Panaga School Biweekly, Issue 141

Panaga School Biweekly Issue 141 13th October 2023

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Panaga School Biweekly Panaga School IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, Seria, KB, 3534, Negara Brunei Darussalam

Phone: Teraja Office +673 3372139/2232 Rampayoh Office +673 3372694/3971

Principal: Brian Platts Brian.Platts@bsp-shell.bn

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

Teraja Deputy Principal: Aimee Boase aimeeboase@panagaschool.net

Melilas Deputy Principal: Mandy Russell amandarussell@panagaschool.net

Business Service Lead: Cyla Ahmad cylaahmad@panagaschool.net

Panaga School Biweekly Editors: Hannah Zakaria & Donovan Dolamit publications@panagaschool.net

Dear Parents, We are such a busy school community and one full of heart, rigour and passion; this is illustrated in yet another bumper issue of the Bi-Weekly for you to consume and enjoy.

I have just attended the Teraja Assembly, led by P7, focusing on the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Global Goals. It was creative, insightful, thought provoking and very entertaining (air guitars were involved!). They highlighted that we are effectively at 'half time' in our collective aim to achieve the goals by 2030 and although great strides have been made in many of the goals, we are only 'on track' in 15% of them. When I look at what the P7 ambassadors put together in their assembly, along with the super initiatives of our other students across the school, it makes me wonder what % we would have achieved if they had been in charge of governments, NGOs/INGOs and multinational companies across the globe!

I also attended the start of the Rampayoh Assembly this morning. The theme was respect and communication. P3 performed a beautiful song with such precision and joy, remembering all of the words. They were fabulous and the audience (P1 and P2) were equally fabulous, showing their respect and appreciation. This was similar to the cross country event last Friday where I was so impressed by our students supporting all of the competitors from not only Panaga, but also our friends from Hornbill, ISB and JIS. The competitors were equally impressive, helping each other to complete the course and interacting with the supporters and showing their appreciation.

As we approach the end of half term, there are lots of events happening on next week, including various IC exit points, the last leg of the 'Big Pedal' (we are nearly at our target), Parent Meeting re: transition to JIS management ( Please RSVP with details of who will be attending, coupled with any questions that would like addressed, by Monday 16th October to: koomeeyin@panagaschool.net), and our Breast Cancer Awareness Morning (please refer to slide 4 for specific dates).

Thank you to all of our Parent Reps who are doing a great job in helping to keep everyone connected and our PTA, who have great plans for the year ahead - thank you to Maree, Kamila and our new Secretary, Kerry, in advance of all of the wonderful activities and events planned for the upcoming year.

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I am delighted to let the community know that Sarah Hutson, our Music Teacher, has been discharged from hospital and is now at home. Sarah and her husband, Gianfranco are very grateful for all of the support. Sarah is recovering at home and she, with medical advice, will let us know when she is able to see visitors. I would like to thank our teachers who have been covering a variety of staff absences this half term, especially Ms. Karachi, who has been taking many of the music lessons.

We have updated the school's exclusion periods for infectious conditions policy and you will see this on slide 5. I do know there are a few 'bugs' and colds going around at the moment, so please refer to the policy and if you are unsure, contact your class teacher or Deputy Principal for further advice.

As you will know, we will be on half term break at the end of next week and will be returning to school on Monday 30th October when the highlight will undoubtedly be the Diwali celebrations and assembly at the end of that week.

Have a lovely, safe and relaxing weekend.

Brian, SLT and all of our staff.

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UPCOMING EVENTS 2023 School Academic Calendar 2023-2024 Parent Events Calendar Mon 16/10

Tue 17/10

Wed 18/10

Thu 19/10

Fri 20/10

BJSL Athletics @ Balapan stadium P5-P7

8am : Parent Meeting JIS Transition

P1 Exit Point Kindest Kids in Town!

P5A Assembly

Breast Cancer Awareness Coffee Morning

Mendaram Exit Point with parents

9-11:30 P3 Exit Point Fratinis KB

Rampayoh Assembly - Big Pedal Round Up

P2 Exit Point 'Who Am I?'

Mon 23/10

Tue 24/10

Wed 25/10

Thu 26/10

Fri 27/10

Term Break Mon 30/10

Tue 31/10

Wed 1/11

Thu 2/11

Fri 3/11

JIS Presentation for M2 Parents

U13 Netball @ JIS

Teraja Outdoor Assembly

Outdoor Assembly

Friends of Mendaram Healthy Snack Boxes

Diwali Assembly whole school

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2023 EXCLUSION PERIODS FOR INFECTIOUS CONDITIONS

Link to pdf file

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The Big Pedal on Little Bikes!

Did you know 20 times around the bike path in the old Pre-Nursery playground is 1 KM? Together the children of Mendaram managed 80 laps (4KM) in total as part of the October Big Pedal.

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The Big Pedal helps to promote good health and mental well-being, as well as reduce our consumption of fossil fuels.

So far the children of Panaga School have cycled !

3573.7km Will we reach our target of 4000.3 km? Only one more week to go! Happy Cycling!

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P2 Proboscis Monkey Class In P2, our IPC unit is ‘Who Am I?’.

As part of our International learning, we have been comparing similarities and differences between the lives of children from different countries. In our class, we have many different nationalities, so we paired up and asked each other questions.

What food do you like to eat?

Where do you come from?

Which countries have you travelled to?

What languages do you speak?

What is your religion?

We both speak English.

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P3 Year Group Singing I can climb this mountain I can brave the storm I can be amazing There’s no telling now how Far I’ll go When this day needs saving It starts with me I know So I will move, I will rise I will choose, I will try To be my own SUPERHERO!

Link to Video We are the P3 Singers and we have just realized that we do not need Spiderman or Wonder Woman! We can be our own superheroes!

All we need are the Personal Qualities and we are good to go!

Enjoy the song.

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In Lego Club, we encourage children to be creative and work together as a team by sharing their amazing ideas and skills while having lots of fun!

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Stay Safe!

Doing the right thing

Jaga Keselamatan!

To work together

A safety assembly for Rampayoh was held last Friday. We talked about relevant safety issues and demonstrated them to keep ourselves and others safe and secure in school, on the road and at home.

Thank you parents for your continuous support. Let’s always work together to keep everyone safe!

Wear a bicycle helmet while cycling

Stop, Look & Listen before crossing the road

Walk on the pedestrian crossings with an adult

Walk instead of running on the concrete path

Put on your seatbelt

Put on a hat in the sun

Hold the blade down when holding scissors

Kind Hands (NO pushing & hitting)

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Once upon a time there was a child named The Biggest Best Riding Hood Ever. Well, Bigg for short.

Bigg was asked to take a picnic lunch to Grandmother’s house. Now, Bigg was a little bit nervous … do we know what nervous means?

She was nervous for good reasons. It seems that Bigg had heard some other Panaga children talking about a BIG BAD WOLF, who’d been seen, right in Panaga! YIKES! I would be scared too. But you know, Bigg knew how to stay safe because she had just been to the SAFETY ASSEMBLY at Rampayoh!

YEAR 1 DRAMA GUIDED IMAGERY

Bigg had strong open eyes to see if anything looked like a wolf.

Bigg had a nose that could smell anything fishy going on

Bigg had strong ears to hear the wolf if he came close.

Bigg had a voice that could say “NO” bigger and louder than anyone else in town.

Scan the QR Codes for short clips…

When Bigg put all these body parts together, it was the BIGGEST, even bigger than the Big Bad Wolf! Well, if there was a wolf, he sure didn’t stay in town, because he heard just how big, Bigg was! The Biggest! So, Bigg felt safe to walk to Grandma’s house. They enjoyed a delicious picnic lunch and that made Bigg feel like the BEST! The End!!!

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The children in P5 have been learning about the life of Ibn Battuta . To showcase their new knowledge, the children re-created recount of Ibn Battuta’s travels known as The Rihla. To achieve an authentic old parchment look, the children presented their learning on tea-stained paper.

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Panaga Eco-Schools ASA Energy survey

You may remember that in April the Eco-Schools ASA group carried out a survey of lights left on during ASAs. They then created posters to remind people to switch lights off when not in use and stuck them up next to light switches.

Well, we have the results from a re-survey in October and the results are very positive indeed!. See below!

Energy survey statistics 20/04/2023

Energy survey statistics 5/10/2023

63% of Teraja and Melilas rooms surveyed in April had lights left on with nobody in the room.

13% of Teraja and Melilas rooms surveyed in October had lights left on with nobody in the room.

90% of Teraja and Melilas rooms surveyed in April had more lights turned on than people present.

39% of Teraja and Melilas rooms surveyed in October had more lights turned on than people present.

62 people were present in the 30 classrooms surveyed in April, yet a total of 187 lights were switched on.

117 people were present in the 23 classrooms surveyed in October, yet a total of 67 lights were switched on.

In the survey in April there were 3 lights left on for each person present in the Teraja and Melilas classrooms.

In the survey in April there were 0.57 lights left on for each person present in the Teraja and Melilas classrooms.

58% of lights were left on during ASAs on 20th April 2023.

37% of lights were left on during ASAs on 5th Oct. 2023.

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This week in M2, the children have been testing their Microbit parachutes.

They coded their Microbits, using the accelerometer, to track how fast their parachutes fell to the ground

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Mark Rothko inspired creations

We selected colours which meant something to us and using pastels created blocks of colour to express ourselves.

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Creating our own abstract ‘Rothko” using the colours of the jungle as our stimulus.

We mixed various shades of green using blue and yellow acrylic paints.

We added movement and texture by manipulating the paint with tools once on our canvas.

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MELILAS - Science and Geography

M2 VISIT TO TROPICAL BIODIVERSITY CENTER A well timed trip for M2, whilst studying ‘Ecosystems’ in Science and ‘Rainforests’ in Geography.

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MELILAS - Science and Geography

M2 VISIT TO TROPICAL BIODIVERSITY CENTER

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NTC Reading Marathon, ‘At our house’, Movie Night

This year’s edition started off a bit slow, but our NTC reading champs managed to read off the chart.

This week was Children’s Book Week in the Netherlands. In NTC we celebrated with the annual Reading Marathon: the more the students read, the bigger the treat at Movie Night.

They were rewarded with pancakes and pizza with movies.

Reading is FUN !

Lezen is leuk !

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DRAWING CLUB ASA

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Chess Club ASA

Originating in India, people have been playing chess for over 1500 years! Our chess ASA consists of the latest generation of more than 40 keen chess players of all levels and abilities from P4 to M2. You play to find out who will be king or queen of the castle in friendly games of medieval combat (without the blood and gore!)

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“Chess is a really fun and enjoyable game.”

-Param, P6

“I like to play chess morning, noon and knight!” Mr. Fagg

“I like chess ASA!” -Mac, P4

“I’m learning a lot!”

-Miss Mia

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CROSS COUNTRY SUCCESS On Friday last week Panaga School hosted the BJSL Cross -Country event.

Students from Hornbill, ISB, and JIS joined Panaga students to run a varied and challenging course around the padang and on the beach. The cheering and encouragement generated by spectators created an electric atmosphere and energised each and every one of the runners. It was great to see so many of our students who attend Friday running club performing so well. Of 24 medals up for grabs, Panaga students won 12 including 4 gold. A tremendous day for all involved.

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Term 1 2023 Book Club Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running and you can now browse the latest books and order online. There are hundreds of fantastic children’s books to choose from, all at great prices!

For every purchase in this term’s Book Club, our school will earn 20% of the value in rewards to buy books for our school.

Please place your order directly online by 20th October 2023. The books arrive to school via courier about 2-3 weeks after the closing date. The books are distributed to the children via the class teacher.

To place your order, please click the link below. https://world-shop.scholastic.co.uk/schools/panaga-school-kb3534/digital-book-club

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