Mother Tongue Languages (MTL)
Curricular Goal
Confident and Effective Communicators,
Culturally-savvy and Self-directed Learners.
MTL students are developed in three critical areas:
• Communication skills with knowledge of MTL, possessing the attitude and habit in using MTL in their daily communications;
• Culturally-savvy with deepened understanding and appreciation of one’s own Mother Tongue culture and cross-cultural awareness;
• Connections with others as self-directed thinkers and learners, equipped with Social Emotional Competencies, ICT skills in MTL learning and global awareness.
To bring about the Joy of Learning in MTL and a need to keep MTL as a living language, we strive to continuously enhance our teaching approach to engage our students in learning. The key areas include: a) enhancement of our in-class teaching and learning in alignment to the latest 2015 syllabus; b) programmes organised for greater exposure of our students to the language skills and developing self-directed learning; c) providing various platforms for the display of students’ talents; d) festival celebrations and MTL fortnight to heighten our students’ own cultural and cross-cultural understanding and appreciation.
Cultural Learning – Cross-cultural awareness
Chinese New Year Celebrations
Chinese New Year Concert
Recess Activities- Interactive Board Zodiac Games
Recess Activities- Calligraphy
Recess Activities - Socrative Quizzes
Recess Activities - Library
Classroom Activities - P1 & P2 Chinese Characters & Zodiac colouring and design
Classroom activities - P3 & P4 CNY Well-wishes writing
Classroom activities - P5 & P6 Zodiac cutting and design
Hari Raya Puasa Celebrations
Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration
Mid-Autumn Celebrations Concert
Mid-Autumn Festivals Celebrations booths and games
Deepavali Celebrations
Primary 2: Speech & Drama
Drama is an enjoyable learning platform. P2 students develop their communication skills through the use of their voice and body language as well as build confidence in using MTL effectively in dramatisation.
Chinese Language Speech and Drama
Malay Language Speech and Drama
Tamil Language Speech and Drama
MTL Fortnight and P4 Cultural Camp
To instil in our students the love of learning MT languages, to promote the appreciation of their culture and to enhance their language skills, MTL teachers organise two weeks of fun-filled cultural and language activities for students every year.
Classroom activities such as Spelling Bee Competition, Inter-class performances, games on idioms and words, the learning and writing of poems, penmanship competitions and reading programmes are carried out across the MTLs.
Cultural activities include hands-on experience in making traditional crafts, playing of traditional games, learning about customs and practices of own culture as well as that of other cultures. All P4 students are immersed in their own culture and learning about other cultures as well during the P4 cultural camp.
MTL Reading Programme
Reading is one of the ways to enhance the learning of MTL. It sparks students’ interest in MTL which leads to greater improvement in their use of MTL in communicating with others and appreciation of MTL. Students are engaged in the reading of various materials such as newspapers, magazines, story books of different genres, meaningful songs and poems.
Each of the MTL has their own unique reading programme. For example, the Malay Language students are exposed to the language through the ‘Marilah Bersastera’ Extensive Reading Programme. Accompanying learning materials are also developed to enrich students’ learning. Students get to do reviews and learn about characterisation and plot which they can apply to composition writing.
P4 Cultural Camp- Additional Games
Students learning Indian Traditional game - Aadu Puli Aatam
Students learning Malay Chapteh and Chinese Top
Students learning Five Stones and Congkak
Students learning Chinese Animal Chess
Mother Tongue Language Fortnight Activities 2019
Traditional Games at Recess
CL Story Telling
P1 CL Word Search acitvity
P3 CL Reader’s Theatre
P6 Clay Modelling
P1 ML Spelling Bee
P2 ML Role-Play
P5 ML Journalism Workshop
P1 TL Show & Tell
P1 TL Kolam Decoration
P2 TL Scenario Description
P2 TL Thoranam Making
P3 TL Role Play
P3 TL Flower Tying
P3 TL Reader’s Theatre
P4 TL Story Telling
P4 Kolam Decoration
P4 Learning Journey to the Heritage Centre
P5 TL Oratorical
P5 TL Henna Drawing
P6 TL Language Quiz
P6 TL Indian Traditional Games