Teacher Rachael has proposed a 2-day writing course. The course will follow the Secondary curriculum changes in English Language. DESCRIPTION The aim of the course will be to teach the students techniques on how to handle: Persuasive Writing Skills (Discursive/Argumentative) Narrative Read more…
How to tackle the summary Question This is Teacher Rachel’s follow-up post on Tackling summary questions for lower secondary students. Click here to read her first post on How to identify points in summary. The Summary question might seem like Read more…
PSLE: Example of a stimulus-based Conversation on kindness Usually, by mid-May my students would be done with the oral component for their SA1. The rest of the levels would then have a break before they re-start oral testing in September Read more…
Identifying points in summary Like most language components, knowing the correct techniques to help you answer your questions accurately is essential. In this post, Teacher Rachael, one of our secondary school teachers, has prepared a short video, along with a Read more…
P6 Writing: City Underground & SOTA Primary 6 Creative Writing Competition 2020 Congratulations to one of our most hardworking P6 students, Sophia, for being shortlisted as one of the Top 50 finalist in the SOTA P6 Creative Writing Competition 2020!!!! Read more…
P4 English – An unlucky day composition I hope that the younger ones are weathering the Circuit Breaker well 🙂 I have been talking with my P3 and P4 students once a week when we have our live streaming classes Read more…
Writing Workshops Hello everyone and I hope that you are doing well 🙂 Recently, I have had some parents request for short-term lessons during this ‘circuit breaker’ period. I have managed to arrange two workshops with the focus on writing. Read more…
Model composition – A Dangerous situation and English E-learning programme It has been a very busy two weeks and somewhat stressful. After the announcement that all enrichment and tuition centres had to close, Thinking Factory, was hard at work thinking Read more…
Secondary 1 English: An introduction on how to create interesting characters As Secondary 1 students manoeuvre life in their first year at secondary school, they realise that the writing component is somewhat more challenging than what they had experienced in Read more…
P6 English Composition model: Being punished Bullies and bullying are common characters and themes that students like to use in their compositions. This is understandable because this topic is ever present in children’s lives, be it through books, the media Read more…