Panaga School Newsletter

Inside this month’s issue:

Page 2: Milepost Two bring the jun-

gle to life!

Page 3: Celebrating the thrill of

maths challenges with our community

Page 4:

Open Morning fun in the Pre-Nursery

Page 5:

P6 are experts at “Making things go’

First impressions last

Page 6 and 7:

PTA News

Page 8: Educational Leadership

Training, Community Spirit and Brunei Yakin’ at

Panaga School

Language of the month

Page 9: Two of Panaga School’s most

senior alumni retrace steps and memories

Page 10:

From the Sports Desk with Tim Walsh, PE

Specialist

Issue 39, February-March 2013

Quote for the month: “A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and

lucky to have.” - Author Unknown

Newsletter designed and edited by Damian Brady

Message from the Headteacher of the Dutch Stream and Rampayoh & Mendaram sites

Panaga School Brunei Darussalam Jalan Utara, Seria, KB3534, Brunei

Phone: +673 3372139 Fax: +6733373028

Web: www.panagaschool.com

Dear all, It has been an exciting half term again, filled with many learning, cultural, sports and community events. Last holidays, Panaga School hosted the International Leadership and Management Programme (ILMP) for current and aspiring leaders of our school and a variety of Brunei government schools and colleges. The ILMP, delivered by Fieldwork Educa-tion’s Director of Professional Develop-ment, Ms Pam Harper, is a "school-based practitioner program, designed to impact both directly and indirectly on improved stu-dent learning." Special thanks to the local school leaders for attending this course, as well as several of our Panaga teachers, who all enjoyed coming together to share teaching and learning ideas and create community links. Speaking of the local community, Panaga School were proud to welcome children and teachers from Sekolah Rendah Panaga to attend our Maths Challenge Day, late last month. Thanks to all children and teachers from both schools and par-ticularly Kathryn Carter, Child Development Leader for Learning, and Tim Walsh, Com-munity Leader for Learning, for organising what will hopefully be the first of many com-bined school activity days. The Panaga School PTA and student coun-cils have had a very busy and successful half term as well. Many children, teachers and parents put on their dancing shoes for a ‘Disco Night’ last month.

Plus, a couple of weeks ago, an important but fun message about ‘Eating Right’ was spread across both sites as adults and chil-dren wore aprons and shared healthy and delicious snacks with one another. Also, Wednesday was awash with excite-ment and good times as the PTA and stu-dent councils held the first ever ‘Busking Day’ to raise money for books. Many thanks to the PTA and student councils for all of your hard work and commitment! Also working very hard this half term were Milepost Two, who certainly did ‘bring the jungle to life’, with their exciting Jungle Book concert. It was a fantastic show! Many thanks to Jenny Dunlop and the en-tire MP2 team of students, parents and teachers, plus our music and ICT special-ists, for putting on such a great spectacle. Finally, the Panaga School Football Tour-nament was again a huge success. This year’s event featured 700 children partici-pating in 76 teams from across the country. Panaga won several categories, but all who attended would agree, sportsmanship and enjoyment were the biggest winners on the day. Thanks very much to our PE Special-ists, Paul Deelen and Tim Walsh, and the football tournament committee for hosting such an excellent event. I wish you all a happy, safe and healthy holiday. Term 3 I am sure will be just as busy and exciting.

Best regards, Meino Meines

More on Page 2

Featuring this month:

Milepost 2 bring the jungle to life!

Panaga School Newsletter The Milepost 2 Pro-duction on the 12th and 13th March was a spectacular showcase of children’s talents. Primary 4 and 5 danced, sang and acted their way through an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’. Two storytellers (Phoenix and Mia) took us on a journey follow-ing Mowgli through the jungle as they shared their bedtime story with the audience. A pulsat-ing jungle of narrators opened up the story; before introducing the caring wolf pack, led by the authoritative Akela (Owen) and the graceful Rama (Aoife) and the reluctant, marching, dancing and singing elephants. The ele-phants were spurred into action by Colonel Haiti, or was it really his wife, Winifred, who led the herd? “A female leader? Utterly popos-terous!” declared Carl as the Colonel. Next, came Kaa the sly ssssslitering snake, with the children of DP5A carefully working to-gether to create the illu-sion of one snake, as they attempted to hyp-notise poor Mowgli. Naughty monkeys of IP5P carried out their monkey business, en-joying every moment, as they were encouraged to pull faces at the audi-ence and lark about. The vultures, who skill-fully portrayed their vari-ous different personali-ties, looked for some-thing to do. (OK, which of us is saying, ‘Do!’ with special emphasis as we read this?) And eventually decided to

befriend Mowgli. A special mention to the jungle creatures who sang ‘Abba Dabba Hon-eymoon’ to the courting Baloo and King Louie – tremendous voices from just 5 children from IP5R and IP5J. We all watched out for the mean Shere Khan and his ambush of ti-gers. As Mia said, “The tigers deserve an Oscar for their dance.” In this adaptation, there wasn’t a fight to rid the jungle of Shere Khan, but a dance off and Shere Khan’s hip-hopping contribution was superb. Well done, Selby. Moments later, Ella brought a sense of calm to the role of Shanti as she appeared on stage and led Mowgli home. Primary 4, the youngest of Teraja’s pupils, brought yet more en-ergy and excitement. A herd of smiling ele-phants (IP4PS) marched and danced with pride, although, did anyone notice how they hurried away at the sight of Shere Khan? The friendly colony of vultures (IP4N), com-plete with balding heads, wrapped us in warm sentiments as they invited Mowgli to join their family. Slither-ing snakes (IP4NE) took to the stage in a blaze of green glory as each one danced their hearts out in a carefully cho-reographed routine which allowed each child to have their own dancing moment. Once Mowgli reached the man-village, the jungle creatures of DP4G wel-

comed him with drums, dancing and singing, creating an uplifting end to the story. All this was held to-gether by 6 young ac-tors who quickly learnt their lines, could be re-lied upon to remember their stage directions and who approached the experience with un-ending fervor. I would like to thank them for being such superstars. Well done, Phine, Alex, Nicole, Aubrey, Sakshi and Annabel. An extravaganza of col-our and sound – the teachers of Milepost 2 are very proud of the children’s achieve-ments. I hope every child feels equally as proud to have taken part in this big team effort as it’s success was down to you. Well done.

By Jenny Dunlop

Milepost 2 bring the jungle to life!

Prasidh: “I thought the scenery was awesome.”

Kristi: “I loved singing all the songs.”

Selby: “I enjoyed creeping across the stage to Pink Panther.”

Daniel: “The IP4NE snake dance was really funny.”

Panaga School Newsletter Maths Challenge Day - celebrating with our community

On the 20th February 2013, chil-dren and teachers from Sekolah Rendah Panaga attended our Maths Challenge Day at Panaga School. It was the first step in what many teachers at both schools are hoping is going to be a productive relationship for the two schools. It is hoped that from this initial event the basis for a learning com-munity between the two schools can develop as students share educational experiences, musical and drama events, as well as sporting fixtures. Further to this, the teachers of both schools will be able to share the innovative ideas and techniques they use in their classrooms, furthering the educa-tional outcomes of the students of both schools. At the end of the day, with smiles plastered across their faces, the hopes of the students for the future of this relationship were simple. Md Safiq Idris and David Adegboriye spoke enthusiastically that some football fixtures or a badminton tournament could take place be-tween the two schools in the future. Many of the girls, including Simin Ali and Ivy Elizabeth Smeith, men-tioned their passion for drama and dancing and hoped that some per-formances could be arranged.

When it was time for the two groups of students to say goodbye to each other at the end of the day’s event, future academic, sporting and drama performances were no longer just the topics of discussion. Emails were ex-changed too, as was the hope ex-pressed by all that a return visit for the Panaga students could be ar-ranged so they could further their friendships.

Written by Tim Walsh, Panaga School Community

Leader for Learning

Panaga School Newsletter On Tuesday 12th March, the children in Pre-Nursery invited their parents in to play, have fun, get messy and gen-

erally get actively in-volved with their learn-ing. It was a great morning and the children loved

sharing their settling with their parents. Thank you to everybody who came along, and don't worry if you couldn't

make it on this occasion, we shall be inviting you in again in Term 3.

By the Pre-Nursery team

Open Morning fun in the Pre-Nursery

Parents joined in the fun of Pre-Nursery on Tuesday 12th March

Panaga School Newsletter Can you make a car move by using air from a bal-loon? Can you power a watch with a lemon? Can you cook a sau-sage with the power of the sun? P6 say, “Yes you can!”

In P6, we have learnt lots of excit-ing ways to create energy by using eco-friendly re-sources and renew-able energy.

One of our favourite tasks was making a solar powered oven. No one be-lieved that a pizza box, clean film, black paper and the power of the sun would be able to cook a sausage. We should have been more positive, as every sausage successfully cooked in one sunny after-noon. In fact, some of our solar pow-ered ovens reached an astonishing 90deg Celsius.

WOW! Another task which was lots of fun was using the power of air to make a bal-loon travel up a piece of string. From our under-standing of how this works, we designed and made buggy cars powered by balloons. We had great fun racing our cars to see whose travelled the fur-thest.

We learnt the more air in the balloon, the more energy created. The more energy created the further the car moved.

Creating energy from a lemon was a sticky and fiddly task. From learning how a battery works, we were able to make our own battery by us-ing zinc and copper threads and 2 lem-ons to produce enough energy to power a buzzer and watch. By Miss Jo

P6 are great at “Making things go”

On the 1st Febru-ary 2013, a group of P6 remote-control enthusi-asts got together for the first time to trade fun with their gadgets and toys in the safe environs of t h e s c h o o l grounds - the first of what is

hoped to be a monthly gather-ing. Budding F1 rac-e r s , r o b o t ‘engineers’ and helicopter ‘pilots’ spent an hour ‘Making Things Go’ to coincide with their IPC topic of the same name. One month later, on the first of March, a group of

P6 and P7 heli-copter ‘pilots’ got together (pictured above) for a sec-ond meeting. For the next occa-sion, notice will be circulated to wel-come all Milepost 3 remote-control car drivers/racers back together in one place for a little more home-grown Top Gear fun!

By Mr Dermot

Remote-Control Friday!

An interview with Duru Ngozi Ifeoma

Duru Ngozi Ifeoma recently joined the Panaga School Community with her family. Not only is she a mother to three girls in the school, she is also an experienced teacher and school admin-istrator who is uniquely placed to give us a per-spective on what it is like to experience a new begin-ning at Panaga School. Can you describe your first impressions of Panaga School? As soon as I walked into the school I saw ‘Feathers’ and I knew that, if those were the key words for the school (Personal Goals), this would be a special place. I had to take a photo of it with my ipad. The word ‘Resilience’ touched me and it really helps my daughters with their work. When they find something hard, I tell them about resil-ience and encourage them to try and try again. What are your impres-sions of the learning en-vironment at the school? It’s intimidating…but in a good way! I looked at the classrooms and saw the displays with the children’s photographs and their countries and it gives the children a sense of belong-ing. I thought that being an in-ternational school meant

that the school would have an international curriculum, but it’s more than that. The children still know where they come from but they have a deep understanding and respect of other peo-ple’s cultures too. What have you noticed about the learning activi-ties that your children have taken part in? This has really impressed me the most. The children bring their own ideas to ac-tivities and the teacher meets them half-way. They participate in the learning, rather than just cramming in the information the teacher gives them. It’s very child-centred. I think it’s wonderful! How do your children talk about the school when they come home in the afternoon? They are excited about school and tell me about their new experiences. Did you know that my teacher can play an instrument? Did you know that my new friend is from here? Did you know that my friend is hav-ing to leave Panaga School and she was crying? This really made me think that it must be a good school if a child who has been at the school for so long is crying because she has to leave. She wasn’t saying, “I’ll miss my friends,” she was say-ing, “I’ll miss the school.” It must be like a home for her. We value all the feedback that you, as parents, give us at the school and thank Duru Ngozi Ifeoma for tak-ing the time to share her experiences with us.

By Andy Ryan

First Impressions

PTA News

Panaga School Newsletter

A total of $5,495 has been raised from PTA events and activities so far this school year. The Social Night generated $555, the Panaga School tea towels brought in $3,860 and the profit from the School Disco amounted to $1,080. Very many thanks to everyone who supported these initiatives. This money, together with the profits from last year’s International Cook Book, is being spent on: • Equipment for ‘In the Zone’ playground activities

at Teraja • A friendship bench and traffic marking at Ram-

poyah • A ‘make-over’ for the reading area in the Teraja

library At the end of this school year, the PTA will issue an End of Year Report.

SAVE THE DATE!

SCHOOL FAIR ‘A fun event for the whole school community’

Saturday, 18th May 2013

3-5pm Panaga School, Teraja site

There will be face painting, a lucky dip, second-hand books and DVDs to buy, live performances to watch,

fun activities to enjoy, home-baking and much more…

To run the event we need the help of volunteers. If

you can help in any way please:

- contact your class parent - email panagaschoolpta@gmail.com

- speak to anyone on the PTA Committee

Coffee morning for class parents

Wednesday 10th April 2013 9.30-10.30am

Kenyalang Restaurant, Panaga Club

Please advise if you (or an alternate parent) can at-tend by emailing panagaschoolpta@gmail.com.

We are hoping that each class is represented.

(The cost of the coffee morning will be covered by the school.)

Catch coverage of all the fun and excitement of this year’s wonderfully successful Busking Day next news-

letter, where we will reveal how much was donated, who some of the top acts were; plus, show how much fun we all had. Thanks to all participants, parents and

teachers for supporting this great event.

What we’ve raised and where it’s going...

PTA News

Panaga School Newsletter

By Anna Sanderson

The almost 300 children who attended this year’s Panaga School PTA Disco will enthusiastically attest that disco is definitely not dead! Irrespective of whether you prefer to breakdance, moonwalk, twist or Harlem shake, the school disco was the place to be.

Wednesday February 27th saw children from P1 to P8 dust off their dancing shoes

and head, ticket in hand, to the Teraja hall. Thanks to the efforts of the PTA disco divas, Adrienne Brocklebank, Caro-lyn Brien and Elizabeth Moraz, the hall was trans-formed into a glow stick and disco light illuminated dance den. Parent stylists had obvi-ously worked overtime as se-quins, glitter make up, slicked backed hair, curls and fancy up-dos abounded.

Disco DJ, Rob De Bree, made sure that tracks from favourites like One Direction,

Nicki Minaj and PSY kept on coming as each Milepost took their turn to work up a sweat with an hour-long session of non-stop boogying. All up, there were three disco ses-sions running between 4.30pm and 8pm, none of which would have been pos-sible without the assistance of the fantastic troupe of parent volunteers who collected tick-ets, distributed snacks, drinks and party favours and super-vised the children as they tore up the dance floor.

Wednesday Night Fever

By Anna Sanderson

Lunch boxes went under the micro-scope this month as the Student Council launched Eat Right theme day. The day’s aim was to stimulate

healthy discussion and improve the quality of school snacks and lunches.

To get into the spirit, children and teachers donned aprons, be-cause, as any healthy

eater knows, prepara-tion process is key to a healthy diet. Each class also feasted on a nutritious and delicious picnic at snack time.

A successful theme day is not just about dressing up and shar-ing food. If done right, a theme day should generate discussion, debate and positive change.

Eat Right theme day saw the introduction of a theme-day-based class discussion ses-sion and the ‘take away’ task. The ration-ale behind the ‘take away’ task is to bring the theme home. The

children did this by conjuring up healthy snacks at home and sending in a photo for our healthy eating gal-lery.

Eat Right to increase your might!

Take a look at what some of our kitchen wizards

whipped up!

Panaga School Newsletter

From the 11th to the 14th of February 2013, Panaga School hosted the Interna-tional Leadership and Management Programme (ILMP) for current and as-piring leaders of Panaga School and a variety of Brunei government schools and colleges. The course was an opportunity for this country’s top educa-tionalists to come to-gether in some ‘Brunei Yakin’; to learn about, to inspire one another and to share in school management best practices.

‘Brunei Yakin’ is not just of paramount im-portance to Brunei Shell Petroleum, it is a key part of the ethos of Panaga School. Though the school’s primary role is to pro-vide learning opportu-nities for children of expa t r ia te s ta f f , ‘Brunei Yakin’ at Panaga School is clearly evident in our students’ and staff’s (including Bruneian Administration’s and Learning Support As-sistants’) pride in working and living in Brunei. This year, Panaga School aims to con-tribute even more to the wider community of Brunei by having appointed, among its teaching staff, a Com-munity Leader for Learning. As a result, stronger links have already been formed with local schools and organisa-

t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g Panaga’s invitation to local school and col-lege leaders to attend the ILMP. The ILMP, delivered by Fieldwork Educa-tion’s Director of Pro-fessional Develop-ment, Ms Pam Harper, is a "school-based practitioner program, designed to impact both directly and indi-rectly on improved student learning." The programme en-courages confidence and expertise in lead-ership and profes-sional relationships between students, staff, senior leaders and board members; among other teaching/learning management aspects. In addition to the prac-tical and theoretical guidance provided on the course, partici-pants gained a great deal from interactions with colleagues from

other schools; their shared experiences and the contrasting challenges they face each day. The feedback from all teachers and school managers who at-tended the course was highly compli-mentary, including: ‘An outstanding pro-gramme.’ ‘Wonderfully beneficial for those who are leaders, th inking about being leaders and even those who are not.’ ‘The best course of training I have re-ceived of any kind in my teaching career.’ ‘It was great to be united in leadership and learning.’ On a daily basis, teachers help children learn by making what is complex, simple.

At Panaga School, we refer to Brunei as our ‘host’ country and this notion of hospitality explains in a simple way how ‘Brunei Ya-kin’ worked for us dur-ing the course. For all that Brunei teaches and provides for us, our commit-ment to sharing our experiences and ex-pertise as educators is the small gift that we can bring in return to say, “Thank you”.

By Andy Ryan,

Milepost 3 Leader for Learning, and Damian Brady

Educational Leadership Training, Community Spirit and ‘Brunei Yakin’ at Panaga School

“Language is the road map of a culture. It

tells you where its peo-ple come from and

where they are going.”

- Rita Mae Brown

At Panaga School, many pupils have Eng-lish as an additional language. They work extremely hard at de-veloping their English, and do a great job! However, it is also im-portant that they con-tinue to use and de-velop their first lan-guage at home.

Their mother tongue is an integral part of their cultural identity and en-ables them to communi-cate with family and

friends in their home country. In addition, many children may re-turn to live in their home country at a later stage, perhaps for schooling, and this will help them to reintegrate. Research has shown that children who have a strong mother tongue language are far more successful in learning other lan-guages.

To celebrate and raise awareness of the lan-guages spoken at

Panaga School, there will be a new ‘Language of the Month’ display board on both sites, starting in the new term. We aim to introduce some basic vocabulary and give a little insight into some of the coun-tries where the language is spoken. Look out for the board - if you see your language on dis-play, please feel free to contribute with pictures, maps, photos, etc. Speak to your child’s

class teacher; there may be an opportunity for you to share stories, poems and songs from your home country with your child’s class.

“If you talk to a man in a language he under-stands, that goes to

his head. If you talk to him in his own lan-

guage, that goes to his heart.”

- Nelson Mandela By Perminder Sanghera

and Vanessa Clee

Language of the month

Panaga School Newsletter Two of Panaga School’s most senior alumni retrace steps and memories Last week, Panaga School were honoured to welcome 2 ex-pupils who attended classes over a re-markable 60 years ago. Perry Harlen and Donald Whitaker both went to Panaga School in the late 1940s, shortly after the school’s inception. Panaga School was established in 1948, originally on a different site fur-ther north along the South China Sea coastline. It is now located in the Brunei Shell residential camp of Panaga, between the oil towns of Kuala Belait and Seria. Perry Harlen arrived in Brunei in 1946 and completed his studies between 1949 and 1954. Donald Whitaker ar-rived in 1948 and began school the same year. Both gentlemen were very pleased to visit Panaga School so many years on, to share memories of building de-velopments, favourite old teachers and classmates. They were amazed at how much the school has thrived over the last 65 years. “It is marvellous to still see that the original three wings of the school re-main. Though, it’s also great to see the school’s expansion which shows Shell’s confidence in the future of Se-ria. When my father retired in 1963, there were some doubts over the vi-ability of the oil fields. Since then, there have obviously been several discoveries made,” said Perry. Panaga School is again expanding today to accommodate several more students expected in the coming years; a further sign of the success and prospects of Brunei Shell Petro-leum. Donald also remarked on the school’s growth from his time to now: “It is very nice to see such a progressive school with a huge variety of children in it. The children we have seen on our visit today are obviously very happy in their learning and life. The children all

seem fulfilled. It is wonderful to see the huge mix of cultures. All students seem to get along with one another.” He added, “It is startling to learn of the diversity of the school, with over 40 nationalities. Back when I was at school, we only had pupils who were Dutch, Australian, a New Zealander and British.” Perry also noticed the variety of activi-ties now on offer at Panaga School, compared to when he was a student. “In my time, there was only football, not cricket and all of the other activi-ties I have seen today.” Donald furthered however that art and music were popular curriculum areas back then, despite there not being television or cinema; only the occa-sional ABC radio broadcast from Aus-tralia. “One of the most pleasant features of the school in the old days was that it was down near the beach. Mrs Eileen Corby, the art teacher, used to take children down to the beach for les-sons. I also had a wonderful music teacher called Rachel Mead, who used to give inspiring classes on the classical music of Greig,” Donald reminisced. He added, ”When you lived in Brunei, you were completely cut off from the outside world. We had telephones, but you could not call out of the country.” Plus back then, the roads only went as far as Anduki (20kms away). “If you had to get to the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, you needed to go along the beach.” For Perry and Donald, so much has changed at Panaga School in the last 65 years. Who can predict what the school will be like a further 65 years from now? At least there’s hope the current pupils of today will remain in the fine health and happiness that Donald and Perry have been in over such a long period of time.

By Damian Brady

Panaga School in the 1940s and 50s, when Perry and Donald were school boys.

From left: Donald Whitaker, Dianne Shaw (Perry’s wife) and Perry Harlen

Donald and Perry enjoying the many developments since their time at

Panaga School

Panaga School Newsletter

Panaga Football Tournament 2013:

The annual Panaga Football Tournament was contested on March 10th at the Panaga padang. This year’s event featured 700 children participating in 76 teams from all over Brunei. The Crown Princes of the Bruneian royal family also played in the tournament. This only served to add to the level of excitement eve-rybody was already feeling for the day’s festivities. It was great to walk around the Padang and see so many football matches be-ing played in such a com-petitive, yet positive spirit. Despite fierce competition from the kick off, all matches ended with a handshake, a smile and a much-deserved drink of water. I would like to take the op-portunity to thank the staff of Panaga School and the par-ent volunteers who assisted in all aspects of the running of the tournament. From referees, team leaders and scorers to water distributors, everybody worked together to ensure the day was stress-free and fun for all the players and spectators. From an organisational standpoint, events such as this do not just happen over-night. A great deal of hard work was put in by many staff members in the pre-ceding months to ensure the tournament’s success. For this, special thanks needs to be given to the Tournament Committee.

2013 Panaga School Football Tournament

Winners and Runners Up: U/12 Boys: 1st Panaga 2nd JIS B U/11/12 Girls: 1st JIS 2nd Hornbill U/11 Boys: 1st JIS 2nd Panaga U/10 Boys: 1st JIS 2nd Panaga B U/10 Girls: 1st Hornbill 2nd Panaga U/9 Girls: 1st Panaga A 2nd Panaga B U/8 Mixed: 1st Panaga A 2nd Panaga B U/7 Mixed:1st ISB Bandar A 2nd ISB Bandar C U/6 Mixed: 1st Panaga A 2nd Panaga B

All football players need to ensure that their uniforms

are returned to Miss Kathryn on Teraja or the Administra-

tion office on Rampayoh.

Inter house Football and Basketball:

As we go to press, we are coming to the end of the round robin stage of our Pri-mary 4/5 inter-house football competition and our Primary 6-8 inter-house basketball competition. At this stage, the finalists remain unde-cided due to the close na-ture of both competitions. I would like to take this oppor-tunity to congratulate the students who have repre-sented their houses so en-thusiastically in the year’s first inter-house sporting events. The finals of both competitions will be played in the first week back after the holiday. Stay tuned to see if your house will make the final!

BJSL Congratulations to all the competitors who have repre-sented Panaga School in the sports of t-ball and foot-ball over the previous months. Unfortunately, our teams were unable to attend the final round of the com-petition at JIS on March 14th. The final results will be very close in all age groups of the competition. Regardless of the final standings, the developing level of commit-ment and pride within our teams is something to sa-vour. The number of stu-dents attending before school training sessions has increased every week. It is no accident that the per-formances of our teams dur-ing matches have improved, also as more and more stu-dents have worked hard to develop their skills.

After the holiday we will be selecting our touch rugby and netball teams for the next round of the BJSL. Panaga School will also be looking to take the top spot in this year’s BJSL swim-ming gala.

From the Sports Desk with Tim Walsh,

PE Specialist