festival of lights at tenby schools ipoh

Newsletter No. 59 - October 2014

Festival of Lights at

Tenby Schools Ipoh

Tenby Schools Ipoh celebrated the Festival

of Lights this year on Tuesday, 21 October

2014 before the Deepavali break. The

Deepavali Assembly was held at the school

multi-purpose hall with the gathering of

more than 1000 students and staff from

both Tenby International School and

Sekolah Tenby. The assembly started off

with the lighting of lamps by Mr Howard

Bullock, Mr Lee Harvey, Mr Neil Page,

Mdm Soot and Mrs Puvanes and the event

committee members. It was then followed

with Deepavali themed dance performanc-

es and a sketch by students from both

schools. The assembly ended around

9.30am with a fashion parade by the stu-

dents adorned in their colourful traditional

Indian costumes.

More pictures inside >>>

One of the Deepavali

themed activities:

Students of Sekolah

Tenby with Ms Yulaga,

drawing a kolam by

using white and

coloured rice powder.

The masterpiece by students and teacher.

Deepavali Assembly 2014

From the Campus Principal

I would like to begin this weeks newsletter with details of our newly

appointed SENCO (coordinator for Special Needs). After an extensive

search and a very rigorous interview procedure, we have appointed Ms

Deborah Jones to this key role. Deborah is currently SENCO at a large

school in South Wales and in fact currently works in the same town that

brought us Mr. Harvey and Mr. Page! Her role will cover the entire campus

including IISEYC and she brings with her over twenty years experience as

a SENCO. Deborah is very excited about her move to Ipoh and is already

booking her ticket to fly here. We look forward to welcoming her to our school at the begin-

ning of next term.

In our last letter I wrote about the next meeting of the committee of the Parents Association.

I am pleased to announce that this will take place on Wednesday 12th November. Please do

feel free to forward any items for our agenda either through a committee member or by email

to [email protected] . The minutes of the meeting will be available to parents after-

wards and I will also write a summary of our discussions in the newsletter following the meet-

ing.

This week saw the termly meeting of the School Board of Tenby Schools, Ipoh. The meeting

was chaired by Mr Alister Bartholomew, CEO of Tenby Educare, and representatives of our

corporate team as well as our two parent representatives were in attendance. A lot of very

useful ground was covered, not least in terms of our short and medium term development.

Year 5 have had a busy week with a trip to Kuala Lumpur to visit the Planetarium as well as

preparing for their class assembly which takes place today. Meanwhile our Early Years

students have been very excited in getting ready for their special assembly in line with the

theme of different culture which they have been covering in their class studies.

The Meru Campus came together on Tuesday 21st October for our celebration of Deepavali.

There were a number of exciting performances from all sections of the school and I thank

Ms. Mangales and her team for all of the hard work that went into preparing for the day.

IISEYC also held a very exciting Deepavali assembly with an excellent drama performed by

their teachers. Preparations are now underway for our Christmas assemblies.

With best wishes for a pleasant weekend.

Howard Bullock.

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Message from the Head of International Secondary

I hope that all members of our community enjoyed their 3 days off school

last week, taking the time to rest and have some down time. For all those

people who participated in Deepavali celebrations, I similarly hope that it

was a blessed time.

At TIS Secondary, we ae proud of the innovations we are implementing to

positively promote a greater degree of school home communication. The

daily online access by Parents to being able to review their childrens progress and attain-

ment is now possible through Class Dojo. This was a scheme piloted and driven by Miss

Nikki Sullivan, and is something due to its success, we are wheeling out right across Years

7 11. Letters have gone home in this regard, and there is additional guidance on access

via this newsletter. Many thanks to Miss Nikki for this new facility, and I hope that the

response from parents is suitably positive.

In response to last years perceived criticisms of our limits on the frequency of off-site trips,

I am proud to report that on top of our Tioman Island KS3 Humanities Trip, we also have

on offer a London Arts Trip, and a Camps International Trip to Laos. Trips can only run

with positive levels of participation, and by the willingness of teachers to give up their time

to organise and run such opportunities.

With just a little over 5 weeks of school remaining until the end of Term 1 Christmas vaca-

tion, I am keen to see students striving to achieve their respective academic goals right

across the curriculum. It will be only a short while after we return when reports will be sent

out and Parent-teacher conferences will be undertaken.

Neil Page

Message from the Head of International Primary

International Primary IPC Update

We would like to inform you that the school has created our own IPC website.

You can access it by going to http://ipcattis.wix.com/ipcattis, or by going to the

Tenby Schools, Ipoh website and clicking on the tab IPC. The website will

give you information on the philosophy, structure and outcomes of the IPC. It

also gives you information on the IPC units your child/ward is learning from,

and what they will be studying in each unit. Circulars and documents on the

IPC will be included in the download section of our school IPC website.

Following the IPC presentation that was held on the 1st October, feedback from parents/

guardians was that they would like to get more involved in their child/wards learning. To help

you do this, we have created IPC Home Learning folders.

A home learning circular was sent to all parents/guardians of year 1 to 6 students on the 13th

October. The circular explained how the KWHL grids work, how parents/guardians would

have questions to guide learning conversations with their child/ward, and how often you

should have these learning conversations. If the circular has been misplaced, you can find it

in the downloads section on our schools IPC website (http://ipcattis.wix.com/ipcattis#!

downloads/c1jjo) .

These folders are an important way of supporting the learning of your child/ward, so I would

greatly appreciate it if you can get involved. The folders will be looked at by class teachers,

during Knowledge Harvests and Exit Points, to check the learning of your child/ward, and to

adjust planning to ensure IPC lessons are covering the needs of each learner.

You can also insert into the folders any research tasks that you have done at home with your

child/ward to help them further their knowledge, skills and understanding of the topic.

If you have any further questions about the IPC Home Learning folders, please send an e-

mail to Mr Andrew Hamilton at [email protected]

Lee Harvey

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Message from the Head of Sekolah Tenby

Next week, Sekolah Tenby students, both primary and secondary, will

be sitting the End of Year Examination. On Monday, 3 November, the

SPM starts for SM 5 students. The teachers and I would like to wish

our students all the best in this coming exam and pray that they enter

the exam hall with clarity of mind and the ability to recall all that they

have learned over the years and to apply the skills that they have

been taught to give the best answers they can for every subject they

are sitting.

SR6 and SM 3 teachers are organizing some happening activities for these stu-

dents who have recently completed their UPSR and PT3 respectively. There will be

group activities and I am sure great things will happen when students team up and

work together towards a common goal. These activities are great opportunities for

our students to pick up leadership and organisation skills as they get involved in the

planning and executing their plans. The highlight for SR 6 will be the Graduation

Night on 21 November. This is the first time we have organized this event and we

are working very hard to make it a night to remember for our 12 year-olds before they

move up to secondary school next year. Entitled Shine like a Star, our SR 6 are

all ready to dazzle us with their creativity and talent!

Have a blessed weekend, everyone!

Madam Soot MC

Message from the Head of IIS Early Years Centre

We may have had only 2 days of schooling last week but the staff and

children had a great time ending the days with Deepavali Celebration and

classroom activities.

Deepavali Celebration 20th

October 2014

The staf