The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) announced on Tuesday the launch of an oral fluency contest, to be held May 1-9 across all kindergartens nationwide.
The contest aims to achieve the MoEHE's strategies related to raising language skills to make learners' achievements commensurate with their abilities, by providing them with the necessary skills and competencies necessary to move to the next educational stages, an MoEHE statement read.The competition consists of five phases.
Deputy Principal of the Abi Hanifa Model Kindergarten Amna Youssef Al Sayed expressed her great happiness at the children's participation in the competition, noting that the skills required for children to participate in the competition are available to everyone in kindergartens. She added that the stories included in the curricula enrich children's linguistically and qualify them to move to the first grade stage with high linguistic readiness.
All children in kindergartens can participate in the contest, since kindergartens do not measure grades, but measure the skills that must be available to all students before they move to the primary stage through the advanced curricula provided by the MOEHE, in addition to the classroom and extra-curricular activities, Al Sayed said.
Aisha Al Mohannadi, an educational supervisor at the MOEHE's Early Education Department, said that the contest is an initiative that enhances the language skills of kindergartens, as its aim is to encourage children to read, form words, and express themselves and pictures in a bid to speak fluently. This achieves the MOEHE's strategy that aims to develop language skills in the early childhood stage.
Iman Al Jabri, a supervisor at the MOEHE's Early Education Department said that the contest which started as internal competitions in government kindergartens, was then generalized across all Qatar's government kindergartens, to measure children's language achievement.