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English as a medium both on

and off-campus:

At the beginning of the year, we experienced a myriad of
challenges in connecting with students both on and off-campus.
For a good amount of time, none of the students were able to
attend face-to-face classes, and since then, we still haven’t been
able to have all our students on campus at the same time. This just
goes to show how difficult it has been to reach out to the student body as a unit.

Now, given our decision to take a more hands-on, experiential approach to English language
teaching, we knew that we had to make some changes and adapt new measures to connect with
our students. We were inspired to devise more creative ways of bringing English to our students.

Online Platform:

Our school website has allowed us to reach the greatest number
of individuals across the student body. So we built an online database
of English material that students can access anytime and anywhere.

Online English Week
This year we held our annual English week
online. NET Miss. Fernandes worked on a series
of interactive online activities to bolster students’
interest. She covered topics along the areas of English
idiomatic speech, talking about where one’s from
and even conducted an online spelling bee. These
activities were designed to support the classroom
activities in English Speaking lessons so as to foster
familiarity and build on skills already known.

Online Assembly:
We try to hold several workshopping assemblies in
English throughout the year. With students being unable to
congregate for weekly assemblies, we took the initiative
to post several videos of English based assemblies online.
Students that came back to school watched these videos
during the allotted assembly lesson, and students at home
did the same from home.
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