Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-One, 5th March 2021
Messages from Panaga School Senior Leadership Team Dear Panaga School Community, Our school calendar provides activities to help practise and strengthen our Personal Qualities, while also creating a sense of fun. Please see below examples of such activities. In addition, as we move towards the end of Term 2, parents are invited to consultation sessions to discuss your child’s learning and development. Parent Teacher Consultations (PTCs): P2 to M2 Please use this link - PTC Sign up P2-M2 - to sign up for P2-M2 PTCs. This IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, document will be locked on Friday 12th March at 12pm. Please see class teachers Seria, KB 3534, if you would like to discuss information about PTCs further. Negara Brunei Panaga School
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Animal Support Day Next week, on Wednesday 10th March, we will have Animal Support Day. Come (+673) 3375728/3372139 along to school dressed inspired by an animal. Donations of non perishable (Teraja/ animal food for cats and dogs, as well as money, will be collected in school foyers Melilas) on the day. Donations will be delivered to local animal shelters. (+673) 3372694 (Mendaram/ Rampayoh)
Principal: Cindy Bin Tahal (+673) 3372355/ 8777028 cindybintahal@ panagaschool.com Panaga School Senior Administration Officer: Jalinah Bte Ali (+673) 3375728 jalinah.ali@bsp-shell.bn Admin Support, Rampayoh/Mendaram: Zurimah Bte Jumat z.jumat@bsp-shell.bn
International Day International Day is a day to celebrate our own and other countries and cultures. The day will take place in Teraja and Melilas on Thursday 8th April. Individuals and groups provide entertainment throughout the day, either amongst stalls, or as part of our International Day Assembly. Please contact sarahhutson@panagaschool.com if you would like to nominate a performance to add to our International Day programme. Countries currently registered for this year’s International Day are: Australia, Brunei, Canada, China, Cyprus, Egypt, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Latinos Countries (Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela), Malaysia, Norway, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Thailand, The Netherlands, Turkey and USA. If you would like to nominate a country and host a stall, please email hannazakaria@panagaschool.net. Further information and a programme for the day will be sent to families next week.
Admin Support, Teraja: Hasmah Bte Hj Salleh hasmah.salleh@bspshell.bn Panaga School Weekly Editor: Damian Brady damianbrady@ panagaschool.net
Book Week In conjunction with World Book Day 2021, we will celebrate Book Week, beginning Monday 19th April. More information will be provided to families ahead of the event. A book character dress up day will be part of the programme. Enjoy viewing learning celebrations in this week’s Panaga School Weekly.
Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-One, 5th March 2021
8th March
9th March
10th March
Whole School
Animal Support Day
Mendaram (PN-N)
Animal Rescuers Exit Point: Nursery and PreNursery
Rampayoh (P1-P3)
11th March Public Holiday Israk Mikraj
12th March P2-M2 Reports to parents P1 Assembly
P1 Maths Workshop, 1.00pm
Teraja (P4-P7)
Melilas (M1-M2)
Whole School
15th March
16th March
17th March
18th March
19th March
P2-P7 PTCs
P2-P7 PTCs
Brunei Cultural Performance (Parents)
No ASAs
Last day of Term 2
Mendaram (PN-N)
Science Day (Early Years and P2/3)
Rampayoh (P1-P3)
Science Day (Early Years and P2/3)
P4 Shaping Up Exit Point, 8.15am
Teraja (P4-P7)
Melilas (M1-M2)
Sports Training Schedule
M1 & M2 PTCs
M1 & M2 PTCs
Event information above is correct at the time of printing. To keep up-to-date with all school events, please go to: www.panagaschool.com/calendar.
Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-One, 5th March 2021
Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-One, 5th March 2021
Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-One, 5th March 2021
What an incredible Sports Day! The children continuously cooperated and communicated with their teams. They showed resilience and respect throughout the whole morning. The children were able to show how hard they have trained/practised. Most of all, everyone had fun! Your smiling faces said it all. I am so proud of each and every one of you. I would also like to say a big thank you to Miss Danni, Mr Steven and the P7s for coming over to our Sports Day. Your leadership, enthusiasm and encouragement made it extra special for us. - Miss Melissa
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Thank you to our 15 parent volunteers and 285 students who turned up to dance the night away at this week’s school disco. A special thanks to DJ Miss Cyla who got everybody up and moving. This week’s disco generated more than $1,000 for Panaga School’s Parent and Teacher Association (PTA), which will be used to enhance learning and play for all children.
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The 7 petals on the logo represent the 7 ethnic groups of Brunei.
Gorgeous: 7 ethnic groups of Brunei.
Practicing skills to say a sentence in a different language.
Understanding the unique culture, traditional displays, food of Brunei.
One of the traditional costumes of Brunei.
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Musical instrument ’Gulingtangan’
Flag waving
Painting & Sponging
Excited for the parade
On Thursday 25th February, Early Years celebrated Brunei 37th National Day. Students and staff dressed up in Brunei flag colours, and wore the traditional dress called “Baju Kurung” for the girls and “Baju Cara Melayu” for the boys respectively. We started the morning with a parade. Our cute little boys and girls showed their patriotism by waving small flags during the parade followed by the singing of the National Anthem. This was a fabulous opportunity for the Early Years to gain more knowledge about their host country. Lots of interesting activities were set up for them to develop their skills and understand the traditions better. - Early Years Team
‘Congkak’ game
Landmarks hunting
Talented dancers
Ambrosial Pandan leaves
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We learned about proportion and used this knowledge to help us create realistic self-portraits.
We developed our skills of painting and drawing using different media.
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Primary 4 visit The Royal Brunei Armed Forces Training Camp, as a part of their IPC unit, Shaping Up – Health and Wellbeing The students were welcomed to the camp and given a brief history of the Armed Forces in Brunei as well as a safety briefing.
We then moved on to the Physical Training Centre where the soldiers gave a demonstration of some of the combat exercises that they are trained to do.
Next, it was time for the children to test their own fitness levels by doing the same exercises!
The classes then went over to the parade ground to observe the soldiers marching. The children also had the opportunity to call out the instructions to the squad and to try out some of the marching steps.
At the Small Arms Range, pupils used the virtual range to aim at targets.
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After all of the exercises, parading and target practice, it was time for a welcomed break. The children went to the canteen, carried their food to their table, waited until everyone was seated and then ate their lunch.
Children learnt about the history of the Brunei Armed Forces and about why health and fitness are important. They had the opportunity to practise their physical fitness skills as well as marching skills. Students developed their understanding of life in the Armed Forces in their host country.
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This week has been a busy and productive week for our Melilas students. For many subjects, this means that current units, topics and learning are drawing to an end and our students have been working hard consolidating, assessing and evaluating their learning across different subjects. I’ve included some highlights of Melilas’s learning below but for regular, frequent communication about learning in our Middle Years, don’t forget to subscribe to our Twitter feed: @PanagaBrunei. Parent Discussion Groups I would like to take the opportunity to thank all parents who attended our Melilas parent discussion sessions that we ran over the last 2 weeks. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet more of our Melilas community, match parents to children and discuss our vision for our Middle Years section. I very much appreciated the chance to hear your views and perspectives. I can’t overstate how important it was to listen to and gain insight from your experiences of our education in Melilas. I will be returning to you shortly with dates for a meeting to bring together our stakeholders and articulate our vision for Melilas. PE Uniform Competition deadline extension: We have had some exciting new entries for our new PE uniform design competition. Some of our Melilas students have asked if they can have a little more time to perfect their designs so we will extend the competition deadline until next week. This will allow us to collect the maximum number of entries from our budding young sportswear designers. The winning design will go on to work with professional designers to translate their design into reality. Top Ten Finally, a special congratulations for our Top 10 students this week for demonstrating Resilience as our focus Personal Quality, as well as more general examples of positive behaviours from our Middle Years. Have a good weekend.
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- Mr Simon
Measuring and quantifying shape and space in Maths; exploring sound frequency and amplitude and chemical reactions in Science; and an example of our M2 3D Art completed project.
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Ross, the weatherman, visits M1 In Geography, the M1s have been learning about weather and climate. They deepened their knowledge about several aspects of the weather like precipitation, clouds, air pressure and weather extremes such as heatwaves. They practised their weather reading skills, now being able to predict the weather by looking at the clouds, and to work with several weather reading equipment.
This week, we found ourselves very lucky with the visit of Mr Ross Bannister who worked for New-Zealand’s Meteorology Service. Mr Ross helped us understand the Panaga weather by explaining the Intertropical Convergence Zone and how Air Masses affect the weather. He also helped us build our own weather reading equipment. Thanks Mr Ross for the informative and fun morning! - M1 Team
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