Panaga School Newsletter Featuring this month: DP7/8 teach us many things about this time of year.
Issue 37, November - December 2012 Panaga School Brunei Darussalam Jalan Utara, Seria, KB3534, Brunei Phone: +673 3372139 Fax: +6733373028 Web: www.panagaschool.com
A high tide could not prevent Sinterklaas and his merry, mischievous men and women from visiting Panaga School. Instead, Sinterklaas and the Black Peters arrived at school in style on road vehicles of all kinds to share their good spirit across the Panaga Community.
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Message from the Headteacher of the Dutch Stream and Rampayoh & Mendaram sites Dear All, It is almost the end of 2012 and the end of Term 1. A busy time in which a lot of activities and developments have taken place at Panaga School. At the beginning of this month, the Milepost One production, ‘Pirates’ took place. For weeks, the children, teachers and LSAs were busy rehearsing for this annual event. The result was a very successful performance where children acted as real pirates. Many thanks to the Milepost One staff, Mr Andy W, Miss Julie and parents for their contributions. P8 also developed and performed their own production based on Fairytales this half term. Congratulations to Miss Anna, Mr Andy R, Miss Barbara, parents and children on another fabulous showcase of talent. At Panaga School, International Mindedness is an important part of our International Primary Curriculum (IPC). Not only in class but also during Cultural Assemblies, children learn and experience the different cultures represented at our school. During this term, our Bruneian Learning Support Assistants shared with us the celebration of Hari Raya Aidilfitri and children of the Indian community presented a spectacular dance celebrating the Hindu festival of Deepavali. The Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas and the
different ways of celebrating Christmas have been part of the cultural assemblies as well. In Term 2, more Cultural Assemblies are planned. We are very glad that members of the different communities are willing to organise them together with the school. They are a celebration of our cultural differences at Panaga School. The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) have started this school year with lots of new members and have been busy planning and organising different activities; starting with a very successful social night that took place on the 7th of November. A lot of the community joined together for this entertaining evening where parents and teachers met each other in an informal setting. All in attendance were informed of the PTA events for this academic year. A successful Teatowel activity has already been organised and a new PTA logo was designed by the children as well. Last academic year, several successful ‘Opportunity Framing’ exercises took place involving an action group representing all stakeholders at Panaga School. ‘Opportunity Framing’ is a tool by which to explore all possibilities/ directional paths open to the school at this crucial stage in our development. With a current role of 650 children and the prospect of more to come, a strategy was developed and agreed upon by all Stake-
holders in February 2012. From that time on, a working group has been busy, together with an architect, to explore, design and agree the on our school’s expansion. Phase 1. Work that started some weeks ago at Rampayoh and Teraja includes: - The road behind the Mendaram building has been moved nearer to the main road. - Trees at the back of the Pre Nursery have been cut. - A temporary building will be installed in January at the back of the Pre Nursery. - The former Outpost building has been knocked down. Phase 2. This phase of school expansion is planned to start in February 2013. The aim is to finish the new Pre Nursery area (behind the Mendaram building) in September 2013. Phase 3. Building new classrooms, dance and drama rooms, covered outside areas and toilets at the back of the Pre Nursery at Rampayoh and on the former Outpost allocation at Teraja. The aim is to finish this by the end of 2013/ beginning of 2014. More information about the School Expansion will be communicated via the weekly Parent Information Letter. So, it has been busy term and an excellent start to this academic year. Another busy term is ahead. I would like to wish everyone a happy and restful break. Best regards, Meino Meines
Inside this issue: Page 2: • Sinterklaas and DP7/8 spread good cheer to all Page 3: • A Diwali dance spectacular • Tiger can Scratch well! Page 4: • P8 produce a fairytale performance Page 5: • Milepost One’s Christmas piracy Page 6: • Panaga School Productions helping to develop children’s confidence Page 7: • PTA news and events Page 8: • Zoning in! • Pyjama Day pride Page 9: • The Very Hungry Caterpillar visits the Nursery • Learning never ends in the Nursery Page 10: • P3 host their own Jobs Fair • DP1/2 and P1 hardly bear the excitement of their picnic Page 11: • P2 Celebrate their Exit Point Page 12: • P7 get a taste of journalism Page 13: • P7’s Egyptian Exit Point • P7 build bridges together • P4 shape poetry Page 14: • P8 go live on RTB • Art ASA’s piñata preparation and party
Page 15: • Movember men and women have fun for a good cause Page 16: • From Mr Tim W’s Sports Desk
Quote for the month: “Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses.” - anon Newsletter designed and edited by Damian Brady
Panaga School Newsletter Sinterklaas returns to Panaga School, warmly greeted by a great DP7/8 play Op vrijdag 30 novem- We celebrated Sinterkber hebben we op laas at Panaga School Panaga School Sinterk- on 30th of November. laas gevierd. It all started early in the Het feest begon al vroeg morning. When we arin de ochtend. Toen we rived at school, the classop school kwamen, rooms were all messed waren alle klassen over- up. Chairs were on top of hoop gehaald. Stoelen tables, tables disorganbovenop de tafels, tafels ised and all sorts of scheef, het bord vol gek- scribbles on schoollad, dat was allemaal het boards - the culprits were werk van de zwarte the Black Peters. pieten. They had also put chocoOok hadden ze en late parcels in our shoes, chocoladeletter in onze which was of course very schoen gedaan. Dat was nice. natuurlijk wel heel erg leuk! During the assembly, DP7/8 performed to exTijdens de assembly plain who Sinterklaas is deed DP 7/8 een ton- and what the events are eelstuk om te vertellen all about. wie Sinterklaas precies is en waar het feest over The play we performed gaat. Het verhaal ging was about a princess over een prinses die met who visits the Nethereen gids naar Nederland lands on a guided tour to ging om het sinterklaas- experience Sinterklaas feest van dichtbij te beki- up close. jken. When the play was over Toen het toneelstuk af- and the curtains closed, gelopen was en de gordi- the time had come. The jnen dicht waren, was het curtains reopened, music zover. De gordijnen gin- started very loudly, and gen weer open, de Sinerklaas and the Black muziek ging heel hard Peters appeared onaan en toen stonden Sin- stage. Then, a whole lot terklaas en de zwarte of pepernoten was pieten op het podium! En thrown all over the place. toen werden er heel veel pepernoten gestrooid. After visiting the classes, Sinterklaas left to see Na een bezoek aan alle everyone at Rampayoh. Nederlandse klassen vertrok Sinterklaas naar Written in Dutch and English by: Rampayoh. Julia Uilenreef (DP7B)
Panaga School Newsletter Diwali celebration at Panaga School In total, two shows were done; one on the Teraja site and one at RamPanaga School parents payoh. and children from the Indian community or- At both shows, delicious were shared ganised a Diwali Cele- treats rd bration on Friday 23 among the children because that is part of an November. Indian tradition - to repreThe celebration included sent joy and happiness. dancing and speeches showcasing India and The music categories in how Diwali is celebrated the show were classical, modern and traditional. there. [Sidharth Raj (IP8AS) and Simin Ali (IP7P)]
The main coordinator of the show was Mrs Rani Abraham. The performance required a lot of practice for many weeks leading up to it. Focus was placed on dancing because dancing is an important part of Indian celebrations and we wanted to present it to all in attendance perfectly.
These categories were used in the dances to represent the variety of music in India. By the end of the day, the children were all exhausted from their two shows, whilst the staff and students were left ‘mesmerised’ by the traditions and celebrations of India!
Tiger Scratch! Tiger, in IP8AR, has be- with all the different com- in which a duck goes on a quest to get medicine.
Scratch Programming come so enthused by a mands. Enthusiast programming language used in lessons that he has devoted many hours at home to developing over 40 increasingly complex games, often involving his sisters, Phoenix and Leah, in designing role play as well as acting and recording voices. Tiger says he likes endless possibilities programming games Scratch and enjoys ploring what he can
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Indeed, every time he brings a new game into school, I learn more about how to use different functions. All of Tiger’s games show an amazing creativity as well as a very impressive determination to resolve all difficulties and see them through to completion. His favourite of his creations is an adventure game that he made with and for his younger sister
He says that as well as exploring all the programming possibilities, he enjoys the challenge of finding simple solutions to problems and puzzling out how to make things work. Tiger has now become interested in learning other programming languages and would like to find out more about career options in programming. By Mr Dave Salt, ICT Specialist Teacher
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Time to throw stereotypes out the window, writes Tanya Wong. THE WHOLE CAST DAZZLE IN THE FINALE
P8 Tales leaves Audience Spellbound
Once upon a time, after weeks of rebelling against fairytale life by taking to songs described by audiences as ‘funny’ grueling preparations, P8 cast a the picket line and appearing on ‘tell all’ spell on Pa na g a with their chat shows! magical production, P8 Tales. Hidden talents were revealed when the The P8 performers wowed audience young performers took to the stage. members with their self-proclaimed not Soloist, 11 year old Anis Wan Faisal, so traditional (Supa Save was fresh out of practiced at least twice a day in the all the usual clichés!) but fantastic shower to prepare for her rap number. “I fairytale, on December 7th. “It's the best was extremely nervous at first but when I production I have ever seen at Panaga got on stage I owned it!” said the talented pre-teen. School,” said one proud parent.
and ‘clever’ were witty rewrites of popular songs such as Moves like Jagger and Starships. Not all of the lyrics were written by Miss Anna, the opening song, Fairytale Time was penned entirely by star student, Sabine Tromp, while the crowd favourite, P8 Style was a collaborative effort involving many students.
P8 certainly finished their last production with a bang – or a bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. In fact, it’s most appropriate to say it ended P8 Tales trashed traditional stories, with The script was completely original, ‘happily ever after!’ its cast of stereotypical characters written by P8 teacher, Miss Anna. The
THE WITCH AND UGLY SISTERS SHARE THEIR TROUBLES
THE LITTLE PIGS TURN TO THE MEDIA
THE MAGICAL HELPERS SHOWOFF THEIR MOVES LIKE JAGGER
Panaga School Newsletter Milepost One’s Pirate Christmas Extravaganza Last Tuesday and Thursday evenings (4th and 6th December) saw the sails set and anchors cast off for the Milepost 1 Performance, 'Pirates'. For the 8 main actors who performed throughout the show, this was the culmination of 6 weeks of rehearsals. Fortunately for me they had happily given up 4 lunch times a week to take on these roles and prepare themselves. This commitment reflected in the confidence that they demonstrated throughout the performance and the way they projected their voices, which for 6 and 7 year olds, I think is fantastic. What our MP1 staff were also impressed with was the maturity of all our children in all their performances and their behaviour. Each class came on stage without a fuss, knew exactly where they were standing to dance, performed without any prompting and then took themselves back to their seats. In total around 150 children performed on stage and sang their hearts out through 7 songs. Performances such as this can be quite stressful to organise, but the professionalism and team commitment of the staff to their roles and the enthusiasm of the children made the whole show a real pleasure to be involved with. Of course we also had the opportunity to make Senior Management walk the plank and be eaten by a shark, which was a fringe benefit. We hope that all parents who came enjoyed seeing their child singing on stage and taking part and also enjoyed the performance as a whole. By Mr Andy Winder, MP1 Leader for Learning
Panaga School Newsletter Panaga School Productions - helping to develop children’s confidence During the past few weeks of the term you may have noticed pirates marauding across Rampayoh or familiar characters from fairytales appearing on Teraja. We are very proud of our dramatic traditions at Panaga School and the way they develop the children’s speaking, movement, dance and musical skills.
dren will take part in a Milepost concert, with the children in the oldest classes (P3 and P5) taking the lead during the first and second terms respectively. P3 have just enjoyed leading their Milepost One’s production, ’Pirates’ (see page 5).
Plus, the children from all three P8 classes have already developed and performed their own producAs the children get older, the na- tion this term (see page 4). ture of these productions change to fit in with the learning goals of The summer term will see the chileach Milepost, providing a level of dren in P6 and P7 working on two challenge that is appropriate to separate events, with P6 joining each year group. Also, as children Hornbill School for a celebratory develop, we recognise that their concert and P7 preparing a proparticipation in such performances duction to be aired just before the needs to become more involved; end of the school year. The focus with increasingly complex dia- would therefore be on music within logue, choreography that requires the first year of Milepost 3 and greater levels of coordination and drama in the second. a celebration of some of the individual musical achievements chil- As always at Panaga School, our focus is on ensuring that your children have made. dren receive a balanced curricuIn the past, children have taken lum that provides engaging and part in plays as part of the Milepost challenging learning opportunities. in which they study; with the ex- If you have any questions about the program for the year ahead, ception of the P8 classes. please contact either Mr Andy In P8, it has been recognised that Winder (Milepost One Leader for the children have needed to be Learning), Mr Philip Crooks more closely involved in the writ- (Milepost Two Leader for Learning, direction and production of ing) or Mr Andy Ryan (Milepost their plays to support their lan- Three Leader for Learning). guage learning goals. By Mr Andy Ryan This year we are going to make some changes that will enhance the level of challenge for the oldest children in each Milepost, whilst meeting the learning goals for those children in the younger years. Within Milepost 1 and 2, all chil-
Panaga School Newsletter Panaga School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) News PTA logo winners are grinners!
Congratulations to Nathan Leuranguer for winning the PTA Logo Competition, and well done to Tiger and Sabine for their runners up entries on Teraja. At the Rampayoh site, the runners up were Sofi Lea and Arsha Mohanty. Nathan’s design will now be the official logo for the Panaga School Parent Teacher Association.
Welcome Coffee & Chat On Monday, 14th January 2013, there will be a Welcome Coffee & Chat for the parents of all children who joined Panaga School during term 1 or at the start of term 2. It will be held at the Panaga Club after drop-off until 9.30am. Nathan Leuranguer’s winning design
Invitations will be sent out at the start of next term.
More PTA Diary Dates
Social Gathering at No. 49 Around 150 parents and teachers enjoyed a relaxed get-together at No. 49 on Wednesday, 7 November, 2012.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 • School Disco
Many thanks to everyone who helped make it happen – both in the run-up and on the night itself. Special thanks goes to Innocencia & Co who provided the mellow background music.
Wednesday 20th March 2013 • Busking Bonanza
The event raised $555 for the PTA. During the evening, the PTA team outlined events for the year ahead, which include a School Disco, a Busking Bonanza and a School Fair.
Panaga School Newsletter Come and join us ‘In The Zone’
This half term has seen the launch of the PTA’s ‘In The Zone’ playground initiative. With a generous donation from the PTA, playtimes on Teraja site are being revitalised with the introduction of guided play. During Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes, children are invited to join our P8 Play Leaders in
the Chill Out Zone; to play a board game, have fun with colouring or turn their artistic skills to arts and craft.
chute games during morning snack time, to ensure playtime on Teraja is a fun and sociable time for all.
Those who prefer sports have been joining our talented P8 Play Leaders in the Sports Zone to develop their cricket skills.
The zones have provided an opportunity for all pupils’ Personal Goals to be displayed as they play together with great cooperation and thoughtfulWith the support of our ness. As new equipment LSAs, we have also been is purchased, we hope to able to introduce para- launch two more zones –
Pyjama Day Pride
On behalf of the Student Council, I would like to say a huge thank you to all who were involved in Pyjama Day.
the school community's generosity. Thank you to all children and adults who….stayed in their bedclothes!
Generous donations abounded and we raised a whopping, $1656.16. I am sure that the Shangri-La Rasa Ria Nature Reserve will very much appreciate
Thanks also to Miss Christina for coordinating the Rampayoh Student Council and collecting their donations. By Mr Paul Moffett
the Multi-games Zone and the Get Fit Zone. If you are able to support our new initiative with the donation of any unwanted boards games, packs of cards or art and craft materials, please send them in to school for the attention of Miss Kathryn or Mr Rorie. By Miss Kathryn, Leader for Learning – Child Development
Panaga School Newsletter Munch munch, crunch crunch….The Very Hungry Caterpillar arrives in Nursery making patterns. We really loved the Very Hungry Caterpillar story sack that had the wonderful butterfly puppet for us to share with our friends.
It has been a busy time in Nursery as we have been enjoying the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. Firstly, to link with our IPC unit ‘Food’, we did lots of talking about all the food that the caterpillar ate in the story and we chose the food that we liked the best. Yum yum! We then used different food in our creative painting activities and played games with fruit to help us practice counting out loud and
Also, we all had fun trying to make our own caterpillars! We got very sticky fingers as we rolled salt dough into a caterpillar shape and decorated it with glitter. We had turned ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ into ‘A Very Glittery Caterpillar’! By Miss Sarah
We are never too old to learn in Nursery! This half term, Miss Sarah held a fun phonics session for our Nursery Learning Support Assistants. We talked about our own current phonics knowledge and we recapped on how to help young children listen, say and write letter sounds.
Sharing ideas of phonics games for Early Years
We tried some practical games that can support the development of phonics skills through play and active learning. We are now looking forward to trying these activities with the Nursery children over the next term. By Miss Sarah
We all tried ‘air writing’ to form letters with streamers!
Panaga School Newsletter P3 are hard at work
More fun than DP1/2 and IP1s can bear! This term, our DP1/2 and IP1 children have been learning about ‘Bears’ in their IPC learning. They have enjoyed participating in many various activities relating to bears.
On Wednesday 31st October 2012, P3 began their IPC unit “Jobs” with an exciting Entry Point.
Our Exit Point was another Teddy Bears Picnic, but this time the children planned and prepared food for the picnic themselves. The unit began with our Entry Point; a Teddy Bears Picnic in the Rampayoh playground. Our classrooms were transformed into a Jobs Fair and the children went to different stands to find out about different jobs. They met a doctor, a mechanic, a teacher and an architect; to name a few. It was a really fun afternoon and the children were able to ask lots of questions to find out about these jobs.
It was to take place in the garden of No.49, but it rained. It was still a nice event, held under the tent at school.
Children shared their food with their Many mums and dads were in attenbears and then joined in with some dance too. Thanks to all involved! singing and dancing. By team DP1/2 & IP1 and Mr Damian
On Friday 16th November, P3J had their class assembly about jobs. They acted out a very funny sketch of them going back in time and sang a song about jobs too. The children did a great ‘job’ and certainly had fun. Many thanks to all the parents and relatives that came to support them. By Miss Jenny Ballantyne
Panaga School Newsletter P2 Celebrate their Exit Point IP2 kicked off last term in true party style with the topic of ‘Celebrations’. Both children and staff enjoyed a morning of parading and playing games whilst wearing special celebratory clothes from around the world.
The children learnt about a range of different celebrations…..
Red Nosed Reindeer’. We also visited St John’s Church in KB and made Christmas cards.
Chinese New Year We read the story about the animal race, made zodiac wheels and also visited a temple.
Hari Raya We made colourful green and yellow ketupat packets by weaving coloured paper and had a very special visit to a mosque.
We had an afternoon visit from Varun’s mum who told us all about the special festival of Dasara. She brought in her collection of decorated dolls and showed photos of other Dasara arrangements from houses around the Panaga community.
Sinterklaas The children found out about Dutch traditions and learnt an English version of a traditional Dutch song. They had a great afternoon decorating cookies, creating a fluffy beard for Sinterklaas and testing their Black Peters’ balancing skills with presents. To end our unit in true celebratory style the children planned a fun-filled party. We all ate delicious food, played some silly games and danced our socks off!! By the P2 Team
Diwali What an exciting day with so many helpers! The children had great fun making lamps, Rangoli patterns with bright sand, weaving mango leaves, learning a stick dance, wearing traditional clothes and some children even had a henna design painted on their hand.
Christmas Finally, the children learnt about the celebration of Christmas. They read and ordered scenes from the nativity story, created stained glass windows and snowflakes, sewed a simple tree decoration and learnt to sing ‘Rudolf the
Panaga School Newsletter P7 students get a taste of journalism By Ella Robinson Panaga, Brunei Students of IP7 at Panaga School had the once in a lifetime opportunity to experience life as a young, dynamic journalist on the morning of Thursday, 22nd November, 2012. That school day was like no other. Mr Damian Brady, the school’s news reporter, demonstrated many of the journalistic skills that are required to work in a modern day newspaper.
‘Inverted Pyramid’ style. The ‘Inverted Pyramid’ is a method used by journalists to sort out their information in order of importance, to ensure that their news articles have correct information in the most appropriate places. Six children were selected to perform a drama where a mischievous child struck a man with a cricket bat, resulting in the man retaliating.
The mother of the distraught child informed the police of the violent acOne of the IP7 students, tions of child’s attacker, Andriyani Millie, stated resulting in him being arexcitedly, “When I arrived rested. in school this morning I did not realise that we Following the performwould have such an ance, the students were amazing day. It has been then allowed only 10 minmy best day in school, utes to write an intriguing article about the incident. ever!” Mr Tim, Panaga School Principal, was quoted as saying the whole morning of journalism was extremely enjoyable for all of the students involved, as well as being “an amazing Over the morning, the stu- learning experience”. dents were introduced to Ella, a selection of vocabulary Your article is well written with specifically related to jour- lots of powerful language. You nalism. 77% of the chil- have included many traits of an objective newspaper report. dren told Mr Damian that Your quotes are very interesting they had never come and from more than one source across the w o r d and you have used statistics to further add objectivity to your ‘interviewee’ in their read- story. You have written your ing before. article in ‘Inverted Pyramid’ style 89% of the IP7 students who attended the course, and were later questioned, commented they would now consider journalism as a profession.
Among the many journalism techniques introduced to students was the
and have captured all of the 5Ws and 1H. An outstanding effort! I have no doubt you will make an excellent journalist one day if it is the path you wish to take. - Editor
Panaga School Newsletter P7 Exit Point – Egyptian style!
Monday 10th December saw the P7s and their parents enjoying an Egyptian-themed Exit Point to mark the end of the ‘Go With the Flow’ IPC unit. With the Nile River as a key inspiration, we decorated scrolls detailing the features of rivers and Ancient Egyptian civilisations. It was great to hear the children confidently answering the questions their parents were asking and we were very impressed with the artistic talent on show! By Team P7
Bridge builders of the future? Can you build a scale bridge which spans a river 50cm, is at least 10cm high and will hold a load of 200g? The children of P7 can! During our IPC topic, ‘Go With the Flow’, the Technology skills of the pupils were displayed through the designing, building and evaluation stages of their projects. During the two week project, teams of pupils were set the challenge to build a scale model bridge to meet certain specifications using only art straws and glue. As all of P7 found, Adaptability and Resilience were needed in abundance!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the grand final were Zoey Wright, Andie Millie, Daniel Hawash and Adam Wright. Well done – a great design! By Team P7
P4 Poetry Corner Miss Perminder
but it all spilled.
Miss Perminder Burned her finger on a cinder. It turned ginger!
She tried some toothpaste. That was a waste.
She tried a teabag. She put some But it made her gag. cream. It made her scream. She put some Pepsi. But that was messy. She tried some butter. She tried ice. It made her splutter. It felt nice. She put some honey So she put a plaster but it was too runny. And it got better faster. By :Fejy IP4PS She put some milk
Panaga School Newsletter P8’s live broadcast on Radio Television Brunei the students were entertained and guided by the station coordinator of RTB Belait branch, Pg Ahmad bin Pg Mahmud.
From The Borneo Bulletin Kuala Belait - Some 26 students from Panaga International School conducted an educational visit to the Radio Television Brunei (RTB), Belait branch recently. The students comprising of two classes were accompanied by two P8 teachers, namely Andy Ryan and Anna Sanderson. During the visit,
According to one of the teachers, Mr Andy Ryan, it was a wonderful opportunity for the students to visit the broadcasting studio. He highlighted that the students are of 14 different nationalities and hail from India, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Oman and Brazil among others. The students also had the chance to host a morning talk show.
They were briefed on the functions and roles of RTB in spreading information to the audience and given the opportunity to be included in a live broadcast of Rampai Pagi from the Belait District. The students also toured the television broadcasting con- The visit was part of their trol room. topic in P8, namely 'Making the News'. The IPC Exit One of the students, Nurina Point will be producing their Athira Nor Hisham, who origi- own breakfast talk show with nates from Malaysia, was journalistic news video to be also interviewed by the host presented to their parents. of Rampai Pagi, Aerwan Hj Apart from the talk show stuJaafar, regarding the aims of dio, students also visited the the visit and her experiences Radio Unit of RTB Belait being in this country. branch. By Efna Ars
Art Club’s Paper Mache piñata preparations and party Ms Nicole’s 2012 Art Club undertook a massive project of making piñatas. We first used Paper Mache to cover our balloons, week by week, layer by layer.
We then decorated them and... let the fun begin!
It was a long process however well worth the results. What a way to end the term! - Ms Nicole
Panaga School Newsletter
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2012 During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on millions of men’s faces in Panaga and around the world. The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.
way into the annals of fine mous- BSP Managing Director, Mr Ken tachery. Marnoch.
Supported by women in the school and the wider community, the Mo Sistas, our Movember Mo Bros raised funds by seeking out sponsorship for their Mo growing efforts. In the end, the school raised 1122 BND for men’s health and cancer On Movember 1st, our male teach- research. ers all began with a clean-shaven face and then for the rest of the Not just our teachers were inmonth, these selfless and gener- volved, in fact almost the entire ous men, known as Mo Bros, male population of Panaga refused groomed, trimmed and waxed their the razor for a month, including
Some of our younger Mo Bros
At the end of the month, Panaga’s Mo Bros and Mo Sistas celebrated their gallantry and valor by throwing our own Movember party, held at the Hope-Johnston residence. Many thanks to David and Nicola Hope-Johnston, all other parents, Panaga teachers and children for supporting this now worldwide event! By Damian Brady References: http://au.movember.com
No.1 Mo Bro: Mr Dave Salt
Panaga School Newsletter By the time we go to press, nominations for the JIS Invitational Swimming competition will have closed.
From the Sports Desk with Tim Walsh, PE Specialist Teacher It continues to be a busy time in the world of sport and physical activity at Panaga School. A large number of students from P5 to P7 have been competing in the Brunei Junior Sports League. The sports of football for boys and girls and T Ball have been hotly contested between JIS, ISB, Hornbill and Panaga schools.
Thank you to both the parents and students who were proactive in signing up for their events. The event will take place at Berakas pool on the 27th of January and will be a great preparation event for our swim squads’ BJSL Practice for the BJSL competitions Competition later in the academic takes place before and after school year. both during and in addition to ASA Information for the participants will time. be sent home to parents with specific details shortly after the Christmas break. Finally, the BJSL Athletics Carnival is scheduled for the 31st of January. Interested children need to stay tuned for announcements during PE lessons, assemblies and from their class teachers to ensure they stay fully informed. - Mr Tim W In some year groups attendance at training sessions has been exemplary and it is not a coincidence that these sides are the ones that a leading the fields in their particular age groups.
Whilst I am not going to recite all the results of the first two rounds of the competition, I can say many Panaga teams are still firmly in finals contention.
Unfortunately on Thursday 6th December, Panaga School’s hosting of the BJSL had to be postponed due to bad weather. A revised date will be announced in the new year.
Happy and safe holidays to all and best wishes for the new year! Newsletter suggestions and contributions are always welcome. Please email your ideas to damianbrady@panagaschool.com. Thanks for your support! Keep safe.