Mother Tongue DEPARTMENT

Vision: Gracious Bilinguals with a Strong Asian Identity

Motto: To engage learners in learning the language, values and culture through a purposeful and meaningful Mother Tongue Language programme.

Highlight of 2022: The MTL Fortnight Programme

AssumptionKnights were able to deepen their knowledge and appreciation for the language and cultural heritage through our flagship MTL Fortnight Learning Immersive Trails (L.I.T) Programme. AssumptionKnights learned writing skills in the classroom by tapping on their experiences from virtual tours of cultural heritage sites or interactive enrichment cultural workshops. AssumptionKnights also had the opportunity to read out well wishes to their teachers in the Mother Tongue languages and dedicate songs sung in Chinese, Malay, Tamil, Hindi, Korean, Thai and even in French and German!

Continuing with our tradition, our compassionate and generous AssumptionKnights donated food items for our ‘Packing Love, Sharing Abundance’ Chinese New Year Food Donation Drive. The donations were presented to less privileged households in Senja-Cashew, St Vincent De Paul “Friends in Need’ families, Ren Ci Nursing Home, Fei Yue Senior Activity Centre (Teck Whye) as well as the cleaning and operations staff in our school. Our annual, limited edition postcards, specially designed in-house by our talented AssumptionKnights were prepared for them too!

Budding Writers and Language Ambassadors

The 2-week long programme culminated in the Mother Tongue Fortnight E-Celebrations. It was a joyous occasion where everyone, including our Parent Support Group, partook in individually packed pineapple tarts, learnt to make Mandarin Orange craft, 2D ‘ketupats’ and draw ‘Kolams’ to put up as classroom decorations and wish each other a prosperous year ahead.

The Secondary One students also received a special visit by the God of Fortune who dropped by with bags of candies!

To encourage AssumptionKnights to develop their innate interest and potential in the Mother Tongue language, opportunities were provided for them to deepen their language mastery. Through the Authors-in-Residence Programme, students learnt how to write creatively and effectively from Mr Li Yeming, a well-known Chinese language author.

Involvement in the nation-wide Rakan Bahasa (Friends of the Language) initiative enabled students to develop their skills in the language. They took part in a NewsMaker Video-making Competition and initiated the school’s Malay Language Reading Programme to encourage their peers to read and explore different forms of Malay language texts.

Through our programmes, our AssumptionKnights are able to develop appreciation and respect for their own cultural identity and the different Mother Tongue languages.