Subject objectives

• Students develop fluent and accurate spoken and written English.
• Students learn English as a tool for study and learning the cultures of other people.
• Students learn English as medium of pleasure and entertainment.
• Students are given the opportunity to use the language in a meaningful way to carry out acts of purposeful communication.

Subject Highlights

• There are a total of 13 native English-speaking teachers (NETs) of which one of them is a part-time drama instructor. The large number of NETs has effectively created an English-rich environment.
• We put strong emphasis on reading. Students have regular library periods and lower primary students are read to every day. Besides, we have school-based reading and writing programme, of which the objective is the appreciation for the joy of reading and writing.

• Campus English and Classroom Language are two school-based publications which teach students commonly-spoken language in an EMI school.

• Drama is incorporated into our English Language curriculum for P.5 and P.6. This creates opportunities for students to use the language and raise their confidence in public speaking and self-expression.
• A school-based curriculum based on themes will be introduced in 2016-2017. This new curriculum encourages students to learn collaboratively through meaningful tasks. It will also develop cross-curricular and collaboration between subjects. The use of authentic material will challenge students and help develop their fluency.

• Phonics is done in P.1 and P.2 English classes every day in a fun way. It provides students with a multi-sensory approach to learning literacy using synthetic phonics.
• Lower primary students (P.1 and 2) are given leveled readers according to their reading ability so as to cater for learning diversity.

• Students are encouraged to take part in a variety of learning activities to expand their English-learning, for example, Speech Festival, inter-school competitions, Drama Festival and international study tours. Upper primary students are chosen to be English ambassadors. They interact with lower primary students through various activities such as board games and story-telling.

• Students are encouraged to use the language to achieve communicative purposes. They write journal entries every o other week to share with their teachers what they do at the weekend.

• Individual and group presentations
• Group work
• Project work
• Drama activities
• Peer assessment
• Self-reflection

E-learning Platforms for students

• RAZ-Kids allows students the opportunity to read and/or listen to, a variety of books online.  The books are levelled and each book comes with a quiz to test student’s understanding.