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Panaga School Weekly Issue Sixty-Two 15th May 2020 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

Updates from the Principal’s Desk Dear Panaga School Community, This week's Panaga School Weekly (PSW): Continuity of Learning Edition VII is brimming with more fantastic examples of remote learning and other activities. Thank you for taking the time to submit your articles to Mr Damian who continues to do a fantastic job of putting together these special Continuity of Learning editions. National Women in ICT Competition The Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) has a fabulous Women in ICT competition running that is open to all residents of Brunei. Entries are due by Thursday next week and require the submission of a photograph accompanied by 150 words about an inspiring female ICT public figure. How far the world has come in relation to gender equality, however, we still have a way to go. UNESCO reports that…

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Head Teacher: Mark Walters markwalters@panagaschool.net

(+673) 3373972/ 8988224 Panaga School Senior Administration Officer: Jalinah Bte Ali (+673) 3375728 jalinah.ali@shell.com Admin Support, Rampayoh/Mendaram: Zurimah Bte Jumat z.jumat@shell.com Admin Support, Teraja: Hasmah Bte Hj Salleh hasmah.salleh@shell.com Panaga School Weekly editor: Damian Brady damianbrady@panagaschool.com

...of the 781 million illiterate people in the world, two thirds are women, indicating that the Sustainable Development Goals must include literacy and numeracy as part of the success indicators of the next round of global action in education. We would argue that computational skills are also necessary for tomorrow’s children and youth to be able to fully take their places in society. While the figures of women in the global ICT workforce look apparently quite acceptable, in fact of the 30% of women who do work in the ICT sector, only a small proportion are in the formal ICT sector, indicating that many women are losing out on equal pay, social rights and protection, and promotion possibilities to raise themselves and their children and families out of poverty. This competition is a great way to promote women in ICT, while demonstrating the wonderful writing skills and ICT knowledge of our student community, with great prizes available. Mr Damian and Mr Neil provide Panaga School students with an excellent Digital Education programme, where our female students are equally celebrated and recognised as capable ICT participants. I would like to acknowledge the initiative of AITI for promoting women in ICT and strongly encourage our students to consider submitting an entry. For further information, please see the poster in this week’s PSW.

Head Teacher: Mark Walters markwalters@panagaschool.net

Active citizens - Lucie and Cailee (P7D) Lucie and Cailee, from P7D, have taken the initiative to act on an idea to make the world a better place. With a business proposal forwarded to me and then appropriate BSP approvals in place, Lucie and Cailee will run a Bake Sale, with profits benefiting the work of Care and Action for Strays (CAS). Stay safe, practise social distancing and turn up with your small change and containers to support this great cause. I look forward to supporting Lucie and Cailee, from 6pm until 7pm (unless sold out earlier), on Monday 18th May, along the pathway behind Teraja. Great initiative, Lucie and Cailee, we all look forward to reading how it goes in your report in a future edition of Panaga School Weekly. Parent webinar - remote learning: parent perspectives Fieldwork Education, across the group of Shell Schools, will offer a parent webinar, with an opportunity to hear from parents from international schools of the challenges and successes during school closure and remote learning. DATE & TIME: Friday 15th May 2020 at 4:00 pm (Brunei time) DETAILS OF WEBINAR: Challenging, successful, confusing, fun, insecure, roller-coaster of emotions are just some words parents have used to describe their experience of the school closure period and remote learning. Join us in exploring an area that for many across the globe is the new ‘norm’, yet only months ago seemed inconceivable. During this session, participants will have the opportunity to hear from parents from other international schools, with children spanning the Early Years to Middle Years age-range. Our speakers will share their personal experiences and provide an insight into where they have encountered challenges and success. There will also be an opportunity for participants to join in a question and answer session. SPEAKERS: Parents from Sakhalin International School, Russia, Panaga School, Brunei, and Rumukoroshe School, Nigeria; plus consultants from Fieldwork Education. Please click here to register. Registration is free to all Shell School parents. Please keep your contributions coming in for next week's PSW Continuity of Learning edition, which is due to take us into Term 3’s one week midterm break. Submissions are to be sent to publications@panagaschool.net. Wishing everybody a safe weekend. Kind regards, Cindy

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Charity Sale for CAS Where: Behind Teraja, near the blue Panaga School sign. When: Monday 18th May 2020, from 6pm. (In the event of bad weather, it will be postponed to Tuesday 19th May. If it is a big success, there will be future dates.) Why: All money raised will go to a charity called, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Care & Action for Strays (CAS)â&#x20AC;?, a local non-profit organisation that takes care of stray cats and dogs in need. Come and buy some delicious homemade lemonade, cakes and other treats and goodies. Out of respect for the Holy Month of Ramadan, please be reminded that all sales are TAKEAWAY ONLY. Please stay safe and remember that social distancing is required and stay aware of pedestrians and traffic. Feel free to bring your own containers to help the environment. Small change appreciated.

By Cailee and Lucie (P7D)

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Isolation Art To share a little humour through some Artwork, here are some famous painting replicas created by our very own Panaga students (and mum), with a COVID-19 twist. Enjoy! - Miss Sue

Evan (M1P)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mum (photo by Evan)

Soubhik (M1P)

Niah (P7S) (above) Sophie (P7D) (right)

Jake (M2S) & Jessica (M2P)

Raymond (M2S)

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Lena (M1S)

Sophie (M1P) and brother

Renee (P7S)

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Floraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family love to celebrate together

We have been planning and having a celebration for Flora (P2E)'s IPC Celebrations unit Exit Point. The whole family got involved in helping Flora prepare for her celebration, choosing music for musical statues, creating and hanging decorations, wrapping a present to play Pass the Parcel, as well as baking shortbread and whipping up delicious hot chocolate. What a memorable celebration it was! - Gina

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Leshvanthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting facts about Paris

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Nicole (M2S)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s French Guide to Brunei

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Personal Qualities, new and old, wonderfully on show at home Oliver (P4J) and Rowan (Nursery Sunbears) have been working on their Personal Qualities during their homeschooling. They have charts with homemade Personal Quality stickers which they update at the end of the day. We have even created a new one, the ant, for working hard. This week, Oliver displayed great creativity and hard work during his IPC topic on dinosaurs. For an art assignment, he produced a series of Surrealist photographs which he then turned into a comic strip of his little brother going on a visit to Jurassic Park. We all had fun setting up the photos under Oliver's direction! - Michelle

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Mairah loves building sandcastles Mairah (Pre-Nursery Hornbills) enjoys an evening by the beach building a castle. She fills the mould with sand and turns it so that her tower is made. She also gets help from her mum to make a swimming pool because Mairah LOVES water! She is very happy and proud of her castle and enjoys the sunset by the beach. No better way to end the day! - Roshini

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Swimming is fun, day and night

Aryaman (P4H) and Anshuman (P2G) love to swim any time of the day, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s morning or evening, with their father. - Premlata