Love Our Languages, Embrace Our Culture 

MTL Fortnight aims to create an enriching environment that encourages students to use MTL and appreciate the culture associated with the language. We hope to enhance the learning experience for our students and inspire their interest in MTL, thereby imbue the right culture and values.

Primary 1 ：Cultural Food - Ang Gu Kueh 红龟粿

Ang ku kueh, also known as red tortoise cake, is a small round or oval-shaped Chinese pastry with soft, sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped around a sweet central filling. It is molded to resemble a tortoise shell and is presented resting on a square piece of banana leaf. Our Primary 1 students not only learn more information about this traditional food, but they also get to make one on their own. Look at how they knead and mould!

Primary 2 ：Martial Arts - Wushu 武术

Wushu, written 武术 in Chinese, literally means “martial technique”. It is often also referred to as kung-fu, Chinese Martial Arts, which is the collective term for the martial art practices which originated and developed in China. Wushu Origins may be traced back to early man and his struggle for survival in the harsh environment during Bronze Age (3000 – 1200BC), or even earlier, a struggle that led to the developments of techniques to defend against both wild animals and other human beings. Our Primary 2 students had a chance to learn some basic wushu warm up movements and Kunfu Fan steps. They were so thrilled to bring home the Kungfu Fan to perform for their family! 

Primary 3 ：Cultural Art and Craft - Bean Art 豆画

In the olden days, people made use of different types of grains to create beautiful art pieces. This is what we call bean art now. Bean art is to create a painting using different shapes, colors, size of the beans by pasting the vivid patterns. During the lesson, our Primary 3 students learnt more about bean art and displayed their imagination and creativity through the art work they created. 

Primary 4: Cultural Arts Performance - Chinese Traditional Drumming 击鼓

Chinese drumming is an ancient form of music often accompanied by chants and choreographed movements designed to tell a story. Two basic forms of Chinese drumming exist, with one used for celebrations and another appealing to the gods for favorable weather and abundant crops. Chinese drumming is a group activity, often involving 10 or more percussionists in the group. While similar to Western notions of “drum circles”, these groups often follow a very prescribed and choreographed routine, providing one aspect of the rhythm to the overall beat. Nowadays, drumming is used primarily for festive celebrations such as Chinese New Year and weddings. Our Primary 4 students were so engrossed in learning how to drum according to the tune taught by the instructor!

Primary 5: Cultural Arts Performance - Chinese Opera 京剧

Chinese Opera is a performing art in China, bringing together music, literature, drama and visual art. It represents the quintessence of traditional Chinese culture. This dramatic art form has been a staple of Chinese entertainment for more than two centuries. Chinese opera is dazzling and fascinating due to the colorful, spectacular and elaborated costumes and make up. Their gestural and acrobatic stage movements, highly symbolic and stylized content, and unique musical style amaze and intrigue audiences. Our Primary 5 students had the experience of using 马鞭 and 棍 to learn some basic opera movements from the instructor.

Primary 6: Cultural Food - Chinese Tea Appreciation 茶艺

In ancient China, tea represented “elegance, harmony, friendliness, and grace”. The act of tea drinking was a way in which one could “cultivate the mind and improve moral integrity” and it was admired as a drink that was pure of content and consisting of elegant qualities. Our Primary 6 students had a mini tea appreciation experience during the MTL Fortnight where they take away the basics of tea appreciation and the steps in brewing chinese tea. For example, they learnt about the different types of chinese tea leaves, how to warm the tools to brew tea and how to pour tea from the teapot.

Primary 2 : school garden tour

        二年级：《学校菜园》学习之旅

Due to SMM, our Primary 2 students did not go out of school for their vegetable farm learning journey. Nevertheless, they still had so much fun exploring the school garden. They got to learn more about the different types of vegetables and fruits in our school garden and they also reinforced the vocabularies that they have learnt in their textbook, such as names of different plants, vegetables, fruits and different parts of the plant. Some of the students even had the opportunity to witness how our school gardener chop down one of the banana tree and gave them the freshest banana to taste straight from the banana tree!

Mystery Solving Trail 校园搜搜搜

Our P5 and P6 students went on a mystery solving trail around the school! Using Google Form, they solved mystery cases, get the clues and go to specific venues in school to collect jigsaw puzzle pieces. After solving all the mystery cases, they pieced up all the jigsaw puzzles and submit their final answer. They had so much running around the school solving and looking for clues and were asking for more cases to solve at the end of the trail. 

Story Telling Session 作家导读

This year, we invited the author of 《我的守护熊1》and《我的守护熊2》to come and do story telling to our P3 and P4 students. Through the mouth of the author, students get to know more about the story and the feelings of the characters in the story. After the story telling sessions, students were engaged in reading activities such as writing journal in the shoes of the characters in the story.