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CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity Networking @ OLN 21 January 2017

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

DESIRED OUTCOMES FOR EL PROFICIENCY IN SINGAPORE All students to be able to use English to express themselves. • All students to attain foundational skills, particularly in • grammar, spelling and basic pronunciation. The majority of students to attain a good/high level of • competency in English, in both speech and writing.

LANGUAGE LEARNING • Listening, Reading & Viewing (Receptive Skills) • Speaking, Writing & Representing (Productive Skills) • Grammar & Vocabulary (Knowledge about Language)

NATIONAL CURRICULUM STELLAR ST rategies for E nglish L anguage L earning A nd R eading The STELLAR Vision Children who love reading and have a strong foundation in the English Language

EL ENRICHMENT @OLN STRETCH Reading Programme – REAL (Rich, Enduring & Active Learning) • Use authentic, rich literary texts to create a language-rich environment • Promotes love of reading through enjoyment of great stories (link to The STELLAR Vision - Children who love reading and have a strong foundation in the English Language) • P3 • ‘The Magic Paintbrush’ by Laurence Yep • ‘Freckle Juice’ by Judy Blume

EL ENRICHMENT @OLN • P4 • ‘Charlotte’s Web’ by E.B White • ‘The Jungle Book’ by Rudyard Kipling

EL ENRICHMENT @OLN DISCUSSION OF CURRENT AFFAIRS P3 P4 What’s Up (monthly) ST’s Little Red Dot (weekly)

READ! READ! READ! Whole School Reading Programme with the National Library Board - Books To Go (Mass Borrowing - once every term) Pupils are able to borrow a wide variety of reading materials that best fit their reading profile and borrow items on the spot. - What a Wonderful Read (P4)

EL @ OLN What Else? • The Writing Workshop Focused teaching of writing skills to boost better acquisition of writing techniques • Teaching of Comprehension Skills By the end of P3 & P4, students will be competent in these Comprehension skills: Level / Finding Sequencing Inferring Cause and Fact or Point of View Skill Info Effect Opinion and Purpose √ √ 1 √ √ 2 √ √ √ 3 √ √ √ √ 4 √ √ √ √ √ 5 √ √ √ √ √ √ 6

EL @ OLN ICT-enriched lessons • Use of media (video clips, movies) • Use of Web 2.0 tools • MCOnline –  Assignments (during Term, school holidays and on Home-Based Learning (HBL) Day)  Examples – Language Practices and Writing Buddy

EL @ OLN Stretch Opportunities (Beyond Curriculum) • Plain English Speaking Award (PESA) • Trinity Guildhall Speech and Drama Elective Enrichment (after curriculum hours on Wednesdays)

EL @ OLN Support Structures • Remediation lessons (Mondays) for selected students • Reading Remediation Programme (RRP) • School-based Dyslexia Remediation Programme (SDR)

ASSESSMENT Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 CA1 SA1 CA2 SA2 Language Use Papers 1 - 4 Language Use Papers 1-4 and and Comprehension Comprehension only only 10% 30% 10% 50%

Home-School Collaboration READING is imperative to success in English! On your part, please support us by: - Modelling good language use practices at home. i.e. speaking SE - Encouraging READING on a daily basis (this is where vocabulary is acquired and grammar structures taught in school internalized. Kids also get ideas for writing when they read) - Children should read a book fortnightly. - Encouraging your kid to READ WIDELY (meaning novels, news, guide books, visual images, short stories etc) - Films are awesome! TALK to your kid about what’s current and what she has read. Also talk - about what you see around you. This would get her speaking and thinking in the language.

MATHEMATICS

Content 1) Aims Of The Maths Curriculum 2) Teaching & Learning Approaches 3) Assessment Matters

Aims of Math Curriculum • To acquire the necessary mathematical concepts and skills for everyday life • To develop mathematical thinking and problem solving skills and apply these skills to formulate and solve problems • To be able to use mathematical language to express mathematical ideas precisely, concisely and logically

Teaching & Learning Approaches Primary 3 / 4 Mathematics Programme Play-and-Learn Mathematics (PALM) • Problem-solving • Heuristics • Challenging Problem-solving • Math Journals • Math Enrichment •

Teaching & Learning Approaches (1) Play-and-Learn Mathematics (PALM) Programme Infused into daily lessons • Acquiring concepts through concrete materials • Interpreting the mathematical solution in the • context of the real-world problem Developing cooperative and collaborative skills •

Teaching & Learning Approaches (2) Problem-Solving Programme • Aims to strengthen pupils’ application of concepts • Spiral curriculum in developing pupils’ problem solving ability Strategies taught include : • - drawing models - re-drawing models for better visualization - using diagrams & pictures - applying familiar concepts from other topics

Teaching & Learning Approaches (3) Heuristic Programme Pupils need to develop their various thinking skills and heuristics to help them solve mathematical problems. Thinking skills are skills that can be used such as classifying, comparing, sequencing, analysing parts and wholes, identifying patterns and relationship.

Teaching & Learning Approaches Heuristic Programme P1 P2 P3 P4 • Looking for a • Revision of • Revision of • Revision of Pattern skills learnt skills learnt skills learnt • Draw-it-out at P1 at P2 at P2 and P3 • Model- • Restating • Before and drawing the Problem After Concept • Guess & • Working • Points and Check backwards Spaces • Listing Concept

Teaching & Learning Approaches (4) Challenging Problem-Solving • Differentiated learning materials which aims to expose pupils’ to higher -order thinking problems

Teaching & Learning Approaches (5) Maths Journals • A communication tool between the pupil and the teacher. • Reveals pupils’ learning of knowledge and skills • Serves as a tool for teachers to find out pupils ’ learning gap so that follow-up actions can be taken.

Teaching & Learning Approaches (6) Enrichment Programmes Math Olympiad Enrichment Programme •  Aims to level up competencies of high performing pupils’ in solving challenging and non-routine problems  Term 2 / 3 (6 to 8-hour programme)  Selected pupils

Assessment Matters Purpose of Assessment To gather evidence about pupils’ knowledge • of Mathematics To ascertain whether learning has taken • place To provide parents with information on • their children’s achievement

Assessment Matters Modes of Assessment When do we Formative Summative Assessment assess our Assessment pupils? (On-going) Day-to-day • Performance Tasks • Questioning & Feedback • Use of mini-whiteboards • Evidence from pupils’ work Group/Class Presentations • Short Term Diagnostic Tests • • CA1 and CA2 Math Journals • Long-term SA1 and SA2 •

Assessment Matters Format for CAs & SAs Section A: Section B: Section C: Total P3 Duration Multiple Choice Short Answer Long Answer marks Questions Questions Questions 3m x 2 = 6m 1 hour 40 1m x 6 = 6m 2m x 10 = 20m CA1 4m x 2 = 8m 3m x 6 = 18m CA2, SA1 1 hour 45 min 80 2m x 10 = 20m 2m x 15 = 30m and SA2 4m x 3 = 12m

Assessment Matters Format for CAs & SAs Section A: Section B: Section C: P4 Paper Duration Multiple Choice Short Answer Long Answer Questions Questions Questions Paper 1 1 h 2m x 15 = 30m 2m x 15 = 30m - CA1 CA2, SA1 11 questions and SA2 Paper 2 1 h 10 min - - (40m)

Home-School Collaboration Monitor your child’s progress regularly. Ensure that your child completes her daily homework. Acknowledge your child’s strengths and learning gaps. Go through daily work with her. Train your child to persevere if a problem seems difficult. Show all workings clearly. Help your child to know that everyone can learn Math.

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SCIENCE

Objectives What does my child learn How does my child learn in science? science? Why does my child learn science? How can I support my How is my child assessed child in learning in science? science?

Why Does My Child Learn Science? Science concepts to understand themselves and things around them Develop process Skills & Cultivate attitudes

Approach to Teaching & Learning Engagemen t Evaluation Exploration Elaboration Explanation

What Does My Child Learn In Science? Themes * Lower Block (Primary 3 and 4) • Diversity of living and non -living things Diversity • Diversity of materials • Cycles in plants and animals (Life cycles) Cycles • Cycles in matter and water (Matter) • Plant system (Plant parts and functions) Systems • Human system (Digestive system) • Interaction of forces (Magnets) Interactions Energy Energy forms and uses (Light and heat)