Active Learning Programme (ALP)
Programmes
ALP@RAFFLES - Nurturing Confident Communicators
6-year oracy programme comprising:
- Oracy Skills Framework (provides appropriate and effective structure to support design and review of skills);
- Oracy Curriculum (provides sound foundation for the development of skills through various platforms and opportunities including lesson plans and resources);
- Whole-school oracy culture (interdisciplinary approach to embed oracy across different disciplines generating commitment from both pupils and students); and
- Oracy Assessment (tracks students’ progress in developing oracy skills).
Aims of ALP Programme:
- communicate effectively in diverse contexts and for a range of purposes and audiences;
- speak with confidence, clarity and fluency;
- articulate their ideas and share them confidently with others, thus discovering their voice;
- adapt the use of language for a range of different purposes and audiences; and
- value the contribution of others and respond to them appropriately through collaboration.
| Programme | Approach |
|---|---|
| P1-2 Digital Puppetry Solution (Moo-O) | Moo-O is a unique digital storybook that helps hone children’s reading fluency skills. Students are engaged as they instantly become characters in the story that they are reading, making reading-aloud a meaningful activity. |
| Speak@Raffles/PESA | The pupils achieved good speech habits, accurate pronunciation, clear articulation, intonation. The programme provided a platform for pupils to showcase their talents in speech. They acquired the broad concepts and principles in prepared speech. The programme culminated in an interclass competition within the level. Thereafter, winners of the interclass competitions took part in the national PESA competition. |
| NEWSALIVE – P4 & P5 Software Solutions for Effective Communication & Training (Newsmaker) | The Newsmaker is an innovative learning toolkit that inspires creative thinking, exposes pupils to real world video production techniques and allows them to accomplish high-quality and professional news production from Web cameras. This programme encourages pupils to speak with confidence whilst presenting a news item. It also exposed pupils to different aspects and techniques news making. |
| P5 - P6 Impromptu Speech | Using guided lesson plans, teachers teach students how to use PREP to answer the question posed. Students will be given opportunities to speak in their groups. Every student gets to practice her oral skills, hear each other and give feedback. All students get to present to the class. Due to social distancing measures implemented in school, the competition in 2020 took a different format. Instead of having the whole cohort in the hall to watch a competition, the participant of each class did a video recording to record their individual speech. The recorded clips were then assessed by judges. |
Purpose
The objectives of these programmes is to:
- encourage students to speak clearly and expressively;
- develop confidence;
- expose students to different aspects of reading;
- have students demonstrate an awareness of the importance of voice modulation techniques and audience presence throughout the performance;
- nurture confident and articulate speakers;
- allow students to pursue creative and expressive capacities.
| Programme | Approach |
|---|---|
| Raffles Voice (Speakers’ Corner) | Participants are P5 and P6 students who gather to talk about a range of social, educational and trending topics. |
Purpose
The objectives of this programme is to:
- provide students a platform to express themselves clearly, with confidence and power, in a variety of speaking situations;
- allow students to speak with poise in front of an audience;
- allow students to express ideas in a compelling and convincingly manner;
- provide an opportunity for students to motivate audience to influence listeners positively; and
- allow students to share information which enhances an audience understanding of a given topic.
| Programme | Approach |
|---|---|
| Literature-in-Action | Teachers provide a conducive environment in which students are encouraged to speak up - discuss issues and to ask thought-provoking questions. Experiences are important in students’ oral development. Students will demonstrate visual acuity and aesthetic sensibilities and sensitivities in expressing themselves. They will also have the means of formulating and expressing ideas, perceptions and feelings. |
Purpose
The objectives of this programme is to:
- promote an appreciation and enjoyment of quality literature;
- provide opportunities for students to critique and articulate different perspectives, linked to the theme, characters and plot found in literature texts.
| Programme | Approach |
|---|---|
| Using Drama in EL classroom | Experiential learning to aid understanding perspectives and POVs. To understand motives and intentions of characters. |
Purpose
Students will demonstrate their deeper understandings of synergies inherent in the exchange of ideas and information and thus communicate more effectively. They will be able to explore, reflect on, and express their own ideas, learning, perceptions and feelings, to demonstrate sensitivity and empathy where necessary in communicating various kinds of emotions and information and present information and instructions clearly, logically, concisely and accurately for a variety of purposes, audiences and contexts.