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Summer Issue 15
June 29th, 2018 Straits International
School Penang
STRAITS TALKING
What have you enjoyed the most this year?
Lessons like Sci-
ence because we do
experiments.-
Darrel
PE because we learn new
sports like floorball,
basketball and gymnastics.
- Hariharan
FEATURE STORIES
High School Musical………………………..….….3
Fathers’ Day……………………………………..…...4
Raya Assembly……..…………..……..…………….5
World Scholar’s Cup………………………………..6
IDEALS Assembly…………………………………..6
Year 6 Trip to Escape……………………..……….7
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Principal’s Message………………………….……..2
Upcoming dates……..........……....……….…..…2
EYFS……….….. ………..…………….….….………..2
Years 1 and 2. ............................................ ..8
Years 3 and 4... .......................................... ..9
Year 5 and 6………………………………….……...10
Sports..………..…....….………………………...…14
SPOTLIGHT ON…
Activity Spotlight on Carcassonne
Teacher Spotlight on Ms Hui Yen
Subject Spotlight on Maths
Subject Spotlight on Arts
Subject Spotlight on Mandarin
Final issue available July 13th!
Editor: Ms Linh Dang
Enterprise Day because we got
to buy a lot of things. – Vishal
Making new friends. – Khei Khei
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Studying Science
so I can become a
scientist. –
Charvi
All of the
activities. –
Kaelyn
Everything! -
Yang Jing
The Year 6
trips to
Escape and
Mission Q. –
Clara
Learning
different
things in all
subjects. –
Gervaise
Humanities
because it’s so
interesting. –
Carmen
Having fun in
lessons. – Zoe
New projects, espe-
cially in Science. –
Jarrell
Doing lots
of fun
clubs. –
Xandria
The service in the
canteen. – Owen
Learning all about the
Greeks because it’s
about history and
legends. – Aarav
Floorball because it’s so
fun to play! – Abhinav
The food like
fried rice and
chicken chop.
– Jordan
Activities like Hip
Hop because it’s so
enjoyable and fun!
– Alyssa
The Gymnastics
Competition be-
cause I like doing
acrobatics. - Brenda
PE because I get to work as
a team.—Nicholas
Meeting
new
teachers.
– Lucas
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S at ur day Jun e 30t h
Scholarship Tes t
M on da y J ul y 2n d
Sec ond ary Sw immin g Ev ent
DofE S i lver E xp edi tion (3 d ays)
T ues day Jul y 3r d
P ri mary Swi mmin g Ev en t
W edn es da y Ju ly 4 th
Transi ti on Day for a l l c lass es
T hu rsd ay J ul y 5 th
Y ear 2 Trip to The Habi tat
F ri da y Ju ly 6 th
P ri mary Sci enc e Fai r
S at ur day Jul y 7 th
Y ear 11 P rom
T ues day Jul y 10 th
Coffee Mornin g
School Reports ou t
W edn es da y Ju ly 1 1t h
P ri mary Movi e A ftern oon
F ri da y Ju ly 1 3t h
Gradu at ion /P ri zegivin g Ceremony
NURSERY—with Ms Devi
This will be my final newslet-ter for the 2 0 1 7 / 2 0 1 8 academic year, although it is
the penulti-mate edition of
the newsletter. I wanted to dedicate this entry to celebrating our year at SIS as we have enjoyed:
-Increased participation in our Parent/
Teacher support group leading to an
increase in events for the school com-
munity to enjoy such as Halloween and
Christmas disco, International Day and
-the Art Exhibition
-Introduction of Study skills workshops
from Singapore for students
-Improved grading system for students
to ensure progress is evident
-Participated in the Model United Na-
tions, History Bowl and Bee, the World
Scholars Cup group, Kangaroo Maths
and SASMO Maths competitions
-Participated in the Penang Music Festi-
val
-Participated in many sporting fixtures
with other international schools on the
island
-Many inter-house sporting events were
held
-School events such as Book Week,
Mothers’ and Fathers’ day event, Teach-
ers Day and Pi Day were a great success
-First Year 11 work experience pro-
gramme
-An amazing School Production
-A debating and public speaking event
will be hosted at Penang SIS in July
-First whole school Art exhibition, Pri-
mary Science fair and Dragons Den
event
-New more specific approach to Teach-
ers’ Professional development which
has been praised
-Excellent academic results, particularly
in Checkpoint exams
Next year, we are looking forward to
becoming a Google classroom school, as
students start at school with such an
expansive technical knowledge, we want
to continue developing their skills while
still remaining focused on the tradition-
al skills of reading books and writing.
We have exciting Challenge Week loca-
tions that our students are looking for-
ward to taking part in and an increase
in our co-curricular activities as our
school continues to grow; along with the
introduction of our new Afterschool
Club.
We are looking forward to enjoying the
end of the year and next year starting!
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRINCIPAL, Ms Karlie Walsh
This week in Literacy students learnt the formation and the phon-ics sound of the letter ‘z’. Students were given hands-on activities to learn the formation of the letter. Using the Ants on the Apple and Jolly Phonics series, students learnt the rhyme for the letter Zz. They did a zoo craft by themselves to en-hance their learning about letter Zz.
For Numeracy, they continued to learn about simple subtrac-tion through “Five Little Monkeys” and “Five Little Duck-lings” songs.
In Understanding the World, the students were taught about parts of a car and they were brought to our school car park to see a car. They were given a chance to experience and touch different parts of a car starting from the front view, side-view and back view. They were happy as they created a car craft by themselves.
In Art the students created a Father’s Day craft which was a Google Card for their daddy. They even made a zucchini and cucumber print painting on a piece of art paper.
Lastly, “a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,I,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y, and z”, Nursery students were happy as they finished learning all the 26 alphabets and mastering the phonics sounds of each alphabet.
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Putting on a school production is never easy as there are so many different parts that need to come together. The
songs, the script, the dance routines, not to mention the costumes and microphones. This year, however, has been
the most successful yet. The cast and crew have worked tirelessly, giving up their own free time after schools and
weekends (even over the Raya weekend!) to put together the show. For some people, it’s their fourth show here at
SIS (me included) and for others it’s their first. However experienced the cast have been, they have all shown in-
credible commitment and tenacity. We must thank the parents as well for their support towards the show. All the
crew members are proud of each and every member of cast. Thank you and well done everyone. Go Wildcats!
By Ms Ellie, HSM Director and Head of Arts
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Early Years Foundation Stage
The EYFS team had their Fathers’ Day Celebration on 19th June 2018. On this day the little ones paired up with their daddies to participate in sports activities. Our celebration started off with Mr Chris’s speech and song presentation by the students.
Then, all fathers had a warm up with their child in the hall. It was indeed a good activity as all the fathers were doing sports with their child happily. There was also newspaper dance where the father and child had to dance on a newspaper as the newspaper got smaller and smaller when the songs stopped.
As the FIFA World Cup continues in Russia, the EYFS team organised a football match for the fathers and children. They also got the opportunity to show their love towards their father through a video presentation. The students also prepared little surprises for their dads in the form of greeting cards, thumb print water bottles and gifts. The kids eagerly participated in the activities and did their best to show how much they love their father and what he means to them.
We would like to thank all the parents who took time off and participated in our EYFS Fathers’ Day Celebration. We would like to thank Ms Yoges, for capturing wonderful moments.
Key Stage 1
On Friday 22nd June, Key Stage 1 had their annual Father’s Day celebration. The children were all very excited to show their fathers just how much they mean to them. It was a lovely afternoon filled with performances, gifts and CAKE!
We started with Year 1 and Year 2 doing some performances on the stages to songs that told their dads how much they loved them and how happy they were that they came to the school to celebrate the special day with us. The song ‘Daddy Cool’ was very appropriate. After the performances, the children, parents and teachers had the chance to chat and eat cake together.
Then, to end the afternoon, we all went back to the classrooms for some activities. Year 1 interviewed their dads and found out a lot of exciting things about them while Year 2 made a very tricky origami rocket. We are all very thankful to our parents for coming to our celebration!
EYFS-KS1 FATHERS’ DAY 2018
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Hari Raya Aidilfitri or Eid al Fitr is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims all around the world after a month of holy fast-
ing in Ramadhan. This year the occasion fell on the 15th of June. To commemorate the festival, Straits International School
hosted a joyous Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration during our weekly assembly on the 22nd of June. The event was steered
smoothly by MCs, Amira and Nicholas from Year 6.
On the day of the celebration, all teachers, students and even some parents were dressed to the nines in the theme colour,
green and in their traditional outfits.
The celebration kicked off with a traditional ‘bunga manggar’ parade accompanied by an upbeat ‘kompang’ tune. The ladies
in the parade were decked beautifully in resplendent Malay attire ‘kebaya’ and ‘baju kurung’ while the gentlemen were dash-
ing in their ‘baju melayu’ and ‘songket’ woven ‘sampin’. The parade was certainly a crowd favourite judging by the amount of
cheers and applause it received!!
The assembly continued with a dance fusion routine by Year 9 girls. The audience was absolutely mesmerised by the perfor-
mance. Next, SIS’s own talented star, Jemerine swayed the crowd with a soulful rendition of ‘Nirmala’ a Hari Raya song. As a
sweet ending to the festive mood, the Year 7s presented a catchy dance performance that left the crowd in awe.
RAYA ASSEMBLY— by Ms Kavitha
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Amazingly Straits International School had six students represented at the Global Round of the World Scholars Cup after qualifying in style from the Penang regional round. Jing Xuan, Shiwaanee, Jenny, Javier, Yenjoe and Kassandra travelled to Kuala Lumpur, where more than 5,000 scholars from over 50 countries competed. Our students experienced scavenger hunts, keynote speeches, panel discussions, our signature cultural
fair, the Scholar’s Ball, and, of course, all the competitive and community-building events such as the Debate Showcase to the Scholar’s Bowl. Every participant walked away with new friends, new discoveries, and very large alpacas! These kind of events vastly improve students’ education, pushing them educationally in new and exciting ways as well as helping them develop socially. It also connects them with many of the top students internationally expanding their learning support network. We have to give an amazing ‘thank you’ to all our students’ parents who chaperoned them and guided them through this event - it could not have run without them. We are awaiting the official results which we will be shared when we receive them but we know already that they did amazingly well, even qualifying for the grand finale at Yale. This is an amazing result for our students and our school!
WORLD SCHOLA R ’S CUP –by Mr Chr i s , V i ce Pr inc i pa l
On the 25th of June, the Round Square team had their assembly on the theme of ‘SERVICE’. It was a great topic as Service is some-
thing that is rarely discussed by students. Ms Jacee, Mr Mike and I were invited to give a short speech about all the Service projects
that took place this whole year. Ms Jacee and I had prepared a slideshow with all the photos of the Service projects throughout the
year.
Ms Jacee began the assembly by giving the definition of Service and asked the students some questions. All the secondary students
had a great time to share their meaning of service. Mr Mike talked about the “Gift that Gives Back” project which was held last term.
Lastly, I talked about Straits Community Heroes and its on-going projects such as the “Toy Donation Drive” and some of the Straits
Heroes projects which occurred throughout the year and invited them to join the Round Square committee.
In the end, some of the students were awarded for being volunteers for KECHARA homeless project last year. Well Done to Alvina,
Yike, Tan Ye Jing and Felicia!
Small Acts when multiply by Millions of People can transform the World - Howard Zinn
ROUND SQUARE IDEALS: Service —by Ms D evi
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Year 6 students are coming to the end of a very busy year. It seems to have been so much about working hard and preparing
for exams that it was great to be able to relax and feel like students who all deserved a bit of a treat. So, last Friday, Year 6 set
out on their epic journey, right to the other end of the island, to visit the ‘Escape’ treetops park.
We were greeted by a short rain shower as we got of the coach but it wasn’t going to dampen our enthusiasm! So, after meet-
ing our guide and getting rid of the bags we didn’t need, it was off to find some trees to climb.
The morning was spent climbing walls and trees, jumping off high towers, swinging from a great height, bouncing on a varie-
ty of trampolines and even checking out our own circus skills on a trapeze swing.
One or two of the students were a little nervous to begin with while a few others were openly worried about the heights in-
volved. However, it was great to see that all students became fully involved with the activities and really satisfying to see
those few face their fears and get over them.
Many within this year group have been together for a number of years and have formed some very strong friendships and
they put this into good effect by showing their caring side for each other and by working as a team to complete some of the
obstacles.
Then, all too soon, we were escorted away for our lunch and then whisked back to school on the coach. We had a great time! It was a really fitting way to come towards the end of Year 6’s time in Primary School.
YEAR 6 TRIP TO ESCAPE— by Mr Gwyn
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These past few weeks have been very busy indeed. In Science, we
have been investigating different materials that block light and test-
ing them. In Maths, we have been revising our addition and sub-
traction skills. In English, we have been learning about how to de-
scribe a scene within a fantasy setting using both real and imaginary
settings or a mix of both. We are now starting to learn about play
scripts and how they are presented as well as preparing one of our
own. We are busy preparing for the upcoming Art Exhibition and
Science Fair and all the children are so excited to show you all their
work!
YEAR ONE—with Mr Myron and Ms Lisa
As usual, it has been a very busy couple of weeks for Year 2. They have just finished their assessment week and we are both
very impressed with the focus shown during this time. It has been great to see the progress made from the first term to this
term. We aren’t always looking for the top grades; it is the progress and improvements that are important.
Since then, we have had our Fathers’ Day celebrations. It was lovely to spend some time with our dads and show them just
how much they mean to us. We did a little dance on the stage to the song ‘Daddy Cool’. It was a lot of fun. Then, we ate cake
and did an activity together in the classroom.
Now, we are preparing for our school’s first ever Science Fair. We don’t want to give too much away but, we are using a lot of
skills for our projects. We are being creative, collaborative, scientific and learning how to develop our research skills.
YEAR TWO—with Ms Katie and Ms Hannah
Clockwise from left: Play script reading, Lewis experiments with light
and dark, Wen Yin beginning her art.
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Year 3 have been working harder than ever! We have finished all our assessments and have begun to focus on the array
of end of year projects including Art and Science. We thoroughly enjoyed making our volcanoes and cannot wait to
share our learning with parents next week.
In Mathematics we are continuing to solidify our knowledge in areas such as Fractions and Time, ready for the move to
Year 4. In English, we have also been reviewing our Year 3 targets and making sure we can use all our punctuation accu-
rately and consistently.
In Humanities we have begun to learn all about the Shang Dynasty! So far we have located where and when the Shang
Dynasty took place as well as what it was like for people to live during this period of time. We will now turn our atten-
tion to dragon bones!
There was a sense of relief among the children as Assessment Week drew to a close. Well done to everybody for trying
their best—not only during exams but also on the stage! How wonderful it was to see the Year Fours perform with so
much energy and confidence on Thursday during the Primary Showcase! The effort during rehearsals paid off and all of
the teachers and parents are so proud of the children! Thank you to all of the supportive parents who attended.
In class, the Year Fours worked hard
on their Geography project which
perfectly (and coincidentally) ties in
with the upcoming Science Fair.
Small groups collaborated to create
the distinct layers of a rainforest. It
is now displayed on the doors for
you to enjoy. So...not long now till
the end of Year Four! Keep focused
everybody!
YEAR THREE—with Mr Scott and Mr Jack
YEAR FOUR—with Ms Linh
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S P O T L I G H T ON …
M s H u i Y en
Q1. What qualities should an ideal student possess?
Positive, hardworking and my favourite word – proactive.
Q2. When was the last time you laughed out loud?
Just yesterday, when I saw green long pants with pink polka dots that my aunt bought.
Q3. What’s the best and worst thing about your job?
Best thing would be interacting with so many unique individuals and the worst thing is seeing student’s wasted potential.
Q4. What did you want to be when you were younger?
I wanted to be a retiree.
Q5. What are you plans for this weekend?
Production practise, marking papers and writing reports. It is a busy time for teach-ers.
Q6. Who is your favorite colleague and why?
I do not have a favourite but I am grateful to a lot of my colleagues who have sup-ported me and given me numerous oppor-tunities to do things in school.
Q7. What is your favorite Malaysian dish?
Oh, there are too many to be named as Malaysia is a food heaven.
Q8. What’s your relationship status?
Young and single.
Q9. How old are you?
I like to tell myself I have not grown any older since I was 21.
Q10. What are your hobbies?
Art, traveling, watching drama.
It has been a very busy two weeks! Bas-ketball is constantly on our minds lately. We have been practising our basketball routine for the Primary Showcase as long as we can remember. One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four… we can hear Miss Carrena counting the beats for us,
even in our sleep. This has been a re-warding experience for all of us too. Miss Carrena inspired us to come up with our own moves. She encouraged us to refine our performance and reined us back in when our enthusiasm got out of hand. We saw our costumes last week which was very exciting! We can’t wait to perform for our families and friends this week!
YEAR FIVE—with Ahreum
We really are getting close to the end of term now but we are so busy in Year 6.
After enjoying our trip to ‘Escape’ last week, we’re back into the hectic life of a
Year 6 student at Straits.
This Friday, we will be performing our Year 6 assembly. Rehearsal time has been
at a premium with everything else that’s happening but this is a special assembly
for the students. It is only just sinking in for some that this will be their final as-
sembly as a member of the Primary School. Reminiscing about the content of the
assembly has brought out a few realisations that the students are about to take a
huge step in their education, as they prepare for education in the Secondary,
rather than Primary system.
While this has been going on, the students may not even have had much time to
digest their Checkpoint scores fully. Overall, the hard work has paid off and the
students can be very proud of their achievements.
This week has also been all about working on Maths projects in order to try our best to complete them before the end of term. It will be very tight but I hope it can be done!
YEAR SIX—with Mr Gwyn
Creating ‘Luna Park’ in Maths Great teamwork from the girls!
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What a year it has been so far! As the summer holidays are approaching, it’s a time for celebration in the Maths department. We had wonderful achievements throughout the year. I still remember my first departmental meeting with my team, where we were setting our targets and motto for this academic year. Our motto was we should believe that all students could succeed in Maths and we wanted to do all we could to make it happen.
To achieve the target, we worked hard to inspire students and help them enjoy maths; developing the confidence to use the maths skills they learnt to solve the myriad of problems.
As a team, we understood that deep learning takes time to evolve. It requires us to create opportunities to apply skills in a variety of ways over an extended period of time and this is what we strived to do and somehow we achieved it this year.
Below are some of the highlights of the events, competition and achievements of the year.
We participated in MAA-AMC8 Maths Games in Term 1, which is also known as American Maths Olympiad. This game in-volved only KS3 students. We had 3 top scorers who achieved first, second and third places
We celebrated Pi day in March, where students participated in different pi related activities. It was a huge success and stu-dents requested it again next year. Mr Shahrul worked so hard to make this event so successful
We participated in SASMO Maths games where we achieved extremely excellent results. We managed to get 3 silvers and 5 bronzes. We also achieved 10th place for Year 10 category in Malaysia
We participated in the KANGAROO Maths competition where we managed to get 2 silver and 3 bronze places
For the first time, all the Year 11 students sat for the Extended Maths IGCSE exam. We are hoping for 100% of A-C for both Extended and Additional Maths this year because we managed to get 94% last year in Extended and 100% in Add Maths
In Checkpoint Year 9, we are setting a new record this year and officially we completed the 5th year of excellent results. Below
are the comparisons of the results of the past five years. Well-done to all Year 9 students!
We are looking forward for next academic year with some new strategies and plans for Maths department. Hope for the best!
This year’s Primary Showcase will be based on High School Musical. The Pri-
mary students have been working hard rehearsing for the forthcoming High
School Musical performance and they are all very excited about their perfor-
mance on Wednesday 27th June and Thursday 28th June.
SUBJECT SPOTLIGHT: MATHS with Ms Yoges, Head of Secondary Maths
SUBJECT SPOTLIGHT: ARTS by Ms Carrena
YEAR 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018
OVERALL SCORE/6 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.1 5.5
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Q: Why are you running this Activity?
It’s something fun that children need nowadays, especially interaction
between peers instead of a computer screen.
Q: Is it challenging or easy to teach students? Why/why not?
It is challenging; the game comes with its own set of rules unlike other
board games and a lot of planning and strategy is involved.
Q: How did you get interested in this Activity?
A friend of mine introduced me to the game, and I’ve loved it ever since.
Q: Who is your favorite student in this Activity and why?
Those who know the game well and present themselves a worthy oppo-
nent in Carcassonne.
Q: What age level do you prefer to teach and why?
Primary, simply because they are really into the characters and play their
best to win and compromise at the same time.
Q: Have you learned new things teaching them?
Children their age do have a lot of compassion towards one another, and
sometimes it takes compassion to make alliances to win the game.
Q: How do your students make progress?
They show understanding in their game play, and manage to score at
least 30 points on the score board.
Believe it or not, the end of the school year is almost upon us again. The Secondary Student
Council would like to reflect upon the positives which have been accomplished in Secondary
this year. We are so happy to have had Jemerine lead us this year as our President. Her positive
and energetic attitude have been infectious for the rest of us and helped us through the difficult
times.
We are also very proud of the increasing role that the Council is taking in regards to leadership
around the school. We have helped with enforcing the rules at both break and lunch times and
this has had a positive effect around
the school. We would like to thank
Desmond for his leadership and
continued patience with us as we
continue to strive towards improv-
ing the school.
Finally, we hoped that everyone enjoyed the school production this week. It is a massive project and we
are so thankful to all the teachers and students involved in making in such as success. With this being the final message from the Council, we would like to wish everyone a safe and happy summer holiday.
ACTIVITY SPOTLIGHT: CARCASSONNE with Mr Dennis
SECONDARY STUDENT CO UNCIL —with Mr Jef f
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Mandarin Jigsaw classroom
The Jigsaw Classroom is a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves
student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience. The jigsaw technique was developed and named in 1971 at the University
of Texas, Austin by Elliot Aronson.
I applied the Jigsaw activity in my Year 8 writing
lesson. They have to produce an essay with the title:
The Home using coordinative construction. First,
they met in home groups. Second, I split them into
three teams to explore different sub-titles, such as
living room, kitchen and bathroom. When they met
in expert groups, they had to discuss and answer the
questions that I gave. Then they returned to home
groups to share their ideas and write an essay.
I found that Jigsaw writing activities encourage
students to take part in the writing and discussion.
Every student is able to contribute in the activity.
Through the discussion, creative sentences are used
more often in their writing.
Last but not least, we learnt the Mandarin equiva-
lent to the current trending topic: ‘World Cup’, that
is 世界杯（shì jiè bēi).
SUBJECT SPOTLIGHT: MANDARIN —with Ms Pang Sook Yee
We are now nearing the end of the year and many
students have started to complete the final prepara-
tions for them to be given their Bronze certificates.
Students have had to complete four sections of their
award during this year: physical, service, skills and
the adventurous journey. A lot of the focus of our
newsletters has been on the adventurous journey
section. However, students must also choose an
activity for physical, service and skills which show
that they can be well-rounded and holistic learners.
Year 10 students have opted for skills activities
largely based around music with the physical sec-
tion being taken up by the wonderful array of sports
that the school has to offer. Service activities have
varied from being part of the Round Square Knights
to working for charity organisations outside of the
school. Students have had to complete 13 hours of
two of these sections whereas the other one must
take place over 26 weeks. All evidence for this is
placed on the Online Record Book (which even has
an app!) They have all worked extremely hard and
Mr. Hasfis and I are very proud of the students. We
can’t wait to give them their awards!
DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN TERNATIONAL AWARDS —
Complet ing the award — by Mr Mike
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STRAITS DRAGONS - Penang School Sports Fixtures
Date: 24th April 2018
Team: 15 under Boys Football
Game: Straits vs Tenby
Venue: Tenby
Under 15 Team members: Firdaus, Jack, Danny, Wayne, Yang,
Brendon, Owen, Sean, Kai Wen, Zac
We recently played against Tenby. As soon we reached their football field we changed into our football boots and started to warm up with some passing drills and shooting drills. The match started off and Tenby got the kick-off and in a blink of an eye, they had already scored a long-range kick from the mid line. The football lads were shocked by that but we were not flustered that easily. Danny scored the first goal for SIS and it was tied. The half time whistle was blown and it ended with 1-1. Mr. Vinod gave the team a speech on our performance on the field which boosted the team’s confidence and we started the second half with a kick-off. It was a very intense match; the defender's goal kick by Tenby was like a shot across the field and they gained lots of possession in the match and lots of slide tackles being made towards SIS attackers. We had less chance to bring the ball forward to their defensive zone. We were down by 3-1 already. We could have tightened our defence more by man marking and played a much more controlled game. Overall it was a good experience. Results: Tenby 3- Straits 1
S P O R T S U P DAT E—b y t h e P E D e p a r t m e n t
2018 AIKDO JUNIOR SEMINAR—by Mr JM Pang
Last weekend, we held our yearly Aikido seminar at St Christopher’s International Primary School with hundreds of under
16 year-olds from various countries. The objectives of the seminar were to foster Aikido skills among students and to
promote inter-school/dojo relationship. The activities included Aikido grading, training, and the AikiMan Challenge.
Congratulations to these SIS students who passed the Belt Grading: Shridhaya, Fenmore, Sher Lynn, Jia Chen, Athena,
Terrence, Andrew, Howie and Jordan.
