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Boon Lay Garden Primary School

Mother Tongue

Explore how our Mother Tongue programmes use cultural activities, speech, drama, and camps to help students build language skills and deepen their cultural understanding.

Last updated on 21 August 2026

Our Goals

To equip students with the necessary communication skills as well as cultural knowledge to enable students to be active learners and proficient users of the respective Mother Tongue Language.

Our Approach

To enable students to gain cultural knowledge, the programmes are thoughtfully tailored to immerse students deeply in a diverse cultural environment and expose them to different cultural practices. Programmes also allow students to learn through listening of music and arts.

Key Programmes

MTL Fortnight

Students are exposed to a wide range of cultural activities and allow authentic usage of Chinese, Malay and Tamil language through competitions and lessons.

A boy in a white shirt paints flowers using black ink on white fabric at a table with art supplies.

Student engrossed in using the Chinese painting technique to paint a picture of a mouse hanging from a plant!

A masked child holds a colorful handmade paper puppet of a dancing figure with sticks.

Shadow puppets were self-designed and made by students!

A young girl in school uniform and pink mask holds a colorful puppet in front of a projector screen in a classroom.

Students also got to perform their very own Wayang Kulit!

Speech and Drama

Primary 2 students build their confidence in communication and oratorical skills with the Speech and Drama programme. Through dramatisation, students learn skills such as team building, discipline and creativity.

Young children in colorful costumes perform on a stage with a rainbow and ferris wheel backdrop.

Our P2 students take the stage all decked in their colourful costumes! (Picture taken pre-covid)

Four masked children stand in a classroom holding paper animal headbands above their heads in front of a forest projection.

Students continued Speech and Drama through innovative digital backgrounds amid covid.

Bicultural Programme(Chinese)

P5 and P6 students are exposed to the different genres of Chinese art/culture including Chinese literature, performances, Chinese calligraphy and Language Translation.

A collage of Chinese educational content including poll results, Go board puzzles, an interactive thinking tool, and Tang Dynasty notes.

Students' rich discussion and responses on SLS in one of the cultural enrichment as part of the bicultural programme.

P3 Mother Tongue Language (MTL) Camp

The P3 MTL camp provides an immersive environment for MTL students to learn and use MTL in a more in-depth manner, and to appreciate their respective MTL cultures through hands-on tasks.

Two masked boys in a classroom hold embroidery hoops with butterfly designs, one flashing a peace sign.

Students holding up their self-designed Chinese fans with pride!