Panaga School Newsletter October 2012

Panaga School Newsletter

Inside this month’s issue: Page 2 ∗ Science Challenge Day egg-

stravaganza! Page 3 ∗ P7 explore the Temburong jun-

gle ∗ P5’s special report from the

Labi rainforest Page 4 ∗ Introducing the 2012/2013 Par-

ent Teacher Association Page 5 ∗ Upcoming PTA events: School

Disco, PTA Social Night and Charity Teatowels

Page 6 ∗ Introducing the Panaga School

Board for 2012/2013 Page 7 ∗ Parents eye off their children’s

great work at the ‘Open Ses-sions’

∗ ‘Discussing and Designing’ - A P6 IPC Entry Point

Page 8 ∗ Feathers flies off to Gabon on a

mascot exchange Page 9 ∗ The Panaga Community contin-

ues its support of the Penan people

Page 10 ∗ Great DP7/8B stories - worth

Google translating! Page 11 ∗ IP1 and DP1/2 - Family and

Friends Exit Point ∗ P8 art so good, you’d swear

you were Dreaming! Page12 ∗ P2 learn many things about

themselves and others ∗ Pre Nursery children are mak-

ing changes Page 13 ∗ From the Sports Desk, with Mr

Tim Walsh

Issue 36, October 2012

Quote for the month: “The vulgar boil, the

learned roast, an egg.” - Alexander Pope

Newsletter designed and edited by Damian Brady

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

Phone: +673 3372139 Fax: +6733373028

Web: www.panagaschool.com

The school year is well underway with our first half term holiday already be-hind us. The 640 children on roll have not wasted any time in engrossing themselves in their learning, at the be-ginning of this new academic year, through a myriad of planned learning opportunities and experiences. High-lights from the first half term include: the Science Challenge Day, Primary 7’s Temburong residential, P5’s ven-ture into the Labi Road rainforest and many IPC entry and exit points across both sites. As an International School, we con-stantly reflect on our classroom prac-tice and how to further improve chil-dren's quality of learning by respond-ing to new research in the field of edu-cation. In particular, this term, teach-ers in the International Stream have been exploring the use of the Pri-macy-Recency effect. The Primacy-Recency effect is not a new discovery. German researcher, Hermann Ebbinghaus, published the first studies on it in the 1880s. Basi-cally, it establishes the concept that during a learning episode, we remem-ber best what comes first, second-best what comes last, and least what comes just past the middle. More re-cent studies help to further explain

why this is so. The first items of new information are within the working memory’s func-tional capacity, so they command our attention and are likely to be retained. Latter information however, exceeds our working memory's capacity and is lost! As the learning episode con-cludes, our working memory has started to sort the information and therefore frees up capacity. We have been exploring this in terms of our classroom practice and learn-ing. For example, how do we maxi-mise the ‘prime time’ at the start of a lesson to teach new knowledge or a new skill because information is most likely to be remembered then. Plus, how do we use the plenary segment of the lesson to extend learning and even introduce new learning. The Primacy-Recency effect is also a great reminder to parents to ensure children arrive at school on time so that they maximize prime learning op-portunities! Each learning moment is important, especially as time continues to fly by. Warm regards, Craig Heaton

Message from the Headteacher of the International Stream and Teraja site

Science Challenge Day Tuesday 9th October 2012

Featuring this

month...

….More on Page 2


The first Chal-lenge Day of

the new academic year set off to an eggy start as nursery rhyme char-acters and Professor Crackpot and his crew (of not so able scien-tists) helped to launch the day’s scientific chal-lenges. The challenges were based on the theme of the Great Egg Race and were designed to look at the properties of different materials and the effect of forces on objects.

On Rampayoh, poor Humpty Dumpty had fallen off his wall but luck-ily our younger scientists were on hand to design and build a much stronger and safer tower for Humpty to sit on, and if he was unlucky enough to fall off again, some stylish protective clothing for Humpty. As small teams worked together to build the towers, ably assisted by our parent volunteers, the Personal Goals were clearly being demon-strated.

On Teraja, our budding scientists were tasked with designing an Egg-Boat capable of holding as many passengers as possible using their knowledge of up-thrust and materials.

An amazing 100 plus egg passengers were safely boarded on the Fire teams’ winning design. In a rather eggusual game – teams also competed to design the ideal outer casing for an EggBall™ in order to launch it safely through a basketball hoop.

Throughout the day our judges were impressed

by the children’s knowl-edge of materials and praised the selection of those that kept the eggs safe from cracking.

Scientific skills were also in force throughout the day as designing and test-ing was conducted.

Despite a sticky ending for some of the eggs, a great display of scientific knowledge, skills and un-derstanding was demon-strated across all ages and house teams.

Well done, an eggcellent effort by all!

By Miss Kathryn, Leader for Learning - Child Development

Thoughtfulness

Panaga School Newsletter P7’s fantastic trip to Sumbiling Eco Village, Temburong

P7 enjoyed a fantastic ad-venture on our trip to Tembu-rong. We left Panaga School in our groups (A and B) at approximately 8am on the buses. We were on our way to the jetty alongside the river where we would take a boat to the nearest landing to Sumbiling Eco Village.

The boat ride was about 40 minutes to the landing. When we got to the landing, we unloaded our bags and went up a ramp to get off the floating platform. Once we all assem-bled, group by group, we walked outside to the mini-buses which we took to our camp.

The scenery on the way to the camp was phenomenal; all the hills covered with lush green vegetation. It was awesome! When we got to the carpark drop-off/pickup, we had an ap-proximately 175 metres walk with a lot of weight on our backs. We were going to stay at Sumbiling Eco Village for 4 days and 3 nights and we would sleep in tents. There were three children in each tent. Once we got to the actual place where we were staying, we found our tents and settled in.

So, the first day when we ar-rived we had lunch and then went to unpack our stuff and played some games. We then

went into the beautiful Tembu-rong River alongside the vil-lage. After going to the river we had about 1 hour and 15 min-utes of free time.

Next, we had dinner and got ready to walk to the longhouse; followed by the night walk where we saw a load of differ-ent insects, animals and plants. We encountered poisonous spiders, massive stick insects, glowing mushrooms, lizards and fireflies and apparently a fox.

The next day, we woke to some delicious breakfast. We then got ready for the day. Over the next two days, both groups did a canopy walk, a river study, a boat ride and made a campfire lunch where we cooked it in bamboo.

This is what we did: A canopy walk with about 1000 steps up into the luscious rain-forest canopy. Then a walk up a tower which was like scaf-folding. Later we took a boat to a rock beach. From there we walked to a small waterfall where we had a fish spa. Some places had more fish coming to people. We then had a scrump-tious chicken and fried rice lunch on another rock beach. Finally, we had a raft race for about 200 metres.

The other group went on a long trek in the rainforest to a river called the Mutong. We waited

patiently for our chicken, cab-bage and rice to eat on a leaf. We then did a river study to collect results for some work in class. We then walked back to camp after shooting at a target on the blow pipe and putting face paint on. It was a very tir-ing activity. After those activi-ties, we had dinner and split up for bed.

On the final day, we woke up, had breakfast and packed up all our stuff. Then we did a bit of artwork and a blowpipe com-petition between group A and B. We did some other games as well.

After that we left Sumbiling Eco Village travelling by legs, minibus, boat and coach. The trip was a great experience! Among all this, we also used all our IPC Personal Goals includ-ing:

Written by: Max Mooney and Robin Burgess;

Edited by: René Chuka and Brandon Williams

Resilience Adaptability

Cooperation

On Wednesday 10th Octo-ber, the P5 classes ven-tured into the rainforest in search of the best fieldtrip ever; luckily it was achieved! This fieldtrip had a mix of knowledge and danger, plus it was great fun!

The moment we got off the bus I was excited as a child at Christmas; the weather was bright and humid as always.

The guides were very helpful with everything, even when we discovered a new type of

worm. Or so we thought, it turned out our hammerhead worm was actually a leech! We found it on one of the many steps. As we adventured and ex-plored the jungle, we all ad-mired the lush, strong, tall trees that scraped the sky like sky scrapers soaring in the air. If we looked closer we could just make out magnifi-cent birds singing a lovely song in harmony with each other.

Finally, we came to a resting stop and had a bite to eat.

Then we set off for the bus, but unluckily it wasn’t there! Miss Jenny and Mr Rue said we had to walk. Miss Jenny sent our class off first to see if we’d make it! We did make it all in one piece but we proba-bly got lucky. What wasn’t fair was Miss Jenny’s class got picked up by the bus a quarter of the way through their walk.

We just kept on getting luckier and luckier, it started to rain just as we started to head back to school, it was very heavy and loud.

So in conclusion, I think we should leave all the jungle exploring to the experts but at least we got our daily dose of danger and adventure. The most important thing is that we had a blast and that’s what counts. Best of all we had some great experience of a rainforest and it will make learning about them so much easier.

My Rainforest Trip – By Sarah Seagrove IP5R

Panaga School Newsletter From the PTA Chairperson

The PTA reps have come up with some fun ideas for the year ahead. We are planning one main event each term along with a few extra activities. This term the main event is a School Disco for all children from P1 to P8. In Term 2, Teraja pupils will be en-couraged to show off their skills and talents in a Busking Bo-nanza, while in Term 3 there will be a Big School Fair. More info on all that to come. As well as organising fund-raising events, it’s the role of the PTA to provide an additional com-munication link between parents and the school. I stress ‘additional’ because Panaga School has an open-door policy and parents can, of course, speak to the school di-rectly at any time. However, you may feel that your query or suggestion doesn’t need a face-to-face meeting. In which case you can email: [email protected] or drop a note in the red boxes situ-ated at the Teraja and Rampoyah main entrances. The appropriate person within school will respond to you and if it’s felt that other parents may find the issue relevant, or indeed a number of parents have the same query, then the school will also feedback through its weekly Par-ent Information Letter. If you have any suggestions as to what funds raised by the PTA should be spent on, please let us know. We welcome your input and hope to hear from you.

Adrienne Brocklebank

Secretary Chairperson/

School Board

Representative

General Representative

Michelle McCulloch

Communications/ Class Parent

Coordinator for Rampayoh

Adrienne Brocklebank Carolyn Brien Alison Eng

Germaine Field

Silvia Guzman Mirian Quezeda

Lilin Wright





Communications/ Class Parent

Coordinator for Teraja

Elizabeth Moras

Christina Fenlon Paul Moffett Madelien Hungerbuhler

Tim Robinson Craig Heaton Meino Meines


Teacher Representative/ Student Council

Coordinator

Teacher Representative/ Student Council

Coordinator

Advisory Representative

(Principal)

Advisory Representative (Headteacher,

Teraja)

Advisory Representative (Headteacher,

Rampayoh)

Parent Teacher Association (PTA) 2012-2013

Panaga School Newsletter Upcoming PTA Events and Activities

We’ve come up with a great way of involving all the children in a fun and practical fund-raising initiative – a tea towel featuring a handprint of the Pre-Nursery/Nursery children and a self-portrait of the children in P1 – P8.

We’re showing an example (from another school) of what we mean. A tea towel is usu-ally used for drying dishes but you may find your Panaga School tea towel too precious for that!

The children will create their artwork in school. Please look out for the order form they will bring home in November.

LET'S GO DISCO!

Who: P1 - P8 When: Thursday 29 November

Where: Teraja Main Hall

There will be different time slots for different age groups. Full details nearer the time. Meanwhile,

please save the date!

Coming soon and featuring all Panaga School children ….


Adrienne Brocklebank: I am in Brunei with my husband, Andrew who works for BSP and our boys, Mark, 11 and Jack, 8, both of whom are at Panaga School. This is our second year here and I decided to join the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) as I firmly believe in its aims of encouraging good communication and building a strong partnership among all those in our school community. I will work towards achieving that to the best of my ability. I am confident that my professional background in Public Relations & Corporate Communication equips me well for my role as PTA School Board representative.

Ramlah Bujang: I am currently the Head of HR Facilities & Contracts, and Panaga School is one of the Facili-ties within my portfolio. I have been with Brunei Shell for 25 years, and my last assignment was in The Hague for two years. I am married to Mohamad, and we have been gifted with four adorable sons; Tadri (18), Aiman (16), Hafiy (12) and Hadif (8). I enjoyed my time in The Hague personally and professionally, learning and ex-periencing the global diversity. What I value most in people are honesty and their friendship.

Hj Kamaludin Hj Bungsu (Human Resource Director, Brunei Shell Petroleum): Hj Kamaludin started his career in Brunei Shell Petroleum as a Trainee Wellsite Engineer in 1989. Hj Kamaludin has been a business leader at BSP for a number of years and has a depth of knowledge and experience. Hj Kamaludin holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering and a Masters Degree in Business Management. He is married to Dyg Haia-pah Hussin and they have four children, Muhammad Ayyub (22), Muhammad Shu’aib (21), Muhammad ‘Umar (12) and Aa’ishah (11). Hj Kamaludin is a positive leader and family man.

Introducing the Panaga School Board for 2012/2013

Tim Robinson (Principal): I arrived this academic year with my wife, Alison, and daughters, Mia and Ella. I hope to become settled into Brunei as soon as possible and start enjoying the rich and diverse opportunities that the country has to offer. Having lived in both Thailand and Indonesia previously, we still have a few more places to visit in SE Asia. Professionally, I am looking forward to carrying on all of the inspirational learning that has previously taken place at Panaga School.

Christine Marnoch: " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the World" - Nelson Mandela. I am here in Brunei with my husband Ken and our son Scott, who is in P5. I trained and taught in a Primary School in Scotland, before moving to Shell, working in many aspects of HR, and becoming a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD). During our 5+ years in Qatar, I was a supply teacher in 4 different International Schools, Chairperson of the PTA and served on the School Board of Scott's school. I am passionate about education and believe every child should have the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Henk van Hout (Director of Shell

Education Services in The Hague)

Other members:

Peter Anderton: I am the Teacher Representative for the School Board. I am halfway through my elected two-year tenure. My main role within Panaga School, however, is that of IP7 teacher. As a member of the board I act as a conduit between teaching staff and the wider school organisation; ensuring that teachers’ voices and opin-ions are heard, and feeding back any developments and decisions. I believe that clear and open communication between all stakeholders is essential within any successful school and community; it is my aim to guarantee this in a professional manner.

Meino Meines: I started at Panaga School in August 2008 as Headteacher of the Dutch Stream. I am in Brunei with my wife, Clara, daughter, Jill, and our son, Kaj. In addition to my responsibilities leading the Dutch Stream, I am also responsible for the day-to-day activities at Rampayoh and Mendaram, the Second Language pro-gramme, swimming and Learning Support Assistants. I enjoy contributing to whole school development espe-cially the International Primary Curriculum. I enjoy the rich cultural diversity and international mindedness at Panaga School, comprising of more than 40 nationalities, and celebrated through our cultural assemblies.

Elke Rettberg Brunei Shell Petroleum

Chris van den Berg: Within the School Board I am a representative for BSP, where I work in the ‘Major Pro-jects’ department. My home country is The Netherlands and since 2011 I’m living in Brunei with my family, where our 3 children are attending the Panaga School. Outside work, I enjoy travelling and sailing. Brunei is my 5th Shell posting, with previous overseas locations including Qatar and Malaysia. I am looking forward to bring-ing my international & Shell experience to the School Board, where I will also support the school on safety-related matters.

Craig Heaton: It has been a privilege to work as the Headteacher of the International Stream and Teraja site over the last four years and be a member of the School Board for this period of time too. A highlight has been being a part of the school’s IPC Mastering Accreditation. I am a father of four girls, two of whom are at boarding school in Scotland. My youngest two attend school here, Niamh in P8 and Esme in P3. My wife, Steph, works in the Nursery and is in her fourth year of teaching at Panaga School.

Panaga School Newsletter Children proudly showcase their hard work and fun to parents

On Monday 15th October 2012, Panaga School was very pleased to showcase its students’ achievements and hard work to parents. The ‘Open Classes’ gave parents an excellent oppor-tunity to peruse their chil-dren’s books, look at class

displays and view digital work in ICT folders. It was an afternoon where the students themselves led the discussions and dis-played their achievements so far this year, with pride. For the new students, it was

also an excellent opportunity to demonstrate how well they have settled in to not only a new country, but a new class. The ‘Open Classes’ were again a huge success as feedback resonated that par-ents are extremely pleased

to see the dynamic and high levels of learning that takes place at Panaga School. On behalf of all staff, thank you to parents for your at-tendance and continued support. Our doors are al-ways open.

By Damian Brady

Discussing & Designing - P6 Exit Point On Wednesday 17th October, P6 students joined forces to develop ideas for their upcoming IPC ‘Fit For Life’ Exit Point. They were presented with a ‘Planning & Preparation’ challenge, hot on the heels of the Exit Point let-ter that had been sent home to both inform and invite their parents.

Working in small integrated groups, children fine-tuned their activity de-signs which required them to follow some strict guidelines. They were to be team-oriented; safe; demand a high level of physical activity… and be fun! The children (pictured below) devel-oped ideas for three new games:

‘Slippery Summer’, ‘Monkey Roads’, and the slightly more ominous sounding: ‘Terminator’. These activi-ties will require the children to bring items in from home if necessary, e.g. small splash pools, slides etc. Swimming costumes will of course be mandatory on the day!

By Mr Dermot

Lucas, Aditi, Hannah, Anis, Prune & Sondre Shreya, Ocean, Gregory, Tobi, Lucy & Douwe Sarah, Tia, Qin, Michael, Karan & Freek

Panaga School Newsletter Feathers takes flight for Gabon on a mascot exchange

This month, we sent our Panaga School mascot, 'Feathers' the hornbill, off on a long journey across the world to Gabon. He flew off armed with only a CD of pictures of life at Panaga School, a school exercise book and some delicious snacks for the journey - a tasty of selection of scorpions, lizards, geckos, skinks, earthworms, frogs, bee-tles, butterflies, and Feathers' favourite snack - plump, noisy cicadas. This week, in return, we received Elly the elephant, Ecole Yenzi's school mascot from Gabon.

The mascots at both schools are central to the IPC Personal Goals and play an important part in the ethos of each school.

The School Mascot exchange pro-ject was set up for two reasons: to encourage international minded-ness between schools in different parts of the world and to promote authentic uses of ICT by encourag-ing children to use different forms of InformationCommunication Technology.

The newly arrived mascots are to be treated as guests and taken around the new school, on school excursions, trips around town, pub-lic holiday celebrations, be even taken home by individual children on family/special occasions, etc. Each class/school can then use a website to write or record a short audio or upload the adven-tures of their mascot on their school page. The intention is that the schools can use the Mascot Project web-site: (http://shellmascot.weebly.com) which will allow them to blog about the adventures of the visiting mas-cot and keep each other up-to-date with pictures, audio recordings and video of how their mascot is getting on abroad. It is also hoped that eventually we can use live video and chat tools such as Google Hangouts or Skype to link up live. A blog can be great for children to develop confidence, improve their self-expression and get a real sense of fulfillment from publishing their work.

Blogging can also help children to develop confidence to: • forge multicultural links, • improve reading and writing

skills, • become more independent and

creative, • feel empowered by the knowl-

edge that others know their views on a topic

Blogging is also a great practical way to introduce internet safety. If you are thinking of setting up a blog for your kids to use, remember to ensure they don't publish any personal information, including pri-vate thoughts, full names (make sure they always use a blog name/nickname), age, address or school’s name. Blogs can be pass-word protected to view, so only people they invite can view it. Check out http://kidblog.org; which is a great site I have used in the past with EAL students. It is safe, free and fun. I'm sure this mascot and ICT pro-ject will be a success and I encour-age adults and children here and at other Shell schools to contact me:[email protected] if they want to take part. The project is run with the help of Shell Education Services who have been very positive in promoting this project.

By Neil Lynch, ICT Specialist

Panaga School Newsletter The Panaga Community continues its support of the Penan people

Giving out donation in Limbang One of the villages in the jungle Some of our sponsored students in Limbang

The lovely bags the Penan women are making

On Friday 12th of October, Shida Crichton and Lise Herring, two of the volunteers at the Helping Hands - Penan charity, felt lucky to be invited to school to tell the P5 classes about the Penan tribe and how Helping Hands are supporting them.

The children were wonderful listeners and had lots of interesting questions. This is what we told them:

The Penan people have for hundreds of years been living in the jungle, at one with nature. This means that they would live off what the rainforest would supply them; like fruits, roots, plants and hunting. Everything they needed came from the rainforest and anything left over went back to the earth. There was no rubbish, no pollu-tion, no plastic etc. They would be far away from the city and had very little contact with the outside world. Unfor-tunately now the situation is changing. The government in Malaysia needs the money that they get from logging. They are therefore cutting down the trees and clearing the rainforest. After-wards the land is sold to companies to grow palms to make palm oil. This means that the plants that the Penan used for food are no longer there and the animals they used to hunt are also disappearing alongside the vegetation.

We showed the children a slideshow of photos of how the Penan live today and how Helping Hands can help them make a better life for them-selves. We told the children the follow-ing about Helping Hands - Penan:

When the Penan cannot find the food they need in the jungle, they are forced to try and make it in the “outside” world. This is a world where you need to get a job, find a place to live, get an education and function amongst other people. This is very difficult for the Penan. They have no education, many of them cannot read or write and are not used to regular social skills of “city people”. The gov-ernment in Malaysia have a longhouse in the city of Limbang (3 hours drive from Panaga). Some of the Penan have made this place a permanent home to send their kids to school, while others are temporary dwellers, visiting Limbang mainly to seek medi-cal treatment or waiting there during their 3rd trimester of their pregnancy.

We visit Limbang regularly to bring them donations of clothes, food and toys. The people there will also bring some of the donations back to the jungle, when they return.

The Penan have for many generations had a wonderful skill of weaving bas-kets. We purchase large quantities of these handicrafts and sell them to expats and locals. The Panaga com-munity is filled up by colourful bags and baskets made by the Penan women. Because we are able to sell so many of these baskets, the women are now teaching each other this old skill and more and more are making a living by weaving. We hope that they will eventually also learn how to run this business by themselves without the need of Helping Hands.

It is wonderful that they can have a job and make some money with pride without only having to rely on dona-tions from kind people. Helping Hands use the profit from the sales to help the Penan. None of the people work-ing for Helping Hands gets any salary and every dollar we make goes straight back to the Penan people.

Another very important job for Helping

Hands is getting children to go to school. Even if the government in Malaysia gives free education to pri-mary school children, that does not help very much if your home is 6 hours away from school and you have no school uniform, shoes and school materials. Helping Hands is therefore committed to helping with this too. For secondary school children, they need to go to boarding school in Limbang. Many of the parents of these students did not like them leaving the jungle to go to the city. The travels were dan-gerous and unreliable (they had to cross a river with strong currents by foot and then hitchhike along the log-ging road). It took days to get to school and they had no way of know-ing when they would be back.

Helping Hands have now bought them a motor for a boat to cross the river and we pay a driver to take them back to the jungle in their holidays. Many families here in Panaga help sponsor children to go to school, even after they leave Brunei and move to other parts of the world. Most Penan par-ents cannot afford to send their chil-dren to school, but with support from a sponsor, we now have many children continuing their secondary education. Money goes on transport, books, sta-tionary, clothes, school shoes etc. The Penan also gets sick, like other people, especially now they come to town and become exposed to new bacteria. After living in the jungle they are also not used to the hygiene re-quired to stay healthy. A lot of the Penan come to Helping Hands to ask for help with medical problems. We just had a mother with a sick new-born baby coming from the jungle without money and food but we managed to help her with the medical bills from the profit of the bags. We also help the Penan by teaching them how to grow vegetables and

raise chickens and other animals for food, composting for the garden, how to get rid of rubbish and how to recy-cle. They also need our help to get clean water to their village and to pur-chase farming equipment. Another important thing is to help them get solar lights. With solar lights, the Penan have light at night and don’t have to buy batteries or fuels to bring light to their world. They can move about at night in a safer manner and they can interact socially at night, as well as extend their working day. After our talk was finished, we had a little bit of time for the children to look at some of the jungle items we had brought with us. They were heavy earrings used to extend earlobes, necklaces made of seeds from the trees, blowpipes for hunting and one of the solar lights. The Penan are a lovely, gentle people. They are quiet and shy and need our respect and understanding – as all people do. Though these people were once at one with the rainforest and blended in alongside nature, they now need our help to make the major tran-sition from being nomadic to having to live a more settled life. We hope the children enjoyed our visit as much as we did.

By Shida Crichton and Lise Herring,

Helping Hands - Penan

Panaga School Newsletter Great DP7/8B Stories - worth Google translating!

Lisa’s wereldreis Lisa stond op het vliegveld in Amsterdam. Ze nam huilend afscheid van al haar vrienden en familie. Ze stapte in het vliegtuig ze vond het erg spannend want ze ging naar Brunei.Toen ze daar aankwam vond ze het snikheet. Maar gelukkig wende ze snel. Ze ging op een lange vakantie in Azie. Eerst ging ze naar China daar liep ze eerst over de super oude Chinese muur en daarna over de Yangtze, dat is een hele lange rivier. Daarna ging ze naar Japan daar zag ze overal roze bloemetjes en en prachtig beschilderde tempels. Ze vond het erg mooi en vond het erg jammer om weg te moeten gaan. Maar ze had wel veel erg veel zin om naar Australie te gaan. Toen ze daar was slofte ze uit het vliegtuig in een busje naar Ayers rock. Daar maakte ze een wandeling om Ayers rock dat duurde echt eeuwen. Daarna maakte ze samen met hele verschillende andere mensen een kampvuur. Toen het donker werd rolde ze haar slaapzak uit op het gras ze viel snel in slaap want ze was uitgeput. De volgende dag maakte ze weer een wandeling maar deze keer door de Kings Kanyon. Daarna ging ze naar Sydney. Daar deed haar oom mee aan de marathon,ze moedigde hem aan en ging toen met het vliegtuig naar Antartica daar zag ze veel dieren die ze nog nooit eerder had gezien. Ze zag pinquins en orka’s ze vond de orka’s erg eng.toen ze verder liep kwam ze twee kleine mini eskimo’s tegen. De een heete Heleen en de andere Julia. Samen gingen ze vissen. Ze vingen allemaal verschillende soorten vissen. De een was doodeng en en de andere super schattig. ‘ De tijd ging snel voorbij. Ik moet echt gaan houden we wel veel contact.’ Zei Lisa. Ze stapte in de boot en voer de donkere diepe zee op, opeens kwam er een groot gat in de roestige oude boot. De boot zonk in de diepe zee en dwarrelde naar de bodem. Lisa moest gaan zwemmen door het smerige water. Gelukkig zag ze snel land. En ze zag overal hele arme mensen, iedereen bedelde en verkocht spullen. Ze liep snel door, gelukkig zag ze snel een tourist en ze vroeg waar ze was. De aardige man antwoordde in het Engels en zei dat ze in Afrika was. Dat was een hele schok voor Lisa omdat ze dacht dat ze in Zuid Amerika was. Al snel kwam ze op de Savanne daar zag ze leeuwen en zebra’s.Opeens keek ze recht in de grote rode bek van een leeuw. Ze sprong opzij maar ‘t was al te laat, de leeuw had haar gebeten,gelukkig kwam er een jeep. De man die de jeep reed sprong uit de jeep en rende pijlsnel naar haar toe zo snel dat het zand omhoog spatte. Hij legde haar op zijn armen en legde haar voorzichtig in de jeep.Hij reed snel langs alle dorpjes,hij racete door de stad en kwam eindelijk aan bij het ziekenhuis. Het ziekenhuis zag er oud uit.de witte verf was helemaal grijs en het bord met het rode kruis lag op de grond.Hij sprintte naar binnen daar lag een oude brandcard en een bed. Hij legde haar in het

bed neer en vertelde wat er gebeurd was aan de dokters.En toen ging hij weg. Na drie dagen kon lisa eindelijk weer kijken ze zag er bleek en vermoeid uit maar na vijf dagen kon ze weer alles doen. Ze nam het vliegtuig naar Amerika. Daar ging ze eerst naar New York en dat was een volle drukke stad Lisa was erg verbaasd en keek met open mond naar de stad. Ze ging naar het hotel en zetten haar loodzware koffers neer. Dat kwam door de pleisters en verbandjes. Ze ging weer naar buiten en zag dat ze nog een beetje geld had dus liep ze naar de kleren winkel en kocht een leuk t-shirt. Daarna nam ze het vliegtuig naar nederland. Toen ze daar aankwam omhelsde haar vrienden haar en lisa moest het hele verhaal wel drie keer aan hun vertellen. Lisa vond de wereldreis echt super leuk maar nu ze weer thuis was was dat ook heel erg leuk.

- Door Laura van Duin Kinderboekenweek 2012—Hallo wereld—Reisverslag Zaterdag 1 januari 9:30 2011 Bijna klaar om te vertrekken alleen nog Stip bij de buren brengen en dan rijden richting Schiphol. Nou daar gaan we dan voor de eerste keer met het vliegtuig, van Nederland naar uuuuuh Brunij nee Brunei ja ja dat was het. Zaterdag 1 januari 15:00 2011 In het vliegtuig Zo we zitten nu in het vliegtuig en we komen morgen om 5:00 ’s ochtends aan in Brunei. Zondag 2 januari 5:10 2011 Op het vliegveld van Bandar Nou daar zijn we dan in Brunei! Het ruikt hier muf en het stinkt hier! Maar nu nog hopen of onze koffers zijn aan gekomen? Ja daar zijn ze. Nu wachten op de taxi en dan richting ons nieuwe huis. Nou, meer een appartement want we blijven hier een jaar en dan gaan we verder met onze wereldreis. Zondag 2 januari 7:15 2011 In ons appartement Wauw, best wel groot en het heeft maar een verdieping, nou eigenlijk, we wonen op de begane grond. Vrijdag 7 januari 7:16 2011 Laatste schooldag van deze week Haha ik heb echt een super leuke klas. Ik stel ze wel ff voor: een tweeling die bang zijn voor de spiegel anders wordt het een vierling (naam: Tina en Wendy). Een meisje die de hele tijd lacht (naam: Kari). Een jongen die continu erdoor heen praat (naam: Stijn). Een meisje die tegen over me woont (naam: Heleen). Een super grappige jongen (naam: Boaz). En als laatste een meisje die echt gestoord is (naam: Sophie). Donderdag 6 december 12:00 2011 Kari’s slaap feestje Vandaag was het slaapfeestje van Kari alle meisjes uit onze klas komen dat zijn: Tina, Wendy, Sophie, Heleen, ik en Kari zelf. Eerst gingen we met de auto naar het sushi restaurant en en daar gingen we avondeten. Toen gingen we weer met de auto naar huis. Donderdag 6 december 24:00 2011 Kari’s huis Het was al laat en iedereen lag al te slapen behalve Wendy en ik. We zaten op mijn mobiel spelletjes te downloaden. We konden niks meer vinden dus gingen we het hele alfabet af, bij de g kwam er eindelijk een woord/app : ‘Geestenradar’. We keken elkaar met een raar gezicht aan en downloadden de app. We hielden het in de lucht en keken of er een groen stipje in beeld kwam. Het duurde lang totdat we eindelijk een reactie kregen, het bleek dat hij buiten het huis stond. Het eerste wat dan in je hoofd op komt is: ”Dit kan nooit echt zijn”. Maar ja we deden het gordijn open en zagen alleen de trampoline staan. De 2de keer toen we keken was de trampoline een meter of 4 naar links geschoven. De 3de keer dat we keken stond de trampoline opeens recht voor het raam en we zagen dat de trampoline heen en weer bewoog. We deden snel het gordijn dicht en gingen op mijn bed zitten. We keken om ons heen en wacht er klopt iets niet, ik voelde de wind van de airco zachtjes langs mijn gezicht gaan en tegelijkertijd keek in de richting van Tina’s bed. Het was leeg,

die van Heleen, Sophie, en Kari waren ook leeg. We zagen verderop bij de deur het licht uit gaan. Het werd daar wazig en mistig we zagen twee voeten en hoorden het gehijg van een meisje of jongen die net heel hard had gerend. Het kwam dichter bij en het verdween weer in de verte. Het licht achter de deur ging weer aan, en Wendy en ik vielen in slaap. Dit verhaal wordt niet vervolgt! 2 januari vrijdag 7:45 2012 Schoolreisje met de klas Zo daar gingen we dan op schoolreisje met groep acht. Eerst naar Londen dan naar New York, waar we vervolgens overnachtten in Central Park. Dan naar Spanje waar we overnachtten in een oude boot van 1953. Heleen kon niet mee want haar paspoort was verlopen en Sophie is ziek dus we gingen maar met zijn 6en. 2 januari vrijdag 10:15 2012 In het vliegtuig naar Londen We moesten 14 uur vliegen van Brunei naar Londen. Kari, Tina, Wendy en ik zaten naast elkaar en Stijn en Boaz zaten voor ons. Boaz hag zijn koptelefoon op en Stijn zat ondertussen met de mensen naast hem te praten. Tina en Wendy hadden een discussie en Kari die was in slaap gevallen. Ik zat voor een beetje voor me uit te staren. Boaz zette zijn muziek harder waardoor wij de muziek horen. Hij luisterde naar een of andere vaag nummer. Het werd onderhand al wat lichter, ik keek door het beslagen vliegtuigraampje. De stewardessen reden al over gangpad met hun etenskarretjes. De stewardess tikte Boaz en Stijn aan en vroeg wat ze wilden eten: ”sushi of pizza?” zei ze met een chique stem. 3 januari zaterdag 14:00 2012 In Londen op het vliegveld “Nou daar zijn we dan hoor” zei Stijn met een chagrijnige stem. Ik keek hem met een raar gezicht aan. “wat?” zei hij weer met een chagerijnige stem. En ik draadei me weer om naar Tina en Wendy. “Nou jongens komt er nog wat van? Moeten we niet naar de taxi?” zei Kari peinzend. “Ja goed idee”. 3 januari zaterdag 14:45 In het hotel We waren al in het hotel en we hadden de sleutels van de kamers al. We gingen met de lift om hoog en stopten op nummer 3. Zodra we er er uit wilden ging de deur weer dicht “De lift laat ons er niet uit” zei Tina gillend. “We zitten vast in de lift!” Wendy die altijd honger heeft heeft een hele koffer eten mee dus daar hoefden we ons in ieder geval geen zorgen om te maken. Boaz probeerde met zijn mobiel te bellen maar er was geen bereik. “Boven ons zit een luik” zei Stijn. “Als Tina daar nou door heen gaat”. Tina klom op de koffers en wurgde zich door het luik. ”Ik ben er” hoorden we haar met een echo zeggen. Stijn, die nogal veel weet, vertelde Tina wat ze moest doen. 10 minuten later zakten we we weer naar benden. Zodra we beneden zwaren stappen we de lift uit en gingen met de trap naar boven. 6 januari dinsdag 17:00 2012 In het vliegtuig naar New York We zaten nu in het vliegtuig naar New York. Nog een half uurtje en dan waren we er. We kregen al avond eten. Het eten is minder lekker dan in het vorige vliegtuig. We kregen aardappels die naar katten voer smaakte. En bananensap (ik weet het je kan geen sap uit een banaan krijgen maar op de kaart stond dat het 100% verse sap was) die naar mayonaise smaakte. Kari kreeg een braakgevoel en rende naar de wc. Tina at met lange tanden haar aardappelbanaan op. Wendy zat met een zakdoek het eten van haar tong weg te vegen. Boaz die was in slaap gevallen dus die had er niks van gemerkt. Stijn die had al een klacht in gediend. En ik heb er geen hap van genomen. 6 januari dinsdag 17:30 2012 Op het vliegveld van New York We hadden een taxi gehuurd en die bracht ons zo naar Central Park. De taxi kwam voorbij rijden en stopte voor de ingang. In de taxi zaten we allemaal tegen elkaar aan geklemd. Tina en Wendy lagen op de koffers in de achterbak, Stijn zit voorin. Boaz, ik en Kari zaten op de achterbank. Even later kwamen we al wat dichterbij, we zagen de grote Apple Store en de Starbucks. Uit verbazing en omdat alles zo groot is

kregen Tina en Wendy grote ogen. Boaz zat muziek te luisteren zoals altijd. En ik zit naar het geld bedrag op de desk van de auto te kijken, elke tien meter komt er 1 dollar bij. We waren toch al in New York geweest. We waren eindelijk in Central Park. We betaalden de meneer, en liepen richting ons volgende vervoersmiddel; paard en wagen. Die avond gingen we in de open lucht slapen met de paarden. 6 januari dinsdag 24:01 2012 Central Park Je hoorde soms nog een auto voorbij rijden of het ritselen van de vogels en eekhoorns. Het gehinnik van de paarden. Voor de rest was het vrij stil al hoorde ik hier en daar wat voetstappen. Soms zag ik licht uit de huifkar voor ons en het fluisteren van Boaz en Stijn. Ik keek nog even rond en probeerde daarna mijn ogen dicht te doen. Ik was bijna in slaap gevallen totdat ik getik op mijn hoofd voelde. Ik deed mijn ogen open en er scheen fel licht in me gezicht. Het licht ging met een klap uit en ik zag het gezicht van Sophie die blijkbaar weer beter was. Vraag me niet hoe ze hier is gekomen. Voor de rest weet ik niet meer wat er gebeurde maar op een of andere manier lag ik opeens op een paard. Ik denk dat Sophie me heeft verplaatst, erg verdacht! 9 januari vrijdag 12:00 2012 In het vliegtuig naar Spanje We vlogen naar Spanje, onze eindbestemming. Daar sliepen we op een boot. 9 januari vrijdag 14:00 2012 In Spanje We waren net geland en ons vervoer naar de boot uit 1953 zijn paarden, “Halflingers” (voor degenen die geen verstand van paarden hebben; Halflinger is een paardenras). Ze zeggen dat dat sneller is. Na een lange tijd paardrijden waren we eindelijk bij de boot. Waar we de eigenaar van de boot tegemoet lopen. Hij wijst onze kamer aan en loopt daarna naar de volgende klant. We pakten onze spullen uit en we gingen met zijn allen op het balkon zitten. Er werd aan de deur geklopt, Tina deed de deur open en Heleen staat voor de deur opening, Ze wapperde met haar paspoort heen en weer. “Ik ben er hoor” zei ze blij. Boaz stond langs de rand van het balkon en voerde de eendjes. Hij bukte voorover en viel in het water. De eendje ging nog harder kwaken “Jongen, lach me niet uit” zee Boaz schaterend. Een paar Chinese toeristen vonden het nog al grappig en begonnen foto’s te maken. Boaz klom vermoeid uit het water en hij was helemaal groen van het kroos. Later toen we allemaal omgekleed waren gingen we naar het restaurant. Het was een chique restaurant. We bestelden eten en een enorme kan water, die al binnen 2 minuten over de hele tafel heen ging. Iedereen was nat en er droppen druppels water van het tafelkleed af. Boaz en Stijn die net even naar buiten waren om foto’s te maken kwamen weer terug. En ze zeiden “Hebben we wat gemist?” “Nee tuurlijk niet!” zeiden wij keihard. En we begonnen allemaal te lachen.

- Floor Kuipers

By Kari By Laura

Panaga School Newsletter IP1 and DP1/2 - Family and Friends Exit Point

This term, the children have been learning about ‘Family and Friends’ in their IPC learning unit. They have enjoyed participating in various activi-ties relating to ‘Family and Friends’. The unit ended with the children writing an invitation to their parents, asking them to visit Primary 1 and participate in various activities that children have the opportunity to explore every day.

Creating a number line with Mum.

Can you use the shapes to make a house?

Working together to build a home for an animal.

Showing our mum how to write a letter.

Creating collage faces!

Enjoying making clay animals.

Playdough faces!

Trying to make some CVC words.

Fun with flag puzzles. The children thoroughly enjoyed showing their mums and dads around P1 and DP1/2. By P1 & DP1/2 Teachers

P8 art so good, you’d swear you

were Dreaming!

Panaga School Newsletter The children had to change the way they dressed for the morning and arrived to school looking very different to usual – clothes were on the wrong way around, children had odd shoes, there were great cos-tumes and some Dads were even missing their ties as they were being

worn by the children!

The children took part in a parade in the outside area and enjoyed danc-ing and showing off their fabulous creations. It was such a fun start to what is a very exciting new unit – thank you parents for all your crea-tivity! By Miss Yvonne

Last half term IP2 were learn-ing about ‘Ourselves’. As an Entry Point, the P2 children came to school dressed as people who help us to look after ourselves. We had fire-fighters, doctors, army sol-diers, dentists, vets, super heroes and many more help-ful people! During the morn-ing the children had a chance to role play and we found out how different people help us to look after ourselves.

The children had the opportu-nity to find out all about their bodies including their skeleton and heart in Science. To help us learn even more we sang songs, read poems and created some fantastic pieces of art.

Then we had a special visit from Doctor Padma and her team who taught us about keeping our teeth healthy.

She read a book about bacteria and we found out how to keep bacteria away. We received a sparkly magic toothbrush which had the paste already inside the bristles. How exciting!

In Geography we found out about differences and similari-ties between homes, clothing,

animals and food in our home countries compared to Brunei. We had great fun co-operating with a partner to design our very own house. Some were very unusual and creative…

Finally, to end our unit we in-vited the parents into the P2 classrooms to look at our fin-ished models. We really en-joyed showing off all of our learning and giving guided tours around the classrooms. It was a great term of work and we had great fun. IP2L even showed the rest of the school what they had learnt in an as-sembly. By the P2 Team

Pre-Nursery aren’t looking like themselves!

IP2 ‘Ourselves’ Unit

Pre-Nursery had a very funny morning to begin their new IPC unit ‘Changes’.

Wheelers and heelers


What an exciting and action-packed start to the academic year it has been for PE and Sport at Panaga School. During their curriculum time, students throughout the school have been ac-tively involved in a variety of topics. On the Teraja campus, these have included activities designed to de-velop their individual skills and team play in the sports of rounders, soft-ball, cricket and T-ball; just to name a few. Panaga School’s football teams have also been engaged in some intense competition in this first half term of the academic year.

On Sunday the 30th of September, two teams from Panaga School com-peted in the Royal Brunei Junior Football Tournament in Bandar. Both of the teams gave good ac-counts of themselves but a special mention needs to made of our “Panaga Red” team who, after surviv-ing two penalty shootouts on their road to the final, fought hard to finish Runners Up on the day. Recently, on the 14th of October, Panaga School entered 6 teams in JIS Football Fun Day. Several teams finished in the medals on the day but it was pleasing to see the high level of commitment on display by all the Panaga students who represented

their school at the tournament. Our U/9 Boys team finished in 3rd po-sition, whilst our U/9 Girls side went one better placing second. The U/10 Boys finished with a first place on the day, as did our very excited U/8 boys, who clinched a win with a goal with only 20 seconds left in the final. Importantly, the Panaga PE team would like to thank the parents who transported and supported the chil-dren at JIS and especially those par-ents who put their hands up to be team leaders on the day. Without this commitment, events such as these could not be as successful.

In other sports news: On Thursday, 15th November 2012, nominations begin for the Jerudong International School Invitational Swimming Gala, to be held on Sun-day 27th January, 2013 .

From the Sports Desk

with Tim Walsh, PE Specialist

On Thursday, 11th October 2012, the Panaga Community, including many Panaga School staff and students, enjoyed a morning of walking, running and cycling to kick start the day. The aim of Wheels and Heels was to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining a healthy body through exercise; to ensure to always be at one’s personal best. By Damian Brady

Photos by Miss Nurul

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Panaga School Newsletter October 2012