Mother Tongue
Explore how CKPS nurtures students' pride in their heritage through Mother Tongue programmes, festivals, cultural camps, and international exchanges.
Vision
Proficient Users of Mother Tongue Languages who Appreciate and Understand their respective Culture.
Mission
To instill in every child a sense of Pride in his Cultural Heritage, a Passion to master and Use his Mother Tongue Language daily.
Key Programmes @ CKPS
Keeping the objective of stimulating and sustaining our students’ interest in learning Mother Tongue Language in mind, the department has put in place a range of enrichment activities designed to expose our students culturally while promoting opportunities for meaningful interaction and collaboration with everyone.
Festivals Celebrations
Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious heritage, culture and traditions. To help students value Singapore’s socio-cultural diversity, and to promote social cohesion and harmony, the MTL Department plan for festival celebration concert and program for Chinese Lunar New Year, Hari Raya Puasa, Mid-Autumn Festival and Deepavali. These events play an important role to add structure to our social lives and connect people of different races and culture to appreciate the beauty of our own culture and cross-culture. To keep festive celebrations alive in school and at home will bring the students closer to one another’s traditions and cultural beliefs.
Mother Tongue Language Fortnight
The MTL Fortnight is an initiative started by MOE. The MTL Fortnight activities provide platforms for students to actively learn MTL and the associated culture to experience MTL as ‘a living language’. These activities provide authentic opportunities for students to use MTL and experience the culture. During the 2 weeks, the school organizes a series of targeted, age-appropriate activities for different groups or levels. These activities include cultural games, quizzes, hands-on cultural experiences (for example, Traditional Arts and Games, Chinese Fan/Batik Painting, Cultural Performances, Theatre experience, Learning Journeys and more.)
This program is conducted in Semester 2 over two consecutive weeks.
Primary 3 Language and Cultural Camp
The Mother Tongue Language Cultural Camp is a level-based program that aims to provide an immersive environment for students to learn and use their Mother Tongue Language and to appreciate one’s own mother tongue language culture through hands-on activities. This programme will provide students an opportunity to use their Mother Tongue in an authentic environment, reinforce the joy of learning language.
Reading Programme
Reading is a fulfilling, and nourishing experience for students as their young minds capture and grasp information easily. That is why we strive to cultivate the habit of reading among our students. Students who are avid readers of Mother Tongue language books, usually acquire strong vocabulary in their MT and are able to write creatively. The school provides our students access to books of different genres. In the classroom, guided reading, role-play and many other activities are conducted to encourage students to read books in their Mother Tongue Languages. The school aims to inculcate in students the love in reading MT books.
Conversational Chinese and Malay Programme (CCM)
The Conversational Chinese/Malay Programme (CCM) is introduced as an enrichment programme for non-Chinese/non-Malay students who are interested in learning a 3rd language and its culture. Learning Conversational Chinese/Malay would facilitate these students to communicate with their counterparts, to better understand and appreciate Chinese/Malay culture and values. It will also help students enhance their rapport with friends of the other race. Feedback from students shows that they enjoyed the class and hope to continue learning the third language when they graduate to a secondary school. This program is conducted in school for both Primary 3 and primary 4 students.
Internationalisation Programme (For selected P5 and P6 students)
The Internationalisation Programme is to develop in students the 21st Century Competencies of global awareness and cross-cultural skills and sensitivities and to expose these students to Asia and the world and sensitize them to Singapore’s place in the world. We hope to help students cultivate skills and values such as self-reliance, independence, bonding with fellow schoolmates and foster team camaraderie through their participation in this programme.
This programme resumed since 2023, started with Virtual Internationalisation Program for 2 years with Schools from China and Malaysia, both teachers and students are benefit from the interaction collaboration with them
In 2025, school hosting students and teachers from Beijing Pei Xin Primary School as part of Internationalisation Programme. This programme provides an excellent platform for our students to interact with their peers from another culture and to learn from one another. It is a fruitful and enriching exchange that fosters meaningful connections and purposeful learning for all involved.
The school will welcome A Malaysia School to join us for more meaningful learning.
Publication
Year 2022
https://www.ezhishi.net/CKPSebook2022/ (opens in new tab)
Year 2023
https://www.ezhishi.net/CKPSebook2023/ (opens in new tab)
Year 2024 - 2025
https://www.ezhishi.com/CKPSebook2024-2025/ (opens in new tab)