Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-Nine, 21st May 2021
Messages from Panaga School Senior Leadership Team Dear Panaga School Community, As this academic year draws towards closure, data reporting and analysis takes place. Today’s editorial will provide you with academic student data and also ask for your broad opinion about Panaga School. International Schools’ Assessment Results (ISA) We are pleased to present you with this year’s Panaga School International Schools’ IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, Assessment (ISA) results. Panaga students have again, overall, academically Seria, KB 3534, outperformed all 175 schools representing over 37,000 students from around the world. Negara Brunei These results are a credit to our students, reflective of our capable and dedicated Darussalam teaching team, who are supported by our wonderful parent body. Together, Improving Phone: Learning. Students from P5 and above who sat ISAs will have their individual reports +673 3372139 sent home in June, along with end of year school and swimming reports.
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Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety-Nine, 21st May 2021
24th May
25th May
26th May
27th May
Whole School
End of Term 3.1
Mendaram (PN-N)
8.00am: Nursery Exit Point
Rampayoh (P1-P3)
1.00pm: P2 Exit Point ~ Let's Celebrate
Teraja (P4-P7)
28th May
P5 Trip
P5 Trip
P5 Trip
7th June
8th June
9th June
7.45am: Pre Nursery Exit Point
8.15am: Mendaram Hari Raya Celebration
P3 Trip to Jerudong Park and Up Climbing P6 Beach Trip (7.45am 8.25am)
Melilas (M1-M2)
Whole School
10th June
11th June
Start of Term 3.2
Mendaram (PN-N)
8.00am: Nursery Entry Point
Rampayoh (P1-P3) BJSL Athletics Teraja (P4-P7)
8.00am: P4 Exit Point Driftwood Dinosaurs
Melilas (M1-M2)
Sports Training Schedule
(click here)
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.
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The Brunei COVID-19 National Vaccine Programme has been well attended by members of the Panaga School Community (some pictured below). We acknowledge and extend our thanks to the Brunei Ministry of Health (MoH) for their excellent management of the COVID situation. Vaccine clinics are providing an outstanding, well-organised service. We also acknowledge Panaga Health Centre frontliners too, who continue to support the great work of MoH, currently with vaccine administration at Suri Seri Begawan Hospital.
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Nursery Safety Walk Nursery went on an adventure walk around camp this week. We used our listening skills to keep ourselves safe when crossing the roads and we paid attention to traffic lights and zebra crossings. We also used our observational skills looking out for signs that gave us information on how to keep safe. It was a lovely walk with lovely weather and the children enjoyed using their communication skills to chat to teachers and friends as we walked. We would also like to thank the wonderful security guard, Dayat, who ensured that we were safe at all times.
- Miss Louise and Miss Alex
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To mark the end of a fantastic unit of learning all about bugs, last Monday the children from P1 came to school in their favourite bug costume. Parents were treated to a fancy dress parade and our best bug song.
Afterwards, the parents joined us back in class so children could share their knowledge and understanding through the information books they had made. Finally, the children put their skills to good use, completing lots of bug craft challenges. & Miss Rachel
By Miss Amy
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Passports and boarding passes in hand, the children scanned their luggage and completed the immigration check. On board the plane, both our economy and business class passengers took their seats and stored their hand luggage safely.
After a welcome from the pilot and the friendly flight attendants, we cruised the skies until we reached our dream destinations.
Excitedly, we unpacked our suitcases to reveal clues about our dream destinations. Some were sunny climates but others required winter wear.
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During our Knowledge Harvest, we used the ‘chalk talk’ thinking routine. This helped us to make links between similar ideas as we found out what knowledge we had at the start of our unit.
This week, we have been learning like geographers as we researched the places people like to go on holiday, how they get there and activities people can do in different locations. When learning about climate, we found out about the Equator and how the sun affects the weather in the tropics compared to the polar regions. We used Seesaw and Google Docs to complete our Geography projects which developed our DE Skills.
By the P3 Team
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As a part of the IPC unit, ‘Footprints From the Past’, the Primary 4 pupils have been investigating different time periods of the dinosaurs in their History lessons.
The children used their research skills to find out which dinosaurs lived in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, what plants and trees there were, as well as what the climate was like.
Their learning was presented on a timeline to show all of the different dinosaurs, plants and climates.
The Primary 4 Team
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P5 have just started to learn French. We learned how to hold a short conversation. Step 1: We started by singing the dialogue script on the right to the tune of ‘Frère Jacques’. Step 2: We then selected individual words, wrote them on post-it notes, and waved the words around when they appeared in the song. Bonjour!
Comment ça va?
Salut!
Très bien, merci.
Step 3: Using the script, we held a small conversation. Step 4: We learned new greetings and feelings so that we can change a conversation. Step 5: After we learned how to change a conversation using different greetings and feelings, we played a game outside using hula hoops. We were divided into two groups and stood on either side of the playground. Once Miss Steph counted down from three, one player from each group started running to the middle, ensuring not to miss a hoop. Once we met in the middle, we greeted each other. After the dialogue, we played ‘rock, paper, scissors’. The loser stepped out, the winner ran forwards trying to get to the other side, until they met someone else and repeated the same thing. The aim of the game was to try to get to the other side and score points for their team. This game is a great way to practise what we learn.
Miss Steph
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Finalists
Winners
What a wonderful week! We created our own poems and presented them to the classes. In each class, we had a competition, where we voted for the best ‘orators’. Then, we had the final - where an outside judge, Miss Perminder, had the very challenging task of picking winners.
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone! What talented poets we have in P6. nowledge,
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Brunei Times
Christmas
Do you remember lying down staring at
Happy and fun.
the night sky getting shocked from the
Santa is coming.
lashes of lightning that covers the night
We are now all happy tonight.
sky?
Relaxed.
That’s Brunei. Do you remember listening to the hornbills
By: Mary
squawking as loud as fire engines? That’s Brunei. Do you remember feeling the cold crashing waves?
My Closet In the pitch dark night, my closet is a stranger.
That’s Brunei.
Standing completely still with arms wide
Do you remember you’re on your kayak
open.
looking down at the jellyfish?
It stands still with sudden movements, And
That’s Brunei.
whispers quietly at the other stranger.
Do you remember watching the proboscis
I can hear it creaking open..
monkeys?
By: Andres
That’s Brunei. Do you remember sitting down at the Empire having high tea tasting the yummy cheese and relish sandwiches.
Colour Poem Black looks like the midnight sky.
That’s Brunei. Do you remember walking up the hike with Miss Maura when we were sweating looking at the good view.
Black smells like misery. Black tastes like despair. Black tastes like spirits. Black reminds me of my soul.
That’s Brunei.
By: Ollie
I love Brunei and you would love it too. That’s Brunei.
By: Morghan
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Thank you very much Mr Ben, our guest speaker,
for coming in to tell us more about different plants and forests.
We worked as a group to solve some ‘deforestation problems’.
What we learned about forests? Fergus: “I learned about peat bogs!” Lyanis: “I found out that the last forest layer above the canopy is called ‘emergent’.”
Gabe: “I learned that Scotland has all three different types of rainforests.”
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What did we learn from our video conference with astrophysicist, Jesse Shanahan?
How many black
holes are there?
We learned that there are different types of black
Jesse explained how atomic clocks, which are
holes, such as stellar and supermassive. There are
extremely accurate, were used to investigate how
more than a septillion galaxies and a galaxy can have
gravity can impact time. The gravity inside a black
more than one black hole.
hole is so intense that it actually changes time.
Why don’t we all get sucked into a black hole?
Astronomers are confident that the Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its centre. The reason we don’t
In terms of space, we really haven’t travelled very far. However, at a distance
get pulled into the black hole is because we are very far
of 22.8 billion kilometres from Earth,
away from it. The closer you are to a mass, the stronger
Voyager 1 is the most distant human-
the gravitational pull. Supermassive black holes can disrupt
made object.
or rip apart the stars that come to their vicinity.
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We shared our knowledge about Precipitation.
M1s have developed into true Weather & Climate Detectives since the start of our unit. This week, they shared their Knowledge, Skills and Understanding with P6M and each other through the cooperative learning strategy, ‘Carousel Feedback’.
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Dear Melilas Community, Happy Hari Raya. This week, I’d like to celebrate Drama and Performing Arts delivered so effectively in our M2 Physical Theatre Workshop before the break. Much time in education is spent focusing on academic attainment and progress (with good reason) and ‘core subjects’ often take priority and can eclipse other subjects. However, the Drama Workshop, delivered by Miss Peta, highlighted the importance of all subjects and the reason why we offer a broad and balanced curriculum here in Melilas.
audience of their peers and enjoy the experience of performance over the space of a morning. Arguably, the development of Personal Qualities, and skills such as these, are some of the most important aspects of the curriculum and it was a delight to see these highlighted and focused on during this wonderful Drama morning. Please see Miss Peta’s ‘more technical’ description on the next page.
I’d also like to mention the wonderful ‘Online Safety’ parent information sessions run by our very own Digital Education expert, Mr Neil. A big thank you to all parents who attended the sessions. The open and honest discussions and It was a pleasure to observe a development in perspectives shared enriched the sessions and confidence, self-esteem and assertiveness as added tremendous value. our M2 students were gently pushed out of their comfort zone. There was a visible increase and Enjoy your weekend, willingness to ‘take to the stage’ in front of an Rob
Online Safety
This week, Mr Neil (pictured) delivered some key information and messages on a variety of internet safety and online awareness topics, from TikTok to Youtube, to positive internet profiles, to how to protect yourself online. The key message that was returned to throughout the sessions was to engage with your children to create an open-dialogue for discussion. Our children are digital natives: there is availability to the internet, software and apps and they have the skills to access them. Let’s work together as a community to help and support each other in keeping children safe online. Please click here for more information: onlinesafety.com.
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Physical Theatre Drama Workshop
Before the holidays, M2 Drama students had a fabulous opportunity to participate in an extended Physical Theatre Drama Workshop. The students were pushed entirely out of their comfort zones and rose to the occasion. The workshop focused on exploring, ‘The Viewpoints’.
‘The Viewpoints’, adapted for stage acting by Anne Bogart, are an improvisational system that trains an actor to use their body in time and space to create meaning. They are points of awareness that a performer or creator has while working. They provide a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture. The students were encouraged to make offers, accept offers, extend moments (such as repeating a gesture or a shape) to advance the scene. They are spontaneous interactions between a group of actors that are useful for training our senses and sense of play as well as building an ensemble. Viewpoints, by their nature, are meant to encourage more risk taking and bolder choices in acting that are not confined by any expectations or a strict process. Through the improvised exploration of Viewpoints, artistic discovery is possible on a personal and group level. Resoundingly, the M2 students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and we are excited to see where this exploration takes us with performance work, relating to the current study of the Suzanne Collins novel, The Hunger Games. - Miss Peta
And Drama lessons too...
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