Panaga School Weekly. Issue 89

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Eighty-Nine, 19th February 2021

Messages from Panaga School Senior Leadership Team Dear Panaga School Community, Welcome to Term 2.2, where we look forward to another actionpacked calendar filled with quality learning and community events.

Let us focus on some whole school events taking place over the next few months below: Panaga School

IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, Seria, KB 3534, Negara Brunei Darussalam (+673) 3375728/3372139 (Teraja/ Melilas) (+673) 3372694 (Mendaram/ Rampayoh) Principal: Cindy Bin Tahal (+673) 3372355/ 8777028 cindybintahal@ panagaschool.com Panaga School Senior Administration Officer: Jalinah Bte Ali (+673) 3375728 jalinah.ali@bsp-shell.bn Admin Support, Rampayoh/Mendaram: Zurimah Bte Jumat z.jumat@bsp-shell.bn Admin Support, Teraja: Hasmah Bte Hj Salleh hasmah.salleh@bspshell.bn Panaga School Weekly Editor: Damian Brady damianbrady@ panagaschool.net

School Disco - Wednesday 3rd March Tickets for this term’s School Disco will go on sale next Wednesday from both school offices. Nursery students are offered the opportunity to attend a 30 minute session, where supervising adults are required.

Tickets for the disco are $5, with all profits going to our Parent and Teacher Association (PTA), in support of student learning and play.

Students will be provided with shortbread cookies, and need to bring along their water bottles. Parent volunteers across all age groups are needed to support this event. Please register your availability by clicking here: Disco Volunteers Signup.

Nursery: 3.30pm - 4.00pm P1 to P3: 4.15pm - 5.00pm P4 to P6: 5.15pm - 6.15pm P7 to M2: 6.30pm - 7.30pm Animal Support Day - Wednesday 10th March To help support local animal shelters and to have some fun, come to school with a donation and be dressed as your favourite animal.

Donations can be either money or dried/tinned cat or dog food, that will be passed on to local animal shelters, in support of their work.

This event will take place on Wednesday 10th March, right across all school sites.

International Day - Thursday 8th April We look forward to this year’s International Day, which will take place on the Teraja and Melilas sites across a full day on Thursday 8th April. We are looking for people to nominate themselves to host booths celebrating various nationalities. Please click here register: International Day 2021 Signup. An initial parent planning meeting about International Day will take place on Monday 1st March at 8am in the Teraja Staffroom. All are welcome to join.

A reminder that next Tuesday is Brunei National Day. Enjoy looking through the many celebrations of learning in this week’s Panaga School Weekly and may you have a good weekend.

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Eighty-Nine, 19th February 2021

Whole School

22nd Feb

23rd Feb

2.15pm: Girl Guides Bake Sale

Brunei

Mendaram (PN-N) Rampayoh (P1-P3)

24th Feb

Day

Teraja (P4-P7)

Public

Melilas (M1-M2)

Holiday

1st March

Whole School

8am: International Day Parent Information Meeting (Teraja Staffroom)

Mendaram (PN-N)

Early Years Parent Teacher Conferences

2nd March

3rd March

4th March

5th March

Rampayoh Sports Day

P2G Class Assembly

School Disco (Rampayoh Hall)

Early Years Parent Teacher Conferences

Rampayoh (P1-P3)

Teraja (P4-P7)

26th Feb

Early Years Brunei National Day celebrations

National 7.45am: P1 Kite Flying Exit Point

25th Feb

P6 trip to Bandar Museum

P4 Brunei Army Camp trip

Melilas (M1-M2)

Sports Training Schedule

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.

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Eighty-Nine, 19th February 2021

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Eighty-Nine, 19th February 2021

Pancake making in Pre–Nursery On Tuesday 16th February, Pre–Nursery celebrated Pancake Making Day. Thanks to parent volunteers, Pixie and Aigerim, the class were treated to delicious pancakes once they had been shown the skills of pouring, measuring, mixing and whisking.

By the Pre-Nursery team

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Finn for such neat handwriting when working on his story, “Mr Harold’s Dessert”. Awesome job, Finn!

Ivy for showing resilience when reading. Keep up the great work!

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International Mother Language Day 21st February 2021 Did you know that there are more than 190 countries in the world, but more than 6,000 languages?! At Panaga School, we have children from all around the world with diverse mother tongue languages.

The 21st of February marks International Mother Language Day to celebrate the importance of our languages and our identities.

The theme of the 2021 International Mother Language Day, “Fostering multilingualism for inclusion in education and society”, recognises that languages and multilingualism can advance inclusion, and the Sustainable Development Goals' focus on leaving no one behind.

On Rampayoh, the children learned about this special day, how our languages may be the same or different to our friends. Thanks to Miss Sarah and Mr Menno, the children have also been learning songs in order to say ‘Hello’ in many other languages too.

Children enjoy singing ‘Hello’ in other languages

At Panaga School, International Mindedness means embracing our curiosity about the world, understanding others and being a global citizen. At our school, the children learn about languages through their International Learning, NTC and in Modern Foreign Language lessons. As well, both Teraja and Rampayoh libraries have bilingual language books which you may want to share with your child.

Learn more about International Mother Language Day here at the UN website: https://www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day

- Miss Rachel

Many bilingual books are available in the school libraries

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Rampayoh DE further learn the importance of “online reliability”, as a part of Safer Internet Day

“On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, we celebrated the 18th edition of Safer Internet Day with actions taking place right across the globe. With a theme once again of "Together, for a better internet", the day called upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people.” - www.saferinternetday.org Prior to Safer Internet Day, P1-P3 conducted an assembly which explored our nderstanding of the reliability of people we may engage with and the information we read and view online.

During the assembly, we all learnt that trust is something that should be earned and explored.

Firstly, knowing who we can trust automatically (our own instincts, our close friends, our parents and teachers). Followed by the need to use our enquiry kills to read, check and re-read, across many sources of information, facts presented by people we are not initially close to, to see if they show integrity .

We now that not every stranger has good intentions and that not all of what they share online is genuine. We need to be “wise owls” whhhoooo follow these tips if something or someone online does not feel right or safe: KEY VOCABULARY:

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Panaga School Weekly, Issue Eighty-Nine, 19th February 2021

In class this week, we all reflected on what trust, reliability and genuine information are in the context of our DE and extended home learning.

Speaking of owls again, among some of the activities, we were presented some facts about owls. Using our instincts and sharing nowledge between us as peers, we could identify some facts we believed were true and untrue. We also had to look a few up. Do you know which of the following statements about owls are correct and which are incorrect? What can you do if you are unsure?

HINT: See infographic on previous page.

Which of these are true?

Which are false?

How can you find out?

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Rampayoh DE: “Together, improving learning.”

“Together, for a better internet."

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On Thursday 4th February, the P2 children had a fantastic treat for Chinese New Year, organised by the P2 parents in our Chinese community. This was a lovely opportunity for children to deepen their knowledge of the traditions of Chinese New Year, develop skills in a variety of traditional Chinese arts and crafts and gain more understanding on why this is an important celebration around the world.

Dumpling Making Lantern Making

Ox Creations Traditional Fan Design

Huge thanks to our parent volunteers who orchestrated such a great day for the children and decorated our P2 area in the most beautiful and colourful fashion, helping them to soak up the full experience, complete with Plum Blossom Collage Firework Painting traditional Chinese music.

By the P2 Teaching Team

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For our IPC unit, Jobs, we learnt about things people do both in and outside our community. In Technology, we learnt different skills: from selecting materials, to sewing; to create our own safety jackets. We later applied our knowledge and these skills to help our parents to make a jacket suitable for cyclists. Lots of COOPERATION and COMMUNICATION between the children and parents were needed!

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For our new unit, “It’s Shocking”, we explored with wires, batteries and lightbulbs to make a lightbulb light up.

We also tried to read a secret message by cracking the Morse Code.

We explored how Plasma balls worked as a group and even found out that Plasma is often called “the fourth state of matter”.

- By the P3 Team

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Researching organs using our own books and the iPads.

Making organs from Playdough. nowledge,

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Putting the organs in the correct place in the human body.

By the P4 Team

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We really enjoyed sharing our Knowledge and Skills and deepening our Understanding with our parents during our Exit Point.

Miss Katrina

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Melilas News

Back to school after our wonderful Chinese New Year.

This week, Miss Perminder and I explored ideas with our older children (P6, P7, M1, M2) about how we might develop our library area for our Teraja/Melilas site. The result was a wonderful array of suggestions from our students and some food for thought for us and our wonderful librarian, Miss Tessa, who is passionate about our library space.

How would you develop this space below?

Please come and give your ideas to Miss Tessa in the library or speak to Miss Perminder or me.

Please don’t forget to check out our Panaga School Brunei Twitter feed: @PanagaBrunei. Some great Science learning this week with M1 introducing chemical reactions, and excellent quote analysis and discussions on A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s levels of disorder affecting relationships between characters, from M2. I learnt a lot!

Well done Science and English Teams.

Our Top 10 Bankaroo earners will return next week...Have a good weekend.

Rob Unsworth, Deputy Principal, Melilas

In lessons this week, M2 pupils began to think about sound as a vibration. We used a signal generator, oscillator and Chladni plate to visualise different sounds as standing waves. One teenage commentator was heard saying, “That’s really cool!”

That’s physics for you…

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