New learning forP7

from Panaga School Biweekly, Issue 134

Once Upon a Time

Teraja and Melilas Chess Competition

During last half-term, 112 children from Teraja and Melilas participated in a chess competition at lunchtimes.After lots of exciting and mentally demanding games, each year group had their own chess champion, all of whom received a trophy for their efforts. The six year-group champions then played against each other to determine the school champion.

The school chess final was held in the Teraja Hall on Wednesday, 22nd March and involved Branton (P5) and Edward (M1). Over 100 children came to the hall to watch the final and they were able to watch the game as the moves were projected onto a screen. At the end of a hard-fought and competitive match, Edward won the game and is this year’s school champion.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the children who took part in the competition and the adults who helped out as well. I was very impressed by the high standard of play and the excellent level of sportsmanship throughout the competition. If you would like your child to learn how to play chess, we have a regular chess club at school on Thursday afternoons. If you would like to volunteer to help out at the school’s chess club or if you have any suggestions regarding how to further develop chess at our school, please email me and we could discuss your ideas

(matthewfagg@panagaschool.net

Here is a list of this year’s champions:

P4Year Group Champion – Ryan

P5Year Group Champion – Branton

P6Year Group Champion – Musa

P7Year Group Champion – Noel

M1Year Group Champion – Edward

M2Year Group Champion – Damian School Champion – Edward

The new Eco-Schools ASA group carried out a survey of lights left on and have created posters to encourage people to turn lights off when not in use. They will do another survey later this term to measure the impact of their work.

Energy survey statistics

58% of lights surveyed were left on during ASAs on 20th April 2023.

63% of Teraja and Melilas rooms had lights left on with nobody in the room.

90% of Teraja and Melilas rooms had more lights turned on than people present.

62 people were present in the 30 classrooms surveyed in April, yet a total of 187 lights were switched on.

3 lights were left on for each person present in the Teraja and Melilas classrooms.

Issue

134

Lila, Mary, Parker and Ben teaching

P5 French

Felix and Gabriel teaching

P4 Mandarin

CPD session with the Language Leaders - 17th March

On the 17th March, Bruneian teachers signed up for the session ‘How to implement the Language Leaders Programme into your school’. We asked some Language Leaders from M1 and M2 to help with delivering the session. Each student took part in the session, from showing a lesson they had taught to English games teachers could implement into their English lessons.At the end, there was a Q&Asession with the students.The students were very professional and polite.They truly did Panaga School proud.They were great in explaining about the programme and how the programme has helped them as a student.