Panaga School Updates from the Principal’s Desk Weekly Issue Sixty-Three 22nd 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
Please click here or above for a video message from Panaga School Principal, Cindy Bin Tahal.
cindybintahal@panagaschool.com
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
Dear Panaga School Community, Congratulations and thank you to everybody for enacting our school vision of Together Improving Learning, during a very unusual Term 3.1. Wishing everybody a wonderful break from school next week and to our Muslim community, Selamat Hari Raya. Stay safe and take care, we look forward to reconnecting with everybody on the 2nd of June.
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Julius (M1P)’s dream house - in French!
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Akshita (M2S)’s French guide to Brunei
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Time for Monet This lockdown has been both challenging and a blessing of sorts. With less to do, we find the space to explore and dedicate time to things we don’t usually get to do. Alisha (M1P) loves crafting and art but seldom finds the time to sit down and paint. On a beautiful morning, she quietly started painting at her desk and slowly finished it at her own pace until the afternoon, choosing to complete the rest of her homeschooling only after that and finishing later in the day. She hasn’t really painted in a while and this time has allowed her to find the mental space and time to just sit...and paint. - Fariny
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Happy Pokemon Day from Branton P2 is learning about celebrations for IPC. The children had to design and plan a celebration. Branton from P2G decided to celebrate one of his favourite things - Pokemon! These are some pictures of him making Pikachu masks and making Pokemon food for Pokemon Day celebrations. - Piks
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Early Years Outdoor Learning Walk 2020 The Early Years teachers and their families enjoyed the outdoor walk. A superb effort from our Early Years community in creating their nature outfits. - Early Years Team
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“Wow! What a hot, sweaty, sandy and wet morning! Best school day ever!” - Rhys (P1 Turtles) Millie (P3R)
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Hershel is still the one for fresh water
Hershel (P5D) made a solar still that purifies dirty water into clean and fresh water. - Caroline
Alexander’s natural and wonderful instruments
Making natural instruments was this week’s music task and Alexander (P3L) absolutely loved doing it. He was resilient when gathering coconuts and sticks for his project and he was very careful when using a hot glue gun and a knife. He is very happy with his instruments. - Iga
Please click here or above to view Alexander’s natural instruments video.
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Abi and Matthew’s busy and varied home learning Abi (P2G) and Matthew (P5D) have had a busy few weeks and are still enjoying home learning some of the time! 1. Abi arranged a birthday party for herself for the IPC Celebrations unit. 2. Matthew made a fabric collage to show deforestation for the IPC Rainforests unit.
3. Matthew designed some packaging for his new rainforest product. 4. Abi and Matthew made new crayons from old ones to go with P2’s Literacy tasks on ‘The day the crayons quit’. 5. We learnt about VE Day and had a tea party to celebrate! Our Great Grandad is a D-Day veteran so we had extra reason to celebrate this day. 6. Abi’s crayons decided to quit!
- Nicola
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Aarav is one with nature Aarav (P1 Turtles) has had wonderful outdoor learning activities with nature. He enjoyed biking in the water with a beautiful sunset view, building his nature den with leaves and sticks and making his crown of leaves and flowers. - Pooja
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Friends, learning and fun in the sun We had a lovely hot morning outside! It was really nice seeing some of our friends and our teachers again! Here are some photos of Bauke (P1 Pangolins), Gijs (Nursery Sunbears) with their friends Ilse (Nursery Sunbears) and Femke (P2R). - Lidewij
Miguel (P3L) embraces outdoor learning
- Shallon
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Aiden (P4J) and Aaric (P1 Turtles)’s week of outdoor challenges As we celebrated Outdoor Classroom learning this week, Aiden and Aaric really enjoyed their learning challenges at our home, in the garden and at the beach. Exploring Nature in the Rain On Monday, Aaric had so much fun exploring nature in the rain.
Pictures from left: Aaric found a warning sign, standing near a beautiful white flower and he drew smiles on the window. Making a den On Tuesday, the whole family were involved in making a den for Aiden and Aaric in our garden. They were really helpful and diligent. Both are so excited the den has been standing firm on the ground for 4 days already. Now, the den is their favourite place where they can play and read a book.
The den is made up of branches of palm leaves and sticks. Aiden’s favourite reading spot.
Aaric shows his nature costume and crown made from leaves.
Aiden makes 2D and 3D shapes from chopsticks and playdough.
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Aaric’s next challenge is making a maze On Wednesday, I was super proud when Aaric managed to draw and make his own maze from leaves that he collected from our garden. It really challenged his creativity and diligence. He loves playing it together with his siblings. Wonder in nature On Thursday, the children rode their bicycle to observe nature and headed to the beach for their next challenges.
Making nature faces They gathered up some leaves, shells, pebbles and twigs that they found on their way to the beach to make their nature faces in our garden. Making an outdoor clock and sundial using natural resources
Aiden shows his outdoor clock made from pebbles and twigs. He recorded the movement of the Sun hourly by marking shadows with a twig. He started at 11, and at 12, the Sun has moved from the left to the right. - Jessica
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Amaya and Zara had a great time in their garden and beyond
Amaya (P3G) and Zara (P1 Pangolins) enjoyed their bike ride and were very happy to see their teachers and friends, during their nature walk. Amaya loved doing her bird portrait and Zara assisted her by snipping and cutting. - Nadia
Natalia (Nursery Sunbears) all dressed up to see her friends again) Kids had a great morning today!! After so long being far from friends and teachers, they really appreciated it and realised how much they miss their school. - Inma
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Srinika’s stunning stone art
Srinika (P2R) enjoyed doing stone art as part of outdoor school day. She had lovely time in the garden while colouring. - Saumya
Laksh loves his outdoor learning activities Laksh (P1 Turtles) and family had so much fun doing some of the outdoor activities posted by his teachers this week. All family members enjoyed making our own sensory path, playing hopscotch, creating our den in the garden with sticks, branches and leaves, preparing costumes for the nature walk and going on a scavenger hunt to see beautiful wildlife around. Indeed, outdoor learning is a wonderful experience. - Ruchi
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Lana and her classmates enjoy the wonders of the great outdoors and friendship Lana (P2R) was delighted to see her friends again and received many compliments about her outfit using leaves and flowers from nature in Panaga. - Thamine
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Lucie and Cailee’s joy of nature photography and planting Lucie and Cailee (both P7D) went on an outdoor nature photography walk this morning. They walked around camp taking photos of nature and then used their photos to make an amazing PowerPoint presentation. The also planted sunflowers. - Susan and Janine
Joshua and Parker’s amazing beach den
Joshua and Parker (both P5D) showed great teamwork, resilience and communication at the beach and built an amazing den out of drift wood and jungle leaves...(with help from Parker’s mum Susan and Joshua’s dad, Lee!) - Susan and Janine
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Madeline (P3R) and Matilda (P1 Turtles) enjoyed their Outdoor Learning Day activities
- Danni
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Outdoor fashion and music with Kaavya
I found some rocks and wood in my garden and made some music. It was really awesome and I had so much fun. Thank you! - Kaavya (P4J)
Mia (P1 Turtles) is dressed for nature
- Weenarat
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Millie (P3R) and Rhys (Nursery Turtles)’s “Best school day ever!”
A kaleidoscope of outdoor learning for Lyanis (P5T) and Florian (P2R) Science, maths, nature, art and sport. A busy outdoor morning for Lyanis and Florian! - Sarah
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Some examples of P5T’s love of Outdoor Learning Day
Sammy
Xi
Marcella
Sam (P4J) and Chloe (P7D) enjoy a busy morning in nature The day began with the Morning Mission - Gone Fishing! And then, the kids were out and about in the nature trail, creating nature art and building shelters. - Tania
Hotel Bug Vyshnave (P3G) used dry leaves, green leaves, sticks and a raspberry treat in her bug hotel. - Uma
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Genna’s outdoor art
Mr Moana
Genna (P3R) has enjoyed her time in the sun, working on nature art. - Jackie
Looking good, Anshuman (P2G)! - Premlata
Pari is as pretty, happy and relaxed as a flower Pari (P1 Turtles) embraced nature by dressing up using natural ornaments made of flowers and leaves. Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, makes her feel happy and relaxed. - Rakhi
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Pietro (Nursery Orangutans) and Luca (P3R)’s outdoor adventures
- Ievgeniia
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Musical nature
Yaren (P6S)’s task was to create a musical instrument using things you can find in nature. Yaren used logs in our garden with wooden sticks. Click here or on the picture to view her video. - Ayse
Ruhaan’s all natural wind chimes I made this wind chime with dry broken branches from our garden. I got the sea shells and thread from my mum. I got the idea from a normal wind chime which is hanging at our home! It makes such a good sound. - Ruhaan (P4H)
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Nature is a family affair The whole family, almost (except the baby!), dressed in nature today. With leaf and flower prints on our T-shirts to wreaths and crowns on our heads...skirts and butterfly wings and staffs to rule! It was a wonderful walk, meeting friends, whilst hopping and skipping and sliding along the way. Happy Outdoor Learning Day everyone!
- Liam (P1 Pangolins) and Sophia (P3G)
Family, friends, boys, girls, young and old - all enjoying nature
Skye, Tomas, Sofia and Blake
- Chloe
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Outdoor learning with William and Owen in Canada William and Owen (Nursery - Orangutans) and I have been living on Vancouver Island in Canada since early March and we spend more time outdoors than ever before!
We spend most days exploring the forest and beaches around our Nana’s house and we have learned so much! We have seen sea lions, eagles, vultures, an owl, squirrels starfish, and crabs, plus many deer. We planted Nana’s garden, built forts, have learned to trail run and climb rocks and are now hunting pirates.
We still wish we were home with our Daddy and friends though. - Kristina
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What an amazing Outdoor Learning Day! Here’s some more great photos!
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Thanks to all who have shared your wonderful photos!
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By Lucie (P7D)