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English Odyssey

March 2023

To help students relax and focus their minds, we organised a series of dynamic stretching and breathing activities. Everyone took part enthusiastically and really benefitted from quiet introspection. You can watch some of it in the video below!

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English Fun Fair 2022

For the first time in about three years, we have been able to hold the super-exciting and much loved English Fun Fair! After such a long time without huge school-wide English activities, we were a little concerned that students wouldn’t know what to do. However, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and judging by how much fun students had, this year was a massive success!

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English Fun Fair 2022
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May English Week

This month’s theme was World Book Day! Students learnt a lot about some carefully selected books and engaged in so many fun and exciting activities. KS1 learnt all about the works of the late, great Eric Carle. KS2 had the opportunity to delve more deeply into their class readers, and really get to grips with the details of Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, and L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz.

Early Primary students got to read along and act out parts of the story. Some star performers even changed their voices to sound more like the characters they were holding! There were many students eager to take part in Brown Bear, Brown Bear, From Head To Toe, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Afterwards, students created many beautiful pieces of artwork inspired by Eric Carle. Some of the best were displayed around the school and won Class Dojo points!

Upper Primary students had a flipped classroom micro-lesson on characterisation to help them better understand the difficult literary concepts in their readers. On the playground they engaged with moments from the stories, acting them out dramatically and discussing the text with peers and teachers. Afterwards students created some original characters they thought might work well in their storybooks. Some of the best characters were displayed around the school and won Class Dojo points.

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February English Week

The theme this time around was delicious, scrumptious, decadent food! Related to the virtue of temperance (e.g., NOT eating all your chocolate in one go), students learnt about health and nutrition. KS1 learnt about healthy vs unhealthy food, whereas KS2 learnt about the different types of nutrition IN food.

This English Week was done entirely online. It was a particular challenge for students, especially as the English Ambassadors were unable to provide assistance. However, each class tried their best and some made some spectacular posters!

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December English Week

For this English week the theme was animals! Students learnt about animal behaviours and endangered animals earlier, then took part in animal-themed activities throughout the week.

KS1 took part in an animal parade, singing and dancing like the animals in the songs. This animal workout was led by the English Ambassador team, who did their best to be elephants, monkeys and tigers.

Meanwhile, KS2 took part in a debate about endangered animals, saying which ones were their favourites and which were most important to save. Afterwards, some classes created some amazing posters with slogans.

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October English Week 2021

Monthly English Days, are now full on English Weeks! Look forward to lots of fun games and activities throughout the year, with plenty of interesting themes!

The theme for this English Week was the Olympics and Paralympics. Students learnt all about the sports at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. They could find posters around the school all about Hong Kong athletes that worked hard and won medals!

Students voted for their favourite sports, matched equipment to Olympic sports and did some acting games. All the activities were conducted by our elite team of English Ambassadors. Thanks to everyone that helped out!

Mrs Thakkar helps students vote for their favourite sport.
Students acting out different Olympic sports.
Students queuing excitedly for the equipment matching game.
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Happy Chinese New Year!

From all of us here at SKH Tin Wan Chi Nam Primary School, we would like to wish you a very prosperous Year of the Rat! We had a lot of excitement for our English Day and English Cafe. Please check out the highlights in our video.