Planning+our+in-house+Readers'+Cup

__ One school’s plan – how we hope to proceed with the in-house Readers’ Cup  __ May 23, 2008 The Junior School English Curriculum Team met yesterday to discuss how we might proceed with our in-house competition that will lead to the selection of a team of 5 students in to represent our school in each section of the Singapore Readers’ Cup. The National competition will be held on 6 March 2009. The Junior School hopes to field teams in the Junior and Middle competitions. The Senior English Department has expressed interest in fielding a team in the Senior competition. We identified two hurdles that should be considered. The first is lack of time and the second is that the Year 3 students will be new to the Junior School in September. It may be a big ask to find a team in this group so early in the year. The latter hurdle will require us to be flexible and not to have great expectations from this year level. The former, time constraints, made us decide to run the preparation for the event as a lunchtime CCA (20mins weekly)

The timeline might take the form of: 1. Introduce the idea and show video footage of other competitions 2. Divide students into teams of 5. Distribute books and assist students to choose which book they wish to become and expert on. Discuss what to look for when reading 3. Assess reading progress and introduce dummy questions 4. Test questions 5. Dummy competition 6. Competition in House or combined Year Group assemblies 7. De-brief 8. Choose a team of 4 students for each team in the National competition  ·   We have decided to choose our National team by using 4 students from the CCA and 1 student from the Gifted and Talented Program.
 * 1 July – Choose competitors & distribute books for a Teacher Quiz.
 * Teacher Quiz – held in assembly 4 teachers answering questions as a team of one – designed to excite and encourage students to participate.
 * Prior to 14 September – Teacher Quiz and choose student books.
 * Around end of September commence 2x CCA – one for Year 3&4 and one for Year 5&6

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