Department of Mother Tongue
Our Vision
Every pupil is proud of his/her own culture and is able to use his/her own language to communicate effectively.

Our Mission  

To inculcate in pupils a passion for their own language, culture & heritage.                                                             

Chinese Malay Tamil

Chinese Language Department

Goals for the Chinese Department  

1.    To enhance pupils’ speaking and listening skills

2.    To develop creative thinking skills in the pupils

3.    To cultivate a reading habits in the pupils  

Programmes

 1.    Reading Programme － 阅读计划

     * Lower Primary Enrichment Class (Words and Images)     

        –  “字形画”华文强化班

 

     *USSR on every Friday (20 minutes on every Friday 

       morning) － 自读时段

 

  *Reading Periods for Primary 1 to Primary 4 

   (1/2 hour per week)－ 图书节
          

  *Buddy Reading (Pupils  of  Higher Chinese   

   Language Classes helping foreign pupils in  

   reading on every Friday Morning) － 学生陪读

 

       *“My Friday Dating” Reading Programme (MT  

       HOD conduct Poetry Recitation Session with pupils 

       of P3   to P5 on Friday  )－ “相约在周五”

 

  2.    Teach Less Learn More － 少教多学
  

       *Radio Capital 95.8 Sessions (Upper Primary) －

       课堂958


   *Sing- along (Lower Primary) －大家唱


   * IT-based Lessons (Incorporating websites      

       Happytown , Zaobao ，Zhishibao  and Culturebridg －

       (网上学习)

    

      * Infusing drama into Chinese Language Lessons 

       (based on content in the textbook, pupils put 

      up creative dramatic performances in the class.)    

      －   课本剧

    3. Immersion Programme － 北京教育与文化浸濡课程

        17 pupils with 2 teachers and our Principal ,went to

      Beijing for Chinese Language and Culture 

        Immersion Tour during the March Holiday .

Outside the school we visited for 3 days consecutively. Our students had the privilege of having lessons there and they made a number of friends. Some of them even cried when they said goodbye to one another on the last day. Apart from having lessons in school, the children went sightseeing in Beijing too - Learning about china, The Great Wall of China and The Forbidden City.

 

4.   Mother Tongue 3-in-1 － 母语三合一

   *MT3 Project( Charts consist of pictures and the 3 Mother Tongue Languages are put up at the school tuck shop to enhance pupils’ Mother Tongue Spoken Language abilities by empowering their vocabularies)

 

     5.  Collaboration Project － 协作计划

     *Term 2 － In line with the school Language Week, 

        Officer of Queenstown  Library conducted a story 

        telling session for Primary 2 and  Primary 4 pupils in 

        school.

     *Term 3 － Primary 2 Story Telling Session At 

        Queenstown Library by the Librarian.

      *Term 4  － Story Telling Session  at  the Queenstown 

        Library by Pupils of P6 Higher  Chinese Language 

        Class.  

Activities － 活动

1.              Experiential Learning － 学习之旅
* Labrador Park

    * China Town Walk

    *  Under Water Trip

    *  Visit to the Zoo  

2.     I & E  Day － 创意日
*  Fish for Value(2005)
*  Fun Learning (2006)

    *  Let’s Play Language Game（2007)

 

3.    Mother Tongue Day －母语日
* Theme for 2005 – Music and Poetry

    * Theme for 2006 –Know the Traditional    

       Marriage Customs

    * Theme for 2007 – Read, Sing, Act  

 

4.  Interclass Competition　－ 班级赛
Term 1－Primary 5 and 6 Essay-Writing Competition

Term 2－Primary 1 and 2  Hanyu Pinyin Competition

    Term 3－ Primary 3 and 4 Story Telling Competition

                    

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Malay Language Department

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Our Reading Programme
Objective:
  º We aim to encourage students to read and widen their vocabulary skills
Strategies:
bulletStudents are to read at least two books a month.  
bulletStudents to write book review from one of the books read monthly  .
bulletTo record the title of every book read in the record sheet.
bulletML teachers will check the book review files monthly.

Updates:  

bulletLibrary picnics were introduced to every Primary 1 - Primary 4.
bulletLibrary picnics are done on every last week of the month.
bulletPrimary 1 - Primary 2 students were brought to the Jurong Bird Park as part of their experiential learning journey.
bulletWorksheets were prepared for each pupil.
bulletFoundation reading programme for weaker students in Primary 1 on Thursdays.

     Library picnic activities:

ExperienceLearning Journey - Jurong Bird Park

  

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Tamil Language Department

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Objective
We aim to achieve quality passes at all levels by improving the pupils' reading and writing skills.
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Events
bulletBuddy Reading on Fridays 7.20 – 7.40 am
bulletBuddy Reading Programme
bulletWorkshop on Phonics and Creative Writing for parents and pupils
bulletNewspaper Cuttings

The TL Department had a fruitful year. Pupils were exposed to a wide range of activities which were enriching. The activities are as follows :-

 

1.     TL pupils from P1– P6 took part in the online quiz organized by the ETD. All the pupils won tokens. ( it is ongoing )

 

2.     Pupils attended a 2hrs workshop for 4 days whereby the learnt to design individual webpage in Tamil. ( it is ongoing )

 

3.     Our pupils also participated in external competitions :-

Sonali of P4 participated in a General Knowledge quiz while

Ramkesh of P6 participated in a Role play competition.

 

4.     Our pupils also participated in internal competitions and won prizes:-

P1 – Role play

P4 – Characterization of storybook characters.

P5/P6 – Essay writing

P6EM3 – Creating Auto shapes

 

5.     On Racial Harmony Day our Tamil pupils visited the cultural village set up at Fairfield Methodist Primary School . They also participated in the concert in conjunction with the celebrations.

 

6.     Our TL pupils took part in a half a day Language Camp organized by the S2 Cluster. In the camp our pupils learnt the art of Garland making and Kolam Drawing. They also visited the Herbal garden where they got to know about the different herbs. The pupils also tried their hands on playing the different classical musical instruments. At the end of the camp pupils watched a video clip on the life of a well known Indian poet. As a follow up activity pupils were given a quiz based on what they learnt at the camp. Our pupils won prizes for the quiz.

Language Camp:

Racial Harmony Day:

   Competitions:
bulletP1&P3 Coloring & Drawing Competition-2nd prize
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Namnaadi Website-Riddle Quiz: won  by Priya, P6D

TLLM for Primary 1 Tamil Language pupils

These pictures show the pupils forming the shapes of the objects they learnt. Plasticine was used to form the shapes whilst the names of the objects were formed using saga seeds. The pupils enjoyed forming the shapes of the objects. 
        
        

 

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