Parents and school children have much to cheer about this school holiday as they can continue fun-learning with Kampus Astro’s new School Holiday Calendar.
The calendar features 45 days of programmes and on-ground activities for each and every day of the school break, presented by Astro TVIQ, Astro Xiao Tai Yang, Chutti TV and AstroLife Events. With lessons on science, art and crafts, language, money management, baking and more, the calendar will serve as a fun way for school children to fill the holidays, and also an avenue for parents to spend more quality time with their kids.
Yasmin Megat, Head of Education said “At Astro, we believe that even though school stops, learning doesn’t have to. Learning is a continuous journey, and it’s important to instill this in children. This year, we revamped Astro TVIQ to become a fun-learning destination for kids, featuring entertaining shows that complement school subjects like Science, Maths, Bahasa Malaysia & English, and also skills important in later life, like creativity and entrepreneurship. We’ve also introduced new local learning programmes on Xiao Tai Yang. It seems quite a number of Malaysian children have embraced this fun-learning approach, as we’ve seen a growth of 130% in viewership of TVIQ plus a 91% increase in viewership of Astro Xiao Tai Yang over last year.
She added, “The Kampus Astro School Holiday Calendar takes fun-learning to the next level. We will offer on-screen and offscreen experiences on 3 channels, 4 languages, for all 45 days of the holiday.”
The key highlights of this calendar include some of the world’s best kids’ edu-tainment programmes, which will air on three channels, Astro TVIQ, Astro Xiao Tai Yang and Chutti TV in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil. The lineup also includes a special school holiday feature, Planet TVIQ, which airs on Astro TVIQ in between every programme and will showcase special guests like the Mad Science team, Oistein, Lisa Surihani and more.
Dunia Adik, which airs on Astro TVIQ every Saturday and Sunday at 2.30pm, is a home-grown programme that teaches Bahasa Malaysia in an engaging way. The series centres around a hilarious teacher called Cikgu Zul and his students. Kids will have a blast keeping up with his amusing antics while brushing up on their Bahasa Malaysia grammar and vocabulary.
Kid Detectives, which starts Wednesday 9 December 2009 at 2pm on Astro TVIQ, feeds childrens’ curiousity by getting them to solve mysteries through science. This edutainment series for 6 – 12 year olds presents kids with various age-appropriate “crimes”. Children must solve the mystery using logic and analysis of scientific clues, eliminating suspects from their investigation. Kids can become C.S.I-style detectives right in their own home and learn science at the same time!
IQ Xiao Tai Yang, which airs every Saturday from 19 December 2009 at 7pm on Astro Xiao Tai Yang, is Malaysia’s first children’s quiz television show in Chinese, produced by Astro. Contestants from standard 5 and 6 will be tested based on their concentration, imagination, cogitation, observation and memory.
Chutti TV’s Arivom Aayirom, showing from Monday to Friday at 10.25am is an animated Tamil educational programme that explores all the subjects children are curious about including science experiments.
Furthermore, there will be a series of on-ground events where school children can take part in cooking and baking classes, money management, science, and arts and craft workshops. Oistein, the star of some of the region’s most popular art programmes and a leading figure in developing children’s creativity, will visit Malaysia on 12th and 13th December to conduct art classes exclusively for Astro subscribers. Advanced registration is required for all on-ground activities and customers can log on to www.astro.com.my/astrolife or call 1300-82-3838 for more information.
Be sure to tune into Astro TVIQ (Channel 552), Astro Xiao Tai Yang (Channel 325) and Chutti TV (Channel 213) this school holiday, or sign up for the events! To request a copy of the calendar and enjoy a fun-learning holiday, please email kampus_astro@astro.com.my.
