Panaga School Biweekly Issue 123

Issue 123 | 9th September 2022

Issue 123, 9th September 2022

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Issue 123 | 9th September 2022

Messages from Panaga School’s Senior Leadership Team

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IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, Seria, KB, 3534, Negara Brunei Darussalam Phone: Teraja Office +673 3372139 Rampayoh Office +673 3372694 Principal: Cindy Bin Tahal Cindy-Rose.BinTahal@ bsp-shell.bn Deputy Principal: Mendaram Donna Bonham donnabonham@ panagaschool.net Rampayoh Deputy Principal: Claire Richmond clairerichmond@ panagaschool.net Teraja Deputy Principal: Mandy Russell amandarussell@ panagaschool.net Melilas Deputy Principal: Robert Unsworth robertunsworth@ panagaschool.net Business Service Lead: Cyla Ahmad cylaahmad@ panagaschool.net

Dear Panaga School Community, Welcome to Panaga School Biweekly. A fortnightly school magazine that offers an editorial with important school updates and pages filled with celebrations of

learning and the promotion of events. As we settle into a new academic year, we offer the following information about Parent and Teacher Association, Panaga School’s Mission and Vision and Meet the Teacher Evenings to help our community develop a shared understanding to improve our ability to work Together to Improve Learning.

Parent and Teacher Association (PTA) Annual General Meeting Panaga School has a small and active PTA team who come together to create

wonderful community events and fundraising initiatives. For further information about the AGM, the PTA Constitution is available at our school website https:// www.panagaschool.com/policies.

Funds raised by our PTA provide flexibility to enhance playgrounds and learning opportunities for all students. Our PTA meets approximately 4 times per year to generate ideas and plan for various initiatives. We need you to help us as a committee member, to come along and get involved. This year, we have the following voluntary officer positions that require filling: President, Treasurer and

Parent Representative on the School Advisory Board.

If you would like to nominate for any of these officer roles, please advise our continuing Secretary, Sarah Harrison sarahmcruse@gmail.com by Thursday 22nd September, as nominations are required ahead of the Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday 29th September in Teraja Staffroom at 7pm. Security will be able to assist with directions from Teraja Foyer

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for new joiners.

All are welcome and we hope to see you there to help promote school community and fundraising events this year in support of our students' great learning.

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Messages from Panaga School’s Senior Leadership Team Panaga School’s Vision and Mission Panaga School whale is displayed on buildings and across various publications. Our whale is representative of our school’s Vision and Mission, it was created through engagement with all stakeholders across our school community in 2019. During these engagement sessions, it quickly became apparent that our school is a community school with togetherness a constant theme for the way that we work, learn and play.

Together Improving Learning is our succinct statement that provides us with our vision and mission, to remind us of the purpose of every member of the Panaga School Community. We are here to improve learning, together and for all.

Together Getting Better is our definition of learning.

Together You Me and Our Community is our definition of international mindedness, a fundamental concept that is both a personal quality and a lens that we can view the world through, to learn about and celebrate sameness and difference.

The silhouetted animals inside of our whale are found on Borneo, with characteristics that complement our Personal Qualities. Personal Qualities are a focus of teaching and learning at Panaga School, to benefit our personal development.

Meet the Teacher Evenings @ 4.30pm We invite all parents to join our Meet the Teacher evenings. These evenings begin at 4.30pm where Senior Leaders will spend no more than 10 minutes introducing parents to all teaching staff from the school site. Parents will then be offered year groups and classroom discussions with information about student learning and organisation. Thank you to those who attended last night’s Early Years evening. The following evenings are due next week: P2 and P3:Tuesday 13th September in Rampayoh Hall P4 to P7: Wednesday 14th September in Teraja Hall M1 and M2: Thursday 15th September in the Dance and Drama Studio We hope to see you there.

We are delighted to be back at school engaged in learning and play and would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of our school community for making this return to school safe and smooth, despite challenging weather conditions that we have faced. Enjoy taking a look through our first edition of this year's Panaga School Biweekly.

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Meet the Teacher Parent Information Sessions 2022-2023 Academic Year All information sessions will begin with the leadership team and

teacher introductions at Rampayoh/Teraja Hall, prior to moving into year level groups for further discussion.

To enable parent – teacher discussions and to create enough seating for all, we ask children do not attend these sessions.

Early Years (PN-P1) - Thursday 8th September Rampayoh – Tuesday 13th September Teraja (P4-P7) - Wednesday 14th September Melilas – Thursday 15th September

Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

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PANAGA SCHOOL JOIN US FOR THE FIRST

PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Thursday, 29th September 2022 7pm Teraja Staffroom Our PTA meets approximately 4 times per year to generate ideas and plan for various initiatives and need you to help us as a committee member, to come along and get involved. Funds raised by our PTA provide flexibility to enhance playgrounds and learning opportunities for all students.

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It is so good to see you all & welcome you

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It is so good to see you all & welcome you back!

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Tuesday, 6th September 2022

During our Entry Point, we were set the challenge to create the highest freestanding flagpole. We needed to get out brain thinking, use our problem solving skills and work together as a team. WHAT FUN!!

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I use communication to my team members because sometimes they make mistakes and I help them =) Sanad

It was really challenging to cooperate and communicate with the team because everyone have different ideas Joseph

The challenging thing I found was that working together is bit challenging and finding how to make an object stand without tipping over. Anusri The challenges that I have is the way we were communicating and the way we showed resilience. It was also hard to use the materials so a lot skills needed. - Iona

It was hard to make the tower stable, but with cooperation we were able to get the job done. - Ire

It was hard to communicate with everybody because there was a lot of pressure and ideas in the group. Caleb

It was hard to get the flag pole to stand and work together but when we started listening to each others ideas we were able to do it. Sophia

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Dear Melilas Families, Welcome to our new and returning middle years students.

It has been a pleasure to see our Melilas students engaging with their subject teachers, enjoying the new vertical Form Groups where our M1 and M2 are mixed, and starting their new learning journey for this year.

We also introduced are new concept curriculum where we have enhanced our individual subject learning with deeper connections across subject articulated in our ‘Big Idea’. The students loved their

engagement points this Wednesday and exploring the concept statements. All of Melilas look forward to developing these ideas across the first part of this term.

It was also wonderful to start our sports fixtures again, and we hope to have a number of sporting opportunities across the term, and year, able led by Mr. Nathan. We begin next Wednesday with our first football match with ISB in Bandar. The new P.E. kits are also looking very smart!

Please take a look at some of the great learning in Week 1. Also follow us on twitter for more frequent snap shots of our the what’s going on in Melilas and Panaga School: @PanagaBrunei

Have a great weekend, Rob Unsworth, Melilas Deputy Principal robertunsworth@panagaschool.net

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After School Activities (ASAs) information and sign up forms

After School Activities for Term 1 commence on Thursday 22nd September.

Activities at Rampayoh (P2 and P3 only)

run from 2.15pm -3.00pm Activities at Teraja/Melilas run from 2.30pm – 3.15pm

Please click here for a list and Please click here for a list and information about ASAs information about ASAs available in available for Teraja and Melilas.

P2 and P3 students.

Please click here to sign P2 and P3 ASAs.

up to

Please click here to sign up to Teraja and Melilas ASAs.

Sports Training

In addition to Thursdays’ ASAs, please click below for next week’s...

Sports Training Schedule (click here) PANAGA SCHOOL | BIWEEKLY NEWSLETTER

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