Fostering Connection for Life - The Path from Reading to Expression : Experience Sharing Event 2025
The NET Section’s annual experience sharing event for primary and secondary English teachers will be held on 18 October 2025. Centring around the theme Fostering Connection for Life — The Path from Reading to Expression: Values Education in English Language Education, the event will form a platform to showcase innovative learning and teaching practices that promote reading to connect and reading to share with a view to developing students' language skills and positive values through interactive and multimodal reading experiences within and beyond the classroom.
Teachers from the NET Section’s Primary and Secondary Learning Hubs will share their experiences in exploring innovative strategies and effective instructional practices that support the evolving needs of learners in implementing the latest English Language Education curriculum initiatives, particularly in fostering cross-curricular connections through reading and expression.
In support of the SOW Campaign 2024/25, with its overarching theme “SOW the Reading Seed – Inspire and Be Inspired”, the event will also highlight how teachers have made effective use of NET Section competitions to foster students’ whole-person and language skills development, showcasing schools’ efforts to engage students with reading materials of different kinds and to express their understanding creatively and collaboratively. Participating teachers will share how these activities help students deepen their connections to language, values and their peers. Experiences will be presented from schools involved in the following competitions:
- Once Upon A Book Storytelling Competition;
- Filmit: A Student Film Competition;
- Time to Talk Public Speaking Competition;
- Story To Stage Puppetry Competition for Primary Schools; and
- Speak Up – Act Out Drama Competition.
Event Programme
(Event rundown and programmes available soon)
