Issue Thirty-Three, 30th August 2019
Updates from the Principal’s Desk Dear Panaga School Community,
Issue Thirty-Three 30th August 2019
Panaga School IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, Seria, KB 3534, Negara Brunei Darussalam (+673) 3375728/3372139 (Teraja/Melilas), (+673) 3372694 (Mendaram/Rampayoh) Principal: Cindy Bin Tahal (+673) 3372355/8777028
Welcome to the 2019/2020 academic year and this year’s first edition of Panaga School Weekly. Panaga School Weekly is our main form of communication, celebrating learning and promoting upcoming events. Thank you to our editor, Mr Damian, who brings this quality production together each week. This week has seen a very smooth start to the school year, with students engaged in learning and establishing new class dynamics from the very first day. A big welcome to our 73 new students who have joined Panaga School for the first time this week. Of these 73 children, 43 are new to Brunei, with the rest of our new students already in the country, joining Pre-Nursery. A massive thank you to our outstanding staff who make Panaga School the wonderful learning community it is. All staff have worked tirelessly to ensure all was in readiness for our students’ return to school.
New families To our new families, please do reach out to your child/ren’s class teacher or a member of the leadership team if at any time we can be of Head Teacher: assistance with your transition. Even though orientations, entry Mark Walters assessments and conversations are ongoing, and new family markwalters@panagaschool.net information booklets are distributed, we understand that each (+673) 3373972/8988224 onboarding situation is unique. We are here to help with that process. All contact numbers are listed on the left and in your information Panaga School Senior booklets. We are here to assist your family with the enormity of settling Administration Officer: into life in Panaga. Jalinah Bte Ali (+673) 3375728 Meet the Teacher jalinah.ali@shell.com Over the first 2 weeks of school’s return, Meet the Teacher events are scheduled (see event calendar) to provide families with an overview of Admin Support, the academic year ahead. Each event will begin in the respective school Rampayoh/Mendaram: hall. At this time, whole school updates will be provided with teachers Zurimah Bte Jumat introduced to parents. From here, parents will move into individual z.jumat@shell.com classrooms to become familiar with each child’s class teacher, class routines and other important information. Admin Support, Teraja: Hasmah Bte Hj Salleh Given the nature of adult conversations, we ask that children do not hasmah.salleh@shell.com attend Meet the Teacher (except of course young babies who are unable to be separated). If childcare is required, especially for new Panaga School Weekly editor: joiners, please email me directly and we will coordinate teaching Damian Brady damianbrady@panagaschool.com assistants to supervise your child/ren. Arrangements will only be coordinated if requested.
cindybintahal@panagaschool.com
We look forward to the year of learning ahead. Regards, Cindy
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Updates from the Head Teacher’s Desk Dear Panaga Community, Welcome back to the start of another wonderful year within the life of Panaga School. It has been so enjoyable to see so many smiling and happy faces coming into the school this week. The children have returned with such excitement for the year ahead and I know the teachers and LSAs have been busy preparing an incredible academic journey for your children over the coming terms. For a number of our students, this has been a completely new start and I wish all of our new students an enjoyable beginning to life in Panaga School. In particular, our youngest Pre-Nursery children who are starting school for the very first time. Thank you to our Pre-Nursery teachers and LSAs who have been working exceptionally hard to make this process as easy as possible for students and parents alike. Every time I have had the opportunity to visit them they have being having a wonderful and enjoyable time with lots of smiles and laughter.
As we start the year, I would like to remind parents of the need for safety during drop off and pick up. Please do stay in the designated areas and be thoughtful of those around you. Please take the time to remind your children of the need for awareness and safety in the car parks. If for some reason you are late for school, ‘Late Passes’ will be issued to your child from the school offices (not Security). Please do not take them directly to class. I look forward to meeting with you all over the coming weeks and terms. Kind regards, Mark
Important message regarding children’s medicines in school While the school endeavors to remind parents of expiry dates for medication held in school, it is the full responsibility of the child’s parents to ensure that all medication held by the school, e.g. inhalers, epi-pens and similar, are firstly in school, and secondly, kept in date. If parents fail to do so, the school holds no responsibility for the inability to administer out of date medication should an emergency occur. Jackie Campling, Additional Needs Lead Teacher
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
2-Sep
3-Sep
4-Sep
5-Sep
6-Sep
(7:00pm) NTC Meet the Teachers
Whole School Mendaram (PN-N) Rampayoh (P1-P3)
First Day of Islamic New Year (Public Holiday school closed)
(4:30-6:00pm) P2/P3 Meet the Teachers (4:30-6:00pm) Meet the Teachers
Teraja (P4-P7)
(2:00-4:00pm) P4 Visit to CCSM Cultural Day (4:30-6:00pm) Meet the Teachers
Melilas (M1-M2) 9-Sep
10-Sep
11-Sep
Whole School
12-Sep
13-Sep
19-Sep
20-Sep
Book Week 16-Sep
17-Sep
18-Sep
ASAs start (7:00pm) PTA Meeting
Whole School Mendaram (PN-N) Rampayoh (P1-P3) Teraja (P4-P7) Melilas (M1-M2) 23-Sep
25-Sep
26-Sep
27-Sep
(1:00-5:00pm) U13 Football v JIS
Whole School Mendaram (PN-N) Rampayoh (P1-P3)
24-Sep
Brunei Teachers’ Day (School closed)
Teraja (P4-P7) Melilas (M1-M2)
Date
Sport
Year Group
Where
Time
Tuesday 3rd Sept
Boys and Girls Football
M1 & M2
Teraja Field
2.30pm-3.15pm
Friday 6th Sept
Running Club
P4-M2 (P4 & P5 must be
Meet outside Teraja entranceway
6.25am-7.00am
accompanied by a parent)
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Miss out on a Yearbook last year? There’s still a few left for sale
If you have paid for last year’s Yearbook but are yet to receive it, please collect your book(s) from the office you paid and have your name ticked off. If you have not purchased a Yearbook yet and would like to, there are a limited number of copies for sale for $14 from either school office. Huge thanks again to all teachers for their efforts and creativity with the Yearbook. Special thanks as well to the admin team for helping with the purchase order and collections. We hope last year’s Yearbook can be a keepsake for all Panaga children to treasure for many years to come.
DIGITAL VERSIONS OF THE YEARBOOK CAN BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING ON THE BELOW LINKS: 2018-2019 YEARBOOK - ISSUU VERSION 2018-2019 YEARBOOK - HIGH QUALITY DOWNLOADABLE PDF
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Welcome back Doodlers and hello to new users! We hope the children have continued to enjoy using the Doodle Maths app during the holidays. For parents and children new to Doodle Maths, below is a quick introduction. Doodle Maths is a snappy, fun program, tailored to your children’s needs, that can fit around a busy schedule. It is a quick and easy way of supporting Home Learning in Maths, keeping children’s Maths brains active as they consolidate and learn new skills. We feel it is of great benefit and therefore subscribe and pay for the program so all students in P2-P7 can have an account. The accounts of our existing users will remain the same as last year; students new to P2 or new to the school this term will be issued with a username and password from their class teachers. We advocate that the children complete the 5-7 daily questions which take no more than 5 minutes. If you have any questions, please talk to your child’s class teacher in the first instance or you may email Miss Rosie our Lead Teacher in Maths (rosiehawkins@panagaschool.net), or myself (permindersanghera@panagaschool.net).
Perminder Sanghera, Deputy Head Teacher, Teraja and Melilas
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The Pupil Portal is the Panaga School Learning Platform. The site was created last year with the intention of centralising communication in order to support effective home-school links. Having trialed it for a year, we approached parents to review how successful it was. There were mixed reviews regarding the calendar and weekly notices, however, the information regarding learning was deemed effective. We learned that we needed to promote the learning focused resources more frequently with parents, particularly with new families. We have heeded the advice and are now re-launching the Pupil Portal having made the changes we feel are appropriate. The site will be used with all year groups from Pre-Nursery through to P5. P6-M2 have their own learning platform, ‘Edmodo’.
The aim of the Pupil Portal is to extend learning beyond the school gates and to foster creativity and independent learning in our students. As the focus is on learning, diary dates and parent notices will no longer feature on the portal. Parents will have access to learning objectives, learning advice and home learning activities that their children may participate in; some compulsory, some optional. Please talk to your children’s class teachers if you want to know more about the home learning projects.
In addition to the specific year group pages, there are also Additional Needs Team pages which offers advice in specific areas, e.g. Developing Gross Motor Skills. There is also a DE page with various DE opportunities for children to explore and finally a Milepost 2 IPC page. This page offers websites that support children and parents in researching the IPC learning units studied, should they wish to explore and extend learning in these units at home.
Please take the time to browse the Home Page which offers advice on Online Safety and Cyber Bullying. You can also find details about the school’s subscription for Espresso, an award winning home learning site which is valuable to children across the school.
Below is the link to the Home Page of the portal. https://sites.google.com/panagaschool.net/student/home Perminder Sanghera, Deputy Head Teacher, Teraja and Melilas
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Extreme Reading Photo Competition! Take a photo of yourself reading in an extreme location. Send photos to: donnabonham@panagaschool.net or suzannepalumbo@panagaschool.net
Dress up as your
A teacher/parent reading session -
favourite book character!
select which story you would like
Monday 9th September
to listen to.
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Clive Piggott: http://www.authorsabroad.com/author/clivepig/ Clive's dramatic STORYTELLING can be tailored to all ages - he draws on his vast repertoire of myths, legends, fables and folktales - and takes the words off the page and puts them on the stage. Often accompanied by music, Clive's storytelling sessions are ideal for any size of audience, and can be followed by drama, poetry or writing or workshops to suit. Clive has worked with all ages in International Schools, and is ideal for 316 year olds. Clive has recently returned from Thailand and Turkey for Authors Abroad and his new book "Jurassic Cove and other Jolly Japes" has just been published by Caboodle.
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