Panaga School Biwekly, Issue 139

Panaga School Biweekly

Panaga School Biweekly

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

Phone: Teraja Office +673 3372139/2232

Rampayoh Office +673 3372694/3971

Principal: Brian Platts Brian.Platts@bsp-shell.bn

Mendaram/Rampayoh Deputy Principal Donna Bonham donnabonham@panagaschool.net

Teraja Deputy Principal: Aimee Boase aimeeboase@panagaschool.net

Melilas Deputy Principal: Mandy Russell amandarussell@panagaschool.net

Business Service Lead: CylaAhmad cylaahmad@panagaschool.net

Panaga School Biweekly

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

Dear Parents,

What a fabulous start to the 2023-24 academic year. The children have really 'hit the ground running', flexing their learning muscles and exhibiting all of the personal qualities we value.

Through this bi-weekly you will see a snapshot of the extensive and inclusive learning activities and challenges our wonderful teachers have designed for your children. We have children in Medaram already developing their resilience and those in P1 developing their enquiry skills. P3 provided a wonderfully extravagant entry point for their International Food Fair, while P5 showed us how creative and resilient they are. P6 have been working on their entry point of 'CE 900', learning all about chronology and their personal history. I can't wait to see what P7 will produce now that they have embarked on their 'Bake it' Science unit whilst also beginning their entry point with 'Go with the Flow'! There are some marvellous portrait galleries being produced in Drama, our Digital Education students are coding and M1 are building cells! Melilas celebrated Literacy Day with a visit to the Panaga Club Library, kindly hosted by Ms. Nova. Melilas have also been focusing in PSHE on celebrating how unique we all are, whilst acknowledging our responsibilities to our community. I am exhausted just writing about all of these marvellous activities - please do read ahead and find out more.

I did write to parents on Monday regarding a medical incident involving a teacher during break time. Ms. Sarah, our Music teacher, has been admitted to hospital and remains there, receiving excellent medical care. The last 24 hours have brought some positive signs and all of our thoughts and best wishes are with Sarah and her family. Sarah's husband, Gianfranco would like to thank the community for their continued support and best wishes during this difficult time.

Thank you to all of the parents that attended our 'Meet the Teacher' information sessions; if you have any feedback on these sessions please do contact me on: brianplatts@panagaschool.net

Thank you to all of those parents that volunteered to be Parent Reps for this academic year. We will be meeting our Reps next Tuesday (19th Sept) in the Rampayoh Staffroom at 1:00pm.

The PTA will be holding their Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 26th September at 6:00 pm on theTeraja site, in the Staffroom. The PTABoard will formally invite you all next week, but please put a note in your calendars and please do attend. Outstanding schools, like our school, can only continue to excel and provide your children with the very best care and education when all members of the community are involved and have a voice.

A final notice from me is that Friday 22nd September will now be a non school day i.e. children and staff will be on holiday. This day has been approved and is part of the Teacher Appreciation celebrations taking place on Saturday 23rd September.

Enjoy reading the rest of this Bi-Weekly and I hope to see some of you at the Spelling Bee competition at the Panaga Club tomorrow morning.

Have a lovely weekend.

Brian, SLTand all of our staff.

Bzzzzz……

The Annual Spelling Bee Competition is finally here!!

Come and cheer on the bees as they buzz their way to success, whilst spelling new words.

These bees have built up their confidence, shown resilience in learning hundreds of words, faced their stage frights and conquered!

Come and join us tomorrow as we cheer them on to victory.

What an amazing start to the school year in Mendaram. The children are getting settled, exploring their new surroundings, trying new things and making new relationships, using all of the personal qualities especially adaptability and resilience. We are looking forward to an amazing year in Marvellous Mendaram!

- Mendaram Team

The P1 children have been enquiry monkeys at playtime.They have been exploring all the new activities available to them in Rampayoh. There has been great co-operation with P2 and

We can use the buddy bench to find friends

We understand how to be a kind friend

We have adapted so well to our new environment and explored the den building area, climbing wall, mud kitchen, sandpit and buddy bench. What resilient turtles (and pangolins!).

WeAreWhatWeEat

Can you name some of the foods you tried today?

Which country did your favourite food come from?

Did you try anything new today? What was it?

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P6 CE 900 Entry Point

There was an exciting quiz, with a nail-biting finish, to test our knowledge of ancient history…

We recorded our own history, using timelines.

It has been a great few weeks back in the world of Digital Education at Panaga School! All the children have started off with Coding activities that have included Daisy the Dinosaur,Angry Birds, creating music in Sonic Pi and coding a Microbit!They have used their enquiry skills to try out ideas and find things out!

The children in P7 would like to say a huge hello to the remainder of the school. The P7 children have returned to school focussed and ready to extend their learning this year. The first week and a half has been spent getting used to our new VLEs and making preparations for our first Science unit “Bake it”. The children have made their chefs hats, sampled a variety of breads and are beginning to formulate ideas ready to maketheirownrecipes-Watchthisspace.

This week we welcomed the P7 parents into P7 to share the learning environment and discuss our entry point for “Go with the flow”. We chose a river from our home, host, heritage or adopted country and spent an afternoon creating a piece of art to reflect our river. The afternoon enabled parents to connect with their

The Melilas students celebrated International Literacy Day by visiting the Panaga Club Library. Nova Dudley-Gough, the Library’s Chairperson, kindly showed the students around, sharing some of the fabulous resources available. This was a first visit for many students who were interested to find books related to their History, Geography and English studies at school, as well as various magazines and books on Borneo and Dutch Language.

The students discovered that various activities such as Book Club and Film Club details, are regularly updated on the Library’s Instagram and Facebook platforms. If you would like to know more about the Panaga library, please check the Panaga Club website for further details.

The Melilas students would like to thank Ms Nova for giving up her time to show them around and we acknowledge all of the volunteers who work at the library for the fantastic work they do. An interesting morning enjoyed by all who attended.

Cees and Ella gave their full attention to their nerve cell

M1: BUILD A CELL MODEL

M1s have been learning about CELLS. This week they used their creativity to build specialised cells.They have produced remarkable models of different specialised cells. Well done M1!!

Navyaa andTycho created this colourful egg cell

Luca and Ire showed resilience and produced a lovely palisade leaf cell

Daniel and Ghina worked together on their ciliated cell

Camila and Joel excellent representation of red blood cell

Apop-up model of the nerve cell by

Jonas and Chloe communicated their information about palisade leaf cell very well

Adelar and Siddharth showed cooperation and resilience to create a model of the root hair cell.

Luciana and Ruhaan made a detailed model of a ciliated cell

Carl and Xie ‘Anne

Marvellous Melilas

Through tutor time and PSHE Melilas students have been exploring how we are all unique but we all fit together. We celebrate our individuality whilst also looking for similarities and connections.

Linked to this - students spent their first English lesson of the term writing Kennings (M1) and Riddles (M2) about themselves. We then created an interactive Guess Who display. Here’s a small sample - can you guess

It is our singular pleasure to introduce you to the P7 Family Portrait Gallery. We had to apply our new knowledge on how to create a successful tableau almost immediately! Skills get better with more practice but I daresay, we surely pulled this off!

Acrobatic Family

Body-Builder Family

P7 Drama

Tableaux

Evil Family

Rich Family

Depressed Family

Selfie Family