Primary Years: Socio-Emotional Development in Action｜小学部：社会情感之旅

This week in Grade 1, students explored socio-emotional skills through engaging activities that deepened their understanding of emotions. They enjoyed a read-aloud session of 'Love' by Matt de la Peña, discussing emotions and creatively expressing them through colours, shapes, and movement. Later, they created vibrant emotion art collages, using various materials to represent feelings like anger, sadness, and happiness visually.

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This week, students showed responsibility and self-awareness as they prepared for Friday’s assembly, memorising their dance and rehearsing sentences. They built confidence, teamwork, and perseverance through the process.

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As part of their Literacy lessons centred around famous landmarks, the students have been planning to create leaflets showcasing the famous landmarks they have visited and hold dear memories of. This approach has allowed them to infuse their leaflets with a deeper emotional connection.

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Students pushed through their shyness and sought to develop their confidence and communication skills as they shared presentations they had prepared with the class. Students also showed the maturity necessary to critique each other respectfully and, in turn, gracefully accept other students' critiques of their work. 

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In Grade 5, as a part of their unit of inquiry, students have been looking at the various ways in which they can express themselves. Students had to bring in an art form of their choice and reflect and share the significance of this art in their lives.

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In their new Unit of Inquiry, the Grade 6A students have been examining the distinctions between verbal and non-verbal communication. They have specifically debated how non-verbal cues, such as body language and facial expressions, can express negative emotions and ideas, ultimately impacting the emotional health of relationships.

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In Grade 6B, students embarked on their new unit titled "How We Express Ourselves," exploring the various ways individuals communicate their feelings and thoughts. They engaged in discussions about different forms of self-expression, gaining insights into the importance of emotions and how they can be conveyed in diverse ways.

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This week, art became a powerful tool for reflection and self-assessment. As students embarked on the 'How We Express Ourselves' unit, they took time to explore their individuality and emotions. Using a variety of artistic mediums, they created personal artworks that authentically expressed who they are and how they feel.

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This week in music class, as students prepared for the Winter Celebration Show, they developed social-emotional skills through collaboration and teamwork. Working together on performances fostered empathy and communication, while overcoming challenges enhanced resilience. This experience not only improved their musical abilities but also strengthened their interpersonal relationships and confidence.

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Programming tools such as Dash & Dot robots, Scratch, Screen Turtle, and Microbit in ICT primary classes foster socio-emotional learning by promoting collaboration, communication, and empathy through group projects. Students developed resilience and problem-solving skills while debugging code and refining their ideas, building patience and confidence. These activities enhanced their creativity and emotional growth, supporting both technical and personal development.

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Grade 5 students delved deeply into ‘Deep Maternal Love’ this text.  Through careful scene and detail descriptions, students profoundly experienced the rich emotions contained within the text. The children not only felt the deep love of the mother for the author but also understood the author's gratitude and love for his mother. This process improved their reading comprehension skills and cultivated their empathy and sense of gratitude.      

Grade 4 students discussed the text 'A Timid Big Tiger,' where students grappled with the author's confusion over the necessity of Tiger leap in performing a tiger. This story sparked conversations on self-expression, conformity, and the courage to challenge norms, fostering critical thinking and emotional resilience.

This week, Grade 6 students learned the classical Chinese‘Bo Ya Gu Qin’. They analysed the characters' emotional changes through some sentences. For example, why did Boya stop playing the guqin after Zhong Ziqi's death? Through the text, students discovered that a close friend is hard to find.

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This week, Grade 5 and Grade 6 students learned about the topic of “Pressures”, discussing the pressures they face in their lives and studies, and discussing how they can better manage their academics, personal life, and social pressures through emotional regulation. Grade 3 and Grade 4 students learned about the topic of "school" through interactive games like building puzzles that promoted communication and cooperation among children.                    

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The Lower Primary Library Club students enjoyed exploring “Emotional Reads”. Each student blindly selected an emotion ranging from happy and excited to sad and angry. Students then selected a book to read and identified a character experiencing that emotion. 

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Grade 2 students explored multiplication table for 8 and 9, for enhancing memory and collaboration skills, they crafted educational tools, fostering creativity and teamwork, which boosted their efficiency in memorising multiplication tables.                        

This week, Grade 5 organised a group collaboration to discuss solutions to equations and how to use equations to solve practical problems. For example, when solving an equation problem about finding change for shopping, students were presented with the roles of customers, cashiers, etc., before role-playing shopping scenarios to list equations and solve them. Students enhanced their cooperation, friendships, teamwork, and interpersonal skills while enjoying the positive experience of collaboratively overcoming mathematical challenges.

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With ASJ Sports Day, this was the perfect time for students to show and use their social and emotional skills to provide a whole school fun experience. Students helped encourage team members, accepted winning and losing with grace and showed fantastic team spirit. 

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