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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Teachers’ Day p3-4

Primary PA Carnival p5

Sports Day p6-7

Straits Heroes p9

Student Council p10

DofE Awards p11

Spotlights p12-13

Primary p14-21

Secondary p22-28

Penang, Malaysia

S t r a i t s I n t e r n a t i o n a l S c h o o l

STRAITS TALKING Issue 25, May 2019

What do you love most about

your mother?

When she plays

board games with

me.—Gervaise

She’s kind-hearted—whenever I

need help, she’s always there.—

Hariharan.

She hugs me.—

Nitara

She cares about me and

asks if I’m ok and if I

need anything.—Brenda

When she isn’t scolding me.—Junie

She brought me into this

world.—Ashlyn

She cooks the

best food! -

Fredrich

She’s kind—she loves me.

—Maryam

She gave birth to

me and takes care

of me every day.

—Eleana.

She celebrates my

birthdays by baking

cupcakes.—Iris

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Dear Parents,

As you will have noticed, we are conduct-

ing teacher training on the afternoon of

Monday 10th June. We are extremely ex-

cited about what this will yield.

Trends and new teaching approaches

come along so often so are going to take

this opportunity to establish our Straits

way of teaching. I have researched

schools around the world and adapted a

model that will suit our school with our

students and our teachers.

On this day our staff will be coming to-

gether to share all the excellent teaching

ideas that are used in Straits and estab-

lish a new way of what we want learning

to look like at SIS from now on.

From this session, we will establish our

learning definition and a definitive list of

what will be included in all our lessons.

We will reveal our new Straits lesson for-

mats in our new annual magazine in Sep-

tember, 2019. I can’t wait to share it with

you!

Karl ie Walsh

SIS Principal and

Head of Primary

JUNE DIARY

Sat Jun 1: SIS Open Day

Wed Jun 5-9: Hari Raya Mini Break

Mon Jun 10-21: Assessment Week

Thur Jun 13 : Father’s Day EYFS

Fr i Jun 14 : Father’s Day KS1

Sat Jun 15: History Bee and Bowl

Sun Jun 17-28: Yr 11 Work Ex-

per ience

Thu Jun 27-28: We Wil l Rock You Product ion Yr 5-11

Sat Jun 29: Student Counci l Char ity Walk-a-thon

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TEACHERS’ APPRECIATION WEEK by Ms Karlie

This year’s Teacher’s Day was turned into Teacher Appreciation Week! Every teacher was given a certificate for something that the students felt described them best and a prize. Both Primary and Secondary school councils organised this. Teachers then com-peted against students in many sporting events, but I am sorry to say that the teach-ers weren’t the winners very often. Well done students!

And finally, all the teachers would like to thank the parents wholeheartedly for the week of delicious treats that were delivered every day!

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TEACHERS’ APPRECIATION WEEK with Ms Karlie

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Penang Performing Arts Carnival with Ms Carrena

The Penang Performing Arts Carnival provides an incredible opportunity for students by giving

them not only a venue to perform in, but also a chance to work with some top quality educators

to help them improve. It also gives them an opportunity to inspire and be inspired by other

musicians in other international schools. Children got together to do music, dance, singing, dra-

ma and percussion workshops in a friendly environment with a final concert for parents at the

end of the two days.

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PRIMARY SPORTS DAY with Mr Jack

EYFS and KS1 Sports Day On Tuesday 29th April EYFS and KS1 students participated in our annual sports day. The afternoon consisted of a range of events al-lowing the students to demonstrate their sporting skills in front of parents and teachers and at the same time collecting points for their house teams. It was great to see the students enjoying the activities and cheering on their peers. A fun filled and noisy afternoon in the MPH even saw parents and teachers partici-pate in a highly competitive obstacle race! 1st Naga 2nd Rusa 3rd BK 4th Harimau

KS2 Sports Day On the morning of the 29th April, the rain stopped just in time to allow KS2 students to participate in their annual sports day on the police field. The event followed its usual for-mat with students participating in a range of track and field events with the aim of partici-pation and enjoyment. The students were able to accumulate points for their house teams by running, jumping or throwing throughout the morning. The finale was a chance for parents and teachers to demonstrate their own sport-ing prowess in front of the students by com-peting in a parent and teacher obstacle race. 1st Harimau 2nd Naga 3rd BK 4th Rusa

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SECONDARY SPORTS DAY with Mr Jack

Secondary Sports Day Our secondary sports day this year was held at Westland Sports Centre in George Town on Friday 3rd May. The outline of the day saw students participate in track events including 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay as well as field events including long jump, shot put and discus. The venue was excellent with the students enjoying the freedom and space of a full sized running track. It turns out that 200 meters is a long way to run! The times and distances for each event were recorded with medals to be given out in an upcoming assembly. Overall, it was an enjoyable day running, jumping and throwing whilst listening to music, eating sandwiches and giggling with our friends at Mr Mike’s dancing. The highlight of the day for the students was

surely beating the teachers in a tug of war competition. Thank You I would like to say a big thank you to all of the teachers for their help and support in each of the sports day events. Without the teachers, these events would not have been possible. I would also like to say a big thank you to all of the parents for attending the events to support the students or to participate. It was brilliant for the students to watch and compete against their teachers and parents!

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KS1 Mother’s Day Assembly by Ms Hannah

I just want to start by saying a big thank you to all the mums, dads, family and friends that

came to the KS1 Mothers’ Day celebration. The children in Year 1 and 2 all worked really hard

to present some performances for you and create some lovely crafts.

Year 1 told their mums how much they loved them by showing them all the jobs we know they

do for them. To their children, mums are: doctors, cleaners, chefs, teachers, readers and

many, many other things.

Year 2 performed ‘A Million Dreams’ because they understand that their mums help them to

achieve all of their dreams, no matter how big or small.

I think the highlight for our children though was the cake! There was so much sugar up for

grabs. I do hope they weren’t on too much of a sugar high to go home.

Again, we would really like to thank you all for coming and supporting this event. We are very

grateful to you all.

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Straits Community Heroes —with Ms Devi

Food Donation Drive at Ranji Nursing Home & St Nicholas’ Home, Penang

As part of SIS’s initiative to provide continuous support to Ranji Nursing Home and St Nicholas’ Home, we had a Food Donation Drive from 23rd April 2019 to 10th of May 2019. We collected a large amount for the Ranji Nursing Home and St Nicholas’ Home. Our Straits Community Heroes had been helping with the arrangements of the food donation and kept track of the stock. On 27th May 2019 and 29th May 2019, the food collected was donated to both charities by our Straits Heroes. The happiness that saw in their faces was one of the most memorable things ever experienced. They expressed gratitude in the form of thanking each and every one who con-tributed for this drive. Lastly, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to the drive—a round of applause to the

Heroes of Straits!

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Primary Student Council—with Ms Sya

In our last meeting, we discussed several issues—one being the role of the student

council on duty, as well as discussing the Teacher’s Day preparations. Our student

council board management representatives, from year six and year five, were

involved. Students were separated into 3 groups to finish tasks such as folding, cut-

ting and sticking paper items to make the teacher’s day cards.

Not only that, we also packed many goody bags for the whole of the primary school

teachers to celebrate all their hard work. I am thankful that all the primary student

council members were so kind and they were very helpful in organising our Teachers’

Day celebration. Two year six students, Ram and Rachel, helped out in distributing

and passing the gifts to all the teachers on the stage during the assembly. We had so

much fun together!

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Duke of Edinburgh Awards—with Mr Mike At the end of April, students from Year 10 and Year 11

put on their intrepid boots and travelled to the Cameron

Highlands to complete their Bronze and Silver Duke of

Edinburgh International Awards.

Three teams of Year 10 students spent 2 days and 1

night on pre-planned routes through the Boh Tea Planta-

tions and the surrounding area and 1 team of Year 11

students did the same but for an extra night. All students

worked very well individually and as part of a team to

plan and navigate a trail; build and disassemble a campsite; cook and clean and finally to time

their adventurous journeys.

Many laughs were had as the students tackled obstacles such as low hanging trees and those

that had fallen. They were all able to complete their award and Mr. Hasfis and Ms. Katie and I

are very proud of them. We can’t wait for the next expedition and we hope you enjoy the beau-

tiful photos!

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TEACHER SPOTLIGHT on Ms Mohana

Q1. What qualities should an ideal student pos-sess?

To be disciplined, a good listener, and show a sense of respect to elders and society.

Q2. When was the last time you laughed out loud?

A week ago after we watched a cartoon titled “It’s Quite True”.

Q3. What’s the best and worst thing about your job?

I love my job because everyone shares the same mission and is dedicated to the mission.

Worst…when I have to waste hours solving computer issues.

Q4. What did you want to be when you were younger?

Doctor.

Q5. What are you plans for this weekend?

Going to Setia Spice to celebrate Mother’s Day with all the beautiful mothers.

Q6. Who is your favorite colleague and why?

Miss Serene Tan and Miss Syazana who always help me in everything and love sharing.

Q7. What is your favorite Malaysian dish?

Nasi Lemak with chicken.

Q8. What’s your relationship status?

Married

Q9. How old are you?

Too old to reveal..heheheh.

Q10. What are your hobbies?

Collecting sea shells, playing games with my little hero.

Q11. Do you have a secret talent?

Singing I guess.

Q12. Where have you taught?

Surya College, PIDC Butterworth Foundation In Science and KDU—A level.

Q13. What’s your most embarrassing moment?

When my class teacher told me that “today there’s no sports day” and I was in sports at-tire.

Q14. Where’s your favourite place in the world?

I always wanted to go to Murudeshwar, Karna-taka.

Q15. What were your best and worst subjects in school?

Best: English, Maths, and Arts.

Worst: History.

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Activity Spotlight on Girls’ Football— with Ms Katie

Q: Why are you running this Activity?

I'm running Girls' football to give the girls an opportunity to improve their skills and confidence in sport

Q: Is it challenging or easy to teach students?

It's not challenging to teach this activity because the stu-dents come with a lot of enthusiasm and talent. They re-spond well to feedback and try and apply it to their matches

Q: How did you get interested in this Activity?

I've been playing football since I was in Primary school, then all the way through Secondary and University

Q: Who is your favorite student in this Activity and why?

It has to be Deseree for her excellent attitude and willingness to be brave and learn.

Q: What age level do you prefer to teach and why?

I prefer teaching football to older students as they are a bit more experienced usu-ally and focused

Q: Have you learnt new things teach-ing them?

I have learnt that it's important to give constructive criticism as well as positive feedback. Being super positive all the time doesn't allow the students to pro-gress as well as they could.

Q: How do your students make pro-gress? The students make progress when they show up to training consistently, learn from their mistakes and maintain a growth mindset.

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NURSERY with Ms Devi First of all, I would like to thank all the parents who had appreciated our school teachers with various love and gifts for Teacher’s Day. It is most appreciated.

In Nursery, we continue learning the alphabet and things which starts with letters from it. In literacy, students were introduced to the phonic sound and letter formation of the letter Pp, Qq, Rr and Ss. Students were given hands-on activities to learn the formation of the letter.

They made some fruit and vegetable salad. This is to further enhance their learning about the letter ‘s’, where salad starts with the letter ‘s’. It was fun to see little chefs making salads in their own way!

Maths lessons have been focused on building further understanding in getting students to do number and value correspondence. They were also given some number formation activities and counting activities. They had fun counting.

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RECEPTION with Ms Serene and Ms Mohana

First of all we would like to thank all the parents who have showered us with lots of treats

during our teacher’s appreciation week in conjunction with teacher’s day. We are truly

blessed by your generosity.

In Literacy, Reception students have been introduced to Jolly Phonics Phase 6 and 7 which

consists the phonics sound of y, x, ch, sh, th, qu, ou, oi. Students learnt to read and write

words containing these sounds such as chip, shut,

this, queen, ouch and coin. It was indeed reward-

ing to see them using the phonics sound in their

writing.

In Numeracy, they have been introduced to using

the clock to tell time. They have been taught to

read 1’oclock, 2o’clock and to further challenge

them we also introduced ‘half past’ to them. They

have also been exploring on 2D shapes learning

about sides and corner/angles.

In Understanding the World, they are still explor-

ing Space, focusing on the Solar System. They

are learning to describe the characteristics of all

the planets.

Last but not least, thank you for attending the

Early Years assembly, it means a lot to the chil-

dren to see their parents watching them on stage.

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Year One have been enjoying their swimming

lessons every week at school this term. We

have been learning about doubling and halving

in Maths and had a competition in class to see

which team could get the most halving and

doubling sums. It was so much fun and the

children worked very well together to achieve

that goal!

We had a brilliant fantasy day where we came

to school dressed as a fantasy character, we

role played, had fun games pretending to be

superheroes and played with new imaginative

toys. We played describing games using balls

as a group. The children had a fantastic day!

In Humanities we have been learning about

toys both old and new.

YEAR ONE with Ms Lisa and Mr Myron

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YEAR TWO with Ms Hannah and Ms Kayleigh

Year 2 have been learning about measurement in Maths. They have had fun prac-ticing their practical measuring skills and finding out how tall their classmates are. They found out some of them are exactly the same size as their friends.

In English, we have been looking at stories by famous authors: we found out all about Little Albatross, The Lost Happy Endings and The Hodgeheg. The children are

very excited to write their own story following a similar structure.

In Science, we have been exploring circuits. In groups we got to make our own

circuit, it was so exciting when the light bulb worked. Did you know the more bat-teries you use the brighter the bulb will be?

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YEAR THREE with Ms Katie and Mr Scott

May the force be with you! Year 3 have been learning all about forces and have been using

force meters to measure the pull of objects in Newtons. They have also experimented to see

how friction affects the amount of force needed to pull an object. Turns out it takes quite a lot

of force to pull the tables around the classroom… next time try a pencil box.

The Year 3s have been learning all about play scripts and have been practicing reading scripts

aloud with expression (see photos attached- Terrence the hungry caterpillar) and have started

writing their very own scripts. It didn’t take much effort for the groups to perform dramatically

- it came quite naturally to them!

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YEAR FOUR with Mr Linh Year Four have been learning to write play scripts in English. For their end-of-unit task, they

were asked to collaborate to develop a play script based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel, ‘Cool!’.

They tried their best to use the correct layout when writing, inserting important stage directions.

In Humanities, we concluded our History topic on Anglo-Saxons. After many weeks of research-

ing, the children concluded that the mystery body buried at Sutton Hoo was King Raedwald of

East Anglia—the pagan king who was converted to Christianity in the early 7th century. Next up,

we will be focusing on Assessment Week—so keep up with the revision at home! Lastly, a huge

‘CONGRATULATIONS’ to Jarrell, Lakshana and Khanh An for winning Bronze, Silver and Gold

awards respectively, in the recent Vanda Science Competition. Well done!

“Michael Morpurgo’s inspiring new story ‘Cool!’, focuses on Robbie, a boy in a coma – victim of a car accident. Locked inside his own head, able to hear but not move or speak, Robbie tries to keep himself from slipping ev-er deeper into unconsciousness.”

Harper Collins

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Year Five with Mr Jack

In Year 5 we are continuing to work hard in all subject areas to consolidate our

learning. Our Maths lessons have seen us using protractors to measure and classify

different sized angles. In Science, we have finished our topic of Space and Planets

and have been learning about the different states of matter. Currently, we have been

applying this understanding of matter to the water cycle. Our English lessons have

focused on the features used in persuasive writing, where we have written a letter to

King Richard to persuade him to stop the peasants’ revolt. In our PE lessons we have

been enjoying heath and fitness sessions with the aim of increasing our stamina and

core fitness.

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YEAR SIX with Ms Ahreum and Mr Gwyn

Why is Shakespeare, a man who died more than 400 years ago, still im-

portant? Questions like this fill our minds as we study Julius Caesar this

term. As we learn more about the context of the play and the Roman Em-

pire, we see how we still struggle with the questions Shakespeare had for

his audience. The play is about a perfect society and our duty to maintain

it. For example, if we select one person to be our student council repre-

sentative for the whole year, we might grow a Caesar in our midst. That

person could get overbearing and domineering because no one would chal-

lenge him. Also, other people might want to become a representative in

spring or summer term. Should this one person (a de facto Caesar) stand

in other people’s ways? Even if he is a good representative? Shakespeare is

still asking these questions and we are too because there seems to be no

easy answers, if there are answers at all. Moral dilemmas and ethical issues

– are we, Year 6, ready and mature enough

to take these by the horns?

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The Year 7s have been reading, studying and analysing a well-known novelette called

‘Hatchet’ written by Gary Paulsen. He wrote this particular story based on ‘the darkest part’

of his own childhood.

Brian Robeson is a 13 year old boy from New York who is angry, frustrated and upset be-

cause his parents are getting divorced and Brian knows the

‘secret’ of why they are separating. He is travelling to spend

his summer holiday with his father in the North West Canadi-

an wilderness when the plane he is in crashes into a lake. He

survives and only has the clothes he’s wearing and a hatchet

that his mother gave him, attached to his belt.

The experiences he has and the challenges he faces are real-

istic and traumatising. He faces a bear, is daily attacked by

mosquitos, is harshly hungry, ‘slapped’ by a porcupine,

sprayed by a skunk, ignored by a passing plane, confronted

by a moose and experiences a violent tornado. As time pass-

es, though, Brian recovers his can-do attitude, and becomes

even tougher than he was before. He constructs a bow and

arrow, learns to fish, hunts birds and rabbits, and reinforces

his shelter against the elements, makes fire and is eventually

rescued due to finding the survival kit on the plane.

The students worked together as a class, then in groups, to analyse the themes or messages

from Paulsen. The main ideas are inspiring and motivating for young adults and the students

have presented the themes well.

SECONDARY ENGLISH with Ms Leanne

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MATHEMATICS with Ms Anita

Mathematics in the Ancient World

Prehistoric people must have used simple arithmetic. However, when people be-came civilized, mathematics became far more important. Proper record keeping was essential. In Iraq, a people called the Sumerians counted in sets of 60. We still di-vide hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds. We also divide circles into 360 degrees.

The Egyptians had some knowledge of practical geometry which they used to build the pyramids. However, the Greeks were interested in ideas for their own sake. Around 600 BC a Greek called Thales calculated the height of a pyramid by measur-ing its statue. But the most famous Greek mathematician was Pythagoras. (c. 570-495 BC). Pythagoras is famous for his theorem The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.

Theano of Crotona was a great woman mathematician. Euclid (325-265 BC) is most famous for her book about geometry Elements. A man named Eratosthenes (c.276-194 BC) calculated the circumference of the Earth. Archimedes (287-212 BC) worked out formulas for the area of shapes and the volumes of solids. The last great mathematician of the Ancient World was a woman named Hypatia (died 415 AD).

Roman numerals consisted of I meaning one, X meaning ten, L meaning fifty and C meaning 100. They had no symbol meaning zero. However the Indians invented a symbol for zero and the numerals we now use were invented by them. They were later used by the Arabs and were first used in Europe in the Middle Ages.

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SECONDARY SCIENCE with Nellie

The beginning of Summer term saw some of the Year 3s, 4s and 5s sitting for the Vanda Science Competition. This time around, only the primary students were selected for the competition. We aim to have secondary join in the near future. Vanda Science Competition is an International Science Competition held annually around the globe. It focuses on the student’s ability to think critically and creatively to pick out hidden information to aid them in solving the question. This

competition follows closely with the Singapore School Science Syllabus and although the students may or may not have covered all the topics, they were able to have an opportunity to give it a try and most importantly experience it! Results will be out in June! Meanwhile, the Year 6s and 9s have completed their Checkpoint exams. Even though they have finished their syllabus, they are ready to learn again what the Science teachers have prepared to guide them into KS3 for the Year 6s and KS4 for the Year 9s. The students were given an overview of the course and some topics have been selected to be taught to the students. This introduction can hopefully make the students’ transition to the next level easier once the time comes.

The Year 7s are learning about the Earth’s structure and formation of rocks. In order to enhance their knowledge, they made a 3D Earth model and learned to identify the different layers that makes up Earth. The Year 8s have been learning about the human reproductive system and the Year 10s are working hard at continuing their syllabus for the summer term.

May and June are the months for the Year 11s to sit for their IGCSE. Les-sons are still ongoing where the students are practising past years’ papers and the teachers are always around should they need any advice.

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SECONDARY HUMANITIES with Ms Maryam

On Friday the 19th of April and Saturday the

20th of April, a range of students from SIS

attended the World Scholar’s Cup regional

round. The competition involves showcasing

skills in a variety of specific subject areas and

includes competitions in debate, collaborative

writing, individual knowledge tests and group

challenges.

This year, 12 delegates from SIS attended

winning an unprecedented 75 medals! 43 Gold

and 32 silver! An amazing victory as the stu-

dents faced over 500 students from a range of

local and international schools, and many of

our students were first time attendees.

Our students who attended included:

Vaishnavi Prabagaran Asmitha Jenerthnem

Kate Ong Shiwaanee Jaga Jeevan

Aashna Patel Jing Xuan Tan

Jenny Ooi Daric Wong

Aishani Suman Bareesh Amit Sanghavi

Ruven Naidu Xin Yin Tay

Jing Xuan Tan, Jenny Ooi and Daric Wong also came home with trophies winning 3rd place in the writing competition and 2nd place in the challenge team division.

An extra huge congratulations to all the teams

as they all qualified for the global rounds! We

at Straits are exceptionally proud of our stu-

dents, who not only performed excellently in

the competition, but behaved and represented

SIS admirably and with great respect towards

their peers. Next stage: Globals!

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MANDARIN with Ms Pang Sook Yee

Penang MFL Teachmeet

It was an honour to host the Penang Modern

Foreign Language Teachmeet on 24th of April

at SIS, Penang this year. All participants from

SCIPS, POWIIS, GEMS, Uplands, Tenby and

Fairview attended and contributed to the

event to make it a successful one.

The aim for the event was to share good

teaching practices or resources among us.

During small group CPD discussions, teachers

from different schools presented their best

practice.

During Mandarin CPD groups, we discussed

the importance of ‘stroke’ in the journey of

learning Mandarin. We concluded that even in

today’s technological age, knowing the prop-

er stroke order can go a long way in helping

learners master Chinese.

I would like to give special thanks to the

Year 6 students who helped to set up the

registration counter and guided our visitors

around our campus. From the teachers’ re-

sponses, our students were very polite and

friendly to them. Uplands will host the next

event.

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PRIMARY BAHASA with Mr Qairul

Lesson on Festivals in Malaysia

The topic that Year 5 covered was ‘Festivals in Malaysia’. All of them were so eager in giving ideas and thoughts. The task was simple - the students needed to find topics that are related to ‘Festivals in Malaysia’ using their Chromebooks. They needed to list their find-ings in point form on a manila card, they also had to present it to their classmate.

The first group got Perayaan di Malaysia (Festival in Malaysia) where they needed to find as many festivals as they could and list them down on the manila card given. They found Hari Raya Aidiladha, Tahun Baru Cina, Deepavali, Pesta Kuih Bulan, Hari Gawai, and Thaipusam. They also briefly explained how and who celebrated the festival.

The second group covered the topic Pakaian Tradisional di Malaysia (Traditional Clothes in Malaysia) where they needed to list traditional clothes in Malaysia like Baju Kurung, Baju Melayu, Cheongsam, Dhoti dan Sari. They too explained who would wear these traditional

clothes.

The third group had listed out the topic that I am pretty sure everyone will love, Makanan Tradisional di Malaysia (Traditional Food in Malaysia). There are many varieties of food in Malaysia. So this group wrote out a long list of

delicious traditional Malaysian food that even I had never come across before. There were Nasi Lemak, Dim Sum, Nasi Beriani, and Roti Canai. They explained which races cooked the cuisine and when they cooked it.

The last group had quite an interesting topic that was Adat di Malaysia (Malaysian Tradi-tion). They needed to list out the weird tradi-tions that are still practised today. One inter-esting tradition is ‘do not clean or sweep dur-ing the actual celebration’, they believe that cleaning may sweep away good luck instead.

The last part of the activity was to write five questions based on the information that they had discovered. So they swapped their manila card with another group, for example the Perayaan di Malaysia (Festival in Malaysia) group swapped with the Pakaian Tradisional di Malaysia (Traditional Clothes in Malaysia). They needed to answer the question by read-ing from their findings.

To conclude, everyone enjoyed this activity and they learned some new facts about it. It

is good to see that they could work well in groups and manage to finish the task in time.

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SECONDARY ART TRIP—with Mr Hasfis

This term, year 9 and year 10 students went to the The One Academy collage located in Georgetown, Penang. The purpose of the trip was to enhance and improve their water colour skills. They were trained by a professional artist from The One Academy. As well as learning about the water colour painting skills, they also went on a tour around the campus and were briefed about the courses and subjects that were provided by the college. They were also briefed about the different job opportunities in the Art and Design industry, such as Designer, Animator, CGI artists, Illustrator and introduced to a successful company that are involved in these fields. The most important aspect of this trip is, as we hope, that our students will enhance and im-prove their skills and knowledge about Art and Design and be able to make more informed decisions when continuing their studies and careers in the future.