English Language
OP8 P5 E&I - Ten
Date: 1 April 2026
Time: 0900-1030
Venue: Alexandra Primary School
Teacher: Mr Edward Chiam (Alexandra Primary School)
This open classroom features a live Primary 5 class where students explore how creative works generate excitement and tension, using an excerpt from Ten as the starting point.
Students begin by examining the physicality and emotional intensity in the main character’s narration—how her quick thoughts, bodily reactions and shifting hopes create a sense of unease. From this, they will then investigate the techniques writers use to shape pace and mood, including selective detail, sentence length and intentional pauses.
Rather than moving through a fixed sequence of answers, the class will develop ideas organically. Students test out interpretations, compare impressions and build on one another’s observations. Their inquiry could then be extended to other forms of media, providing students with opportunities even to notice how filmmakers and composers use sound, framing, lighting and limited information to build suspense across different mediums.
Through this lesson, students move between text and media to draw connections, question assumptions and articulate how creators guide an audience’s emotional experience. Observers will see a classroom where experimentation, voice and curiosity drive learning, demonstrating how an E&I lesson could nurture flexible, perceptive and self-directed learners.
Edward Chiam is an Upper Primary English teacher dedicated to enriching and differentiating English learning in his school. He leads efforts to pilot various learning and assessment modes, thoughtfully integrating 21st Century Competencies (E21CC) into the English curriculum.
He also contributes to the school’s High-Ability Learners programme, guiding students through creative writing, debates, and reading-circle activities to stretch their skills beyond the standard syllabus.
Driven by a strong belief that every learner deserves meaningful, future-ready literacy experiences, Edward emphasises lifelong student-centred learning in his classes. He strives to build classrooms where learners feel empowered to think critically, collaborate, express themselves creatively, and grow with confidence and curiosity.