Sunday, June 30, 2013

CCA Information Morning - KS1 & Year 3 2013/2014 Parents


CCA Information Morning for current Reception/ Year 1/Year 2/Std1 Parents

Date : Thursday 11th July
Time : 08:00hrs - 10:00hrs

Venue : Auditorium 


The CCA Department is pleased to announce the commencement of KS1/Std 1 CCAs from September 2013.

The CCAs will be optional and will be available to students on either Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Students will have an option to choose ONE (1) CCA, which can either be a sport or a club. For a start, CCA Dept will be providing a total of 10 CCAs over the two days with the intend to increase the number of CCAs if they become popular.

CCAs to be offered are:

Tuesdays – Creative Crafting, Speed Stacking, Word Games, Art & Craft, Storytelling & Puppet Making and Phonics Fun

Thursdays – Gymnastics, KORU Football, Yoga and Speech & Drama.


Secondary Parents Info Morning - 27th June 2013

The morning saw the school's secondary leadership briefing parents where they're taking the school forward (with much details which some found overwhelming):









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Next, we saw the senior student leadership taking over the stage interviewing the year 7, 8 and 9 representative students on what they want out of the school to improve their learning journey. 

Following that, they presented their unrehearsed speech on what they want to the school's attentive secondary leadership. 





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For those who missed out the info morning, here are some reading materials for you to catch up.


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Monday, June 24, 2013

School Closure & Contingency Plans

Homework for Tuesday uploaded...

http://www.tenby.edu.my/v2/setiaecopark/tishomework


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School Closed Due to Haze


Public Schools and several Private/International Schools, including Tenby,
is closed Today as a health precautionary measure, due to the haze situation.

 Please view the linked-Tweets at this Blog (web version) or follow Tenby's general Twitter at:


...  View from KL Sentral this morning, about 10am  ...




















How to view TenbySEP's tweets at PA blog site via your mobile devices

For those who do not have a twitter account, you can view @TenbySEP's tweets on PA blog site via the following steps:

1. From your mobile device, go to tenbysep-pa.blogspot.com.

2. The mobile version of the blog will appear.

3. Scroll to the bottom and click on 'View Web Version'.

4. Once the Web version is loaded, you can locate the tweets over the right column of the blog.

Follow progress on school closure and students' works during closure from the school's tweets.

Friday, June 21, 2013

Education Perspective - The Observer (15June2013)



Advent of Google means we must rethink our approach to education

We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past which are no longer relevant on a curriculum for today's children
  • The Observer
Sugata Mitra
Educationalist Sugata Mitra with pupils at a primary school in Gateshead. Photograph: Mark Pinder for the Observer
Would a person with good handwriting, spelling and grammar and instant recall of multiplication tables be considered a better candidate for a job than, say, one who knows how to configure a peer-to-peer network of devices, set up an organisation-wide Google calendar and find out where the most reliable sources of venture capital are, I wonder? The former set of skills are taught in schools, the latter are not.
We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past. Longhand multiplication of numbers using paper and pencil is considered a worthy intellectual achievement. Using a mobile phone to multiply is not. But to the people who invented it, longhand multiplication was just a convenient technology. I don't think they attached any other emotions to it. We do, and it is still taught as a celebration of the human intellect. The algorithms that make Google possible are not taught to children. Instead, they are told: "Google is full of junk."
In school examinations, learners must reproduce facts from memory, solve problems using their minds and paper alone. They must not talk to anyone or look at anyone else's work. They must not use any educational resources, certainly not the internet. When they complete their schooling and start a job, they are told to solve problems in groups, through meetings, using every resource they can think of. They are rewarded for solving problems this way – for not using the methods they were taught in school.
The curriculum lists things that children must learn. There is no list stating why these things are important. A child being taught the history of Vikings in England says to me: "We could have found out all that in five minutes if we ever needed to."
One of the teachers who works with me said to her class of nine-year-olds: "There is something called electromagnetic radiation that we can't see, can you figure out what it is?" The children huddle around a few computers, talking, running around and looking for clues. In about 40 minutes, they figure out the basics of electromagnetism and start relating it to mobile signals. This is called a self-organised learning environment, a Sole. In a Sole, children work in self-organised groups of four or five clustered around an internet connected computer. They can talk, change group, move around, look at other groups' work and so on.
One of them says: "Aren't we going to do any work?"
"What do you think you were doing?" asks the teacher.
"Learning about electromagnetism."
"What's work, then?"
"Work is when you say things to us and we write them down."
Methods from centuries ago may seem romantic, but they do get obsolete and need to be replaced. The brain remembers good things from the past and creates a pleasant memory of the "good old days". It forgets the rest. It is dangerous to build a present using vague memories of the good old days.
Any standard room in a Holiday Inn is better than the best facilities in an emperor's room in the 15th century. Air conditioning, hot and cold running water, toilets that flush, TV and the internet. The middle class lives better today than any emperor ever did. Going back to horse-drawn vehicles is not the solution to our traffic problems and pollution. Beating children into submission will not solve the problem of educational disengagement.
If examinations challenge learners to solve problems the way they are solved in real life today, the educational system will change for ever. It is a small policy change that is required. Allow the use of the internet and collaboration during an examination.
If we did that to exams, the curriculum would have to be different. We would not need to emphasise facts or figures or dates. The curriculum would have to become questions that have strange and interesting answers. "Where did language come from?", "Why were the pyramids built?", "Is life on Earth sustainable?", "What is the purpose of theatre?"
Questions that engage learners in a world of unknowns. Questions that will occupy their minds through their waking hours and sometimes their dreams.
Teaching in an environment where the internet and discussion are allowed in exams would be different. The ability to find things out quickly and accurately would become the predominant skill. The ability to discriminate between alternatives, then put facts together to solve problems would be critical. AThat's a skill that future employers would admire immensely.
In this kind of self-organised learning, we don't need the same teachers all the time. Any teacher can cause any kind of learning to emerge. A teacher does not need to be physically present, she could be a projected, life-sized image on the wall. A "Granny Cloud" of such volunteer teachers have been operating out of the UK and a few other countries into schools in India and South America for more than five years, using a combination of the internet and admiration to provide a meaningful education for children. We don't need to improve schools. We need to reinvent them for our times, our requirements and our future. We don't need efficient clerks to fuel an administrative machine that is no longer needed. Machines will do that for us. We need people who can think divergently, across outdated "disciplines", connecting ideas across the entire mass of humanity. We need people who can think like children.
Sugata Mitra is professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, and the winner of the $1m TED Prize 2013. He devised the Hole in the Wall experiment, where a computer was embedded in a wall in a slum in Delhi for children to use freely. He aimed to prove young people could be taught computers easily without formal training.

Newsletter 176




NEWSLETTER 176  -  Dated 21st June 2013 has been published.


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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

International Day 2013












































The school welcomes volunteers to set up a food stall for the servery area. They are requesting that this be done on a donation/cover costs only basis as they do not want the students handling too much money on the day. They are also looking for demonstrations of international cultures, maybe some samba or salsa! Also, anyone who would like to run a games stall based on international games would be most welcome. There will be  ‘fashion show’ of national costumes on the day.

Registration for fashion show and performances starts next week for each class via class teacher.

If you would like to be involved in this way then please contact your son/daughter’s class teacher or Mr. Robinson (trobinson@tenby.edu.my). 

Monday, June 17, 2013

IPC Personal Goal - Adaptability



IGCSE Art Exhibition Opening Reception

One gets to appreciate how each art piece came about having attended this art exhibition. 

We are so proud of our Y11 art students for the wonderful work produced. The evening was made successful with  beautiful life music by our very own musicians and not forgetting our student representatives who provided warm hospitality. Same credit goes to their teachers who orchestrated this whole event, Mr Sathi, Ms Lisa, Ms Anna and many more who supported them in one way or another.

Last Friday was the last day of display due to the unavailability of the auditorium. TIS PA and Art Department are looking at coming up with an online virtual Art Exhibition so the display can be made available for an extended period.

Presenting "Personal Journey"



Beautiful life music by our very own talent pool



One of the budding artists


What and who inspired this artist? What development has taken place resulting in this final piece of work?


Refreshment sponsored by TIS Parents Association, diligently served by our prefects

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Newsletter 175


NEWSLETTER 175  -  Dated 14th June 2013 has been published.


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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Newsletter 174


NEWSLETTER 174  -  Dated 7th June 2013 has been published.


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Lots of Info about Past Activities
and New Activities coming up;
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Meet & Greet Session with Speaker & Author Andrew Matthews


Thank you to Ms Ruth for sharing this with the school's community. 



Olympic Day Fun Run by Olympic Council of Malaysia


Thank you to Mr Elliott for sharing this with the school's community. 

This is open event so pupils or parents will have to sign on directly with them .