Panaga School Biweekly, Issue 138

Panaga School Biweekly

Panaga School Biweekly

Panaga School

IFM/4, BSPCompany Sdn Bhd, Seria, KB, 3534, Negara Brunei Darussalam

Phone: Teraja Office +673 3372139

Rampayoh Office +673 3372694

Principal: Cindy Bin Tahal Cindy-Rose.BinTahal@ bsp-shell.bn

Mendaram Deputy Principal Donna Bonham donnabonham@ panagaschool.net

Rampayoh Deputy Principal Claire Richmond clairerichmond@ panagaschool.net

Teraja Deputy Principal: Mandy Russell amandarussell@ panagaschool.net

Melilas Deputy Principal: Robert Unsworth robertunsworth@ panagaschool.net

Business Service Lead: CylaAhmad cylaahmad@ panagaschool.net

Panaga School Biweekly

Editors: Hannah Zakaria & Donovan Dolamit publications@ panagaschool.net

DearPanagaSchoolCommunity,

This Panaga School Biweekly (PSB) is the final edition for the 2022/2023 academic year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of staff and the community who have used this central communication forum to celebrate learning, achievements and advertise many wonderful social events. We would like to thank Miss Hannah from our administration team for her technology expertise that has been used to bring together all of our PSB publications.

Today's PSB is a testament to the dedicated teachers and learners of Panaga School. As you take a moment to 'flick' through each page, you will be informed of the varied and quality learning experiences that have continued, right up until the end of the school year. We can assure you that all important socialising and learning will continue right up until the very last day of school, on Wednesday12thJuly.

We would like to extend congratulations and appreciation to all of our school community members for another successful year of together improving learning. As soon as you walk into Panaga School, the sense of community and focus on learning is felt. This year, academic data, opinion surveys and learning reviews have enforced that we are a quality and inclusive learning environment. This outcome belongs to every member of our community and is a resulttobeproudof.

Wewisheverybodyasafeandjoyousendofyearschoolbreak.For those on final departure, we thank you for your contributions to Panaga School. For those returning in the new academic year, we lookforwardtoyourreturnandourcontinuationofnewlearningwith the introduction of our new school leaders, Mr Brian (principal) and MissAimee(P4-P7deputyprincipal).

2023/2024CALENDAR

The new school year begins on Wednesday 30th

August 2023

SchoolAcademic Calendar 2023-2024

Once Upon a Time!

“The Gingerbread Man”

We made some yummy gingerbread cookies after learning about the story!

Run! Run! As Fast as you can! You can’t catch me! I’m the gingerbread man!

Nursery Sports Day

Not even the hot sun can deny how much we all had a blast! We deserve a pat on the back as we were able to finish up all the challenges, with a lot of resilience.

Who makes a musical about rubbish?! Literally!!! Well…we do! We have worked hard this term to bring the trash right to your doorstep. We hope that this teaches everyone to recycle, dispose of our trash properly and keep Panaga Village clean and tidy. It was not easy… in between school work, swimming and dealing with Ms. Trunchbull, it’s safe to say we are proud of ourselves.

P3 ACTORS

Never has team-work, resilience, discipline and reflection been put to the test. We hope you enjoyed it too!

Triple Threat! That is what we are. We had to sing, dance and act at the same time. And did we get paid? Nooooo…… that is if we don’t count the great times we spent learning to cooperate, communicate, listen to cues, and move as one… not to mention the lyrics of 8 songs!!!

P2 SINGERS

More Photos here:

‘Once Upon a Time’ Exit Point We enjoyed getting together to share our learning!

P2: The Earth: Our Home

One of our learning goals in IPC was to be able to contribute towards making a positive change. In May, P2 hosted a bake sale to raise money to adopt orangutans that are based in the Sepilok Orangutan rehabilitation centre in Borneo.

Belait Football Tournament

On Sunday 2nd July the Belait football tournament U9 concluded. It was organized by the FootballAssociation of Brunei Darussalam (FABD). Representatives of the FABD, like the technical director involved in the Brunei National team, joined the tournament as well. This event is not just another “fun-event” by the local clubs, it is set-up as a nation-wide event to scout local talent. The Belait tournament was held over 2 days and the winning teams qualified for the finals in Bandar against the winners of the otherdistricts.

Two Panaga teams were involved that included many of our students from Panaga School.The boys did really well: FirstandFourthplace!Thismeansbothteamsqualifiedfor the championship in Bandar, which will be played later this year. Participants will attend a prize ceremony on Friday 8th July. The boys made us very proud, a superb performancebya

Thank you to Maree Tupper and Pieter Pesie for keeping us updated with these exciting sporting developments.

P5 Bintudoh

P5 visited Bintudoh as part of their Vanishing Rainforest IPC Unit. Whilst they were there they explored the jungle on a jungle walk, observed the nature by drawing and had a go on the flying fox.They all had a great time!

P5 Bintudoh

The following link and QR code will take you to different videos from our trip: Videos

P5 Bintudoh

P6BeachCleaning

International Learning

3.05 TBAT explain how the lives of people in one country or group are affected by the activities of other countries or groups.

We have been learning about the impact of climate change and how our choices can affect the environment.We have been thinking about how we can all help each other to improve our world.

We used cooperation in collecting trash on the beach with a recycled cart.

I collected the rubbish with the recycled netMaeve

Don't throw trash in the beach because it effect the marine lifeAshwanth

I felt very happy saving the world. I felt a funny feeling in my tummyHarris

This device was very helpful to pick up trash.

- Noah

Geography Learning about clouds. We were very privileged to have a guest meteorologist visit us and explain to us all about the clouds that we saw in the sky. This was also a wonderful opportunity for us to ask all our weather related questions.

To be successful in this learning we needed to:

● Identify geographical patterns and use our knowledge and understanding to explain them.

● Use geographical vocabulary to describe weather.

● Know the names of the different types of clouds.

● Know the different types of weather associated with the different clouds.

● beginning to develop an understanding of how the different types of clouds types of clouds that I see in the sky can help me predict the weather.

MathsDay- Teraja&Melilas

On Monday 3rd July, our teachers acrossTeraja and Melilas ran a fantastic day of activities celebrating all things maths.Abig thanks to ourTeraja and Melilas maths team - Mr. SimonYoung., Miss Danni, Mr. Daniel, MissTania and Miss Gina, for presenting a wonderful opening assembly and to all the teachers who support throughout the day.Aspecial thanks also goes out to our Melilas students as young leaders, for running the Fun Maths Roadshow for all our Teraja students.

Great engaging maths.

MathsDay -Teraja&Melilas

COUNTDOWN CHAMPIONS:

As part of Maths Day, we have hosted a lunchtime ‘Countdown’ competition. We are pleased to announce that ourjoint championswere: P5 and P7S. Welldoneonyourmentalmathsskillsfolks!

P6MathsDay

P6MathsDay

Over the last month the Language Leaders have helped Teraja students from all year groups with their French spelling. Last week (ending 23rd June), the Language Leaders choose the 6 best students of each year group that would participate in the Spelling Bee v. JIS.

On the 26th June the actual spelling bee took place in the drama hall. This was the first time that the P4 participated in the French spelling bee.

The competition consisted of 3 rounds. In round 1, the judge said a word in English, then French and the students had to write down the word. The round was judges by the M1 Language Leaders.

In round 2, the participants had to spell the word verbally. The word this time was only said in French. Each participant had two spell two words. After this round, the judges chose the best of each year group for the final round. It was a very difficult decision as we had many students who scored 100% in the first two rounds.

In the final round, the judge would say the word in English. The finalists had to say the word in French before spelling the word.

I would like to say thank you to Louise (P5C) for helping out, as well as Michelle Brown who helped with the judging.

The finalists were amazing and it was very close. The runner-ups only made one mistake. In Year 6, 5, 3, Panaga won, in Year 4 both schools won. Well done to all participants who joined the competition. In my eye, you are all winners. Also well done to all the children in Panaga who did not make it to the final 6.

A massive shout out to all the Language Leaders who practiced with the students. Without your help, we would not have WON.

The runner-ups

The winners

On Thursday 22nd June, Smurfs left their home country Belgium and crossed the border into France.

They had already invaded Paris and were slowly conquering the rest of France.

Melilas students were joined by JIS students from Year 8, Their task was to escape France in an allotted time before getting SMURFED.

In order to escape France, they had to find the 6 number code and the town they could escape from. In groups of 4 or 5, they had to travel to 6 cities in France. In each city they had to crack a code. Every time they solved a puzzle, they were given a key and their next destination. The key provided the students with a letter and a number. Six keys had to be collected in total.

This ‘Escape game’ was the perfect way to revise verb conjugations, adjectival rules and vocabulary. The puzzles were quite challenging and every group did play a joker card that allowed them to skip a city.

The progress of the groups was monitored by Marcela and Murjanat. They were in charge of checking the answers and collecting the keys.

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Melilas Temburong Adventure

Visiting a local village, sago factory and Sumbiling Eco Village Camp

River floating and wading, blow darts, cooking, science designs and a performance

Night and Day Jungle Walks - discovering plants and wildlife

As well as time to relax around camp

Watch videos

Compilation:

A MAGICAL VISIT TO MERANGKING SCHOOL

On Saturday 24th June, 15 of the M2 Language Leaders visited Sekolah Merangking. We were invited by the school and the students were given their hardest challenge of the year - to teach English as a foreign language. Explaining grammatical rules of English, the language they speak everyday, is challenging. As the students pointed out, we can speak the language and know how to put it together. It is difficult to explain why we use different tenses when we speak in English. Merangking School would like to implement the Language Leaders Programme into their school. Our students were showing the students of Year 5 and 6 and their teachers what they do in the programme. The principal and 3 teachers from Sayyidina Ali Secondary School in KB also came for the day to observe our students in action. They too are considering implementing the programme into their school. Needless to say, our students were under the spotlight.

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The day started off with an ice-breaker ‘Find some who…? - created by Aadarshini. The Bruneian students had to ask our students questions in order to complete the worksheet. For example - Do you have a pet and two younger brothers?

M1Sciencehas beenallabout ‘AcidsandAlkalis’.

Testing substancesusing Litmuspaper, UniversalIndicator andred-cabbage indicator.

M1 History Interview

The M1 children have been learning about the Civil Rights Movement in America in history lessons this term. Last week, a member of the Panaga community who lived through those times came to speak to the M1 children about his experiences and the fight for equality. Ed Cummings, otherwise known as Chloe and Caden’s