Volume No: 2003-04/08

Date: 7 November 2003

Dear Parents

FOBISSEA Conference

It was good to return to KK on Saturday night from the FOBISSEA Conference in Thailand. It was an excellent conference, giving me the opportunity to meet other heads of FOBISSEA schools and establish a broad range of contacts that will, I hope, prove mutually beneficial. I was also lucky enough to participate in a day workshop led by Professor West-Burnham, an international consultant who works out of the National Leadership College in England. His central argument was that recent research into brain and brain function has challenged traditional models of teaching and learning. I am hoping to be able to feed some of this back to the KIS staff on January 7 when we will spend a day together considering the implications of these new models for our own teaching and learning.

House Football

The worst part of being away for some of last week was missing the House Football competition. Jon Leak sent me this report:

The opening house sporting fixture of the year proved to be a keenly contested affair, with passions and the temperature running high. Throughout the competition, this correspondent was impressed by the spirit and high standards of play. After four hours of fierce tournament play, the mighty blues of Sulug house emerged victorious. Overall it was a very encouraging and enjoyable day, the first I am sure of many more house sporting events. Many thanks to the staff and house captains who helped make the competition such a success.

Football on Fridays

For next week, football will be at 3.00 pm at Likas stadium. Any big brothers, or fathers, who would like a run out are more than welcome. It will be on a full sized football pitch which should prove a little more testing all round!

PTA Dinner

Please buy your tickets for the dinner and as many raffle tickets as you can. The prizes are very exciting and this is an excellent way of helping the school. All the money raised goes towards creating better facilities and a better environment for your children, so it is money very well spent.

There will also be a White Elephant stall at the Dinner. This is not an opportunity to buy a rare species but a chance to recycle all those items that you have stored over the years and never found a use for. If every family were to bring in two items and leave them in the baskets provided outside the school office, we would have the basis for a very good bric a brac stall – and you would have more space in your cupboards at home!

Primary Presentation

The Primary presentation will take place at 6.30 on Thursday, 11 December in the theatre at Sutera Harbour Resort. The ticket price will include food and we hope to make this an enjoyable social occasion as well as a celebration of the primary department’s work on Festivals.

Home Science Club

We would like to thank Mrs Ujihara for preparing and showing us how to make sushi last Monday. It was fun and everybody enjoyed themselves tremendously. I can personally vouch for the fact that it also tasted very good!