From the Head of PE and Sport 11.01.2020

Primary & Secondary Offsite Lessons: Week beginning Monday 13th January

U13 FOBISIA Training

Monday 13th January @ Likas Swimming Pool: Depart school at 2:15pm by bus and be collected at 4:15pm from the venue.

Term 2 Swimming

As detailed above, students in Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 (Years 3-11) have all commenced their swimming lessons for the Term at Sutera Harbour Resort. In the first week, all students underwent an initial base assessment to check their current swimming proficiency level and have now been placed in small ability based groups. 

Parents, please make sure that on the day your child has swimming that they come to school with their swimming costume underneath their normal school uniform together with a bag containing their underwear to change into after the lesson. 

Primary students can wear their slippers to school and bring their socks and school shoes to change into after the lesson. Secondary students should still wear their normal school shoes and can bring a pair of slippers to change into when going to the pool. 

At the conclusion of their lesson, all students will shower and then change into their normal school uniform. Please note, PE uniform should not be worn on swimming days. 

The swimming unit will last 8 weeks and finish on the week beginning Monday 2nd March. 

If you have any questions relating to the swimming program then please feel free to contact Miss Watt or Mr Bromley (Swimming Coordinator).

MSSD

This coming term, KIS will again be looking to extend opportunities for students to participate in the KK School District sports competitions. From these events, Malaysian national students have the opportunity to earn selection to represent the district at Sabah state events and even progress to the National level MSSM. Non-malaysian students are still welcome to participate in the MSSD events, however, are unfortunately not eligible for further selection. 

Currently we are taking registrations for the following events:

Badminton

U12 – 16 to 17 January 2020.

U15 – 5 to 7 February 2020.

U18 – 29 to 31 January 2020.

Golf 

U12, U15 and U18.

Practice Round – 29th January

Competition Round – 30th January 

Any student who wishes to participate in these events must collect the paperwork from Mr. Richie and return it completed together with a copy of their IC card/passport and a passport photo by no later than Wednesday 15th January. 

Further details about upcoming events will be sent out to students via the daily bulletin and through the newsletter. 

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Mr. Richie (MSSD Coordinator) or Miss Watt. 

FOBISIA

We have a very busy and exciting term of FOBISIA training and events coming up. 

Our FOBISIA Swimming squad are getting excited about their upcoming trip to Korea where they will travel to Seoul for the FOBISIA Swim Championships hosted by Seoul Foreign School over the Chinese New Year break. It will be quite the extreme temperature change and some of the swimmers have commented that they hope they might see snow for the first time! 

Both our U13 and Primary teams will be preparing for their upcoming competitions with both ECA and lunchtime training sessions. The U13 FOBISIA squad comprised of 19 students from Year 7 and Year 8 will travel to Phuket in February where they will compete against 7 other schools in swimming, athletics, football and basketball. 

Parents, please make sure you are checking your emails for details about any trips your children are involved in and ensuring that payments are made to the front office by the dates outlined. 

Current Payments that are due are:

U13 FOBISIA Final Payment = RM800 DUE: Friday 17th January

Primary FOBISIA 2nd Payment = RM1500 DUE: Friday 24th January

FOBISIA Golf 2nd Payment = RM1500 DUE: Friday 7th February

If your child is in the Primary FOBISIA team or FOBISIA Golf, please make sure you have also supplied Ms. Sharon Wong with a current copy of your child’s passport ID page so we may proceed with booking flights. 

Sabah Age Group (SAGs) Swimming Championships

From Friday to Sunday, Likas swimming pool is hosting the 53rd SAG Swimming Championships. A number of KIS students across Primary and Secondary will be representing their KK swim clubs at the event with some swimmers even hoping to qualify for the Malaysian Nationals to be held later in the year. 

We wish all students taking part the very best of luck and hope they achieve some personal best performances that they can be proud of. 

Miss Catriona Watt

Head of PE and Sport