QNA
Doha
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education’s (MoEHE) Early Child Department held on Wednesday the final qualifiers of its oral fluency contest for the foundation stage. The qualifiers include 164 foundation and preschool students from 30 schools.
Director of the Early Child Department Maryam Al Buainain hailed the contest as one of the department’s key competitions to achieve the MoEHE’s strategy, noting that the contest aims to develop preschool students, raise academic achievement in language skills, and enhance their self-confidence by obtaining the necessary competencies to move to the next educational phases.
Abd Al Salam Ibrahim, an early education instructor for the literary track in the Early Child Department, referred to the nature of the final qualifiers for the oral fluency contest for the foundation stage (the first and second grades) during which the winners will be selected through specialised panelists. The winners will be honoured at the closing ceremony next Tuesday.
Fatima Al Hail, a literary track teacher at Abi Hanifa Model School for Boys, explained that the competition contributed to enhancing the students’ self-confidence by pronouncing the letters fluently, noting that the school encouraged the students who qualified in the first stage, and intensified their training on the competition standards.
Kholoud Al Salami, a literary track coordinator at Omar Ibn Al Khattab Model School for Boys, said that the contest is one of the most beautiful competitions launched by the MoEHE, as it helps students and motivates them to read better.
Head of the Foundation Stage Department in the Early Child Department Sharifa Al Yazidi said that the contest was preceded by internal qualifiers that took place in January within 94 schools. The second phase in February, the schools were distributed into 13 groups according to geographical regions, with an average of seven schools for each group and each school was represented by eight students. The second phase included 750 male and female students from 92 schools, Al Yazidi said.
