Newsletter No. 107 - April 2016

TENBY SCHOOLS IPOH
Newsletter #107 - April 2016
Highlights in this newsletter:
Message from Campus Principal
School Activities
From the Campus Principal
Jane Kuok
Dear Parents and Tenby Community,
Launch of SAFE STEPS Road Safety Awareness Programme
The focus this week was on our preparations for today’s launch of the SAFE STEPS Road Safety
Awareness Programme where we invited their Ambassador, Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh and the
Programme’s sponsor from the Prudence Foundation Mr. Marc Fancy, Executive Director to join
us. We are the first school in the world to launch this programme concurrently with three of our
sister Tenby Schools in KL, Penang and Johor. We thank the school community for working
around the road closure this morning. And also a big thank you to our PA for initiating this
programme. We hope there will be many more for the benefit of the community.
More details of the programme and the launch will feature next week.
Tenby Open Week
This week was Tenby Open Week. It was lovely to see parents walk in to visit the School. The
Tenby Vision was shared with them and this was followed by a tour of the school with prefects.
Many thanks to the prefects for representing the School this week.
Communication with the School
We would like to encourage parents to direct queries to the School. In this way, accurate information may be shared.
Thank you.
NEWS FROM SEKOLAH TENBY
Language Month Events
March was Language Month for Sekolah Tenby Ipoh. Among the events organised for student participation were
contests in Elocution, Creative Writing, Calligraphy, Singing and Story Telling. Sekolah Tenby students from
Standard 1 to Form 5 had the opportunity to participate in the events in any one of three languages – Bahasa
Melayu (BM), English or Mandarin.
Preliminary rounds for most of the competitions were done during class periods with the language teachers
themselves doing the judging. The top performer in each class then presented his or her work during two special
assemblies.
The first special assembly was held on Tuesday 22nd March. A total of seven participants, mainly from the senior
school, took part in the Elocution contest with two of them giving speeches in English and the other five in BM. For
Creative Writing, there were twelve participants in the BM and English categories. The Singing contest saw only
one participant, kudos to Ian from Standard 1 who was brave enough to sing in front of an audience! Finally, the
Calligraphy competition which was open to students proficient in Mandarin, resulted in seven winners from
Sekolah Tenby and eleven winners from Tenby International School.
The second special assembly was held on Tuesday 5th April and saw a total of thirteen presenters for the Story
Telling competition. Six story tellers told their stories in English while the other seven chose to do theirs in Bahasa
Malaysia. To create an atmosphere of story sharing, students were invited to dress as literary characters as well.
For the English category, Jocelyn from Standard 3T came out the winner with her concisely-delivered story of
Cinderella and her step-sisters. Darrel from Form 1E was second with an interesting tale of pirates. In the BM
category, Muhammad Harith from Standard 6 was declared winner with his very credible impression of a grandfather telling a tale about a mousedeer (kancil) and a crocodile (buaya). Healesya acting out the roles in her story in
a very entertaining manner, came in second with an expressive story about a flamingo (bangau) tricking some fish
(ikan).
While waiting for the scoring to be done by the judges, the audience was asked to vote for the best-dressed story
teller. The top two choices were Aydeen (Std 3E) who was dressed as Ironman and Muhd Harith (Std 6) who came
in grandfatherly clothes complete with tongkat. In the end, Aydeen won the audience over with his active display of
Ironman’s signature moves! Everyone who came dressed up as literary characters went on stage to show off their
outfits. The three top winners were Ahmad Arrif (Std 1) as Harry Potter, Bryan (Std 6) as a vampire and Sherab
(Std 3E) as a ninja turtle.
The students all had an enjoyable time with languages and the teachers were impressed with the quality of work
and level of confidence displayed by one and all. Well done to everyone!
By: Hoong Ning (SM 5)
E D U C A T I O N A L
V I S I T
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R O Y A L
B E L U M
R A I N F O R E S T
R E S O R T
On 1st April to 3rd April 2016 , students of SM5 visited
one of the world’s oldest rainforests , Royal Belum
State Park, Gerik. There were 17 students accompanied
by teachers Ms Chiang, Ms Rita and Mr. David Chu.
The objectives of the trip were to expose the students to
nature and also to explore the wilderness.
We reached the destination around noon on the first
day. The houseboat’s crew members welcomed us
with their friendly attitude and also the food they had
prepared for us . After we got on the houseboat , we
spent the first few hours travelling to the famous
Rafflesia spot and also to our chalet located at
Sg.Tiang.We were amazed by the green scenery
surrounding us as it is so calming. Later that day ,we
learnt a new watersport , bamboo rafting. Spending our
evening rafting and swimming in the middle of the lake
was really relaxing and fun. We called it a night after
having our dinner and also receiving a lecture from the
Enviromental Guru on the importance of embracing the
nature.
Well of course, the fun did not end there. The next
morning, we went jungle trekking and visited the Ko’oi
waterfall. The waterfall looked like silver tear tracks on
the wrinkled face of the mountain. It was simply
breathtaking. After a ‘shower’ at the waterfall , we then
visited the Jahai Tribe’s village. We spent our evening
flying kites with the Jahai kids and also understanding
their lifestyle. To end the night , we had a scrumptious
BBQ dinner.
The last day had arrived, after visiting the Sungai Ruok
Waterfall, we finally had to say goodbye. All of us
showed our gratitude towards the crew members for
spending these few days with us and also the food they
served, every meal we had were delicious.
It was indeed an educational trip for all of us as we
had the opportunity to explore and also embrace the
nature. We truly enjoyed ourselves and would like to
thank our three teachers for organizing the trip and
guiding us all way. All of us treasure every moment
we spent and the fun we had.
To us, everyday is an adventure at Royal Belum .
Form 4 Earth Day Project
On Tuesday 22nd March, the fourth formers of Sekolah Tenby Ipoh did the presentation of
their Earth Day project to their juniors from Standards 4T and 4E. The primary objective of
the project was to highlight the necessity of caring for the environment now and how each of
us can play a role.
Both the F4 Science and Arts classes had been preparing for this presentation since the
beginning of the year. Form 4 Arts chose to do a survey to find out how many people really
understand the importance of taking care of Mother Earth. They gave out 150 copies of their
survey to select classes from both the national and international streams. They then collated
the results and summarized the answers which they had received. This summary they
presented to their Standard 4 audience. Another group from Form 4 Arts decided that they
wanted to show their juniors something new that can be created from recycled material, so
they chose to make bookmarks for everyone from paper that they themselves had produced
from old newspaper pulp.
Form 4 Science, on their part, decided that they wanted to get their message across by
presenting a short play and organizing a game for the children to play. The children were
divided into teams which then went through a series of activities where they had to make the
right choice before moving on. As the children worked hard to advance through each of the
stages, their final objective was to paint a paper-maché globe worn by Shivadeva from F4
Science.
The Standard 4 children had an enjoyable session learning the importance of taking care of
Mother Earth as well as the consequences of carelessly using up all of Earth’s resources.
They also went home happy with a bookmark souvenir made especially for them. The Form
4 students too, had a good time preparing for the session and ultimately delivered a wellexecuted piece of work to their juniors.
Many thanks to all of the fourth formers who participated so enthusiastically, with special
thanks going to group leaders – Thevinthiran (survey), Jane and Manohj (game), and
A’isyah and Fang Hoong (handicraft) – for taking charge of their individual work sections.
News from Tenby Early Years Centre
The week started off with a flow of parents walking in to have a view of the school and enquiring about
what is in store should their little ones join TEYCI. They liked the environment and were happy to see
our current students enjoy their school activities along with their teachers.
The Early Years team together with the children wish all our Sikh families “Happy Vaisakhi” and
“Puthandu Valthukal” to our Hindu families. As this celebration coincides with the Year 1’s IPC topic
on “Celebration”, Ms. Geetha, the mother of Varnikadakshayini was invited to school to share some
information as to why, where and how Tamil New Year is celebrated. Each child was given a box of
Indian traditional sweets to take home.
Vanakkam! And Sastrigal!
Coffee Morning and Parents Forum
 Wednesday 4th May, 2016
Sneak – a – Peek
The little ones
having a great
time at the new
play area.
Nursery - Little Daffodils
Vroom… vroom… off we go on a road trip!
Children busy packing their
cloths getting ready to go
to Kuala Lumpur by train.
As our Entry Point on “Going Places”, we are going on a
train ride.
Queuing up to
purchase train
tickets.
All on board
awaiting for the
train to move.
Reception - Little Einstein’s
It’s all about “Houses and Homes”.
Hang Yu is talking about the different
rooms in his house.
Evelyn and Ivis are having a
brainstorming session during Bahasa
lesson.
Reception – Little Da Vinci’s
This house is made of straws.
This house is made of bricks.
Little Da Vinci’s are busy building “The Three Little Pigs” houses.
This house is made of woods.
No! No! “By the hair of my chinny chin chin”. I
will not let you come in.
Year 1
We are good in painting and designing the face. Anyone want to join us?
Look at our design of the face mask.
All ready for Opera.
Children carefully decorating
their paper plates into a face
mask for the Chinese Opera
show.
NEWS FROM INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY
On the 16th of March, the Year 3 classes received some ‘extra’ students for their
IPC Entry Point. These extra students were the parents of some of the pupils in
Year 3. Arriving at 13:00hrs the parents took part in an IPC Entry Point based
around the topic of “Material World”.
Parents had to wait patiently at the start
of the lesson before being split into
groups.
Parents were informed about
what the children had and
were going to be studying
during the topic of “Material
World”.
Parents were asked to think about
famous sculptures and statues they
knew about throughout the world. They
presented their group’s discussion on
this at the front of the class.
Both parents and children then began to
create the sculpture the children had
planned during IPC in previous lessons.
They worked at this task for around 40 minutes and followed the children’s plan for the
sculptures carefully.
The session finished with the groups
presenting the sculptures they had created.
They discussed the message behind each of
the sculptures and what materials were
used.
The Entry Point ended around 2.30pm
Prepared by: Stewart Fulton
It’s all about materials!
Our International Primary Curriculum (IPC) topic, ‘Material World’ has been our focus in
Year 3. We learned about materials, for example metal, sponge, plastic, glass, copper,
rubber and wood.
Can you guess what recycled materials
we used to make this robot?
Look...we made a creation using recycled materials!
We did some investigations through our topic
on ‘Material World’. One of the investigations
was about magnetism. We brought in our own
magnets to find out which items were attracted
to magnets and which ones were not attracted
to magnets.
Metal paper clips are attracted to magnets.
We were glad to have this IPC unit as we were having so much fun in learning. We
learned about the materials used in making a bicycle, magnetic and non-magnetic items
as well as creating items from recycled materials. We really enjoyed this topic.
We enjoyed learning Material World!
Written by:
Zhi Xin (Aiko)
Timothy
Jia En (Cynthia)
Year 3 Blue
Year 6 Yellow’s Checkpoint Chills…….
Our year 6 students will be sitting for the checkpoint on Tuesday 12 th April until
Thursday 14th April.
They have been very positive over the last two terms looking forward to the checkpoint.
Some of them have stated their feelings as of now how they feel about sitting for the
checkpoint.
“ I feel slightly nervous but at the
same time excited to experience
the feeling of sitting for the
checkpoint.”
“I am feeling nervous because I
don’t know how I will do in the
test but I am a little excited to
see what score I will get.”
Nyimas Kayla
Yen Zi
Nyimas Kayla
“I am happy about sitting for the
checkpoint. “
Sivesh
“I am feeling very nervous
about the checkpoint exams.”
Seamus
“I feel a little stressed as the
checkpoint exam is fast
approaching.”
“I am so nervous cited about the
checkpoint which means I feel
nervous and excited.”
Adam
Saffron
“ I am excited yet scared about
sitting for the checkpoint but I’ll
try my best.”
Cody
Well this is what the Year 6 Yellow students have to say. They have done their part of
learning and revising and we wish them good luck with their Checkpoint!
News from……
TENBY SCHOOLS IPOH INTERACT CLUB
SERVICE ABOVE SELF
VALENTINE’S DAY PROJECT TO RAISE FUNDS FOR POLIO PLUS CONTRIBUTION
contributioncontribnCONTRIBUTION
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a paralyzing and potentially fatal disease that still threatens children in some parts
of the world. The poliovirus invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of
hours. It can strike at any age but mainly affects children under five. Polio is incurable, but completely
vaccine-preventable. In 1985, Rotary launched its Polio Plus program, the first initiative to tackle global
polio eradication through the mass vaccination of children. Rotary has contributed more than $1.5 billion
and countless volunteer hours to immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. In addition,
Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by donor governments to contribute more than
$9 billion to the effort.
To join this effort, Interact Club of Tenby Schools Ipoh takes the initiative every year to raise funds for
this purpose. Interactors planned gifts of roses, candies, homemade cookies and chocolates for teachers
and students and had both parties buying them as gifts while our Interactors played delivery agents for
a fee. A total of RM1600/- was raised equivalent to $400USD and donated to the United Nations Polio
Plus Foundation via our parent club Rotary Club of Greentown.
The Organising Chairperson Jo-Ey, together with fellow Interactors spent weekends baking cookies and
packing goodies and roses. It was yet another effort to reach out and help those who need it. On
Wednesday 23rd March President Uithayakumar and Past President Sathyamoorthy received a cheque
for USD400/- presented by our Campus Principal Ms Jane Kuok. This amount is the largest amount
presented in the history of Tenby Schools Ipoh Interact Club and we look forward to do more in the years
to come.
I would like to thank each and every one who supported us in this project. Without any of you, we will
not be able to run this project neither could we collect 400USD. To all our Interactors and the School
Management our heartfelt gratitude for making this happen.
Reported by,
Jo-Ey
Organising Chairperson
OUR CONTRIBUTION