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Panaga School Biweekly, Issue One Hundred and Eleven, 26th November 2021

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Panaga School Biweekly, Issue One Hundred and Eleven, 26th November 2021

Messages from Special Panaga School Senior Leadership Team

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Dear Panaga School Community, We are excited to report that our school offices have reopened, with details available in 24.11.2021 COVID SCHOOL BULLETIN . This week, we also offer updates about the following topics:

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IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, Seria, KB 3534, Negara Brunei Darussalam Phone: +673 3372139 Teraja Office +673 3372694 Rampayoh Office Principal: Cindy Bin Tahal

+673 8777028 Cindy-Rose.BinTahal@ bsp-shell.bn

Mendaram/Rampayoh Deputy Principal: Donna Bonham donnabonham@ panagaschool.net

Mendaram/Rampayoh Deputy Principal: Claire Richmond clairerichmond@ panagaschool.net

Teraja Deputy Principal: Perminder Sanghera permindersanghera@ panagaschool.net

Melilas Deputy Principal: Robert Unsworth robertunsworth@ panagaschool.net

Business Service Lead: Cyla Ahmad cylaahmad@ panagaschool.net

2022 Parent and Teacher Association Panaga Calendars Do yourself a favour and purchase a copy of this year’s 2022 PTA Panaga Calendar.

This calendar captures beautiful photos of Panaga’s community. Calendars cost $15, with funds supporting children’s learning and play. They are available for purchase at Teraja and Rampayoh Offices until the 17th December. Congratulations to all involved in bringing together the 2022 PTA calendar. See poster inside this PSB for more details.

Panaga’s Got Talent 2021 Take a look at the following page to find a link to view all entries in this year’s Panaga’s Got Talent. All entrants have been awarded certificates and prizes, as they are all superstars!. Special mention of thanks goes to Miss Stacy for your leadership and Mr Guy for editing the final production.

Term 1 Student Reporting - Timelines and Updates Today, families will receive student Term 1 reports through email. These reports are fundamental to conversations that will take place in Parent and Teacher Consultations (PTCs). Bookings for PTCs are now closed. In the event you need to discuss PTC bookings, please communicate directly with your child’s teacher. All students are to be congratulated for managing the challenges of remote learning, as are all parents and teachers. For some, adapting to remote learning is exciting and preferred. For most, social connections with face to face learning is favoured and missed. Let’s take the end of Term 1 as an opportunity to reflect and celebrate all levels of learning, adaptation and resilience that has been required by all of our community.

Panaga School - Wellbeing for All We are pleased to inform you that Professor Michael Bernard is scheduled for an online talk titled, “Flourishing during difficult times” on Tuesday 7th December. See the brochure in this week’s PSB for more information. We are also pleased to provide you with links to the videos of Dr Angie Wigford’s sessions that have formed part of our series of “Wellbeing for All” presentations: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14I_EQwVroxve12gEZ_U0M6XENbGD-N7?usp=sharing Thank you for the fantastic contributions of wonderful learning in this week’s PSB. Our pages were swelling so big that you will find more than 30 additional pages of our P7 interview articles and Modern Foreign Language contributions included as hyperlinks.

This is our second last edition of PSB, prior to the end of term break that begins on Friday 10th December, when our final edition is due.

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Panaga School Biweekly, Issue One Hundred and Eleven, 26th November 2021

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Special Edition PK “A Plastic Ocean” awareness

Please watch ‘A Plastic Ocean’ (2016) with your family. PK and I are doing our best to be the change, clearing plastics from Panaga’s beaches and reducing single use plastic as much as we can. The ocean is such a huge part of our lives and cultural heritage.

- Tobias

Olly ready for a space rocket journey Here are Olly and his homemade rocket, about to go on a space rocket journey with P1 Turtle Class. He also brought some water, a big flashlight, a warm hoodie in case it got cold in space and a hand fan in case it got hot. ...3, 2, 1... lift off!

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Most craziest places to read!

Kasper - P4J Tomas - P4T

Leonore - P4S

James - P4J

Flora - P4S Matilda - P4T

Mieke - P4J

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Panaga Rocks!

I painted this rock.

Florian P4J

We painted some rocks and placed them around camp for people to find. It was really fun and I hope it made other people happy. It was so much fun finding other people’s painted rocks! - Harper P4S Mikaela P4T and Skye in P4J painted some rocks and hid them around Panaga.

Bruni and Nylah in P4J picked up rubbish by their homes.

I picked up rubbish at the beach behind my house-Maxi P4T.

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Special Edition As you may know, 2 weeks ago Panaga School launched outdoor classroom, with the aim to take students outside to engage in activities that celebrated the outdoors and provided connections with nature to promote health and wellbeing. This is particularly relevant with remote learning currently keeping everybody indoors more than would be usual for most.

In Melilas middle years, we offered some great outdoor learning activities that have sustained beyond our outdoor learning week. The following articles about Science, English and Drama reflect the creativity and hard work of Melilas teachers, while demonstrating the dedication, effort and resilience of our students managing their learning.

Science During outdoor learning week, pupils in Melilas planted native trees in their gardens. This supported learning targets in Biology, and in particular the current M2 topic on ecosystems and processes. Learning was also linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 13 Climate Actions and 15 Life on Land. Over the week nearly 50 Penaga Laut, Ketapang, Pandan Laut and Ficus saplings were planted around camp by our budding gardeners. All of the trees were germinated from seeds collected around camp over the previous year by Mr Simon and Nick Hoggmascall, president of Panaga Natural Historical Society (PNHS). Panaga comprises coastal beach forest and mixed swamp forest habitats, which are now becoming locally,as well as regionally rare due to coastal land development. It is an important diverse site which relies on continued occupation by local and overseas residents for a stable existence. This was our small contribution to continued management of the vegetation in our local area.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YRQV7n64seKBX-7Vu46ACncBQPsd7r2L

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Special Edition English In M1 students had the opportunity to take their learning outdoors to become one of the characters from our class novel ‘Holes’. They wrote, performed and recorded character monologues, making good use of character opinion, emotion, setting, costume and props.

In M2 our students completed a novel study of ‘The Hunger Games’. They celebrated the joy of reading and the beauty of the outdoors, simply by reading outside. This process led to the discovery that books are actually as mobile as phones and provide stiff competition in this technological era. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F3cxq4AQWwCH_vxs-Ix5XP-ApVyDV1cz

Drama In M1 Drama, students learnt lines and rehearsed monologues outside for upcoming performances. Miss Peta encouraged them to walk and perform on the beach or somewhere in nature where no-one could hear them. This encouraged greater confidence as actors with less inhibitions!

Meanwhile in M2 Drama, students got outside and observed nature to explore biomimicry in Costume design: Designing a costume for a character in Suzanne Collins novel 'The Hunger Games', using nature as inspiration.

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P6 have been very fortunate to have enhanced our online learning experiences through guest speakers. The Skype a Scientist programme connected us with Dr Holland in Australia, from whom we learnt so much knowledge about how cows and sheep can play a positive role in climate change. The children used many of their Personal Qualities to engage with and ask Dr Holland questions.

Greta (P6MM)

Daria (P6S)

Noel (P6K)

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To improve our skills as researchers, we were delighted to have Miss Hilde join us.

Through our Personal Quality of Reflection, we are now going to think more carefully about cross-referencing sources and think about our own theories and those of others.

Ella W.(P6MM)

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We were honored to have two presenters from Brunei National Television join us to share their experience of broadcasting and in particular, how the weather is reported in Brunei.

Joyce (P6S)

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P7 students have conducted interviews with a range of people, to produce high quality articles about people’s opinions and experiences of home schooling and lockdown.

Do yourself a favour and click on the following link to have a read of these articles. You will hear from working parents, medical front liner doctor and Mum, siblings, grandparents, teachers and more.

LINK TO P7 INTERVIEW ARTICLE

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Tourist posters of Panaga in French

In French, both P6 and P7 students have been working extremely hard. They have looked at how to look up words in a French dictionary; how to identify if a noun is masculine or feminine; how to put regular and some irregular nouns in the plural form; how to use colour adjectives with the correct masculine and feminine endings. They even completed their first online test and everyone that took part excelled. I am extremely proud of all the students - what they have covered so far has been quite challenging, especially as many of these grammatical rules do not exist in English and they had to do it online. They took it in their stride and have been applying the grammatical rules ever since. They know exactly what article to use in front of a noun, even in the plural form. In the last two weeks, they have been asked to create Posters of Panaga for French Tourists-not only did they have to take photos/draw pictures of Panaga, they also had to describe the pictures using the correct articles (masculine/feminine/plural) and the correct adjective endings. As you can see, the results have been outstanding. Not only have the students been very creative, they have also taken beautiful pictures of what they think represents Panaga. We definitely have some great photographers/artists in P6 and P7. Furthermore, they also showed great computer skills and thought very hard about the layout of the posters. Well done to all the students of P6 and P7. Enjoy the beautiful posters of Panaga in the below link.

Les cartes postales de Panaga - Postcards of Panaga In French, we have been studying the topic ‘holidays’. For the last two weeks, students in Melilas have been hard at work creating postcards of Panaga. We combined the lesson with an ‘outdoor activity’ and they were given a type of scavenger hunt in French. Their task was to go out and take certain pictures of Panaga that would describe their staycation in Panaga, as well as pictures of their own choice. They had a choice of either creating a funny or a serious postcard. Their next task is to actually write about their staycation in Panaga in French. As you can see from the postcards, their staycations have been amazing and students have been very imaginative. If you need to find a good place to eat, a great swimming pool or an hotel, you know who to contact. The postcards have shown that Panaga is full of great food choices, places to sleep as well as different types of swimming pools and activities. I was not aware that there were so many five star hotels in Panaga! PASSEZ DE BONNES VACANCES À PANAGA! Those who say that you cannot have fun in Panaga, are certainly mistaken. Take a look at our postcards following the below link:

FRENCH STUDENT POSTERS AND POSTCARDS

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These beautiful 2022 calendars are available for cash payment and pick up from either Teraja or Rampayoh School Offices from Nov 25 until Dec 17.

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Panaga School Biweekly, Issue One Hundred and Eleven, 26th November 2021

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Panaga School Biweekly, Issue One Hundred and Eleven, 26th November 2021

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Thank you to the Scheck family who have kindly passed on the following physics experiments linked to Christmas, that may be of interest to others.

Dear "PiA - Physics in Advent" friends, Under the motto "still 24 experiments until Christmas" we offer 24 entertaining physics experiments to do yourself again this year. Due to the great interest from abroad, physics in Advent will, as in previous years, also be available in English.

Who may take part in Physics in Advent?

PiA is designed for pupils in grades five to ten and from 11 to 18 years of age. However, based on the experience of previous years, parents, teachers, students or those simply interested in physical phenomena also take great pleasure in it. This year, adults in companies, departments and circles of friends are also encouraged to join in as a team and solve the riddle. You can watch a simple experiment every day from 1 to 24 December on YouTube, which you can be easily do yourself using standard household materials. Afterwards you will try to explain the phenomena, with four possible answers. The next day, the solution is available - again via YouTube video. If you wish, the results can be evaluated: individually, for a school class or even for whole schools.

Anyone can register!

https://www.physics-in-advent.org or https://www.pia.eu

Further information on social media:

https://www.facebook.com/PhysikImAdvent https://twitter.com/PhysikImAdvent https://twitter.com/PhysicsInAdvent https://t.me/PhysicsInAdvent https://www.instagram.com/physikimadvent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtm36YNHodlXx0mYLa8vUIw

Project supported by numerous people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WntHPDlDiDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPxyxsxGxV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfBWC_977qE We are looking forward to your participation!

With best regards, Arnulf Quadt PiA team at the University of Göttingen

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