Volume No: 2003-04/18

  

Date: 13 February 2004
Dear Parents

Sports Reports

This week saw the introduction of a lunchtime soccer league for secondary pupils. The competition follows the Champions’ League format with the teams playing in two leagues and then moving onto the knock-out stage.  After the first round of matches, the Furbies lead League A with nine points. Well done.

The school basketball team will play its first ever competitive game after school today. The opposition is the Calvary Charismatic Church team from Tanjung Aru. We wish our team, that includes Claire Curtis, Kevin Hughes, Samuel Ting and Johnson Hew, the best of luck.

The House Volleyball Tournament takes place this morning. There are competitions for the lower and upper secondary schools playing on a round robin basis. The results of the games will be published next week so watch this space.

 Our thanks go to Mr Leak who has had a very busy week organizing all of these sporting events.

Farewell

Today is the last day at the school for our laboratory assistant, Miss Jocelyn Maluda. In the short time she has been with us she has been a great help preparing science lessons. We wish Jocelyn all the best in her new job as an Education Officer at the Likas Bird Sanctuary. Mr Adrian Simon, an Ecology graduate from UMS, will be the new laboratory assistant from Monday.

Healthy Eating Week

Next week is “Healthy Eating Week”. There will be a number of activities related to this very important subject. Students will be keeping food diaries, carrying out tests on food in science, racing in a lunchbox derby, looking at nutritious foods from different countries and cultures and making healthy drinks. Please help the cause by supplying especially healthy fare for your children at school next week.

 

Fashion Show

On Thursday, Mr Shale’s ESL students held a fashion show. Here is a report from Yasuaki Ujihara of Year 9.

On Thursday morning the ESL department had a very nice fashion show. 13 people took part from Year 7/8 and 9: an Indonesian, a Taiwanese, 2 Japanese, 5 Koreans, 1 Bruneian and 3 locals.  I took part.

The speaker was Mr Shale. He was a very nice speaker. The audience was about 10 people. The tables were lined-up like a real catwalk.

There was a prize of a bunch of flowers. The winners were Show and Miri. Seung Ho from Year 5/6 won a bar of chocolate. We all got house points too!!

Breakages

There have been a number of incidents that have involved breakages to school property during break times and after school.  These have been relatively minor such as light fittings and windows but the costs of these repairs have to be met.  Therefore a ‘break it, pay for it’ policy is now in place.

ICT In-service Training

Next week we have a well-respected ICT expert in school.  Chris Smith is an educational ICT consultant to a large number of schools and he will be with us on Monday and Tuesday providing support and advice.

  

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