THE WR!TERS@WORK CURRICULUM

At WR!TERS@WORK, we recognise that the engagement of the student is closely tied to the motivation of the student. This is a factor considered through the WR!TERS@WORK Primary and Secondary curriculum’s examination of the students’ environment in the Singapore education system.

The WR!TERS@WORK curriculum is designed to guide the students to climb upwards in their mastery of English Language – auditory, oral and written.

As the student progresses, both the Primary and Secondary curriculum’s spiral structure enables the student to revisit learning from previous lessons, build upon knowledge previously gained and learn new skills at the same time. Phrase and vocabulary transfer, plot adaptation, plot organization and writing practices are present in every lesson, allowing the student to revisit and reinforce a variety of skills at the same time.

Besides that, grammar rules acquisition and application, vocabulary expansion, sentence synthesis and transformation, oral presentation skills, critical reading and understanding for comprehension are included in the curriculum to ensure that the student is trained and given ample exposure to internalize important language skills.

Teachers are given the freedom to adapt the learning objectives of each classroom to suit the students’ diverse learning needs. In addition to providing tools to students for use in school, such as plot graphic organizers and mnemonics for planning stories, students are taught the specific requirements for different genres of texts and writing tasks directly applicable to their school curricula.

Lessons integrate real-world and relevant writing stimulus across various media to allow the student to produce pieces that reflect maturity and awareness of current events. This knowledge is woven into the plots of their compositions and essays, which can then be adapted to a variety of assessment questions presented by schools and national examinations.