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Dear
Parents/Guardians,
We welcome all our students back to the school and at the same time
wish all our Muslim students and parents Selamat Berpuasa and
Selamat Hari Raya Adilfitri We are now in the 4rd term, the final
leg of 2011 with the past three terms being active, enriching,
fulfilling and rewarding. This is an important term with exams held
in the months of October and November.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all teachers and the
non-teaching staff of St Andrew’s School a Happy Teachers’ Day.
Teaching is a unique profession that teaches all other professions.
Teaching is not easy today and teachers’ surge of work has changed
over the years. Now teachers are in charge of not only teaching but
conducting CCAs, ECA, career guidance and normal education tasks. On
the occasion of the national Teachers’ Day marked on 23 Sept, I
thank all teachers and non-teaching staff for all their dedication
and passion which often exceeds beyond the call of duty, bringing in
a high calibre of holistic (academic & character development)
success.
1. At each term, we are proud of our ECA winnings and we pray that
we continue to be successful at all fronts – ECAs and academics. To
highlight some of our achievements last term, we hereby congratulate
:
a) All our current Sec 5 & Y10Y students who sat for the GCE June
“O” Levels. We are proud of your achievements.
i) Koay Jing Wei (Sec 5S2) 8 credits in 8 subjects (4A1, 3A2, 1B3)
ii) Tiong Tze Yuan (Sec 5S2) 8 credits in 8 subjects (1A1, 5A2, 2B3)
iii) Lau Ka Yong (Sec 5S2) 6 credits in 6 subjects (2A1, 3A2, 1B3)
iv) Mohd Hafiz bin Hilmy (Sec 5S1) 6 credits in 6 subjects (1A2,
4B3, 1B4)
v) Nurhasiffah Azirah binti Hassan (Sec 5S2) 6 credits in 7 subjects
(5B3, 1C5, 1D7)
vi) Awg Abdul Muqtadir Awg Hj Suhaimei(Sec 5CS) 6 credits in 6
subjects (2B3, 1B4, 2C5, 1C6)
vii) Yedija binti Markus (Sec 5S2) 5 credits in 5 subjects (1A2,
3B3, 1C5)
viii) Nadia Ezzah binti Hj Amer Hamzah (Sec 5S1) 5 credits in 5
subjects (1A2, 2B4, 1C5, 1C6)
ix) Farah Huwaina binti Roslan (Sec 5S1) 5 credits in 5 subjects
(1B3, 1B4, 1C4, 2C6)
b) Yeo Yeo Chiew of Yr 5R was invited to Japan (representing Brunei)
to attend a “Toyota Dream Car Art Contest” award ceremony by Toyota
Motor Corporation from 4 Aug to 9 Aug 2011. Her artwork was selected
as one of the best out of 120,000 entries from more than 50
countries.
b) Jennifer Ting Sheau Feng of Sec 5S1 entered the finals in the
Pertandingan Pidato Mandarin Tahun 2011 (Chinese Elocution Contest)
organized by the Chinese Section of RTB. The final competition
originally scheduled on 7 Aug has now been postponed until further
notice.
c) St Andrew’s School was placed 3rd in the Brunei National
Chemistry Quiz Competition 2011 organised by Chung Ching Middle
School in collaboration with SBC-Chemistry and sponsored by CIV
Envirnomental Services Sdn Bhd on 30 July. The team members were :
Lau Ka Yong Sec 5S2
Chan Yao Yin Yr 10Y (Express)
Koh Wan Cxi Yr 10Y (Express)
The teachers-in-charge were Mrs Neelima and Mr Simon Tiong.
d) 192 students from yr 4 to Sec 5 sat for the NSW (Science)
Competition and St Andrew’s School was awarded 6 certificates of
High Distinction, 36 certificates of Distinction, 55 certificates of
Credit and 95 certificates of Participation. The High Distinction
winners were :
Koay Jing Wei Sec 5S2
Tiong Tze Yuen Sec 5S2
Shaun Sim Sze Jien Yr 10Y (Express)
Tay Wei Xiong Yr 10Y (Express)
Seow Shu Yung Yr 7G
Megha Santhosh Kumar Yr 5Y
e) Megha Santhosh Kumar of Yr 5Y is a gold medalist in the NSW
(English) Competition 2011 for Yr 5 Level.
f) “My Small World” Spelling Bee Competition was held from 19 to 21
August with over 200 participants from 9 private schools. St
Andrew’s School succeeded in a clean sweep of all the trophies in
the 9 – 12 years old school category as follows :
1) Ibrahim bin Hj Md Yuusop (Yr 6B)
2) Megha Santhosh Kumar (Yr 5Y)
3) Kelvin Ku Teck Foong (Yr 7Y)
Clement Joshua Dev of Yr 2B was 2nd in the 5 – 8 years old
individual category.
g) Four of our local former Sec 5 students (2010 batch) who obtained
8 “0” levels with an aggregate of 11 to 15 units were offered to
study at JIS by MoE. They are :
Sherlyn Song Liyen Larang 11 units
Tu Kian Eng 14 units
Abdul Wafi bin Awang Rosly 15 units
Muhd Aizat Isamuddin Dullah 15 units
2. Please note the following dates for exams :
a) PSR Mock Exam 12/9 – 17/9
b) PSR Exam 10/10 – 13/10
c) SPE Exam 18/10 – 29/10
d) GCE “O” Level Exam 10/10 – 18/11
e) Yr 7, 9 & 10 End-of-Year Exam 26/10 – 5/11
f) Yr 1 – 5 End-of-Year Exam 31/10 – 5/11
g) Kg 2 & 3 Exam 31/10 – 3/11
h) Admission Test Exams (Yr 1 to Yr 7) 14/10
3. A parenting talk organized by the
school for parents on “Raising your Child without Raising your Blood
Pressure” by Ms Joyce Ewing-Chow will be held on Friday night, 9
September, 2011 at the school Conference Hall from 8.00 pm to 10 pm.
All parents are welcome and admission is free but based on tickets.
Parents who are interested to attend the talk must register with the
school office for the tickets. (Tickets are limited.)
4. A Good Life Camp 2011 will be organized by the school for all the
Yr 6 pupils from 18 to 20 October (Tuesday to Thursday). The two
facilitators are from Singapore History makers with assistance from
our teachers will be conducting the camp. The objective of the camp
is to prepare students for their life ahead – to nurture essential
life skills for successful living, namely the four key processes of
Planning, Organising, Executing and Monitoring with the integration
of the school core values of Respect, Teamwork, Love, Honesty,
Responsibility and Courage with great emphasis on the value of LOVE.
More details will be given to the respective level.
5. Yr 8 students will be sitting for the SPE in October (18 –
29/10). The requirements for streaming into 2-yr express and 3-yr
normal towards “O” level examination are still based on the
students’ performance during SPE as the mock exam. The final
selection into the respective streams will also be discussed with
the subject teachers based on the students’ work attitude and
performance throughout Yr 7 & 8.
For the Yr 7, students will be engaged in BCAT 4 this term and will
conclude the year with a year- end examination. The time-table will
be duly given.
School-based assessment for learning (SBafl) is on-going throughout
Yr 7 & 8. Therefore, it is good to remind all parents to take note
that no task, be it project or school work, is to be taken lightly
and causally. It is imperative that students are consistently doing
their best at every assignment. While fun is incorporated in the
process of learning, the learning outcome is still an essential
achievement.
6. The school will have a new halal Canteen Operator - Sakura Indah
Eating House - from the start of the 4th Term in September, 2011.
Syarikat Aminah & Anak-Anak will continue to be the other Canteen
operator.
7. Events scheduled for the 4th Term are as follows:
a) Teachers’ Day Celebration on 1 Oct.
b) Admission test to be held on Friday, 14 October for those
students who have already registered with the school for admission
to Yr 1 till Yr 7 in 2012
c) Study leave for Sec 5 from 6 to 8 Oct
d) Graduation Ceremony for Yr 6 on 10 Nov and Sec 5 on 22 Nov.
e) Speech Day on 20 Nov
f) Book sales in school from 23 to 29 Nov by Samima Bookshop.
8. Reminders :
a) School fees – fees must be paid promptly during the 1st five
working days of each month before the release Report books and
Leaving certificates. Suspension will be carried out on students who
have failed to pay fees for more than 3 months. Your child’s name
will be removed from the 2012 class list (if all fee payments are
not settled by Dec 2011).
b) Attendance – under SPN21, attendance of 85% is required in order
to be promoted to the next level.
c). Cleanliness and Health - the Ministry of Health in conjunction
with the health month has emphasized the need for healthy lifestyles
with good eating habits containing more green vegetables and fruits
with less consumption of unhealthy fatty food such as ice cream,
junk food, potato chips, food cooked in high content of oil and
cream. Healthy lifestyles and good daily exercise programs create
healthy bodies and minds for good schooling habits. At the school
level, the weekly PE, CCA lessons and ECAs in the afternoons are
avenues for students to keep themselves fit and maintain healthy
lifestyles. We strongly encourage good healthy lifestyles to be
inculcated at home too.
d). The school magazines will be ready by early November. We thank
you for your continued support to enable the school to continue to
publish the school magazines.
e) Thank you for your patience in fetching and sending your children
especially during peak hours, in our confined space. Parents are
reminded, where possible, to park alongside the road, abide by the
instructions from the security guards and traffic police in ensuring
a smooth flow of traffic.
With the 12 weeks ahead, students are to strive with excellence and
tenacity, thereby bridging the gaps between goals and
accomplishments. With determination, focus and discipline, goals and
dreams will be captured and realized successfully. We wish everyone
a successful and fruitful 4th term striving towards excellence. On
this academic partnership, let us move harmoniously and in one
accord to academic excellence.
“Failure is never final and success is never ending. Success is a
Journey, not a destination.” by Robert Schuller.
Yours sincerely,
JANE KEASBERRY
PRINCIPAL
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St.
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