English Language Carnival For Primary School Rembau District 2011

English Language Carnival for Rembau District was held on Wednesday, 13 April 2011. Being the grandest carnival ever organized by Sk Astana Raja, it attracted the participation of almost all 30 primary schools in Rembau District including SJK(C) and SJK(T). The aims of the competition is to encourage the pupils to show their talents in the English competitions. The main objectives of the English competition are to enable the pupils to communicate in the English language. Secondly, to create interest among the pupils and finally are to make English learning enjoyable and fun. English was the second language for this country and pupils have to learn and know how to speak English. With this competition,it can enable pupils to communicate in in English in public. The competition was organized for level 1 and level 2. For level 1, there was the Action Songs competition and for level 2, the competitions were, Public Speaking Competition, Spelling Competition and Choral speaking Competition. Sk Astana Raja, Sk Undang Rembau and Sk Pedas were took part in all the competitions. The other 27 schools participated in one or three competition only. The competition started at 7:45 a.m with the registration. Shortly after the registration, the competition started with the Spelling Competition which was held in the classroom on the top floor of the old building. Thanks to Pn. Norhayati bt Ab Malik from Sk Undang Rembau and her team who ran the competition well. It was carried out orally and the words were tough as most of them were taken from the Knowledges Discovery Magazine. At the same time, the Story Telling Competition was held in the Pre-School room. Participants performed their best in front of the judges. Some were dressed in colourful and appropriate costumes depicting the main character of their stories. The judges chose the best participants who had performed very well in these aspects, pronunciation skills, grammar, fluency intonation and creativity. Also thanks to En. Nor Azlan B Khamis from Sk Sawah Raja and his team for a good commitment as a judges for Story Telling Competition.

Everyone in the hall was impatient the for Action Song teams to perform. There were 8 teams from Rembau District thar took part in this competitions. The school that was took part were Sk Astana Raja, Sk Kota, Sk. Legung Ulu, Sk Dato Shahbandar, Sk Undang Rembau, Sk Pedas, Sk Sepri, Sk Sawah Raja and SJK(C) Yuh Hua. This competition was held in the main hall. They wore colourful and various costumes. Their performance were accompanied by music that made this competition very interesting. After the Action Songs Competition,the Choral Speaking Competitions were also held in the main hall as these competitions were team competitions. Sk Astana Raja participated in this competition. Their Choral Speaking team presented Lead A Healthy Lifestyle and they achieve d the 1st place. Congratulations to the Choral Speaking team. The public Speaking was held in the Computer Laboratory. 17 schools took part in this competitions, they were Sk Astana Raja, Sk Kota, Sk Kayu Ara, Sk Kg Batu, Sk Chengkau, Sk Chembong, Sk Dato Shah Bandar, Sk Undang Rembau, Sk Pedas, Sk Semerbok, Sk Bongek, Sk Sepri, Sk Salak Nama, Sk Batu Hampar, SJKC Yuh Hua, SJKT Ladang Batu Hampar and Sk Taman Seri Rembau. Thumbs up to all the participants who tried their best to perform. The impromptu session truly tested them on their oratory skills, their knowledges and the usage of correct grammar. After all the competitions were finished, everybody was impatient waiting for the results. The champion for the Action Songs competition was SK Kota which drew praises and applause for their wonderful, lively and creative performance and their theme was Save Our Earth. The runner up was Sk Astana Raja, anyway they did a very good performance. The Public Speaking Competitions was won by Rahila Binti Mohd Rafik from Sk Pedas . Sk Astana Raja was in the 7th placing. In the Story Telling Competition, Aimannur Syahirah From Sk Astana Raja emerged as the champion. For Spelling, 5 top winners for this competition were chosen. The champion was Nurfazlin Bt mohd Masdi from Sk Pedas . Sk Astana Raja achieved the 10th placing. Finally for the Choral Speaking Competition, the champion was Sk Astana Raja followed by Sk Undang Rembau. Anyway congratulations to all the winners and to those who did not perform that well, they can try again next year. At least, they had gained new experience and learnt from their mistakes.

The closing ceremony was held at 12:30p.m after all the competitions were finished and all the VIP had arrived. Yang Berbahagia, Datin Hjh Naemah Bt Ahmad Dahalan, the Education Officer of Rembau District officiated the closing ceremony of the English Language Carnival. After the closing ceremony was the prize giving ceremony for the winners. SK Astana Raja as the organizer, thanked the panel of judges for carrying out their duties well to decide the best participants for the English Carnival 2011, Rembau District. The English Language carnival was carried out successfully but there were a few weaknesses problem before and after competitions such as technical problems. As a result of these, some of the competition were carried out without using the PA system. Moreover the main hall was not spacious enough to accommodate all the guests during the closing ceremony. Some of the pupils had to sit in the tent occupied out side the hall. There was also not enough rooms for the competitions. They had to occupied small rooms such as the pre-school room and the remedial room. It was not comfortable for the participants and the teachers. The strength of this carnival was the commitment and cooperation from District Officer Of Rembau and the English teachers from the neighbouring school. The whole staff of Sk Astana Raja helped the organizing committee to run this carnival successfully. Thanks to the Sk Astana Raja staff who did much of the preparation. Luckily, the room for all the competitions were ready in time for the carnival. Thanks and great appreciations to the District Education officer of Rembau, the panel of judges, to all the headmasters and headmistresses, teachers, participants and to all the individuals involved directly and indirectly in making the programme a success. The English Carnival, Rembau District 2011 was a great success and the organizer hoped that the aim to encourage pupils to show their talents was successfully achieve. Reported by, .. (Hamizah Bt Ab Karim) Secretary