English

The English Language department seeks to develop the students in their 21CC skills, especially in the aspect of effective communication in Standard English by providing a rich environment with curriculum-enhanced activities to foster the four language skills through cooperative learning.

Show and Tell

Show and Tell activity provides an opportunity for students to practice academic vocabulary, pronunciation and expression to help them to become confident speakers.

Show and Tell in a Lower Primary class.

Building Blocks

Building Blocks activities allow students to have the platform to interpret and communicate information through collaboration with their peers in a creative way. Based on their creations, the students collaborate in groups to explore ideas and descriptions for writing. Students generate ideas to present their creations from blocks to writings.

Using building blocks, students create different scenarios to build up description skills in writing.

Reader’s Theatre

Reader’s theatre is a style of performing in which the students collaborate to present dramatic readings of narrative material confidently without costumes, props, scenery, or special lighting.

Middle Primary students reciting their scripts on stage.

Primary 4 Theatre Experience

Theatre Experience is an empowering way for students to learn effective and clear communication which is an essential life skill. It is an opportunity for shy students to slowly build up their confidence using body languages.

A Primary 4 Theatre Experience class in session.

Little Red Dot Publication

The Little Red Dot (LRD) focused on English Language learning, news and current events, with elements of social emotional learning, values education and National Education. The use of current news, which are pitched at the students’ level, generates critical and makes learning authentic and interesting.

Critical Thinking skills are triggered through discussion of Little Red Dot articles

Read and Enjoy

The ‘Read and Enjoy’ publication is a collection of wonderful and creative expressions of our pupils’ literary skills. The aim of our ‘Read and Enjoy’ publication is to create a platform for our pupils to develop a lifelong love for reading and writing.

Writing Honours

The Writing Honours is an inaugural writing competition organized by the English Department for the Primary 4 to 6 students through the use of the Student Learning Space (SLS) platform. The objective of the competition is to encourage students to think deeply and write persuasively while presenting well-connected ideas in a compact fashion of a prose or a poetry related to the stimuli given.

Primary 4 stimulus

Primary 5 stimulus

Primary 6 stimulus

SGEM cum Library Week

The school celebrated Speak Good English Movement (SGEM) cum Library Week through a series of events such as digital performances, book reviews, Spelling Bee competition and SLS quizzes to create an awareness on the importance of speaking Standard English and to promote good reading habits.

Events planned for the students for SGEM cum Library Week

Lit-Up Programme

Lit-Up is an after-school programme designed to meet the advanced learning needs of Primary 4 high-achieving learners by engaging them in challenging literature activities to develop their 21CC skills of Thinking, Social-Emotional & Technological Skills.

Cri-Thinkers Programme

Cri-Thinkers Programme is designed to meet the advanced learning needs of Primary 5 high-achieving learners to nurture them into confident speakers and writers through debate and creative writing platforms.