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Dear Parents A very eventful two weeks at our ever busy school. Tenby Eagles sports team started competitions this week with success in the Swimming at Uplands. Both basketball and football tournaments are ready to start this week, so watch this space for even more success. The leadership team had a successful board meeting on Friday with the governors giving us the seal of approval on how the school is moving forward. New look headlines below! Social Media Our social media sites are becoming more active. Please remember to “like” us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and You Tube. You can access the sites via our website. Just click on the links. We have over 3000 likes on Facebook now, keep it up! International Schools Fair We will be represented at the International School Fair with a large Tenby team on Sunday 16th October at the G Hotel between 12pm and 5pm. As well as leadership team we will be supported by administration team including student representatives. Open Day Event has been set for Saturday 5th November so please help spread the word to friends and families who are interested in joining us. The day will run from 9am to 2pm and will have two talks by the leadership team at 10:30am and 12:30pm. Learning Live Tours This enables parents, both existing and new to take a 1 hour tour with myself to observe classroom learning. The maximum number of parents will be 10 and will be on a first come first serve basis. If full, then you will be given alternative dates. Each term will have a different start time and day. Tours start at 8am in the Foyer. Please email Ms Stephanie for a place on stephanie.teoh@tenby.edu.my or phone 04 892 7777. Community Links This week we attended Kwang Hwa Primary School, Bukit Jambul and Union Primary School, Burma Road to give out the Tenby book prize awards. Mr Prakash even went into the Chinese Girls School this Saturday and led a Zumba class for Std 4-6. TSPA Update On Friday 7th October members of the TSPA and leadership met to redesign the Parents Questionnaire for the Tenby group of schools. We feel we have improved the questionnaire to support feedback mechanisms for Tenby Penang Parents. More details to follow.

Iain Sallis (Campus Principal)

Tenby Schools Penang

Day / Date: Friday, 10th October 2016 e-Newsletter Issue: 24

Message from the Principal

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Campus Principal

SRI TENBY SCHOOLS IMPORTANT NOTICE

Letter from Ministry of Education Department, Malaysia

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Sri Tenby Primary School (STPS) Tahun 5 – Practical Science Lesson in Progress. Hands-on is part and parcel of any science lesson. Students from our Tahun 5 had an interesting science lesson on electricity. They had to connect up a closed circuit so that a bulb would light up.

Please Cut

Busy at Work

Let Me Take a Look

Eureka!

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Science Project – Germination of Seeds

Tahun 3 students are investigating how seeds germinate. Photographs show Sri Tenby young scientists at work.

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Visual Arts Lesson

Wow, so

Tahun 4 – Diorama

Tahun 4 – Handmade soft toys

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Sri Tenby Secondary School (STSS) Science Week

Sri Secondary School held the Annual Science Week from 26th – 30th September 2016.

Some of the objectives of the event are:

• to challenge the students to think critically and solve scientific problems.

• to encourage students to experience learning and decision making through the collection and analysis of data.

• to motivate students to find theories to explain complex phenomena in daily life.

• to improve their scientific skills by engaging in real-life science investigation projects.

• to foster an interest in Science.

This event involved all Form 1 to Form 5 students of Sri Tenby Secondary School. Students in groups of 4 to 5 chose the topics and presented the findings of their topics during science lessons in class, that is from 26th – 29th September 2016. The class science teacher picked a winning group from each class for the finals. The final round of the competition was on 30th September 2016.Certificates of merit will be awarded to the top three winners on the Annual Awards Day on 29 November.

Judges for the finals were Mr Cheah Sin Hock, Mr Siaw Kok Leong, Ms Junie Ohng and Ms Chang Yin Yin

The winners are: 1. Form 2 - ‘Dinoflagellates’. 2. Form 2 - Dumbo Octopus 3. Form 4 - Volcanoes

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Performance Improvement Workshop for SPM 2016 (History)

The workshop was held on 30 September from 11.30 to 1.30 pm. It was organised by ‘Penaja Pekajar Cemerlang’, a

Kuala Lumpur based group. The Forms 4 and five students attended the workshop.

The speaker, En Hashim emphasised the techniques of answering History questions and studying effectively for SPM.

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KSSM Training

Teachers from Sri Tenby Secondary School attended training for KSSM as the new curriculum will be rolled out for Form 1 in 2017.

Science – Ms. Chang Yin Yin

PJ - Mr. Tan Beng Chuan

Speaker for KSSM, Mathematics. Attended by Mr. Siaw Kok Leong

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Tenby International Primary School (TIPS) Head of School’s Letter to Parents

Dear Parents,

This week I have been impressed with the wide range of fantastic learning taking place across the school. Year 3 have been produced an amazing array of dinosaur models for a class display as part of their ‘Footprints from the past’ IPC unit.

Year 6 have carried out experiments with parachutes as part of their Science lessons. Year 4 have been writing Non-chronological reports about Tigers whilst Year 5 have been learning about solids, liquids and gases. I look forward to seeing you all at our Parents Consultation meetings on Wednesday 12th where you will get to see lots of these displays of learning. If you haven’t yet signed up, please do so via the portal. For Year 2-Year 6 and to see language teachers.

Regards

Ms Marian

(Head of TIPS)

TENBY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

Personal Learning Goals in Action

RESILIENCE

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Phonics success

Congratulations to the children above who have all completed Phase 3 of the Phonics programme. They have been in Ms Malathi’s group for the past term and have shown great skills in listening, spelling and writing. They are all now ready and excited to start Phase 4 this week. Jae Hwan, Zayana, Thomas, Lucas, Christina, Alice and Mun Fong, you are all Phonics Stars!

Handwriting

Handwriting and presentation are important in all writing that we do. Children in Key Stage 2 work towards a pen licence, which they receive when their writing is consistently joined, neat and fluent.

I am pleased that over the past few weeks 3 more children have received their pen licences: Charlotte & Ee Jin Year 6, along with Carl from year 4.

I look forward to issuing more pen licences over the term.

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Congratulations to all the children above who received swimming certificates for their great achievements in the swimming CCA last term.

Well done everyone!

Super Swimmers!

Football– Tenby vs Uplands

Following a fabulous football tournament at Uplands last week, the following children were chosen as Players of the match and received their certificates in assembly on Friday.

Girls Team: Tian Tian Year 6

Under 10s Terrance Year 6

Under 11s Afiq Year 6

Well done to everyone who played. It was a great start to the season.

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Stars of the week Week

Year 6

Year 3 Year 1

Reception

Year 4 Year 5

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Tenby International Secondary School (TISS)

The term is warming up and continues to get busier on a daily basis. The staff and students continue to work hard to challenge themselves and make progress across many areas of the school.

This year we have introduced Parent Information Evenings for all year groups to enhance the communication between parents and school. Thank you to all the parents for attending. These have not only been effective in sharing key information and relevant dates specifically for your child's year group, we hope it has also given a useful insight into how we support the Cambridge attributes of confidence, innovative, responsible, reflective and engaged, and the vast amount of opportunities we have for your child to get involved in at Tenby Schools this year.

Year 7 & 8 and year 9 have taken place and the presentations shared over the parent portal. Still to go ahead:

Year 10 Parent Information Evening – Monday 10 October Year 11, 12 and 13 Parent Information Evening – Wednesday 12 October

Rock Of Ages: The cast, band and stage crew continue to work incredibly hard in preparation for the opening night of Rock of Ages. TISS students had a sneak preview of the show in assembly on Friday and the cast have been flash mobbing around the school over the last few days to create the buzz of excitement and promote the show. Come and show your support at Penang PAC at Straits Quay on 19/20 October. Buy your ticket at the secondary office.

Sport Fixtures:

Our PE department kick started the season last week and swam in to collect the gold and silver at the swim meet at Uplands School. A strong start from our swim team who show talent and confidence across all age groups under Mr Yorain's coaching.

Congratulations to all our swimmers for representing Tenby!

PE Fixtures this week:

• U15 Boys Basketball (H) v Uplands – Monday 10 October • U14 Girls Netball (H) v POWIIS – Thursday 13 October

Improvements to our site:

We have asked all our students to complete a survey to help us improve our cafeteria. We want to hear from the students their thoughts on how we can provide an improved service. If your child missed out on completing the survey here is the link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLM2YPG

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Date / Day Schools Description Venue

10/10/16 – 12/10/16 (Mon – Wed)

STSS PT3 Examination

Room 323 & Room 324

10/10/16 (Mon) TISS

U15 Boys Basketball Match – Tenby Vs Uplands @ 4pm – 6pm

Tenby Sports Hall

TISS

Year 10 Parent Information @ 4pm – 5pm

Library

12/10/16 (Wed) TIPS

Parent Consultation Year 1 – Year 6 @ 2.50pm – 6.30pm

Primary Building

TISS

Year 11, 12 & 13 Parent Information @ 4pm – 5pm

Library

13/10/16 (Thurs) STPS

Awards Day 8.30am – 11.30am

Basketball Court

TISS U14 Netball, Tenby Vs POWIIS

POWIIS Sports Hall

14/10/16 (Fri) STSS

Graduation Night – Sheraton Four Points, at 7 pm

Sheraton Four Points

15/10/16 (Sat)

STPS

Storytelling @ 8.30am – 12.00noon

GEMS International School

TISS & STSS Rehearsal for Rock of Ages @ 10am – 4pm

Music Room, Drama Room

17/10/16 (Mon) TIPS

U11’s Football Tournament with Straits

Tenby Schools Penang

19/10/16 – 20/10/16 (Wed – Thurs)

TISS

Production – Rock of Ages

Strait Quay

19/10/16 – 07/11/16 (Wed – Mon)

STSS

Form 4 Examinatoin

Room 701

24/10/16 – 28/10/16 (Mon – Fri)

Whole School

Half Term Break

31/10/16 – 03/11/16 (Mon – Thurs)

STSS

Form 1 & Form 2 Examination Room 523 & 524

04/11/2016 (Friday)

Whole School UN Day Tenby School

11/11/2016 (Friday)

Whole School Halloween Event Tenby School

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Useful Contacts

Tenby International School – 04 – 892 7703

Sri Tenby Primary School – 04 – 892 7707

Secondary Office – 04 – 892 7717

School Email: penang@tenby.edu.my

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