The department has always been ingenious in instilling the passion for heritage and culture in our pupils while nurturing them to be effective communicators of their Mother Tongue Language.  For the past five years, with the support of the school’s Alumni Association and the School Advisory Committee, our pupils have not only been sharpening their writing skills and improving on their oral and aural competencies, they have also been immersed in the rich heritage culture while visiting the various states in China through the department’s Footprints Programme. With the love of one’s culture ignited, the interest of our pupils to learn more about their Mother Tongue Language follows naturally.  Moreover, geared with knowledge of the places visited, our pupils share their learning experiences explicitly with their learning experiences with their peers through various expressive genres such as comic strips and reflective writing whereby enhancing their language proficiency. Knowing about one’s roots makes language learning meaningful while understanding about others’ languages makes life exhilarating. With a global view in mind and drawing on the “Silk Road” concept of an East-West network, the department rolls out her Multilingualism Programme where pupils learn about the three national languages, namely the Chinese, Malay and Tamil Languages. In addition, the pupils learn about the Japanese Language which facilitates the communication between our pupils and those of our twinning schools and the third most spokenlanguage in the world besides the English Language and the Chinese Language, the Spanish Language. Learning about the national languages of Singapore strengthens the cohesiveness of the multi-racial ties while learning about the Japanese and Spanish Languages further prepares our pupils to be universal conversationalists along the “Silk Road”, across the globe. Throughout the years since 2005, this customised curriculum has gradually expanded in scope and depth, leading to vibrant language learning and heightened multi- cultural awareness in the school.