In AES, students build their confidence and eloquence in speaking through a variety of learning activities, carefully designed with clear learning outcomes for each level, in line with the English Syllabus outcomes at Secondary levels:

In groups, AssumptionKnights produce book trailers with the aim of encouraging others to read. They write their own scripts and set the direction for their trailers, making use of the narrative skills and techniques, as well as articulation strategies taught in class to produce the clips.

Taking on roles as news anchors and reporters, AssumptionKnights continue to develop speaking and presentation skills by writing and producing news clips.

As they grow in confidence, AssumptionKnights learn to become convincing advocates for a variety of issues. Secondary 3 seniors take turns to raise awareness for their selected social campaigns during morning assembly and break times, persuading their peers to join them in their cause.

In 2020, AssumptionKnights went on a "trail in school to discover the history and development of public housing in Singapore (History) and observe the characteristics of modern day HDB flats (Geography) and envision their ideal housing types in view of current day challenges. 

Using the three phases of learning Mathematics (2020 Mathematics Syllabus, p.137), we motivated our students by providing motivation contexts in the readiness phase and using an activity-based learning approach in the engagement phase.