Term 2
P2 to P4 Nurture Programme
Selected P2 to P4 students started their Nurture Programme in the afternoon of 26 March 2021. The Nurture Programme is conducted weekly in partnership with Central Singapore CDC. The programme is for children who needed a bit more learning support and its outcomes are:
• Build confidence as communicators
• Develop as effective problem solvers and
• Become motivated and self-directed learners
The lessons are designed to be activity-based. In the first lesson, the students set Nurture class rules aligned to our school values. They also created emotion plates and shared their feelings. The students had a fruitful and engaging session. They are looking forward to their weekly sessions with their lead teachers and SMU volunteers.
Mother Tongue Fortnight (Chinese Language)
Our annual fun-filled two-week Mother Tongue Fortnight programme created an opportunity for the students to infuse the learning of the Chinese Culture into the learning of the Chinese Language. This year, the students learnt about the various Chinese Cultural Performing Arts, such as Wushu, Chinese Dance, Acrobatics, Puppet Show, Shadow Play and Chinese Opera.
Students meaningfully engaged in the Digital Learning Trail, as an tuning-in activity for the MTL Fortnight programme.
Hands-on learning to craft the props for the different Chinese Performing Arts.
Sharing their take-aways from the MTL Fortnight
Mother Tongue Fortnight (Malay Language)
Mother Tongue (MT) Fortnight kicks off every year in term 2 with various interesting activities organized for the students. The 2-week long event aims to create an immersive environment for the learning of MT languages. During the two consecutive weeks, a wide range of activities related to Malay Language (ML) and its culture were conducted. These activities provided authentic opportunities for pupils to use their mother tongue language and experience the culture.
P1 – The P1 students had an experiential learning on batik painting.
P2 – The learning package for P2 incorporated enriching learning experiences outside the classroom, where they had to complete a digital trail to learn more about the Malay Traditional Kueh.
P4 & P6 – The lesson package for P4s and P6s focusing on the Malay Folktale ‘Singapura Dilanggar Todak’ and Mahsuri respectively leveraged on the technology to provide innovative learning experiences for the students.
P4
P6
P3 & P5 – The P3s and P5s had an amazing time learning about and playing the Malay Traditional Games!
Mother Tongue Fortnight (Tamil Language)
The Mother Tongue (MT) Fortnight is a platform for students to engage in exploring new knowledge and deeper learning in a fun and engaging manner that ignites and enhances their experiences in Tamil Language (TL) and its cultural activities. This year’s TL theme is `Indian Traditional and Folk Dance Forms` and we got the students engaged in exploring traditional and folk dance forms through rich sharing of the various key traditional dance forms and its nuances. They had their knowledge put to test through fun kahoot quiz games, colouring activities and hands on experience in learning simple folk dance moves, namely, Kollattam and Oyillattam.
P1 and P2 students engaged in their colouring activity.
P3 to P6 students playing the kahoot game quiz.
P3 and P4 students learning Oyillattam.
P5 and 6 students learning Kollattam.
International Friendship Day
On 5 April 2021, our school commemorated International Friendship Day to strengthen the bond between people of diverse backgrounds from ASEAN countries.
The day’s programme started with our International students’ putting up a beautiful rendition of the song “It’s a Small World” in their respective mother tongue languages. Two of our ASEAN students, together with their parents, shared graciously about their culture to the whole school. One student from Myanmar demonstrated some practices observed during their New Year. Another student from Philippines, shared their special food culture.
The assembly talk also drew relevance to real life examples of cross national friendship by showing the solidarity our Singaporean community helping one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. The commemoration ended on 7 April, with an interactive quiz on Kahoot hosted by teachers from the Character and Citizenship Education team where our students had an enjoyable and meaningful time!
Integration Programme
On 9 April, international students from Primary 1 to Primary 5, together with their local buddies, attended the Integration Programme to know more about Singapore_. The session started off with the students playing an ice-breaking game to know each other better. After the ice-breaking game, they participated in a series of popular traditional game, consisting of _Chapteh, Goli (glass marbles), Five stones, Kuti Kuti and Tok Kah (one-legged catching). These games gave these international students, who had only came to Singapore in the recent years, a platform to build an emotional connection and friendship with their local buddies. At the same time, it also provided our Singaporean students the opportunity to play host and interact with their buddies.
