Newsletter 25

Newsletter 25

Mr Martin
Mr MartinDear parents, staff, and students,

I find it hard to believe the first half-term is over, but here we are on
our October break! I hope everyone gets the opportunity to catch
up with friends and family and get some much-needed rest – the
second half term will be just as action-packed as the first.

We have our annual Deepavali celebrations soon after we return to school, followed closely by the first ever PTA Trunk or
Treat event, both occasions promise to be fantastic. I would like to wish a huge thank you so much to everyone who is
involved in the organization of these events, without a lot of hard work behind the scenes, these sorts of things could not
take place.

We have several visitors to the school in November; including Emily Porter, the ISP Group Chief Education and Innovation
Officer, who we are thrilled to welcome to Tenby SEH, as she visits to get an insight into learning in our school. We are very
lucky to have her join us for a day, to share her expertise and in turn get a taste for how things work in our wonderful school.

We will also have a visit from the Best Practice Network (BPN), one of the UK’s leading providers of training, development,
and support for education professionals. BPN will be joining us for 4 days to help us with our Learning Improvement Plan
(LIP), a document through which we evidence our learning successes and plan for an ever-improving future. We are very
excited to welcome Mr. Steph Bailey and his team to join us and spend time with our teachers, students, and parents to get

Remindersa better understanding of our school and how we all get better every single day. I personally believe accountability is vital for

any international school and the BPN will help us by aligning our standards with their own and assisting us in improvement
planning for the future. The BPN visit is one of the numerous benefits we receive as being part of the International Schools
Partnership (ISP) and is a very exciting occasion for our growing school.

Speaking of growth, we currently have the largest student population in our school’s history with 737 active and happy
students, and every sign suggests this growth-trend will continue for the rest of the year. Many experts consider a telling
measure of a school’s success is by its growth, and by that measure we are very successful indeed. I am so pleased to have
you all part of our school community and thank you for your commitment and belief in Tenby SEH. Let’s have a wonderful
2022-23!

My best wishes everyone and stay safe,

Mrs Madeleine

Dear Tenby Family,

Well, who can believe it is half term already? Our first October
Camps are running from Tuesday and the children who have
registered will be participating in all sorts of fun learning
activities. We hope to run some camps during December too,
more information to follow later in the half term.

We have had another parent workshop this week, with Ms Izabela our Head of Early Years,
another successful and informative session for our parent body.

Friday last saw our first class assemblies since the days before lockdown. 3T and 6T shared
their learning with the other children in KS1 and KS2 and some of our parents popped in to see
their children on stage. Both assemblies showcased the learning. 6T shared their learning from
the PBL topic Stargazers and we discovered new and exciting information from them about
such things as Saturn’s rings, Galileo and his discoveries and Sir Isaac Newton. Stargazers is a
wonderful topic which is driven by science, but includes history, art, D&T and is linked to the
English the children have been learning. Next term the children in Tear 6 will be building a
moon buggy in D&T and creating a rocket too!

3T used their drama and speaking and listening skills in a short representation of the text The
Tiger Child, that they have been exploring. The whole class took part and they explained that
they had been looking at using better description in their writing with powerful adjectives, as
well as other literary devices.

All of the children have completed a piece of extended writing this last week, and I am looking
forward to seeing the progress they have made since August.

The Spelling Bee is proceeding at pace, with the semi-finals coming up after the half term
break, and we are also looking forward to our Deepavali celebrations.

Once again a busy time in the Primary School, I think we all need a good rest this week.
I hope you all have a restful week, stay safe and well and take extra care if travelling, regards
to you all,

Mr Jeffrey

Dear Parents, Guardians, Students and Staff

It is hard to believe another two weeks have passed since our
last newsletter and that the mid-term break is now upon us.
While it has been an amazing first half term to start the year
and the school is abuzz with energy, the break will be most
welcomed by students [and teachers] looking to recharge their
batteries for the next of the term.

We have just concluded Wellbeing Week in Secondary, with students focusing on the
importance of mental health and wellbeing. The Student Council have done a
wonderful job of organizing numerous activities such as the speed-friending event,
gratitude boxes with uplifting compliments and the non-uniform friendly Friday [please
enjoy the photos]. It has been a wonderful week of positivity and I am always proud of
how our students support and look out for each other within our community.

Last week we also participated in our first ever Merkeka Day event, with a school
parade, speeches, and numerous activities within the classroom. While the weather was
hot, it didn’t dampen students’ spirits to get outside, celebrate Malaysian independence
and reconstruct some of the most famous landmarks from across the nation [photos
included].

Do not forget that following the mid-term break we will be holding our Assessment
Week. While dynamic activities, collaboration, and student discussion are essential
components to our lessons, the traditional Assessment Week is important to measuring
student progress against learning goals covered this term and I strongly encourage all
students to use their break wisely to revise.

I hope everyone enjoys the school holiday and we’ll see you back after the break!

Learner
Attribute

This Month’s Learner Attribute- Respect

Respect is being kind to myself and my friends.
Respect is knowing I am unique and valuable and feeling good about
myself.
Respect is listening to others and their ideas.
Respect is knowing others are valuable too.
Respect is treating others nicely.
Respect is treating my surroundings and objects nicely and taking care
of them.
Respect is following rules and understanding they are there for a
purpose.

Related values for respect:
tolerance, friendship, justice, liberty, responsibility, equality, democracy, freedom, rule of law
Actions that show this value in school

Starting your learning straight away and challenging yourself throughout a piece of work.
Respecting yourself by taking pride in your work so it looks like you care about it.
Helping others who you’re working with so you do equal amounts of work.
Picking up things off the floor and putting them back in correct places.
Making the right choices when trusted.
Following rules and expectations
Actions that do not show this value:
Being unkind
Talking over someone, not waiting your turn.
Not picking up things off the floor.
Not helping others when working as a team.
Not recycling rubbish.
Dropping litter.
Waiting for an adult to help you rather than trying to use other learning and resources to try and
help yourself as well.
Not thinking about my actions before I do or say something

Learner
Attribute

W10rNitten by Husna Inaayah

There are two variants of respect in this world: respect as a human
being, and respect as an authority or in admiration. It is crucial to
distinguish between the two and understand the obligation of the
former type of respect

Usually, people hear the term respect in the context of respecting your elders, parents,
teachers, etc. They are figures of authority in one’s day-to-day life, whom we are told to treat
with certain politeness and gratitude for their work, patience, and wisdom.

One can even push this type of respect even further, to a point of admiration, where the term
‘role models’ come from. There are lots of people who look up to their co-workers, siblings, or
even celebrities, though many don’t as well.

Out of the two, this is what I would consider the most important type of respect. Respecting
someone as a human being. There are lots of judgement, prejudice, and discrimination in this
world. For things like one’s ethnicity, age, gender, orientation, religion, etc. To be negatively
biased in your treatment of others, not because of what they’ve done, but rather because of
their identity and background is unacceptable.

And here is where people get the two variants of respect confused. People who are so used to
being treated as authority say, “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” And they mean,
“If you don’t treat me like an authority, I won’t treat you like a person.” They believe they’re
being fair, but they’re not.

Respecting someone as an authority is optional, respecting someone as a human being is not.

Primary

Early Years
Amazing Learning 

The Nursery have been learning about the ‘Me and My community’ topic
and children learned to describe the roles of adults in our community who
help us. The children learned to understand the roles and responsibilities
of people who help them at the hospital. We began our lesson by singing
a song about ‘Job song, my neighbourhood’ and had a wonderful
discussion about what we would like to be in the future. Then, we had an
interesting discussion about people who help us at the hospital and for
our activity, we took part in simple pretend play as a doctor, using the
doctor toy set to save the patient which is our lovely teddy. It was a good
struggle for NT children this week.

Early Years
Amazing Learning 

In Maths, the Reception children learnt about triangles and circles. They
discussed the properties of these shapes and went on a shape hunt
around the classroom. Then, they had to work in pairs and sort the shapes
into the correct groups. Lastly, the children used their creativity to arrange
some counters to make the shape of a triangle and circle. They showed
great resilience and creativity during the lesson. Well done, RE class!

Year 3 Amazing
Learning 

In Year 3 this week, the students explored other ways to add and subtract
2 and 3-digit numbers without crossing the hundreds. After learning to
use the number line and part-whole model, they begin to use the place
value grid and counters to represent the equations and find the answers.
Despite having a good struggle to find the answers, they enjoyed the
activity with their friends. Looking forward to more Amazing learning in
Year 3!

Information
Technology 

In IT, our Year 6 children learnt to plan and create jumping coding games
with obstacles. We needed to explain and demonstrate how some
algorithms work for the game, including characters, dialogues, motions,
costumes, and backdrops. We have been developing an understanding of
computer programming concepts. It was exciting to see the children
demonstrate Amazing learning during the lessons. Year 6 children, you did
a fantastic job!

Student Council

A big congratulations to our new student council! Each of them applied,
gave a speech in class, and was elected by their peers to represent their
year group and the school as a whole. Tenby Primary Student Council Body
is an organization conducted by students and supervised by adults. The
purpose of the student council is to give students an opportunity to
develop leadership skills by organizing and carrying out school activities
and service projects. In addition to planning events that contribute to
school spirit and community welfare, the student council is the voice of the
student body. They help share student ideas, interests, and concerns with
the school community.

Prefects

Last week, our prefects were busy completing their Prefect boarding both
KS1 and KS2 buildings. They had their pictures taken and helped the
Prefect’s teacher-in-charge, Ms. Rina, to decorate their boards. Their
pictures, names, badges and the school learner attributes are placed on
each board.
Well done primary prefects for working on this together!

Sports

The Bouldering Tournament organized by Camp5 was held at Eco City
Bangsar and was an amazing experience for the pupils. Even though they
have never done this before, they gave it their best effort in order to score
as many points as possible, and some of them even reached the top.They
had a good struggle during the competition. Well done!

Secondary

Arts

This past week Year 8 students explored the power of the imagination to
overcome hardship and heartache by envisioning a positive future, even
from the past and the present times. Exploring the techniques of
sketching with pencils and pens in simple terms, architectural sketching
just means drawing buildings, or elements of buildings, or landscapes with
buildings in them. This can take place on paper, computer or even via a
light box. In reality, of course, there is quite a lot more to it than that!

English

What is an adverb? It’s a word that describes or gives more information
about a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase.
The students were exploring new concepts on how to apply adverbs in
their sentences. In a group, students collaborated and showed initiative to
describe the verbs by using adverbs correctly. They needed to use their
creativity to create shapes for each verb and adverb. Also, they could
understand and remember how to use adverbs in their daily conversation.

History

In Year 8 History, students are currently completing a Thematic Study of
Sugar, Slavery, & Empire through time. Knowledge Retrieval is used
regularly at the start of lessons to help students recall past learning and
build their long-term memory (bottom row). In addition, students work
together collaboratively to check their understanding of the new
knowledge that they have learnt in the current lesson (top row).

Mathematics

It has been a good start to the term for Mathematics with many students
challenged and in Good Struggle zones. In this activity students were
asked to collaborate with each other to give random numbers and they
then categorized them by prime, composite, or square numbers. They
needed to demonstrate understanding by having a reason for their choice
and at the end of the activity received feedback from peers and the
teacher about their progress.

Science

Planting a garden is one of the best ways to comprehensively engage
students’ hands (psychomotor domain), heads (cognitive domain) and
hearts (affective domain). In Year 7T, students sowed seeds directly onto
the garden bed during a science lesson. Through this activity, students
learned how to grow plants in a safe and sustainable way, and how to run
their own successful gardens. They worked in a team to prepare soil for use
such as removing stones, pulling weeds, and removing unwanted debris
before sowing the seeds directly into the bed. The activity instilled some of
our SEH Tenby learner attributes such as collaboration, cooperation,
communication, and initiative. Here are some pictures, we hope you enjoy!

PE

Last week our amazing students went for a bouldering competition at
Camp5 Bangsar. They demonstrated excellent sportsmanship and
resilience throughout the competition. They had to use trust, teamwork,
and collaboration to make it to the top and complete their challenges, all
the while having a great time! The adrenaline was pumping as they stared
up at the indoor climbing wall, with excitement mounting after every step
they took. After having reached the top, an exultation of achievement
poured forth when reflecting on their success. All agreed nothing is more
satisfying than winning a contest or completing a challenge!

Malaysia Day
Jalur Gemilang

making

Recently, Secondary students and staff celebrated Merdeka and Malaysia
Day in school with various mementos that are close to Malaysia’s heart.
Apart from drafting plans for Malaysian landmark replicas, KS3 and Year 10
students collaborated as a whole class to make their mark on the school
with handprints. More specifically, handprints in the colours of Jalur
Gemilang, our beloved 4 coloured flag.

On 29 November 1949, the Council of Rulers and the Federal Legislative
Council had held the national-level competition to choose the design of
the flag for the government that would be constituted. In the competition,
Mr. Mohamad Bin Hamzah’s creation (architect from the government of
Johor) was chosen as the winner.

Yellow is regarded as a royal colour in Malaysia while red and blue
symbolise our country’s close relations with the Commonwealth. By
putting their hand to the fabric, the students brushed up on their
knowledge of our history without having to use any brushes.

On 31 August 1997, Tun Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, who was then Prime
Minister, had carved another historical moment when he announced a new
name for the Malaysian flag, JALUR GEMILANG.



Malaysia Day
Making Malaysia
Monuments &

Landmarks

Secondary students from Years 7- 10 commemorated today's Merdeka
celebration by collaborating in a group by building monuments from the
ground up! Although they might not be tall enough to reach the sky, these
students were certainly reaching for the moon! The top three architects
were announced in assembly later in the school day, well done to the
winners!

Malaysia Day
Parade

On the 30th of September, the Secondary school coordinated a march
around the perimeter of the school in commemoration of Independence
Day or Merdeka, which was officially celebrated a month prior. The
students walked in a procession while proudly echoing the Merdeka shouts
blaring from a loudspeaker ahead, not minding the heat of the sun.

Younger and older classes alike sported a plethora of unique but distinctly
recognisable traditional attire, such as the Nyonya Kebaya, iconic Baju
Kurung, stylish Qipao and stunning Batik prints.

After the march was completed, students took up their spots along the
bleachers facing towards the field, where a stage made out of blackboxes
was set up. The main event opened with a beautiful rendition of Standing
in the Eyes of the World, a fitting song symbolising unity among the
masses. This segued into a re-enactment of the groundbreaking historical
event of Merdeka that put us on the map, complete with a recitation of
Rukun Negara.

Despite the blazing afternoon heat that is so quintessentially Malaysian,
students observed the performances with such solemnity that for a brief
moment, it really did feel like a glimpse back into the past. We’ve learned
to regard each other as family so much that this has translated well even
into small communities like ours. Traditional attire just barely scratches the
surface of what makes us Malaysian; it’s the food, languages, dialects,
different ethnicities and beliefs that tie us together. We all stood, sat, sang
and walked united on that very special day, even if it was just for an
afternoon.

Upcoming Events




Event Date

Mid term break 10/10/2022 - 16/10/2022
Deepavali school celebration 21/10/2022

Deepavali holiday 24/10/2022-25/10/2022

Halloween celebrations 28/10/2022

Safeguarding

Over the years a number of tragic accidents have occurred where babies and small children
have injured or strangled themselves on internal window blind cords and chains. Young
children can very quickly be strangled by loops in pull cords, chains, tapes and inner cords
that operate the blinds.

If you have blinds on your internal windows or doors, it is always better to remove them
where possible however there are number of safety measures that you can take to reduce
the risk of tragic accidents occurring:

Keep chains and cords out of reach of babies and young children. Do not tie cords or
chains together and make sure cords or chains do not twist and create a loop.
Move beds, cots, high chairs and play pens away from windows covering cords and
chains.
Move furniture away from windows covering cords and chains, as children love to climb.

If you have a window blind which has an operating cord or chain that could form a loop, you
must keep it out of the reach of babies and young children and there are a range of safety
devices available to help you do this:
When choosing new blinds for homes or places where children or vulnerable people live or
visit, always look for a blind that does not contain cords or has concealed cords.

Some people may find these informational videos upsetting and they are not intended for
students’ viewing
Highlighting the dangers associated with window blind cords - YouTube (English)

百葉窗繩的危害 - YouTube (Cantonese)
百叶窗绳的危害 - YouTube (Mandarin)

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