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not miss at all is the one on Mighty Minds. Share our joy because three lower form students won first place in the competi-tion.
All co-cum activities wrapped up this month and students are expected to spend more time in their studies as final exams are coming soon.
August is about to end and yet we are still in the midst of non-stop activities. One that is going to happen soon is the SCHOOL BAAZAR. Preparation has started almost at the beginning of the year and it will be the biggest one ever in the history of Maktab Nasional. Please come and support us!
Pictures and reports of recent activities are featured in this issue. One that you should
Editor’s Note
Maktab Nasional Baazar 2015 Every year we organ-ise a fund-raising ac-tivity to provide fi-nancial assistance to improve the fa-cilities and services of the school. These include the Learn-ing Centre, Library, Computer Labora-tory and other general fa-cilities to make studying at Maktab Nasional more conducive and pleasant.
This year we plan to have a school bazaar that will be a fun-filled and merry occasion. What we have planned for this event include a Bouncing Playground, Pony Rides, Garage Sale, Scrumptious Street Food and assorted drinks, Cakes and Pastries, Groceries, Potted Plants,
Games and much more!
Coupons valued at RM20 each are available for sale through your child’s Form Teacher.
The event will be held on Saturday, 5th Sep-tember 2015 from 9am to 3pm at the Maktab Na-sional school ground.
Students, parents and teachers from SRS Datuk Simon Fung and Taska & Tadika Datuk Simon Fung will also be there.
Please bring your friends and family to our bazaar and have a great time with us. See you there!
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Jun/Jul/Aug 2015 Volume 3, Issue 3
MN Bulletin
MN Bulletin Dates for Your Diary
2015 AUGUST
3 : 12th Clubs 5 : 13th Games 6 : 13th Uniform Bodies 7 : 1st Friday Mass CW Gaming F.1 10 : 13th Clubs 12 : 14th Games 13 : 14th Uniform Bodies 15 : Report Card Day 17 : 14th Clubs 19 : 15th Games 20 : 15th Uniform Bodies 22 : MN Got Talent 24 : 15th Clubs 26 : 1th Games 27 : 16th Uniform Bodies 29 : School Camping 31 : Independence Day
SEPTEMBER
1st Friday Mass (UPSR)
School Baazar 11 : CW Social Networking
Form 2 14 : MN Enrichment Programme Test 15 – 18 : PT3 Mock 2 19 - 27 : Mid-Term Break 28 - 30 : Final Exam SPM Mock 2
OCTOBER
2 : Ist Friday Mass PT3, SPM Cyber Bully Form 3 5 - 9 : PT3 Final Exam SPM Mock 2 14 : Awal Muharam 27 : Award Ceremony 29 : Graduation Night
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This year the Complex celebrated St. Simon Complex Day cum Harvest Festival at the hall of SRS Datuk Simon Fung on Thursday, the 28th of May.
The yearly celebration began with a Eucharistic Celebration at 8:30 am followed by the Harvest Festival Celebration at 10:30 am. Archbishop John Wong officiated the Harvest Festival Celebration.
Sharifah Chin of 2 Love was crowned the 2015 MN Unduk Ngadau after beating 11 other contestants. Congratulations Sharifah.
A big thank you to our MN Dance team for the graceful and entertaining dance. Not forgetting the MN Gong team for beating the gongs in such a rhythmic fashion. Your perform-ances reflected your full commitment and long hours of prac-tice.
Wearing of traditional costumes among teachers and students and the presence of parents made the celebration more meaningful and enjoyable.
Guests, teachers and staff had the opportunity to catch up with each other as they sampled some appetizing traditional food during lunch.
St. Simon’s Day cum Kaamatan
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On Monday, the 29th of June 2015, the Prefectorial Board joined force with the Student Council to organise the annual Teachers’ Day celebration during assembly. Since it was Ramadan, to respect all our Muslim teach‐ers and students, we decided to have a simple and yet meaningful cere‐mony for our beloved teachers whom we wanted to show our sincere gratitude and honour to.
The celebration started with the teachers’ grand entrance. The singing of the National Anthem, State Anthem, recitation of the Morning Prayer, Ikrar Negara and School Vision and Mission took place as usual. The teachers recited the Teachers’ Oath led by our Principal, Mr. Alexan‐der Funk.
On behalf of all the students, the Head Prefect and Student Council Presi‐dent took turned to deliver speeches expressing our appreciation to all teachers. Each teacher was given a gift prepared by the Art Club and Christian Fellowship.
The ceremony ended with a finale song “In This Monet” and the singing of the School Rally. The teachers paraded back while being looked on by the students.
The whole ceremony started at 7:15 am and ended at 8:05 am.
On behalf of all the students, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all the teachers who have made endless sacrifices to educate us. Thank you and Happy Teacher’s Day! Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact
in the lives of their students.
Clare Yong (4 Modesty)
Teacher’s Day
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Our MN Junior Scout Association initiated a donation drive in the form of mineral water, instant noodles, rice and canned foods, from members as well as non‐members who wanted to help the victims of the recent 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Ranau. On 25th June 2015, Skipper Puspawari Binti Harun and Skipper Ronald Sikuat accompa‐nied the 7 Junior Scouts namely Genesis Tris‐tan, Kristan Bakmiwewa, Cornelius Berani, Joel Mogindol, Abigail Malakun, Nobert Syl‐vester and Andrew Park to send the collected donations to the BP House in Sembulan, Kota Kinabalu. A. M. Yaakub B. Yahya, the CEO of Headquar‐ters Scouts Association of Malaysia Sabah Branch, welcomed them and expressed his sincere gratitude for the donations given. Ac‐cording to him, the donations would be sent to Kota Belud the following day, after Friday prayer. Well done MN Junior Scout Association for proving that Maktab Nasional is indeed a school where students are taught not only to work hard academically but also to be a car‐ing community. In time of crisis, as a caring community, we are ever ready to reach out to the needy.
Earthquake Donation
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art from the traditional per-formances of Hari Raya songs, prizes were given for the best dressed couple in traditional Hari Raya attire.
It has always been the school’s stance that any festival or cele-bration of a particular ethnic group in the school will be cele-brated in the spirit of togetherness.
On August 14, 2015, our school celebrated Hari Raya. The event enabled the school community to have a better under-standing of each other’s religious beliefs, traditions and cus-toms apart from allowing the practice of “asking for forgive-ness” and the strengthening of ties amongst the teachers, staff and students of the school.
As often done, the celebration began with teachers proceeding to the stage followed with a Hari Raya song dedicated to all guests and students. Then, the other items such as Hari Raya Quizzes, singing performances and games took place accord-ingly. Wearing samping and “taste and tell Malay cookies” were the two favorite competitions that day.
Duit Raya were given to Amzu Aqilla of 2 Grace for winning the Best Dressed Male and to Michelle Ting of 5 Truth for winning the Best Dressed Female.
A week before the celebration, students had worked together to decorate their classrooms for competition. They worked so hard that one could feel the Hari Raya mood upon entering their classrooms. The Best Decorated class-room was Form 3 Hope.
An Open House invites from each classroom marked the grand finale of the celebration. Everyone did enjoy a wide array of delicious festive food, cakes and drinks.
Hari Raya Celebration
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Every year, Institut Sinaran holds an “Environment Day” which is intended to raise awareness on environmental issues in Sabah. This is a day event full of various educational, informative and fun activities such as games, competitions and so forth, all highlighting the concerns that plaque caring young and old environmentalists alike everywhere. The grand finale of the closing ceremony was the “YB, We Have Something to Tell You” Essay and Public Speaking Competi‐tion. This is a platform whereby students from various local schools in Sabah get to address their local concerns on matters per‐taining to the local environmental scene to a minister of the local government present in the audience. In 2014, our Maktab Nasional Team won first place in the “YB, We Have Something to Tell You” Essay and Public Speaking Compe‐tition, beating 10 other secondary schools. This year, our Maktab Nasional Team was represented by Clare Yong Pei Yii, Xenia Cordelia Lee, both students of Form 4 Mod‐esty and Joseph Isaac Petrus‐Kasim of Form 3 Faith. There were nine other school teams competing in 2015. Our topic of choice was the double‐edged sword nature of the five dams around Sa‐bah, which the three judges commended as being the most focused and relevant in con‐tents. Our three students presented our topic using the eye‐catching slideshow we prepared for the event. We took time to practise and prepare for the Saturday, 25th July event. From fashion (our physical ap‐pearance) to diction, from the size and style of our fonts on our slideshow to our stand‐ing position on the stage, nothing was amiss or spared from scrutiny and discussion.
We wanted so badly to win first place but this was the year St. Francis Convent beat us as they were awarded first place and we, second place. With strong resolu‐tion, we are now more determined to compete and win first place in next year’s Institut Sinaran “YB, We Have Something to Tell You” Essay and Public Speak‐ing Competition. If you have a specific local environmental concern and would like us to consider using it as our topic of choice for next year’s Institut Sinaran “Environment Day”, please let Teacher Normala know. TeacherTrainer Normala A. Hasbollah
Environmental Day Competition
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Mighty Minds
with 12 other winning state teams in the National Challenge on 3rd October.
With utter pride and joy, I am very happy to re‐port that our Maktab Nasional Lower Form Team beat 131 other school teams throughout Sabah to win the 2015 Mighty Minds Sabah State Challenge. I will take credit for handpicking these three very bright, very articulate and very enthusiastic intel‐lectual students (Joseph, Matthew and Ira) to rep‐resent Maktab Nasional in the Lower Form Cate‐gory. They epitomise the very best of young Mighty Minds everywhere. Mighty Minds TeacherinCharge Normala A. Hasbollah
I took two teams to participate in this year's Mighty Minds State Challenge held at the Suria Sabah Mall. This is an annual competition event open to all secondary schools throughout Malay‐sia, organised by The Star newspaper and RHB Bank.
The two teams from Maktab Nasional were three Upper Form students (Marsha Lojingki from Form 5 Justice, Clare Yong and Mujtabe Nasir, both from Form 4 Modesty) and three Lower Form students (Joseph Petrus from Form 3 Faith, Matthew Chin from Form 3 Hope and Ira Lajium from Form 1 Peace). They competed in the Upper Form Cate‐gory and Lower Form Category of the Mighty Minds State Challenge, respectively.
Every school team for both Upper Form and Lower Form Categories begin with the First Chal‐lenge (multiple choice question challenge). The top 10 scoring teams will qualify to compete in the Second Challenge (hands‐on challenge) in which teams have ONE HOUR on the day of the competi‐tion to design a model based on a given theme us‐ing science and mathematical principles. Again the same top 10 scoring teams will go on to com‐pete in the Third Challenge (oral presentation challenge). Each of the top 5 teams will compete in the Fourth Challenge (buzzer quiz challenge). The team with the highest score will win the State Challenge and go to Kuala Lumpur to compete
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This year, Maktab Nasional decided to have MN Got Talent instead of MN Talentime following the trend of the world. The main purpose was to give opportunity to all stu-dents to participate in the competition regardless of whether they are talented musically or in other areas. However, they have to go through an audition before they be granted an entry into the competition.
The 2015 MN Got Talent was held at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka at Likas on August 22, 2015. The guest of honour was Encik Mohd Yunus Hamid.
The team of judges were Mr. Appy Tots, Mr. Jay Roy W. Anggang and Ms. Cindy Gadalon. The organisers wish to thank them for their constructive criticisms and advice in sharing some useful tips to all the participants.
The winners were as followed: Most Promising Performance : Labande Acustica Best Dress : Serafina Chong Jury’s Choice : Kimberly Lim Most Entertaining Performance : Alpha Omega Champions Among Champions : Alpha Omega
All the awards were 50% votes from the audience and another 50% came from the judges except for the Jury’s Choice which 100% from the judges.
Congratulations to all winners! To those who did not manage to receive any award, do continue polishing your talents and see you again next year.
MN Got Talent
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Congratulations to the two sisters! Aina Nawwarah, the champion and Alya Khairunnisa, the 1st Runner Up in the 5th CMA Junior Inter School Poomsae Competition at Chung Hwa Primary School, Kota Ki-nabalu on Sunday, 2nd August 2015.
Stars of the Sport and Game
Principal Cup
This is the second year our school held the “Principal Cup” which was formed in honour of the appointment of our beloved teacher, Mr. Alexander Funk, as the Principal of Maktab Na‐sional. This year tournament took place on August 5 to August 19 during co‐cum time on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. The 2015 winning teams are as follows:
1. Football Upper Form Category : 1 Peace 2. Football Lower Form Category: Kemakau 3. Football Girls Category: Upper Form 4. Champions Category: Kemakau
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Our skillful golfer, Hendry Lim, earned a bronze medal in the MSS Sabah which
was held on the 22th to the 24th of April, 2015. On the 6th to 11th June, 2015, he
participated in the MSS Malaysia.
