Panaga School Magazine Issue 51 July 2015

“We say goodbye, and we say hello.”

A world united learning

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Issue 51 July 2015

3. Message from the Deputy Head Teacher of

Panaga School HRF/4 Brunei Shell Petroleum Sdn Bhd Jalan Utara Seria, KB 3534 Negara Brunei Darussalam (+673) 3375728/3372138 (Teraja) (+673) 3372694 (Rampayoh & Mendaram)

Mendaram 4. and 5. The Dutch Farewell Assembly

6. and 7. Belait Beach Clean Up Day 8. and 9. Talk for Writing Goes Local!

10. Gymnastics Workshop

Principal: Tim Robinson tim.robinson@shell.com

11. Community Netball with P6 and P7

Head Teacher, Teraja: Andy Ryan andrewryan@panagaschool.com

Panaga School - working together

Head Teacher, Rampayoh & Mendaram: Cindy Bin Tahal cindybintahal@panagaschool.com Senior Admin: Jalinah Bte Ali 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

12. Sekolah Rendah Panaga and

13. PTA’s commitment to enhancing learning and fun on Rampayoh and Mendaram 14. Celebrating the success and contributions of our Panaga Student Council 15. Parent and Pupil Voice at Panaga School

16. Panaga teachers’ ‘Hi Vis’ vests 17. Panaga School Choir’s great year 18. Pre-Nursery’s garden plans 19. International Mud Day

Panaga School Magazine Editor and Layout: Damian Brady damianbrady@panagaschool.com

20. and 21. P1’s year in review 22. Drawing ASA 23. Writing and Illustrating ASA 24. Seismic events in IP5D 25. Rugby playing LSAs 26. Thanks Swim Team

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Message from the Deputy Head Teacher of Mendaram:

Amanda Holmes The end of the school year brings the expected joy of finishing another year, and perhaps some sadness at leaving behind a year filled with great experiences, teachers and friends. It has been a year of hard work and many great successes, many of which can be seen in our 2014-2015 Yearbook. Thank you Mr Damian for compiling and editing such a wonderful memento full or memories and celebration. Well done to all staff on a truly impressive exhibition of Panaga School achievements.

We have had a very busy year with lots of new learning, demonstrating that our learning journey is always continuous. There have been so many opportunities for children to connect with their personal goals, values, or with an issue they believe to be important. Our Student Council has combined their understanding of values and resilience with determination to increase participation, critical dialogue and creative responses to issues important to them. They have made connections with fellow students in local Bruneian schools and opened opportunities for working collaboratively on key issues of values, sustainability and environmental concern. Well done for taking the leading role in planning and organising the ‘Beach Clean Up Day’. Thank you for helping to make our environment a safer and cleaner place to live!

The Panaga Community recently said a special ‘Goodbye’ to our Dutch Stream as it will have its last day on the 14th July, 2015. After 67 years of a Dutch Stream at Panaga School our Dutch students will move into the International Stream in September 2015. We celebrated this transition with an awesome assembly and unveiled a wonderful work of art to mark the end of an era. Thank you to our dedicated and talented Dutch teachers for organising this event. We all learnt a great new ‘Dutch Dance’!

Our thanks also go out to all our administration staff, security guards, cleaning teams and gardening crews for the wonderful job they have done over the year: looking after us, keeping us safe and maintaining our school. We also recognise all our Panaga parents and families who have given us their time, energy and support in a great variety of ways, from classroom parents, to sporting coaches to action group members. Thank you for your help! Thank you to the PTA for supporting Panaga School with several projects this year, such as the Art Gallery in Rampayoh Hall and the Poster and Photo sale. Your fundraising is amazing!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our children, families and teachers a very safe and fun-filled holiday break.

To all our friends and colleagues who are leaving Panaga this year, we hope you settle into you new schools quickly and make lots of new friends, but please don’t forget your old ones and stay in touch - we are only a ‘click’ away!

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The closing of the Dutch Stream Assembly The dance

We will miss and look forward to…

DP1, 2 and 3 said they will miss the times together on the mat to tell each other about the weekend.

At first we all performed the dance. We thought it was a good idea to start with a bang, to show everyone how the ‘Hollanders’ start a good assembly. The dance wasn’t hard. Even the smaller kids were dancing. Everyone was dressed in orange so we looked great for the audience.

This is also the way King’s Day starts in Holland. Written by Teuntje and Jolien

They will also miss Sinterklaas visiting their classroom and they also will miss reading the Dutch books together.

But they will also look forward to things like reading English books, playing with new friends and as Noortje said: “We will be having golden time!”

And so, we will have a ‘golden’ time.

Written by Julian

The ‘ polonaise!’

At the end of the assembly, we left the hall with a BANG, just like we started. We did this to show how Dutchies leave a party. We always see the fun in everything so why would we end this in a boring way? While Mr Rick explained how we do the ‘Polonaise’, we got ready for the end of the assembly. At Teraja, we walked with all the classes around the school and every class stopped when they passed their classroom.

We hope everybody enjoyed our Assembly.

We sure did! Written by Pleuni

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We said Dutch! They said no.

We said why?

And they said go, go, go!

Oh, oh! ‘t has to go!

They said goodbye and we said oh no!

Hello, Hello!

We don’t know why they said goodbye.

We said oh no! (2X) We were sad. But we were strong.

We pushed through.

Then nothing can go wrong.

Oh, oh, nothing wrong.

They said goodbye and we said oh no!

Hello, Hello!

We don’t know why they said goodbye.

We said oh no! (2X) We adjust, Do our best, Learn English fast.

Passed every single test.

Oh yes, yes we did!

They said goodbye and we said oh no!

Hello, Hello!

We don’t know why they said goodbye.

We said oh no! (2X)

We got help, from everyone, In the school, You are second to none!

Oh yes, yes you are!

We say goodbye, and we say hello,

Hello, hello, We do know why we say goodbye, we say hello. (2X) Dutch Stream gone, IP next year, and NTC It is all pretty near.

Oh yes, it’s next year!

We say goodbye, and we say hello, Hello, hello, We do know why we say goodbye, We say hello. (2X) IP see you next year!! (Repeat)

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Community News Special Feature We are a school community united in learning

Belait Students Community Clean Up Day - Saturday 6th June, 2015 Over one tonne of waste collected along Belait coastline Sunday, June 7, 2015

OVER one tonne of waste was collected yesterday along the Belait coastline by 10 schools in collaboration with the Belait District Office and three local non-governmental organisations.

Congratulations to our Panaga Student Council and community for your contributions to the Belait Students Community Clean Up Day. In conjunction with World Environment Day on Friday 5th June, more than 385 students representing ten schools in the Belait District turned out in five locations to clean up the environment on Saturday 6th June. This day gave students the op-

portunity to give back to the environment and raise awareness of litter control.

Panaga School, BSP’s SCM/6, BSP’s PPT Engineers, Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali, Sekolah Rendah Sungai Liang, Sekolah Rendah Ahmad Tajuddin, Sekolah Rendah Panaga, Sekolah Rendah PSN Seria, Chung Hua Middle School, St John’s, St Angela’s and Hornbill all participated in the day. NGO Beach Bunch, Green Brunei and Bru

Location

People

Waste

Jubilee Park

170

110kgs

W9—W5

30

93 kgs

E1

62

280kgs

Rampayoh

50

124kgs

Billionth Barrel 75

421kgs

Wild all assisted in the running of the day.

Kuala Belait District Officer, Haji Haris and Deputy Managing Director of BSP, Haji Kamaludin both supported and officially opened the event. These two gentleman congratulated all students in attendance, encouraging them to maintain a clean community always.

Registration points spread along the coastline from Jubilee Park, Kuala Belait all

the way through to Billionth Barrel Monument, Seria.

From the five registration points, more than a ton of rubbish was removed from the environment. For more details see tally sheet on the next page, generated by students on the day.

Panaga School Student Council, Brunei LNG, BSP, JASTRE and Kuala Belait District Office all sponsored the event.

Story: Cindy Bin Tahal

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Community News Special Feature We are a school community united in learning GENERAL INFORMATION No. of trash bags filled Weight of trash collected (kgs) Distance cleaned (meters) MOST LIKELY TO FIND ITEMS Cigarette Butts Food Wrappers (candy, chips) Take Out Containers (plastic) Take Out Containers (foam) Bottle Caps (plastic) Bottle Caps (metal) Lids (plastic) Straws/Stirrers Forks, Knives, Spoons Batteries Beverage Bottles (plastic) Beverage Bottles (glass) Beverage Cans Grocery Bags (plastic) Other Plastic Bags Paper Bags Cups & Plates (paper) Cups & Plates (plastic) Cups & Plates (foam) FISHING GEAR Fishing Buoys Fishing Net & Pieces Rope (1 metre = 1 piece) Fishing line (1 metre = 1 piece)

PACKAGING MATERIALS Plastic/Foam Packaging Other Plastic Bottles (oil, bleach) Strapping bands Tobacco Packaging/Wrappers OTHER TRASH Appliances (fridges,washers) etc Balloons Bullet Shells Cigar Tips Cigarette Lighters Construction Materials Clothing/Footwear Furniture Light bulbs/Fixtures Vehicle Parts Toys Tyres PERSONAL HYGIENE Dental Care Diapers Syringes Feminine hygiene

24 124 400

59 280 1,000

BILLIONTH 19 421 450

15 93 450

JUBILEE 35 110 1,000

261 76 37 12 126 3 31 9 6 166 45 5 2 58 4 12 30 21

44 123 157 65 586 45 53 15 29 3 1,053 57 54 145 225 22 58 70 47

428 99 44 168 170 16 65 37 14 5 211 43 25 39 86 22 26 43 33

2 13 5 11 25 2 2 2 6 24 2 25 36 29 2 21 11

538 198 108 40 141 14 54 94 20 3 80 7 13 44 85 32 46 51 14

4 34 -

9 49 7

5 22 46 1

2 3 -

5 19 128 11

26 4 4 30

65 66 14 33

51 7 7 37

14 1 1

92 8 17 10

4 6 6 8 24 3 -

1 2 18 7 2 13 -

1 13 170 3 3 11 2 2 1 8 -

1 4 1 1 2 1 -

4 15 14 69 8 53 11 20 2 5 4 3

1 -

3 11 1 13

1 4 -

-

2 1 -

RAMPAYOH

E1

W9

TOTAL 152 1,028 3,300 TOTAL 1,273 509 351 296 1,048 78 205 157 71 17 1,534 154 97 255 490 109 144 215 126 TOTAL 12 57 257 19 TOTAL 248 86 42 111 TOTAL 5 17 27 249 36 63 39 46 4 9 28 3 TOTAL 6 16 2 13

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Talk for Writing Goes Local!

After the successful implementation of Talk for Writing (T4W) at Panaga School and witnessing the huge impact it has had on raising writing standards, teachers from local schools have also been enthused and are keen to embrace this particular approach. In particular, Marilyn Kok Lee Chin, a Year 3 teacher at Sekolah Rendah Dato Mohd Yassin, after attending the parent’s T4W presentation decided to put some of the T4W practices into place. Although she is in the initial stages of implementing Talk for Writing with her classes, she is already noticing huge improvements in both her pupil’s English language and writing skills.

Marilyn was one of the many local teachers that attended the T4W parent’s presentation held by specialist trainer Maria Richards last term. The presentation organised by Deputy Head, Andy Winder, was intended to give parents a clearer understanding of the school’s new approach to literacy teaching and to advise parents on how best to support their children. As with many of the presentations held at Panaga, local schools were invited to attend. Marilyn, was particularly inspired and could really envision how this approach could help raise writing standards within her own school. Keen to find out more, our Community Leader for Learning, Rachel Marsden, put us in touch and asked if I could support Marilyn with the T4W process. With the majority of Marilyn’s pupils being second language English learners, she felt my particular approach to teaching T4W to EAL pupils really useful and particularly relevant to her own pupils’ needs.

Following much discussion, school visits and lesson observations, Marilyn gained the approval of her Deputy Head and began to implement T4W within her own Year 3 classes. She decided to start with using a play script as her model text. This way she could easily introduce the children to using role play and acting as a means of understanding and learning stories. She states “At the beginning the children were not familiar with this type of text but once they started imitating and acting it out, they got the hang of it and the children became eager to be chosen to play a part. They really enjoyed role playing the characters in the story. Imitating and acting out the stories with the aid of story maps has had a real impact on the children’s self esteem and is really encouraging them to participate more in class.”

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Community News Special Feature We are a school community united in learning Moreover, Marilyn is also utilising the Bruneian flair for art and is encouraging the children to draw their own story maps as a means of supporting the children with the writing process. As she mentioned during one of our meetings, “Considering the majority of my pupils are second language English learners, many of them find writing extremely daunting, so the Talk for Writing structure provides them with the support they need. It caters really well for children of all abilities and gives them a positive learning experience.”

Likewise, in terms of her own professional development, Marilyn feels that this systematic approach of story writing has really given her a better understanding of how to guide her pupils and develop their writing. Marilyn is now in the process of adapting T4W to the local setting. Moreover with the support of her Deputy Head she is the focal point for encouraging other teachers within the school to adopt the Talk for Writing approach.

After observing a number of Marilyn’s Literacy lessons, the Deputy Principal, Hamdiah Binti Hj Amat had the following to say: “I thoroughly enjoyed watching the learning situation. It was impressive how the children used ‘picture cues’ to make sense of the unknown words. Throughout the lesson the students were engaged and eager to participate. The students who had not spoken or were hesitant to participate were afforded the opportunity to get involved and showed great progress. It was amazing to see how much English her students had learnt in the time she had been with them.

I believe ‘Talk for Writing’ is a powerful teaching strategy because it is based on the principles of how students learn. Talking enables children to imitate the language they need before they try writing. The fun activities also help the students rehearse the tune of language, which is then followed by the writing. The impact has been outstanding!”

Due to the positive feedback from Sekolah Rendah Dato Mohd Yassin, Marilyn, Andy Winder and I are currently in the process of organising some formal T4W training for the school and the teachers, so …….. watch this space!

Bianca Priday

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BJSL Gymnastics Workshop On Thursday 25th June 2015, 10 students from P6 and P7 participated in the BJSL Gymnastics Workshop, held at Hornbill School.

This was a great opportunity to meet and make friends with students from another school.

Students had to stay in these groups and at the end of the During this event, Panaga stu- workshop performed a group roudents were asked to work in small tine on different apparatuses. groups with students from Jeru- For these performance, they were dong International School (JIS), asked be creative with their rouInternational School of Brunei tine and involve everyone in the group, showing tensions and con(ISB) and Hornbill School. trol in their bodies when holding balances.

By Mr Andy V

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Netball mini workshop with Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali

As part of our community links, the P6 and P7 girls teamed up with Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali and took part in an afternoon netball workshop.

This involved the girls learning about defensive and attacking skills and then taking part in games, with mixed teams.

The older girls from Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali acted as mentors to the younger girls and provided them with some useful tips and tricks.

During the game section, it was fabulous to see Panaga students practising their Bahasa Melayu.

Fun was had by all and new friendships were created!

By Tania Mehlhopt, P4 Teacher

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Community News Special Feature We are a school community united in learning Sekolah Rendah Panaga & Panaga School Working together, continuing to forge strong relationships for the benefit of students, staff and wider community.

Strengthening our sisterschool ties, a year in review.

Saturday morning netball coaching with plans for some friendly matches between schools next year.

Building friendships and connections.

Belait Students Community Clean Up Collaboration.

Engagement in joint voluntary community projects, to teach and promote English language development and reading abilities.

Learning from each other during the outdoor Environmental Art project in IP2.

Teacher Training Sessions hosted by Panaga School teachers..

Collaborative planning and delivery of a Student Leaders Workshop. Special guests and presenters: Heart of Borneo.

By Cindy Bin Tahal, Head Teacher of Rampayoh & Mendaram sites and Rachel Marsden, Community Leader for Learning

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Parent Teacher Association (PTA) news Photos below provide a few examples of the PTA’s commitment to enhancing learning and fun on Rampayoh and Mendaram

Time to say Thank You PTA Do you know our PTA has added real value to learning at Panaga School throughout the year by providing funding assistance? Thousands of dollars raised by the PTA have been spent on a variety of outdoor play items that enable children to be social, be creative, get their hands dirty, be “scientific”, develop oral language, role play and experiment.

The PTA have also purchased a child-friendly couch for the Rampayoh Library.

Currently, more PTA funded initiatives are taking place with new sand covers and gardening projects.

Did you notice that your copy of this year’s Yearbook was also made possible by the PTA’s partfunding?

By Cindy Bin Tahal

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Celebrating the success and contributions of our Panaga Student Council Throughout the 2014/2015 school year, our Panaga Student Council have achieved the following:  Surveyed our student, staff and parent community to influence goals and priorities for their community work.  Represented our student body when voting on playground designs for installation July/August 2015.  Generated more than $1,500 in fundraising.

 Participated in a Student Leaders Workshop with student leaders from Sekolah Rendah Panaga and Heart of

Borneo.  Provided new sleeping bags and tents for the Nepal Earthquake Appeal.  Donated more than 40 books to a local school in need.  Provided an assembly to promote sun safety.  Assisted with funding the Belait Students Community Clean Up Day, purchasing gloves and garbage bags as

well as hiring 2 marques for the event. This resulted in close to 400 people actively involved in removing more than 1,000kg of rubbish from the local community.

Story: Cindy Bin Tahal

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Parent and pupil voice at Panaga School At the beginning of this term, our daughter Sashini was offered an opportunity to participate in the new Maths-based ASA, under the pioneering Mastery Learning Programme.

Initially, I was curious as to how the programme was going to differ from their day to day school curriculum as this is a subject-based ASA. I must say that the new programme has exceeded all of our expectations.

Every week, the children are presented with a challenging project which they have to solve using their knowledge and skills around the areas of Science, Design, Technology and Maths.

Sashini gets to work in small groups with her peers and using various problem solving techniques, they reach a solution on how to build a structure in the best possible way. Our daughter has always had a keen interest in problemsolving and this programme has further enhanced her ability.

A big thank you to Miss Jackie and Mr Rorie for putting this programme together and for giving the children an opportunity to participate in it.

- Ruby Gangopadhyay

This term, I was given the opportunity to join the STEM ASA. I am happy that I did because group work is my favourite way to learn and we always work as a group. I think it is important to cooperate with friends and to practise working together. We learn lots through fun activities and projects like making water rockets, tin foil towers and bridge building. Sometimes we do activities which are more maths-based like solving Murder Mysteries by solving maths problems as the clues. I think this is my favourite type of activity.

- Sashini Gangopadhyay

Build a Bridge? Not that simple!

The bridge had to span a gap of 40cm, be able to support a weight of 50g in the middle to carry a moving toy car. It also had to be free -standing and only made with paper, tape and paper clips.

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Looking bright and keeping safe!

During May, teachers at both Rampayoh and Teraja were presented with High Visibility vests. Whilst on car park duty or when on an activity involving traffic, teachers can now wear ‘Hi Vis’ vests to ensure that they remain safe.

Classed as PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), 'Hi Vis' provides greater visibility in many conditions. These vests allow teachers to be seen by drivers of vehicles sooner and more prominently. This fact increases safety at work.

We know the human eye responds best to large, contrasting, bright or moving objects. Using 'Hi Vis', teacher visibility is enhanced by high colour contrast between clothing and the work environment against which it is seen.

Further to the high visibility of the vests, on the front displayed prominently are two icons from the Shell handbook. First, is a figure with a person wearing a seatbelt reminding all drivers the importance of ensuring all occupants are wearing seatbelts when in a car. Second, is the icon of a red stripe through a handheld phone.

The dangers of talking whilst driving are well known. It endangers both the occupants of the car and other road users.

Prominent reminders of safety by teachers wearing 'Hi Vis' clothing will help keep our Panaga community safe.

Below are pictures of our teachers in the new 'Hi Vis' vests. When you see them next, please stop and tell them how bright they look!

By Rorie Ebert

Mr Tim looking resplendent in his ‘Hi Vis’ vest overseeing the safety of the students, parents and drivers at Teraja.

Mr Philip, who is soon off to Gabon, looking bright and cheerful whilst keeping safe on duty.

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Singing Superstars This year has seen the students of the children have developed their singing Panaga School Choir take part in many abilities and used their resilience to tackdifferent events in which they could le some very challenging musical pieces. showcase their singing talents.

It has been a real pleasure to see both

Our P3 and Teraja Choirs have rehearsed choirs grow in confidence and achieve every Tuesday preparing for community many outstanding performances. concerts, radio recordings and Voices Around The World, as well as enjoying singing a wide variety of songs together

Sing out loud and strong wherever you go, Panaga Choir!

with their friends. Over the year, the By Miss Christine and Miss Sarah

P3 Choir rehearsals

Teraja Choir and St John’s Choir recording ‘Listen To Us!’ for Voices Around The World.

P3 Choir performing at St John’s ‘Celebration of Music’ Concert.

Teraja Choir performing at St. John’s ‘Celebration of Music’ Concert.

Teraja Choir recording songs in Bahasa Melayu for a Hari Raya feature broadcast on Brunei National Radio (RTB).

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The Pre-Nursery Garden Project The Pre-Nursery are looking forward to developing and having a garden to share with the Nursery children.

Plans are currently in progress to build two raised beds, where teachers and children can grow their own plants.

We hope to start growing papaya trees, lime trees and passion fruit.

Once our raised beds have been built the children will plan with teachers what they would like to grow in these. A big thank you to the Parent Teacher Association for their support with this project.

By Alice Vele

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Panaga School Magazine On Monday 29th June, the children in Pre-Nursery enjoyed celebrating International Mud Day. It was a busy morning brimming with excitement and muddy, messy fun. There was mud to squish in, slide in and dig in.

Some children dipped their toes in mud and others were completely covered from head to toe!

By Louise Ramsden and Anne Falkner

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A visit to Seria Market during out Plants and Flowers learning unit.

During our Sand and Water learning unit, we visited the beach, Kuala Belait Fire Station and enjoyed a Sand and Water fun morning in school.

A visit from the author Sally Crabtree.

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Talk for Writing in Primary 1

Enjoying our Sports Day

Finishing our year as Pirates!!

We have had a very busy, productive and enjoyable year in Primary 1. Thank you to all of our children for the wonderful memories they have created with us this year.

- Miss Donna, Miss Jenny, Miss Christina, Miss Julie, Miss Milia, Miss Sur, Miss Lynbeth and Miss Siew Sung

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Drawing After School Activity - Rampayoh Each Thursday afternoon, the Drawing ASA welcomed almost 20 very artistic children.

Miss Rachel and Miss Rochelle led the activity which gave children time to express themselves through different topics relating to school, family, recent holidays, curriculum topics or general interests.

We looked at other artists’ drawings and used pencil, coloured pencils, pastels and crayons for our own work. Children drew buildings, dinosaurs, animals, natural environments, and even self-portraits using a mirror. We were able to make pictures using different shapes.

The Drawing ASA has been a very popular activity and we look forward to another active year on Rampayoh in 2015/2016.

By Miss Rachel M and Miss Rochelle

Everyone arranging shapes before drawing them.

Happy with a design, Elvan and Rjiker’s drawing can begin.

Carolina’s beautiful picture of a garden with flowers and a butterfly.

Sophia has carefully designed her picture of a cat family. Each one has a unique design.

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The Never Ending Story Over the course of this academic year, in excess of 50 Teraja students have contributed to the story of Selina the Snail, during the Writing and Illustrating ASA. The intention was, and still is, to complete a picture book to share with young children in local schools. A book by children for children.

The journey has been long but entertaining!

Sadly, Mr Izzy will not see the finished product, but Mr Martin has vowed to continue and see it through to completion. Please join us next year as the never ending story continues...

“How did we ever think we would get this finished in a term?!”

- Mr Izzy

Term 1, the journey begins!

“If they’ve learnt one thing it’s that it takes a long time to write and illustrate a children’s book!” - Mr Martin

Term 3, goodbye Mr Izzy...

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Seismic events in IP5D Final preparations were underway in IP5D for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and all manner of related seismic events as we prepared for our Active Planet Exit Point, and we displayed Cooperation, Adaptability and great Communication throughout to get the job done!

By Mr Dermot

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Our Rugby-playing LSAs achieve competition success Our two Rugby-playing LSAs, Miss Nisah in P4 and Miss Hilal in P3, represent the Panaga Pythons. They competed in the Hornbill 7s Tournament at Curtin University in Miri on 10th May 2015.

Panaga Pythons played four very competitive games in extremely hot temperatures.

Their first game was against Miri Rhinos, who were a very strong team, and narrowly lost 12-10. They won their next two games convincingly and faced Miri Rhinos again in the final.

It was a really tough game but both Hilal and Nisah scored great tries, leaving the game at 10–10. In the last 2 minutes, Hilal scored the winning try and the Panaga Pythons were crowned the Hornbill 7s winners for 2015.

Congratulations again Hilal and Nisah on your success!

By Jo Marshall

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A big ‘Thank you’ to our Panaga Swim team!

Swimming is such an integral part of both our school curriculum and life in Panaga.

As a school community, we not only benefit from the support of our dedicated swimming coaches, Gianfranco, Louise and Salmah, we are also grateful for the time and effort provided by a number of keen volunteers.

A big thank you goes out to Matt, Mark, Mandy, Becs, Liz and Vlada for their help with our children this year.

By Andy Ryan