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Upcoming Events

• 7th November - Year 5 Chameleons Assembly

• 7th November - Year 9 Field Trip

• 13th November - Year 9 Assembly

• 14th November - Year 6 Field Trip

• 18th & 19th November - Year 7 Field Trip

• 21st November - Year 6 Dolphin Assembly

• 21st November - Year 8 Field Trip

• 26th November - Fundraising Day

• 27th to 30th November - Long-weekend Holidays

• 4th December - Year 10 Assembly

• 12th December - Christmas Concert

• 17th December - Student Reports

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NETWORKUpper Primary & Secondary

NEWSLETTER

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School CalendarSome parents have been asking about the

school's priorities in allocating public holidays. A draft calendar for each year is sent home to all families, usually in term 3 of the previous year. If you wish to make suggested changes or request that we honour certain public holidays, please make the suggestions at that time. Once the new year starts it is very difficult for us to change the calendar, as so many people would be affected. Please remember that the school must be operating for 180 school days per year, so if we take many public holidays, then the end-of-term vacation times will have to be reduced.

ေကာငးသားမဘမားမ ေကာငးပတရကမား စစဥသတမတရာတြင မညသ႔သတမတေၾကာငး ေမးျမနးၾကပါသည။ ေကာငး၏ ပတရက စစဥပမာ

စာသငႏစမတငမ Calendar မၾကမးက ေကာငးသားမဘမားထသ႔ Term 3 တြင အေရာကေပးပ႔ထားၿပး

ျဖစပါသည။ မဘမားမ အစးရ႐းပတရကမားႏင ႏငငတကာပတရကမားက အႀကျပလာပါက

ျပငဆငေပးႏငရနအတြကလညး ျဖစပါသည။ အဆပါ စာသငႏစ စတငသညႏင Calendar မာ ျပနလညျပျပငရနအတြက ခကခသြားပါသျဖင စာသငႏစမစမ မဘမားထမ

အႀကျပခကကေပးပ႔ရန အေရးႀကးပါသည။အၿခားသတျပရနမာ စာသငႏစတစႏစလင ရကေပါငး ၁၈၀ တတ ျပညမေအာင သငၾကားရမညျဖစရာ အမားျပညသ/႐းပတရက မား

အလြနမားၿပားပါကစာသငႏစကနဆးခနတြင ေကာငးပတရက နညးသြားမညျဖစပါသည။

Important Notices• School Directory - A school directory can

be sent by email on request. It will not be on the school website. Parents can inform the office if they do not wish their contact details to be included in the school directory.

✦ ေကာငး directory (ေကာငးသား/သမား၏ လပစာမား ႏင ဆကသြယႏငသည ဖနးနပါတမားစစညထားသည စာအပ)က ရးခနးသ႔ဆကသြယေတာငးဆ၍ email မတစဆငရယႏငပါသည။ Directory မားက ေကာငး website ေပၚတြင မထားရေတာပါ။ သ႕ပါေသာေၾကာင မဘမား၏ လပစာမားႏင ဖနးနပါတမားက Directory တြင မပါရေစလပါက ေကာငးရးခနးသ႔ အေၾကာငးၾကားႏငပါသည။

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Fundraising DayAll primary and secondary students will soon be planning for activities for Fundraising Day. Not only is this a day of fun, but students learn something about running a business to make a profit. We would like to remind parents that these activities must be student-run, especially in the upper-primary and secondary. Parents are encouraged to help with ideas and logistical support if necessary, but the students must retain responsibility. Parents should not donate goods or services, however students can pay their parents for these things (parents can then donate this income to the fundraising appeal, but it will be seen as a cost on the students' budget for their activity).

Primary ႏင Secondary ေကာငးသေကာငးသားမားသည မၾကာမေရာကရလာေတာမည Fundraising

Day အတြက ျပငဆငေနၾကၿပျဖစပါသည။ အဆပါ Fundraising Day သည ေပာရႊငစရာေန႔ရကသကသကမဟတဘ ေကာငးသားေကာငးသမားအတြက စးပြားေရး လပငနးတစခတြင အကးအျမတရရေစရန စြမးေဆာငႏငေစေသာ အေတြ႕အႀကက သငၾကားေပးျခငးလညး ျဖစပါသည။

မဘမားအေနျဖင သတျပေစလသညမာ အဆပါေန႔၏ Activity မားသည အထးသျဖင Upper-primary

ႏင Secondary ေကာငးသားေကာငးသမားကယတင လပေဆာငရမညျဖစသည။ မဘမားမ အႀကဉာဏစတကးမားႏင အျခားပစၥညးမား သယပ႔ျခငးတ႔က လအပပါက ကညလပေဆာငေပးႏငေသာလညး

ေကာငးသားေကာငးသမား ကယတင အဓကတာ၀နယလပကငႏငရမညျဖစပါသည။ မဘမားမ ပစၥညမားဝယေပးၿခငး၊ ဝနေဆာငမမားၿဖညဆညးၿခငးမားက ေထာကပၿခငးမားမၿပလပပ

ထအဖးအခမားအတြက ကသငေငြက ေကာငးသား/သမားထမ ေတာငးခၿခငးၿဖင အကအညေပးႏငပါသည။

(သ႕ေသာလညး မဘမားသည ထၿပနလညရရလာေသာေငြမားက ေကာငးသား/သမားၿပလပေသာ Activity မရရလာေသာ ရနပေငြမားသ႔ လဒါနးႏငေသာလညး မဘမားမ မတညခေသာေငြမားသည ေကာငးသား/

သမား၏ budget တြင ထညသြငးတြကခကမည ၿဖစပါသည။)

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Fundraising Day

Most of the books that were published using money from last year's Fundraising Day have now been distributed to schools. Some of our books (written and illustrated by Network teachers and students) are now being read by students in schools in North Oakalarpa Township, Mingalardon Township, Mayangone Township, Mawla-myaing Kyun Township, Taungoo, some are in schools close to Yangon. Year 5 students took some copies to the school in Nyaung village near Hmaw Bi when they went there for a field trip last week.

There are still some copies available for donation. If Network families know of schools which would appreciate copies of these books, please inform Teacher Kyaw Lin Thu at Bahan campus.

ၿပးခသည Fundraising Day မရရေသာ၀ငေငြမားျဖင ျပလပခေသာစာအပမားကယခအခါ အစးရစာသင ေကာငးမားသ႔ ျဖန႔ေ၀လဒါနးေနၿပျဖစပါသည။ အခ႕စာအပမား (ဆရာမားႏင ေကာငးသားေကာငးသမားမ

ေရးသားခေသာစာအပမား)သည ယခအခါ ေျမာကဥကလာပၿမ႕နယ၊ မဂၤလာဒၿမ႕နယ၊ မရမးကနးၿမ႕နယႏင ဧရာ၀တတငးေဒသႀကး၊ ေမာလၿမငကၽြနးၿမ႕၊ ေတာငငၿမ႕ႏင ရနကနၿမ႕ အစြနအဖားဘကရ

စာသငေကာငးမားသ႔ ေပးပ႔လဒါနးထားၿပးျဖစပါသည။ ၿပးခသညအပါတ Year 5

ေကာငးသားေကာငးသမား၏ Field Trip တြင အဆပါ စာအပမားက ေမာဘၿမ႕နယ၊ ေညာငေကးရြာရ အစးရမလတနး စာသငေကာငးတြငလညး

ေပးပ႔လဒါနးႏငခပါသည။ဆကလကလဒါနးႏငရန

စာအပမားလညးကနရေနေသးပါသျဖင

Network မသားစမားမ လဒါနးရန သငေလာႏငေသာေကာငးမား၊

ေနရာမားကသရခပါက Bahan Campus မ

Teacher Kyaw Lin Thu ထ ဆကသြယသတငးေပးႏငပါသည။

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FarmingA t Nyaung village they mostly grow rice. We saw the rice was growing up to my knee and the plants were green. The rice was growing at the top of the straw. It was still growing, so they can’t harvest yet. We saw some rice was dry. They also grow food in the gardens. We saw them growing pineapples in their garden. They also grow watercress, beans and chillies. They keep animals in the farm. The important animals they need to keep are cows, chicken, ducks, horses and pigs. We saw they keep the animals in their gardens.

Written by Shoon Let Aung

TransportationIn Nyaung village we saw a horse cart carrying our donations and our lunch. The horse cart is one horse pulling a carriage that is a 2 wheeled cart with a fabric ceiling. There was also a cow cart

just sitting near a house without being used. There are lots of people going around with motorcycles. Each time a motorcycle came along we moved to the right. We saw some students riding bicycles to go school. We saw trucks that are used for carrying people and their belongings such as bricks. Trucks in the village are small and the ceiling at the back is fabric. Some people used walking as

transportation. We went on with walking through the rest of the trip.

Written by Hein Htet Soe

IntroductionOn Monday 20th October 2014 half the class of year 5 Iguanas went on a field trip to Hmaw Bi and Nyaung village. We went on the field trip because in Literacy we are writing a story about leaving Yangon and going to live in a village. In science we are studying simple machines like levers, ramps, pulleys, wheels, axles, gears. Next term in history we will learn about agriculture. Only half the class went because the bus is so small it cannot fit the whole class. The other half went on Tuesday. From school to village it was more than 1 hour drive. We went to Hmaw Bi first to see the blacksmith shop. When we finished looking in the blacksmith we went back to the bus and we went a bit further. We got off the bus and walked to the village because the bus could not fit on the road because the bus was too big. The trip was really exhausting but we had a great time.

Written by Raina

Houses in the VillageSome of the houses in Nyaung village are made of wood, some are bricks, some are concrete and some are woven bamboo. The roofs are made of bamboo, tin or iron. The houses are two or three steps up from the ground, maybe because every year in the rainy season there would be floods. We went in some of the houses as we ate our snack and lunch there. We also observed what was good about the houses. There are only one or two rooms in the houses and not much furniture. There were no bathrooms in the houses. They use very old kind of utensils in the kitchen. In the backyard some people keep some domestic animals, like cows, dogs, pigs, cats, ducks, geese and chickens.

Written by Bhavya

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Rice machineAfter the blacksmith we went to a place with a rice machine. The rice

machine is very big and noisy. The rice machine’s job is to separate the rice husks from the white rice. On the machine there is a big funnel with lots of rice. First they pick the rice from the fields, then they put it in the big funnel. The machine will shake and make the rice husks separate from the white rice. The rice husks will go outside to the chickens. When the machine works there are lots of rubber belts. The belts work by an engine, the engine makes it spin. The rubber belts are attached to each other so when one spins the other also spins.

Written by Chein Chein

BlacksmithWhen we went to see the blacksmith he was putting the knives in the furnace. He turns on

the switch and the fan starts to blow so that the fire becomes

bigger and bigger. When he opens the door and takes the knife out, the

knife has become orange so they can make any shape they want. He hits

the knife and puts it in the water a little. They use metal from the chassis of the car to make the knives. Sometimes when the electricity is off they have to use the bellows to make the fire bigger. They have to wake up 4am in the early morning so that it is easy to make fire and they put out the fire at 6pm. They said that they can make 20 knives in a day. When he is finished he sends all the knives to the woman who rubs and polishes them. They sell a knife for about 5000kyats.

Written by Julian

Straw ChopperAt the house where we ate snack the owner has a horse. He was chopping straw into pieces with a straw chopper. He was going to feed the horse. Normally horses eat grass, but this horse eats straw. The straw chopper is made of a knife and wood. The straw chopper is: a wooden rod between two strong pieces of wood. The top part of the knife is attached to the rod. A wide flat piece of wood is under the knife. The straw chopper looks similar to a paper cutter. The man took a pile of straw and put it in the middle of the straw chopper. He held the handle and chopped all the straw in 11 seconds.When the straw was nearly gone the man took another pile of straw and chopped again.

Written by Phu Phu

Simple MechanismsWater Pump - In the school yard we saw a water pump. It has a metal handle and a pipe that goes into the well.To make the water pump work we need to pull up the metal handle and push down. The water will come out and go into a tank. The water comes from under the ground.Straw Cutter - When we got to a man’s house we saw his Simple Mechanism is a straw cutter which is his own invention. There is a bunch of straw and he cuts it so fast to feet his horse. The point of the knife is the bit that is attached to a block of wood and the blade is the cutting bit.

Written by Nathaniel

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Primary School When we went to the Government School the children were doing their lesson. They have no air-conditioner and they have no light. When we went there it was very hot. They don’t have an office room. They have a whiteboard and a blackboard. Their tables and chairs are not the same as ours, they are made of wood. They have no clock. The government school is a little small. Some of the children wear the school uniform and some children don’t. The primary school doesn’t have much playground. They don’t have a library room and they don’t have a separated snack and lunch place. They don’t have a water cooler. We donated some books to the school. They don’t have many books.

Written by Swe Yee

Pre-schoolsAfter a long walk and a few stops we came to a church, behind that there was a deserted school. It is a Sunday school. Inside there was a blackboard and maybe 10 benches and tables. Next we came to the Nursery. The building that was the Nursery was as small as our small living room. We saw children playing inside and other children were playing tag outside. Inside there wasn’t much furniture. As we watched we saw a teacher helping a few children. After that our teachers gave their teacher a few books, pencils, rubbers and sharpeners for the children. When the teachers said it is time to go we walked to a school called Kindergarten. Inside that school there were lots of 2 or 3 year old children. The school looked a bit like a house because it was so small. The room didn’t look nice at all. Our teachers gave that school some things too. We didn’t go to the primary school because it was Diwali holiday for them.

Written by Pania

Water pump Part of looking at the school was looking at the water pump. When I got a turn I pushed the lever up, I was surprised that it was so easy. The only problem was that there was no water coming out. When I pushed it down, which was very hard, loads of water started coming out. The water comes up through a pipe which goes underground. The water then goes into a big container where the top is open. The container is made out of cement. Some people from my class washed their hands in the container. The water was not clean enough to drink. Everyone got a turn to push down the lever.

Written by Joya

The Quern A quern is a mechanism which makes rice milk. The rice milk is used for making Myanmar traditional foods. The quern has two layers of stone. The upper one is a huge stone with a hole inside, the lower one is smaller than the upper one. In the big stone hole there is rice and on the big stone there is a metal. Behind the two layers of stones there is a long bamboo. The two stones grind against each other so the rice milk comes out. It is so amazing! Ma Har put water and rice inside the big stone hole. Teacher Nay Myo started to twist the long bamboo right to left. We lined up behind Teacher Nay Myo to take turns twisting right to left on the long bamboo.

Written by Phyu Sin Thant

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Food In Nyaung village there is a lot of food but not as much as in a town. The foods that grow are mushrooms, gourds, rice, watercress, banana, jackfruit, coconut, pineapple. Animals for food are pigs, cows, ducks, chickens and fish. One insect they eat is cicada. One of the owners of the houses grows lots of pineapples. Mostly the people grow rice. The owner of the house that grows pineapples grew them in rows. They plant the watercress near the pond because the watercress needs lots of water. When the bananas are very yellow the banana tree is also tall and big. They also plant watermelons in rows. The watermelons grow from the ground but the watermelons were still small. They have no market in their village.

Written by Lone Lone

AnimalsIn the village there are really many pigs, chickens, cows, dogs, ducks, geese, kittens and only one horse. We saw a really big fat pig and 2 small dogs. When I saw the pig, at first it was something big, pink and disgusting. When I came closer it was a giant pig! It was eating something and it was really scary. Just 2 steps from pig there were cute dogs. Dogs were running around and barking a little bit. There were many, many ducks and ducklings. When they saw us they jumped into the water and started swimming around. The horse cart carried our lunch boxes. The horse was really cute and nice. The chickens were everywhere. Some of them had chicks. Almost all of them were eating. The kittens were at the place where we were eating lunch. At first there was only one kitten, then another came. They were cute. Geese were there, too. They were eating grass. We saw a cow that had a calf. They were not afraid of us. I liked the chickens, cows, dogs, ducks, geese, kittens and horse but not the disgusting pig.

Written by Kate

BricksTwo people were making bricks. They mix sand, clay and rice husks to make bricks. They use a frame to make a shape and wooden plates to put between two

bricks. They put the clay in the frame and cut off the extra clay

with a wire. When they take the frame off, the brick is a rectangle shape. They put a wooden plate between two bricks. They make bricks so fast. They can make a brick in 10seconds. We counted the seconds to them. They leave the bricks in the sun to dry. When the bricks are dry they will bake the bricks. The place that the people make bricks was near our school bus.

Written by Joyce

FishingIn Nyaung village, I didn’t find any fishing people but I saw the trap that they use for fishing. It looks like a square box made out of sticks. In the box, there are two rooms. The two rooms are separated by a wall made of sticks. The sticks are knitted in a vertical way. It is tied with many straws that are close together so that the fish can’t go through the trap. The bottom part is covered with straws. At top of the trap, it has two sticks that are curved. When the teacher picked up the trap and showed it to us, there were lots of fishes in it. The fishes were as big as a grown up hamster.The teacher put the trap back into the water so that the fish wouldn’t die.

Written by Phyu Phyu