Improve English in your respective constituencies, MB tells assemblymen

KUALA NERUS: Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman hopes that all state assemblymen would take initiatives to improve the command of English among primary school children in their respective constituencies.

He said this was important to ensure the students would perform better in their Primary School Assessment Test ( UPSR) this year, after the state recorded below-par performance in 2016.

“The UPSR format changed last year and it was quite difficult for teachers and students indirectly causing a deterioration in UPSR results for the English and Science subjects.

“As the Seberang Takir assemblyman, I took the initiative to allocate RM10,000 this year to help schools in the constituency, and I hope it helps them to improve English more effectively.

“Maybe other assemblymen can take similar initiatives, or whatever is good for improving the performance of English in primary schools in their respective constituencies they could maybe buy English newspapers as well to help the students,” he said.

He was speaking to reporters after a visit to SK Seberang Takir here yesterday, which was also attended by State Education Department director Shafruddin Ali Hussin.

Elaborating further, he said two schools in the constituency, namely SK Seberang Takir and SK Teluk Ketapang, were picked to implement a bilingual system by the Ministry of Education.

“For a start, one class in each school will use English for Mathematics and Science we thank the ministry for carrying out various programmes from time to time to help students master the English language,” he said. — Bernama