End of Year Event - Level 2 Quiz

Wrapping up the Year

2014 has galloped by, and now we are at the very end of the school year. Classes are over and teachers are busy organising celebrations and events to mark the end of the year and to keep the students busy and interested right up to the end of the school year.

It has been a good opportunity for me to help out the teachers with activities and also to do something with the Level 2 students. In the larger schools (SK Jerantut Jaya and SJK(C) Sungai Jan) there are a lot of Year 6 students spread over many classes, but in the smaller schools (SKs Pulau Mansok and Kuala Tembeling) it was possible to combine Year 4, 5 and 6 pupils in the one activity.

We have taken an interactive PowerPoint and quiz game into the hall and divided the pupils into five large teams. The teams all compete to get as much information from the PowerPoint in order to be able to ask and answer questions about Malaysia and New Zealand - and points are dished out like candy. There is a lot of interaction with the quiz material and pupils must respond in different ways (asking and answering questions, describing slides, writing notes, listening to different people speaking, and much more) before the actual quiz. The pupils use a lot of English during this activity, and they are also able to display their general knowledge of Malaysia and share experiences of New Zealand. It is also a lot of fun and it can get quite noisy with all the cheering. As well as appealing to different skill-sets and encouraging noise, there is also a bit of running around so the pupils can let of steam between periods of knowledge-focused activity.

There has been so much going on with prize-giving ceremonies and meetings that it has sometimes been a bit difficult to schedule a 2-3 hour event like the PowerPoint Quiz. We managed it at most places, but we will try again in the new year at SK Teh. We can run a fun English medium content-focused event at any of the participating schools in 2015, even if you've already had one. Talk to your mentor!

We now have three mentors in Jerantut; this means that next year is going to be an exciting one for the Year 1, 2 and 3 pupils, but we will also be available for English co-curricular activities with all the Level 2 students.

Thank you for an eventful and satisfying year in 2014, and I'm looking forward to more of the same in 2015,

Stephen-Peter Jinks (ELC Jerantut)