- Dear Parents
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- Holidays
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- Next week the school will be closed
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday because the public holidays for
Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday and Wesak Day fall in the same week. As
the school will only be open for two days next week, there will be no
Newsletter.
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- PTA News
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- The PTA coffee morning, held at the
home of Mrs Ling-Ling Park on Thursday, was a great success. Thanks go
to Flora Wong for the egg tarts and to Shirley Wong, Margaret Lo,
Phoon Sook Peng, Helen Wong, Anthea Lamb, Anna Kollert, Wati Knussi,
Margreta Klauser, Nora Heywood, Alice Chung, Lotte Thomsen and
Dorothea Sinsua for their contributions.
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- The PTA is organising a Book Fair on
Thursday and Friday, May 22 and 23.
Books from Edukids Children’s Book Store will be on sale in
the video room for these two days. Some of the proceeds from the sale
of books will be donated to the school library.
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- The first issue of the KIS PTA News is
being distributed with the Newsletter. Please take the time to
complete the “Volunteer Form” and then simply place it in the
suggestion box outside the school office. Ideally we would like all of
our parents to volunteer their services and to become more involved in
the school community.
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 HUTAN
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- We would like to thank Mrs Isabelle
Anacrenaz of HUTAN who came to school this morning and gave an
informative and enjoyable talk about orang utans in assembly.
HUTAN is an organization that works with local communities for the
conservation of orang utans and their habitat. Some of the money raised by our students in the “Nature”
art competition will be donated to this worthwhile organization.
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- Reception/ Year 1 Class
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- Next week will be Ms Johnstone’s
last at the school. We thank Ms Johnstone for all of her efforts on
behalf of the children and the school. Mrs Louise Hayman, a highly
experienced teacher from New Zealand, will replace her. Some of you
might remember Mrs Hayman who has
visited the school several times before, once as a relief teacher and
once to lead a course on “Reading Recovery” for the teachers.
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- Toy guns
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- We would like to remind parents that
children should not bring toy guns to school. Some of these toys can fire
projectiles and their use could easily lead to a serious accident.
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- Trip to Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru
Resort
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- On Tuesday
Reception and Year 1 class visited Shangri-La’s Tunjung Aru Resort as
part of their Geography unit on ‘Work within Kota Kinabalu’.
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- The children
had a behind-the-scenes tour of the hotel and were not just observing but
put to work! They folded towels in the Laundry Department and wore
chefs’ hats and aprons in the kitchens where they cut pastry and iced
cakes.
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- Thank you to
Mrs Ogami, Mrs Heywood, Mrs Chen and Mrs Makii for providing transport to
the hotel. We would like to
thank Mr Mark Heywood, General Manager of STAR, for coordinating the trip
and providing a complimentary lunch and thank you also to Julia and Kuhen
for their excellent tour of the hotel.
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- The children
(and adults!) had a wonderful time.
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- Ms
Johnstone?
- Miss Jessica Donald
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- Tuesday, May 20, will be Miss Jessica’s
last day at the school. Miss Jessica, who is the classroom assistant in
Reception/Year 1, is leaving us to further her studies in Business. We
wish her the best of luck in all of her future endeavours.
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- Swimming and SARS
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- Recently a number of children have not
been attending swimming because of the SARS situation. As cough droplets
transmit the virus that causes SARS, the chances of becoming infected at
the swimming pool are the same as (or less than) in any other situation.
While we share parents’ concerns about this disease, swimming is part of
our curriculum and students are expected to attend swimming lessons. It is
more important for children to maintain a high standard of personal
hygiene such as regularly washing hands.
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