English

Vision

Confident and competent users of the language.

Mission

To build in our students a strong foundation in the English Language through the development of reading, writing, speaking and aural skills.

Towards a Rich Language Learning Experience

The English Department is committed to provide experiential and authentic learning experiences to enable students to explore and integrate knowledge and skills. 

Reading Mum & Dad Programme
“The world belongs to those who read.”
– Rick Holland

The programme is an initiative by the English Department in partnership with our Parent Volunteers (PV) to promote a love of reading among our P1 and P2 students. The weekly programme is helmed by the Learning Support Co-ordinators and dedicated PV to promote the joy of reading to selected students. 

They guide each student one-on-one at their own pace with a variety of materials and a range of books provided by the department in their reading. It is a child-directed approach. The students in the programme enjoy these weekly sessions and look forward to meeting their ‘Aunties and Uncles’. 

A picture paints a thousand words and so, let the following pictures capture some wonderful moments during the sessions.

kidsREAD Club
It is a collaboration between the National Library Board (NLB) and our school to expose selected P1-P2 students to different book genres. We intend to inculcate in them the deep love for reading and hope that they carry on this habit for a lifetime. The students are involved in doing other interesting tasks that are found in their activity books provided by the NLB. To entice them, our very own PSG members also conduct craft activities that are related to the theme of the story.  

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
- J.K. Rowling

Our students are engaged in learning to read through Moo-O, an online programme. Moo-O excites our students as they see themselves become the story characters, participating in the story they are reading. They can learn independently the pronunciation of a word or how to read expressively from the reading model. With the playback feature and the help of rubrics, Moo-O provides our students with immediate feedback for self-assessment of performance. They can choose to rehearse and re-record in order to improve upon fluency, rhythm, pacing, intonation and expression. Just like how a professional presenter would have done it too.

Note: Video should be uploaded on Youtube.