An international collaboration occurred on March 12, 2019, between a Malaysian school and a Japanese elementary school, aimed at enhancing students' leadership, language skills, and critical thinking through engaging in riddles. The event successfully allowed students to communicate, reflect on their experiences, and express a desire to improve their English skills. Overall, the students felt motivated and accomplished, despite minor interruptions during the online interaction.

1. An international collaboration between
SISC+ PPD Hulu Terengganu,
SK Seri Berang, Terengganu, Malaysia
and
Saitozaki Elementary School, Fukuoka, Japan.
Date: 12 March 2019

2. Riddle 2019
Introduction
Opening the classroom to the world is one of the culture in 21 Century Learning. This
view is aligned with our 6 Aspirations in the Malaysia Educational Blueprint. The project
aspires to ignite the students leadership skills, dual-language competency, empower
knowledge, fostering good ethics, encourage higher order thinking skills and embracing
national identity. The students are expected to play riddles with their counterparts, using
their background knowledge of the world around them and work collaboratively with their
teachers and friends.
Objectives
By the end of the session, students will be able to:
i) make simple sentences for communication purposes
ii) ask and respond to riddles with correct pronunciation and intonation
iii) analyse riddles and provide answers correctly
iv) evaluate activity experienced
v) organise group work effectively
Event details
Date : 12 March 2019
Time : 10.30 a.m.
Venue : SK Seri Berang
Target group
14 year three students with multiple learning abilities.
Committee members
Coordinator: Asmah Hanim (PPDHT)
Teacher in charge
Intan Syakirah
Salmah
Nor Atifa

3. Riddle 2019
Photographer & IT Personnel
Nik Hayati
Students
Leader: Farisha
Greeter: Ammar
Sign holders: Amirul
Researchers: Amnah & Friends
Ques9oners: Yasmin & Friends
Data Enterers: Rabecca & Friends
Cultural Presenters: All
Activities
Online presence
Photo of the event
Date Activity
7 March 2019
(preparation)
Briefing with the students
Dividing role
Practice Dikir Barat
11 March 2019
(preparation)
Mock Skype
12 March 2019 Riddle Skype with Saitozaki Elementary School, Japan.
Debriefing activity

4. Riddle 2019
Blog entry on the event
Conclusion
Overall, all the activities executed successfully. There was minor interruption during the
call but it was compensated by sending Skype video to conclude the activity. Post Skype,
the students reflected on their feelings and all of them were happy to contribute and par-
ticipate. In addition, the students cooperated very well and managed to discipline them-
selves. This was attributed to the fact that they felt comfortable playing the roles assigned
to them. While only 50% of them feel their performance during Skype was great, all of
them were motivated to Skype again with other countries. The interactions were able to
motivate the students as all of them said they would like to learn English better. The re-
flection session proved that this activity managed to achieve its objectives while discover-
ing students’ talent and intrapersonal intelligence.