Panaga School Weekly, Issue 90

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

Messages from Panaga School Senior Leadership Team Dear Panaga School Community, Welcome to another wonderful edition of Panaga School Weekly, where you are provided with important updates and most importantly, pages full of learning celebrations.

Brunei National Day We would like to take this opportunity to express our best wishes to Brunei celebrating IFM/4, BSP Company Sdn Bhd, its 37th National Day this week. School assemblies have taken place right across Panaga School in celebration and recognition of beautiful Brunei, led by our local teachers and Seria, KB 3534, Negara Brunei staff.

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(+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

Curriculum and Learning Updates The International Primary Curriculum (IPC) has grown to include the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC) and the International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC). IEYC, IPC and IMYC are now referred to as IC (International Curriculum). Panaga School delivers the IC along with the National Curriculum of England to inform our school vision of: Together, Improving Learning.

As an IC school, international mindedness is fundamental to the culture of Panaga School. International mindedness teaches us to recognise and celebrate sameness and difference across cultures and countries. Our school's definition of international mindedness is You, Me, Our Community.

Panaga School's definition of learning is Together, Getting Better. Learners at Panaga School become consciously aware of the knowledge (K), skills (S) and understanding (U) they are developing through various learning experiences. Knowledge being the foundation, with skills that mix to help us establish our understanding (colour coded accordingly). Panaga School Weekly celebrations of learning will assist our school community to become familiar with K, S and U with references as is relevant to learning celebrations. Helping our students become aware of K, S and U develops conscious learners.

Admin Support, Rampayoh/Mendaram: Zurimah Bte Jumat z.jumat@bsp-shell.bn

International Day We are pleased to already have 16 countries signed up with leading volunteers. Please take a look at what countries are currently represented: International Day 2021 Sign Up. On Monday 1st March at 8am in the Teraja Staffroom, everybody is welcome to Admin Support, Teraja: meet with school leaders to discuss and finalise the timetable and format for this year’s International Day. Hasmah Bte Hj Salleh hasmah.salleh@bspshell.bn

Panaga School Weekly Editor: Damian Brady damianbrady@ panagaschool.net

School Disco We are super excited about next week’s disco on Wednesday 3rd March. Tickets are available at school offices. Thank you to our parent volunteers. We still need some volunteers please for the P4 to M2 discos. Please register your availability here.

Wishing everybody a safe weekend.

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

1st March

Whole School

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

Mendaram (PN-N)

Early Years Parent Teacher Conferences

2nd March

3rd March

5th March

Rampayoh Sports Day

P2G Class Assembly

School Disco (Rampayoh Hall)

Early Years Parent Teacher Conferences

Rampayoh (P1-P3)

Teraja (P4-P7)

4th March

P6 trip to Bandar Museum

P4 Brunei Army Camp trip

9th March

10th March

11th March

12th March

Animal Support Day - Whole School Animal Rescuers Exit Point: Pre-Nursery and Nursery

Public Holiday: Israk Mikraj* TBC

P2-M2 Reports to parents

Melilas (M1-M2) 8th March Whole School

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

1.00pm: P1 Maths Workshop

Teraja (P4-P7)

P1 Classes Assembly P4J Class Assembly

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 Ninety, 26th February 2021

Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

Our expectations of all drivers and pedestrians The safety of all children at Panaga School is extremely important.

With this is mind, it is vital that we all follow these guidelines.

Thank you in advance for ensuring that you: • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Follow the one-way system Drive slowly, keeping your speed below 20 km/h Reverse park in the designated parking spaces Keep zebra crossings clear at all times Switch off your engine when parked beside classrooms Move to the end of the drop-off zone before coming to a complete stop Keep all seatbelts fastened until the vehicle comes to a complete stop Never leave children unattended in a vehicle Do not use your mobile phone when driving Stay alert and aware when walking through the car park Use the zebra crossings when walking through the car park Hold your child’s hand when walking through the car park Be courteous to other road users

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When we talk about learning at Panaga School, we divide it into 4 groups.

Consolidating learning This involves learning becoming more secure until it becomes automatic and firmly established.

New Learning This involves a challenge that is a positive experience.

There is a certain amount of struggle involved.

The Learning Pit This involves a complex process where learning can be very challenging but with help and support you can be successful.

Treading Water This involves no new learning because it is firmly established.

Watch this space, over the coming weeks, we will be announcing a competition to design images for our Language of Learning. You can get the whole family involved.

More details to follow.

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When we talk about learning, we also reference KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and UNDERSTANDING. We think skills are ‘being able to do something.’

Knowledge We think Knowledge means “knowing that”.

Skills are learnt in a practical way.

There are 4 stages when acquiring skills. Beginning, Developing, Mastering and Innovation.

Knowledge is continually expanding and can change as new discoveries are made.

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Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

Let’s Go Fly a Kite!

P1 Turtles and Pangolins took to the beach on Monday morning, to fly kites as part of their Weather Wonders IPC Exit Point. The lack of any breeze initially caused some kite-flying problems, but P1 children and parents showed resilience and adaptability, and soon there were many kites flying in the blue sky, being pulled along by speedy children!

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Children demonstrated new understanding as they ran with their kites, demonstrating how to keep them in the air for increasingly longer periods of time.

On our return to class, P1 children enjoyed showing parents their books, containing knowledge and skills developed over the past term.

For more photos please click here.

By the P1 Team

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Teraja Playtimes Playtime is an important part of our children’s day. Not only does it offer them the opportunity to release energy through physical activity, it also provides them with the opportunity to learn, grow and become better people from playing. Additionally, it is the ultimate way for children to reduce stress and exercise their creativity. With this in mind, we realise the need to ensure that we are able to develop and support a socially-positive play environment. On Teraja, this is a work-in-progress but we would like to celebrate some of the initiatives we are putting into place to make playtime an enjoyable experience that meets the different needs of our students.

Buddy System In P4-P7, the buddy system operates at year group and milepost levels, with all students taking responsibility for developing a supportive play environment.

Through our Personal Qualities and the ‘You Can Do It!’ programme, all students are encouraged to be proactive in approaching and supporting children who may be in need of a friendly face at playtime. This isn't to say that individuals won’t be recognised as official buddies in the future.

However, initially, we want to develop our understanding of what the role involves and for our students to realise the levels of commitment that would be required, should they choose to take the role on.

Seated Area and Friendship Benches Not all students want to spend each playtime joining in physical activities. Some students just want a quiet area to sit and either enjoy the company of friends, or just read, or quietly contemplate their thoughts. We have created a seated area using the friendship bench, provided by the PTA, as a central focus. We have found that this has become a very popular area with our P5s. Outside our P7 classes, we have placed some more wooden teepees which the older children have really enjoyed chilling out in.

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Playground Activities Playground games are important in helping children to develop the following skills: • • • • • •

Social skills Cooperation Teamwork Problem solving Confidence and decisiveness Strategies and tactics

With the above in mind, PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Emotional) lessons in class are being used to extend the options of playtime games that are available to children. These range from traditional chanting and playground games such as The Farmer in His Den, Mother May I?, Oranges and Lemons, to games such as Hopscotch, Draughts and Jenga. P4-P7 have received year group specific games to share in their classes.

We hope that once the students have developed their knowledge, skills and understanding of the games in their year groups, they will use their skills to teach students in other year groups.

Over the next few weeks, we will share KSU articles on the games being shared and learned, starting with French Skipping in P7.

- Miss Perminder

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FRENCH SKIPPING KNOWLEDGE - Knowing that..

What do we need to know?

How to play and what we need.

We need..

A long piece of elastic with both ends tied together is required for this game.

SKILLS - Being able to do something What skills do we need to use?

How to play..

• Two people stand inside the elastic far enough apart to make it taut (stretched tight).

• One person jumps the elastics.

• Begin with the elastic at ankle height.

• Chant the following as you play: One, two, three, four, inside, outside, inside, on.

• With one foot in the middle and one on the outside, jump four times from side to side as you count one, two, three, four.

• Jump with two feet inside elastic, chanting ‘inside’.

• Jump with two feet outside elastic chanting ‘outside’.

• Jump inside chanting ‘inside’.

• Finish with a jump landing with one foot on each of the two sides chanting ’on’.

• As you proceed through the game, move the elastic higher up your legs to make it more challenging.

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Our social skills to work together to allow the game to be successful and enjoyable for all involved.

• We use our memory skills as we recall the words and perform the moves.

• Agility in our movements to allow us to move quickly and easily.

UNDERSTANDING - Making meaning Demonstrating understanding...

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Use the KSU shared here to have a go at French Skipping at home!

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We will be able to model how you play to others and help them understand the rules.

We will be able to extend, develop and perform more complex sequences and create our own rhymes.

- Miss Perminder and P7D

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Dr Padma the Dentist Visits P4

We found out we have different types of teeth that do different jobs.

We learned how to brush our teeth properly.

By the P4 Team

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Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

Inspiring others: our BSP MD visits P5 This week, P5 were fortunate to have Agnete Johnsgaard-Lewis, Managing Director of Brunei Shell Petroleum, visit Panaga School to inspire us with reflections about success and growth mindsets.

During the question and answer session, she discussed how the Personal Qualities of communication, reflection and resilience helped her to achieve her career goals, with some examples of the challenges she has faced. She enlightened us with stories of her childhood and her decision not to work in fashion but engineering instead. The Personal Qualities of communication, reflection and resilience linked to our IPC “Inventions” unit of work, and our recent understanding of “Bouncing back”, in our Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE) studies. Hard work and remaining humble were also key elements of her discussion.

Finally, children were left with the inspirational advice, ‘Never give up on your dreams!’ Thank you, Agnete, for inspiring our students to develop a growth mindset about adapting when things do not go as planned.

By the P5 Team

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P5 Exit Point: Inventions that Changed the World

Last week, the children from P5 had a chance to share their learning from their IPC unit: Inventions that changed the world.

The highlight was the children sharing their inventions that they had created in order to solve a particular problem in our community. Some of the problems included: stray dogs, monkeys breaking into bins, plastic waste on our local beach and accessibility issues for those with disabilities.

The children thought of creative solutions for these problems before creating prototypes of their inventions.

The children had to use all of the Personal Qualities as they tinkered with their designs and overcame difficulties.

Some children chose to make their inventions using the app building software, AppInventor, while others made working practical prototypes.

So if you have faced any of the problems mentioned above, get in touch with P5 - they may have the solution!

By the P5 Team

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P6 Wellbeing and Global Citizenship

P6 wanted to help support the wellbeing of our Panaga students by creating worry boxes where children can post their concerns. All worries are anonymously posted in boxes around Teraja and P6 collect the notes once a week. We hope to be able to help our fellow students in the best way we can, if we can!

I made a monster worry box because it will eat your worries. So, put in a piece of paper and put it in the mouth of the monster. We will try to solve some of your problems.

I made a worry box for all your worries.

You do not need to put your name on the paper and we can try to help some of the worries. The box is small but it is cute. All you have to do is write your worry on it and post it in the mouth.

I made a monster worry box because I thought it would look cool. My worry box is for getting rid of worries and getting the worries out of your head.

I made my worry box to make so that everybody knows that being kind is cool, and that no one should feel bothered or bullied by worries.

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As a part of PSHE, we have been learning about thoughts. We all have

helpful and not so helpful thoughts. Sometimes it helps to let go of these unhelpful thoughts. We created worry boxes that we can drop our thoughts in. We gave a worry box to each class. Every Friday, P6 will collect all the worries and we will try to help solve them if we can.

I made a tiger because I think it is quite soft and furry and if you have a worry, the tiger will be able to eat all your worries away. I added a lot of stickers and decorations because I thought they would be quite distracting.

I made this worry box because it can help solve your worries and get them away from your mind. I made mine a rainbow theme because that makes me happy and maybe it makes you happy as well.

I made a Spongebob worry box because it’s funny and all my worries will be gone.

I did a teddy bear worry box because I feel like with a nice cuddly teddy bear that can take all your worries away! And you can cuddle it and tell him/her ALL your worries which can be really helpful!

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Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

During our Entry Point, the P6 children got to explore our local Environment. We walked to the Panaga Club and around our school playground. Our objective was to take pictures of the different varieties of local plants with Ipads and make a ‘Pic Collage’ of it. We also learned the names of many of the local flowers.

We now know the names of lots of local plants!

Simpur is Brunei’s national flower!

Miss Katrina

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KYLE and VIDYUTH

Can you spot these plants and flowers around Panaga?

Miss Katrina

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P7’s IM FM P7 had great fun listening to different radio stations from around the world using Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/listen/capitalfm/EtGQtdH

They extended their geographical knowledge of countries and cities as well as developing their language skills.

This is a really nice website to explore as a family.

I like listening to Radio Mont Blanc (France)

I like listening to KISS 92 FM (Singapore)

What is your favourite radio station?

I like listening to Northsound 1 (Scotland)

I like listening to Hits of Bollywood (India)

Mr Steven (P7)

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

On Monday 8th February, Doodle Maths launched their new, improved features. These features included the following.

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The Learning Zone, a new hub which allows students to take control of their learning.

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New interactive elements which are now included in introductions to new topics, designed to make learning even more engaging.

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Power Ups, a new type of exercise which transforms a child’s weakest area of understanding into their most powerful! Doodle’s clever algorithm will occasionally challenge each learner to answer 15 questions from a topic in which they feel less confident. These will automatically appear in the Learning Zone as a Power Up icon. By using repetition and positive reinforcement, children will build a solid foundation of understanding in challenging areas, helping them to master even the trickiest of topics.

As with any initiative, Doodle Maths have unfortunately faced some teething problems which they are doing their best to rectify. Problems such as; not being able to load the app, incomplete questions on screen, answers missing and daily streaks being lost, have been reported by some parents. Thank you for bringing this to the attention of both the Doodle Maths team and the school.

The Doodle Advisory Team have asked that parents continue to report problems directly to them as it will assist them in monitoring and dealing with the issues more effectively. They have also provided the following information which I hope will support parents in the interim...

When using the app, parents need to ensure that they are updated to the latest operating system on their device, have plenty of free memory and also ensure other tabs are closed. The new app versions are larger than the previous ones so they require more processing power to run smoothly. Doodle Maths’s goal is to reduce the size of the app over the next 6 months.

Please continue to report any questions that do not have answers or questions that children are needing to do twice. To do this, click on the upward arrow in the bottom left hand corner of the activity and press report. This will go straight through to the curriculum manager who will be able to test and fix the questions.

The Doodle Parent Support Team are able to reinstate streaks for any children who have lost these. If children are switching between devices, they need to connected to the internet to ensure that the streak remains in place between the devices.

Doodle Maths hope to release a ‘fix’ for anyone experiencing difficulties clicking ‘let's go’ on ‘New’ activities.

Please continue to email the team directly if you continue to have issues.

Perminder Sanghera

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

FRENCH SKIPPING ,

KNOWLEDGE– Knowing that..

What do we need to know?

How to play and what we need.

We need..

A long piece of elastic with both ends tied together is required for this game.

How to play..

• Two people stand inside the elastic far enough apart to make it taut (stretched tight).

• One person jumps the elastics.

• Begin with the elastic at ankle height.

• Chant the following as you play: One, two, three, four, inside, outside, inside, on.

• With one foot in the middle and one on the outside, jump four times from side to side as you count one , two, three, four.

• Jump with two feet inside elastic, chanting ‘inside’, • Jump with two feet outside elastic chanting ‘outside’, • Jump inside chanting ‘inside’, • Finish with a jump landing with one foot on each of the two sides chanting ’on’.

• As you proceed through the game move the elastic higher up your legs to make it more challenging. .

SKILLS-Being able to do something What skills do we need to use?

• Our social skills to work together to allow the game to be successful and enjoyable for all involved.

• We use our memory skills as we recall the words and perform the moves.

• Agility in our movements to allow us to move quickly and easily.

UNDERSTANDING– Making meaning Demonstrating understanding..

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We will be able to model how you play to others and help them understand the rules.

We will be able to extend, develop and perform more complex sequences and create our own rhymes.

Miss Perminder and P7D

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Panaga School Weekly, Issue Ninety, 26th February 2021

PE Uniform Design Competition

In response to feedback from our Melilas students on their PE uniform, we’ve launched a competition to design a new PE kit for Middle Years. The designs will be judged by myself, Miss Cindy and Mr Nathan, and then our winning sports designers will have the opportunity to work with professionals to turn their ideas into reality. The deadline for student designs is Friday 5th March (next Friday).

We look forward to seeing what exciting ideas are submitted!

Learning

Some more examples of Melilas learning this week. Of particular note is the great analysis of Pre-1914 literature in M1, studying the evolution of Gothic fiction and the themes, language and descriptive devices used to drive storytelling in this genre. Plus, M2 are drawing towards the end of their 3D Art and Design projects: the process has evolved some fantastic products from our adept, young artists.

Congratulations for our Top 10 students this week for demonstrating our Personal Qualities, attitudes and behaviours.

Have a good weekend.

Rob Unsworth, Deputy Principal, Melilas

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