook page to garner support from our peers and to post questions and updates about our project.
We also held a joint exhibition with the other DFC project groups in Raffles Institution held at the main atrium,
which lasted 3 days. Posters we made showcasing our findings and our cause were put up. Many students and
teachers came down to take a look at our posters and learn more about the various topics we are focusing on. On
our poster, we had added a petition and many students and teachers did come forth to take a look at our poster
and sign our petition.
For two days, we went around our school and approached several students to explain our project to them. We
then proceeded to ask them to sign on our petition to help support our cause.
On the last day, we made use of the ‘Meet the People’ sessions held every Tuesday night to approach the MP of
Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, Mrs Josephine Teo. We presented our findings to her and requested of her that she assist
us in propelling our project forward. A few days later, we received a letter written from her stating that she will be
happy to forward our findings to SBS transit for their use in planning service improvements. This is good news for
us as it means we are now one step closer to achieving our goal of improving the waiting times of buses around
our school.
An improvement to the waiting times of buses around our school would impact all of the students and teachers
who take the bus to school. Although we do not know the exact number of people impacted, the number will be
great as many students and teachers do take buses to school everyday.