English Language

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

-Dr Seuss-

Mission and Vision:

We believe that every Blangahnite can and wants to excel in their learning of the English Language.
We want every child to develop a strong foundation in the English Language.

We aspire for our students to have strong language and literacy skills, love reading and be empathetic communicators as well as confident writers.

Our Curriculum

We seek to provide every Blangahnite with a joyful learning environment and inculcate the love for reading in them.

The school uses STELLAR (STrategies for English Language Learning And Reading) in our curriculum. Age-appropriate materials are used together with research-based teaching strategies to engage every Blangahnite in the learning of the English Language.

Our school-based curriculum is anchored in joyful learning and designed to spark the Joy of Speaking and Writing, as well as Reading in each child.

The Joy of Speaking

We encourage all our students to express themselves confidently, authentically and empathetically. Our oracy curriculum nurtures basic oracy skills at the lower primary level and spiral progresses through the upper primary years to nurture more complementary skills such as performance and critical thinking skills. At the heart of our oracy curriculum is the belief that oracy development should take place through authentic and experiential learning. At each level, students will experience the following learning modules:

Our Middle Primary students undergo a Broadcast Journalism enrichment module, which aims to build students’ confidence in presentation. Our students go through training on verbal and non-verbal cues of confidence. They then script their presentations and present their lines in front of a camera. Watch our little broadcasters introduce their school below:

The Joy of Writing

Our writing curriculum focuses on writing in authentic contexts, across a variety of purposes and text types including narrative texts, information texts, procedural texts, personal responses as well as argumentative texts. At each level, we also adopt an Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) approach to teach the features and writing of a variety of text types.

The Joy of Reading

Our students are exposed to a variety of texts and reading materials. We encourage all our students to make reading their passion and increase their knowledge about the world around them.

At upper primary, we provide Blangahnites with opportunities to respond to children’s literature creatively and learn to appreciate their own as well as the culture of others. Our students learn about how authors make characters come alive. They also learn how to develop and share their opinions.

We invite local authors to conduct talks as part of our “Authors’ Talks Series”. In these sessions, our students meet with the authors face-to-face and hear first-hand their inspiration behind their books as well as their personal experiences. In 2025, we invited author Mr Shawn Seah to share about his books on the pioneers of Singapore. Students learnt about his inspiration writing books about his ancestors Seah Liang Seah and Seah Eu Chin and their friends.

We also organise Dr Seuss Talks to celebrate the authorial legacy of Dr Seuss and his widely-loved children books. Our primary one, two and three students are introduced to Dr. Seuss and his zany writings, from Horton Hears A Who to Yertle The Turtle. Read more about our Dr Seuss Day celebrations here and here.

Our Stretch Programmes
Reaching the sky through Scrabble & debate competitions

Our students are given opportunities to enhance their love for the English Language through Scrabble and debating. They get a chance to participate in national competitions such as Wits & Words (Debating) and Scrabble. With their memorised Latin, Greek roots and two-letter words, our Scrabblers rose to the challenge against students from many other schools. Since 2023, on top of individual accolades, our Scrabblers have brought home the Team Championship for the Junior Division, Bowl Category. Read more about our scrabble here (2023).

Debating is a strategy we employ for our High Ability English Learners to stretch their oracy and critical thinking skills. At the upper primary levels, students are given the opportunity to pit their wits against each other in argumentative debate on topics such as eSports, kid influencers, as well as the banes and boons of video games. In 2025, our school debaters emerged one of the Top 3 teams at the Wits & Words Inter-School Debate Competition (Division II). Read more about their success here and here.

Nurturing the love for creative & journalistic writing

Each year, our students come together to pen BRavo! – our BRPS student e-newsletter, for the students, by the students. Through the years, our APEX students generated ideas for their student newsletter and penned them, sharing tips on how to manage examination stress and HBL, as well as reviews on books, movies and games! Read our recent issues of BRavo! here  and here.

Staging the performing arts

Beyond writing, we also use drama, music and movement to inculcate in each child the importance of creativity, excellence and confidence in using the English Language. The importance of drama and the performing arts in education is significant as it can be the agent through which a variety of emotions can be learned, rehearsed and practised. At times, our students can find it challenging to express their emotions, so drama provides the outlet for them to explore a wide range of feelings.

Our Primary 2 students also learn speech and drama skills through our i-Discover programme. Spanning 10 weeks, the programme seeks to impart oracy and drama skills to our Primary 2 students, including understanding drama, locating body gestures in character, as well as building on voice projection and expression. Selected Primary 2 students are selected to stage a performance during our annual BRLC Celebrates! awards ceremony.

Our Support

We provide language and literacy support to our Primary One and Two students who need the additional boost. In Middle Primary, selected students are also supported under the School-based Dyslexia Remediation Programme (SDR) as well as the Reading Remediation Programme (RRP) so that the students can acquire reading, spelling and comprehension skills. To support the literacy development of our students, our teachers use varied educational technology platforms for extensive reading, literacy assessment and develpment.

Professional Development of Teachers

Our English Language teachers form an enthusiastic and mission-driven team who strives to help every child meet their potential in literacy standards. Through Professional Learning Teams and professional dialogues, the team endeavors to develop a robust school-based curriculum, deepen our teaching practice and innovate pedagogically. We believe strongly that every students’ learning needs should be met. To that end, we differentiate our instruction and think sharply about formative assessment to evaluate learning gaps. To prepare our students to be future-ready and digitally literate, we incorporate e-pedagogy and EdTech tools to augment our teaching and learning. Our teachers are skilled in using SLS, Apple Technology, Google Classroom as well as other tech platforms to enable personalization of learning, support differentiated instruction and engender greater student engagement in our classroom.