English
Discover how St Nicholas Girls' School nurtures confident communicators through its English writing and oracy programmes.
Vision
The EL Department strives to nurture girls who are empathetic communicators, discerning readers and creative inquirers.
Approach
The department adopts the whole-language approach in English learning. Our girls develop their love for English in an environment that is rich in quality children’s literature. The girls also have many opportunities to think about what they have read or viewed, and they are encouraged to express themselves confidently.
Our Signature Programmes
The SNGS Writing Curriculum
The SNGS Writing Curriculum equips pupils with a writing toolkit and provides platforms for both guided writing and free-response writing. Our pupils’ beautiful and creative pieces are showcased in our annual bilingual publication, Young Writers. The most able of our writers take part in the Creative Writing Programme and The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.
Our writers take part in the Creative Writing Programme and The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
The SNGS Oracy Curriculum
We want all our pupils, regardless of whether they are chatty or more reserved, to speak up. The SNGS Oracy Curriculum promotes purposeful talk amongst our pupils as they explore, critique, discuss, and present ideas and views and, simply to bond! The rule during oracy programmes such as Show and Tell, Readers’ Theatre and P1&P2 Interaction Time is to talk and talk!
During oracy programmes such as Show and Tell