SLP: Action Plan and Scheme of Work, Phase 3

Facilitated by Cikgu Hamdiah and Cikgu Roseadah, the school’s SLP went through successfully for phase 3 discussing about Action Plan and Scheme of Work for the intervention activities. As usual held in the Conference Room on 10 August 2010 at 2pm, the meeting focused on more addition of activities to be implemented to the current intervention program which already being ran soon after the Pre-Test was held on 28 July 2010.

Modifications had been made for easy handling of the program, as well as, changing of dates had also been added and moved to new ones. Attending teachers, according to class level of teaching, were selected to do some modifications and additions in the Action Plan and Scheme of Work on the basic reason that the intervention activities to be carried out on long-term basis which would end in November this year.

Cikgu Kathy Marlina from Year 2 English teacher gave a suggestion that the data analysis for lower primary to be modified in a way that the grammar items to be grouped as one instead of specific individual grammar structure. Cikgu Heather gave hands showing a simple example of rubric marking for easy reference and further analysis action.

Lots of datelines for submission of specific tasks were picked out in the meeting:

1. The Post-Test would commence on 18 and 19 August 2010.
2. Submission of Post-Test results for data collection and analysis would
end on 24 August 2010.
3. All completed reports and analysis to be submitted on 26 August 2010 and to be forwarded to UBD on 28 August 2010.

All these information would be gathered by Cikgu Yiing as a teacher-in-charge for action plans and scheme of works.

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English Writing Data Analysis, School’s SLP Phase 2

Held in the school’s conference room on Tuesday, 3 August 2010 at 2pm, the data analysis of all levels of pre-test papers from Pra to Year 6 classes narrowed to a conclusion to sort out the abilities of the children into four categories: Quality of Ideas (QOI), Story Shape and Structure (SSS), Grammar (GMR) and Vocabulary and Spelling (VS).

The reason for the categories being used was to look for the specific weaknesses the children were having. They were given range levels of 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 where 1 was the least mark and description for their composition writing and 5 was considered the highest and marvellous writing. Level 9 was for those who had no attempt to write at all while insufficient evidence including unreadable writing would be categorised as Level 0.

Children having the same range levels would be combined as one grouped classes, for example; those having level 1 in grammar would undergo learning grammar remedial lesson according to their ability, all in the same class or partitions of classes if they were so many of them. This only applied to children having Level 9, 0, 1 and 2. To be clear to look for overall of how many kids belong to the levels and by classes, a use of graph in percentages was suggested in the discussion for each level and each class.

The meeting proceeded with recommendations of appropriate lessons to be taught to each level that could in some ways enhance the ability to master the weaknesses. On the other hand, Year 1 and 3 would be having re-tests that the previous test papers were inappropriate for them after the analysis was done. It was suggested that the papers would include no helping words.

On 23 August 2010, an intervention activity would commence with the kids. A week before that, all involved teachers would have another meeting to work out for the SLP English Writing’s action plan and scheme of work.

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SLP: English Writing Pre-Test

Commenced on the 28th July 2010, all English periods were used solely for the English writing pre-test. All levels from pra classes to Year 6’s were involved. The test was all about composition focusing on the way of styles the pupils write as well as to see the level of ability writing English composition through creativity of content, organisation of story sequence, language use and the way the story was presented in writing.


Each level did composition writing based on the kids’ level of classes. Pra classes just did the oral phonics and phrase writing which the example was already prepared by the teacher. Year 2 and Year 3 did the simple picture composition writing where they just needed to describe the pictures by writing.

Year 4, 5 and 6 did on the picture composition writing where the level of thinking and creativity was more at a higher level compared to the lower levels to describe and add additional ideas using pictures as guides to create original masterpiece writing. What was expected from the upper primary children was that they were able to attract people to read their writings with creativity.

The next task will be data collecting and writing analysis that will commence on Tuesday, 3rd August 2010. . The analysis will be emphasizing on Quality of Ideas (QOI), Story Shape and Structure (SSS), Grammar (GMR) and Vocabulary and Spelling (VS). When the analysis is done, pupils will be sorted into level of ability and level of English Language achievement benchmark. From here, it will be known then where and what the weaknesses for each student to be strengthen on.

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SLP: Educational Visit to Majlis Ilmu

23 pupils and most of the teachers from the school made an educational visit to International Convention Centre (ICC) for the Knowledge Convention (Majlis Ilmu) event being held currently until 1 August. The visit was part of the School Leadership Program aiming to expose pupils to real observation and gaining knowledge from the exhibitions showed at the place. The batch departed at 1.30pm from school using two buses and headed to ICC in Berakas.

Teacher-in-charge, Cikgu Lela binti Mamit organised the visit a success and fortunately she was interviewed by RTB asking her view and perception about the Knowledge Convention occasion. Pupils were required to answer 5 guided questions about the visit and it was a task for them to gain and record information as if they were reporters for the school's newsletter. This correlated to the school's aim of improving writing skills where English was the medium for writing.

With the exposure the kids were expected to be able to record and taking general information by relating to the occasion in its aim being organised. Pupils also had a chance to try one exhibit on education where they tried and play around the interactive boards. Other exhibits include His Majesty's journey being the great ruler, Brunei history, Brunei Malay Islamic Monarchy (Melayu Islam Beraja) concepts and products marketing.

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School's SLP English Writing Project

School's SLP project on assessing and measuring pupils' performance in English Language writing, the meeting happened yesterday, 26 July 2010, in the conference room at 2pm. Cikgu Hamdiah binti Haji Amat and Cikgu Roseadah facilitated and explained about the tasks that would be carried out for the SLP project.

Attending the meeting were teachers who were already assigned with respective tasks according to the RASI system. The meeting focused on writing where pre-tests for every level were standardised starting from Pra classes to Year 6's.

What was aimed was to look for the weaknesses the students were having currently in writing skills using English language as the medium. Heather pointed out that the Pra classes would still doing on the phonics by oral communication and writing given phrases by specifying grammar structures. Year 1 could be having the same techniques as in Pra classes as phonics were still incorporated in the syllabus. Year 2 and Year 3 would be doing simple sentence structures by describing pictures in the writing, as pointed by Cikgu Kathy.

Cikgu Yusnani would be doing the English pre-test writing for Higher Special Need (HSN) pupils but she still needed help about the pupils' English performance from respective English teachers.

The pre-tests for all levels would commence on this Wednesday, 28th July 2010. Next tasks would be data collecting and analysing the pre-tests to find out the main weaknesses that in turn would be the main target to improve the writing skills among the pupils. Data collecting and analysing would commence on next Tuesday, 3 August 2010.

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