TENBY SCHOOLS IPOHNewsletter #172 - March 2018

Highlights in this Newsletter:

IGNITE Online School Magazine

Visit by ISP Group Property Director

Tenby Got Talent (TGT)

Reminder: Deadline for Omission from Instagram - 09.04.18

Tenby Scholarship

Dates for Your Diary

Feedback for Amendments to the Parents’ & Students’ Handbook

PA Date Night - 29 Days to Go

From the Campus Principal Jane Kuok

Dear Parents & Tenby Community,

We are very pleased to share with the community the first edition of our online School Magazine, entitled ‘IGNITE’ for your reading pleasure. This has been put together by student journalists, led by Ms. Neela Choudhury (Head of English and IGNITE Editor). Please follow the following link to access the magazine: https://tenbyignite.wordpress.com/.

Visit by ISP Group Property Director – Damian QuinnThe Group Property Director of International Schools Partnership (ISP) paid a visit to our school this week and was pleased to see that our campus is well kept and maintained. Thank you to our maintenance team led by Mr. Loo, Facilities Manager for looking after our Campus so well.

Tenby Got Talent (TGT) After two weeks of trials, TGT has finally reached the Finals! It was held today in the Auditorium with the full support of the Secondary students. Thank you to the judges Dr. Rowlands, Ms. Chiang Hui Hui and Mr. Olsen for their time and support of this talent show.

We are pleased to announce the winners of TGT 2018:

1st Place – Ashley Shannen (Yr 9N)2nd Place – Zheng Wei & Aloysious (Yr 8E)2nd Place – Tasha Almira Najwa (Yr 8N) 3rd Place – Matthew (Yr 7N)

The finalists who performed today were: • Matthew (Piano)• You Ning & Yen Zi (Vocals)• Ashley (Dance)• Shahran (Guitar)• Zul Irwan & Muhammad Ishaq (Vocals)• Tasha Almira (Dance)• Nayli Afriena (Vocal)• Zheng Wei & Aloysious (Magic)• Muhammad Alif Daniel & Gheng Lok & Victoria (Band)Huge congratulations to the winners and well done to all the students and prefects involved in giving us Tenby Got Talent 2018!

Reminder: Deadline for Omission from Instagram – 09.04.18Last week we reported that the School will soon have an Instagram account to share fun and creative photos of what is happening in the school. The Instagram account will be managed by the five Head Students and Ms. Neela Choudhury.

As the students plan to share photographs of each other via this account that is public, we would like any parents who object to having their child’s photographs or videos being shared to inform the School in writing via ipoh@tenby.edu.my by Monday 9th April, 2018 stating your child’s name and class.

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Tenby Scholarship Tenby Schools Ipoh is pleased to announce the availability of Tenby Scholarships to provide support to deserving students at Tenby Schools.

Aims a) To encourage academically able and talented students to seek admission to Tenby schools. b) To give recognition and support to high performing and talented students. c) To raise the profile of Tenby Schools within the communities they serve.

Principles a) Scholarships are available to both Malaysian and expatriate students currently studying or wishing to study at Tenby Schools. b) Scholarships are awarded on the basis of either overall academic performance or exceptional talent within arts or sport. For exceptional talent, the students must also have achieved above average academic results. c) Social/ economic background will also be taken into consideration as secondary criteria. d) Scholarships are normally awarded for the full period of a specific academic programme (e.g. for the 2 years of an A level, IGCSE or SPM programme.)

The scholarship application should be made at least three months before the date at which the award becomes effective i.e. by 1st June for awards effective 1st September and by 1st October for awards effective 1st January.

Details of how to apply may be obtained from Ms. Lee Siew Peng, PA to Campus Principal. You may telephone 05 525 2628 or e-mail ipoh@tenby.edu.my.

Dates for Your Diary16.04.18 CCAs Start17.04.18 Coffee Morning16.04.18 Primary Checkpoint Week Begins20.04.18 Secondary Sports Day23.04.18 Secondary Checkpoint Week Begins23.04.18 Primary Book Week starts and Book Character Dress Up Day24.04.18 Parents Information Morning @ Meru Campus – Topic: E-Safety27.04.18 Primary Sports Day28.04.18 PA Date Night 30.04.18 Sekolah Tenby Awards Ceremony

Feedback for Amendments to the Parents’ & Students’ HandbookIf you have any suggestions for improving the content in our Parents’ & Students’ Handbook, please could you send your ideas, additions, amendments via ipoh@tenby.edu.my by Monday 30th April, 2018.

Next week will be the school term break. We would like to wish our Christian community a blessed Easter and to everyone else, Happy Holidays! School will resume as normal on Monday 9th April.

BUILD A CITY!!!

Students from Form 1T had a wonderful time creating their dream city to

accommodate 500 people. Students were allocated RM50,000.00 and worked in

groups of 4 to build the most convenient and safest city for its residents. They had to

then convince the class that theirs was the best city to live in. Students learnt so much

through their research and had so much fun putting their points forward through

debating over their friends’ cities.

This activity was mainly to educate students to think and deliver their opinion or

ideas based on logical thinking which comprised four main skills; Investigating,

Reasoning, Analysing and Reviewing. It also aimed to foster entrepreneurship and

boost students’ confidence. Through this, students had to apply leadership styles and

approaches of problem solving which are elements of International Mindedness.

Students busy planning their city

according to the budget given.

Students’ presentation of their city

to the class.

Students laying out their city plan

on the Mahjong paper. Students respond to the questions

raised by their friends.

Form 1 students experimented and created a variety of layered food and drinks to demonstrate their understanding of

Density in Science. Each student pair research the density of different ingredients in order to create a layered look for their

food or drink item that they wanted to prepare. They worked very hard on their design the poster, prepared ingredients and

carried out food testing prior to the assembly. On the actual day, they presented and explained the idea of making layered

food or beverages to the other students and teachers with the aid of posters and a demonstration set. At the same time, food

samples were prepared for those who were interested to try them out. Some groups showed good entrepreneurship and

communication skills in promoting the products to their target audiences. Feedback from teachers and students were shared

and discussed with all Form 1 students after the assembly. They were given opportunity to reflect on the learning

experience and set the next target to improve their quality of work in the next PBL assembly. Added to that, Form 2 and 3

students who were present commented that they enjoyed the learning atmosphere in the assembly as they found it very

interesting finding out about how density can be applied in making layered foods and beverages. In a nutshell, Form 1’s

PBL assembly was a great success where students learnt to create layered food and drinks through using innovative ideas

and communicating scientific concepts in a creative way.

Layered Food & Drinks

Project Based Learning (PBL) on Density – Form 1,

Sekolah Tenby

Bryan poured orange juice slowly on

top of strawberry juice.

The hot sales of the day - layered ice

cream

Scenario in Form 1 PBL assembly

Shao Hao: “I’m worried that nobody

comes to buy float sprite from us.”

Haziq: “Chill, bro!”

Students presented layered

juice made from butterfly

pea flowers and honey to

Mr. Wong.

One of the hot sale items,

rainbow cake!

Let’s try this layered jelly!

Teacher assessing students’

work.

The hot sales of the day - layered ice

cream A student was interviewed by school reporters.

Anyone want to buy my

drinks?

Let’s discount to attract more

customers.

Sweet dessert anybody?

The Proposal Written by:

Reshma, Izzati, Shahmin, and Celiane (Form 5)

Dear MS Georgia Smith,

I know you must be surprised to receive a letter from someone you’ve never met before, so

allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Georgina Crawley and Edward Crawley was my father. I’m writing to you to

regretfully inform you of his passing. He was sadly diagnosed with bone cancer last year

and unfortunately, he lost the battle.

Before he passed away, he asked me to help him by settling a few of his private affairs

that he did not trust my mother to do. He told me to write to you first and to do it

carefully. He did not explain anything in detail but I came to understand that you two

had been very in love and fate drove you apart. Enclosed is a letter he wrote to you years

ago but never sent.

Regards,

Georgina Crawley.

The End

A massive thank you to all children who

sent in their Book Week Poster entries.

We are pleased to announce the following

winners:

Upper Primary Category

Sekolah Tenby

Teng Lit Ean (Std 6T)

Upper Primary Category

International Primary

Ong Zi Xin (Class 5E)

Lower Primary Category

International Primary

Gia Benedict (Class 1T)

Certificates and prizes will be given out

during our Assembly.

In conjunction with the upcoming Primary Book Week (23rd to 27th April), there will be a Give a Book, Take

a Book event open for all children from Nursery to Year 6 who wish to participate.

Why a Book Swap?

We would like to encourage our children to read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books. With a book

swap, children will have the opportunity to pick out a book/genre that they would usually not have chosen to

buy.

How does it work?

To participate, your child will first need to have a new book (fiction or non-fiction) for swapping.

Wrap the book up in newspaper.

Here is an example of how you can label the book with the following information:

For Meru Campus: Please ask your child to drop off

their book at the Primary Office.

For TEYCI: Please ask your child to drop off

their book at the Reception Counter.

The children can begin to send in their books

from Monday 9th April onwards.

In return, they will receive a Book Swap Token.

The Book Swap Token can be used to redeem a

book at a scheduled time during Book Week.

Please note that the deadline for sending in books for Book Swap is Tuesday 24th April.

Suitable for: Children aged 5 to 7

On the 15th of March 2018, Year 2E and 2T spent an educational day

at the Taiping Museum. We went to the museum in conjunction with

our IPC topic ‘Time Detectives’

The Taiping Museum is the oldest

museum in Peninsular Malaysia. It

is located in the town of Taiping.

The Museum has a vast and rich

collection of ethnological,

historical, and archaeological

artefacts. Some of them are

classified as rare collections over

a hundred years old such as

animal species like the

"benturong" and "pulasan"

skeletons. There were scores of

animal skeletons in smoked clay

which are either extinct or

extremely hard to find. Most of

these collections and artefacts are

displayed in the museum’s four

main galleries housed in an

almost 120-year old building. It

was built in 1883 and maintains an

ancient British architectural

concept.

We started our journey from the school at

8.30 a.m. and reached the museum at 9.30

a.m.

The children were all set for their

educational trip to the Taiping, Museum.

The exhibition of the animal

skeleton.

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The children were engaged in writing

information about the artefacts they see.

The kids found their visit to the museum

exciting.

The children spent about two hours touring the museum before visiting the

souvenir shop where they bought things as memorabilia.

The Cultural Gallery displayed collections and artefacts

from various types of Malaysian handiwork, handicraft and textiles.

The Indigenous People Gallery in this museum was a window displaying the great

handiwork skills of the indigenous tribes of Malaysia. Of note is their astonishing

display of creating clothes from wood pulp, their traditional musical instruments as

well as their great sculptures and crafting arts such as mannequins and masks.

When the children returned from the field trip, they wrote recounts

of the visit and drew pictures about what they saw, experienced, and

learned. Below are some of their drawings and recounts about the

trip.