Malay
Explore how Bendemeer Primary's Malay Department builds language skills and cultural pride through engaging programmes and activities.
Vision
The vision of the Malay Department is for our students to be effective Malay Language communicators and appreciators of the Malay culture and values.
Our mission is to enhance students’ linguistic ability through listening, oral communication, reading and writing imbibed with a sense of cultural awareness, heritage, values and identity.
Our objectives are:-
To provide an engaging learning environment
To achieve scholastic excellence
To develop language abilities and competencies in reading, writing, listening, speaking and thinking skills
To provide opportunities for students to speak, write and make presentations in standard Malay Language that is grammatical, fluent and appropriate to purpose, audience, context and culture
To encourage appreciation of fiction and non-fiction texts
To enhance effective use of ICT in learning of the Malay Language
Programmes
Reading Programme
The department promotes and encourages reading at all levels. The Reading Programme sees the reading periods allocated to Primary 1 to Primary 5 students within the curriculum time. It provides students with a progressive reading structure that not only develops interest in reading but also sparking creative and critical thinking through critical questions and post-reading activities.
Through this Reading Programme, the pupils can widen their general knowledge as well as improve on their vocabulary, understanding of text and sentence structure. This fosters a sense of responsibility and commitment to reading by emphasizing the joy and success pupils can obtain from reading proficiently.
Objectives of the programme are to:
1. cultivate the love of reading Malay Language books in students; and
2. improve reading proficiency of students
This year, starting with P1 and P2, we will also be introducing SOAR, a nationwide initiative to instill students’ love for reading in MTL to (1) Spark interest, (2) Open minds, (3) Appreciate cultural roots, and (4) Rise as a bilingual reader.
MTL Fortnight
This 2-week long event is aimed at creating an immersive environment for the learning of mother tongue languages. During the two weeks, a wide range of activities related to Malay language and culture are conducted. Different levels were exposed to a variety of cultural activities such as playing the angklung, silat and rattan weaving. These activities provide authentic opportunities for students to use and experience the Malay language and culture.
The objectives of the programme are to:
1. create varied opportunities for students to involve and participate in Malay language and cultural activities that promote an exclusive use of the language;
2. experience the relevance in learning MTL by providing meaningful and engaging activities;
3. raise awareness of the respective cultures and traditions;
4. stimulate students’ interest in knowing their language and culture.
Jejak Budaya (Malay Cultural Trail)
The Malay Language and Cultural ICT trail started in 2016. The trail received positive feedback. This programme was further enhanced with ICT tools such as iPads to scan QR codes to access quizzes. It was further refined in 2018 with the use of google sites to host additional relevant resources such as videos and pictures to enhance learning. Since then, the trail has become a key programme that the students look forward to every year.
The objectives of the programme are to:
provide students a rich language and cultural experience that complements the Malay Language curriculum,
provide students an engaging outdoor program that creates joy of learning: and
leverage on the use of ICT to enhance the learning experience.
Hari Raya Puasa Celebrations
The much-awaited Hari Raya Puasa celebrations is one of the festive occasions celebrated in Bendemeer Primary School. The celebrations aim to create awareness of the festival celebrated by the Muslim community in Singapore. We had our student-emcees speaking in Malay and English as this is a good platform to encourage bilingualism amongst our students. It is also an opportunity to share with the school’s multi-racial community, the significance of the culture and practices during the celebrations.
Useful Links
Siri Bacaan Nabil Nabilah (Reader Series for P1- P6)
https://mllpc.sg/publications/3
Permainan dalam Talian (Aplikasi untuk Dimuat Turun) - Online Language Games (Apps)
https://mllpc.sg/games
Rakan Bahasa (Majlis Bahasa Melayu Singapura) – Friends of the Language
https://www.languagecouncils.sg/mbms/my/bulan-bahasa/rakan-bahasa
Buku Elektronik (Electronic Books) – Log-in Required
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/main/malay-ebooks
Kamus dalam Talian (Online Dictionary)
https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/