Many congratulations to Mrs Colbeck and the supporting cast of colleagues who made this year’s Book Week such a resounding success. It is one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the school calendar and has been a wonderful end to the first half of term 2. Yesterday the School Leadership Team played its part in judging the creatively imaginative Book Door competition and in the Secondary assembly all the prizewinners for this and other competitions were recognised with special awards.
We are already looking ahead to the week beginning February 11th and the weeks thereafter. We hope to see all Year 11 parents at the Parent/Teacher meetings on that day and we are looking forward to the Chinese New Year Lion Dance on the 12th….. our thanks to the PTA for organizing this. We ask that Secondary students dress up in Chinese inspired costume and colours on that day. On the 13th we are delighted to be hosting a visit from Scubazoo; our students will be able to view excerpts from Borneo Diaries Season 2….. more about that in a future newsletter.
Student Lockers
A quick word about student lockers. On Thursday I noticed that almost half of all the Secondary lockers had been left unlocked by their owners. A quick survey revealed that students had left their valuable belongings open to potential theft. Whilst this is thankfully a very very rare occurrence at our school, it is only common sense that basic precautions are taken and that locks are employed as a matter of course. We will be following up on this but would be grateful if in the meantime parents could speak to their children to reinforce the use of a lock on their locker.
Year 11 IGCSE Geography Trip
Our Geography students report on their recent field trip to support their exam preparation:
Have you ever thought about the height of waves? Or the direction waves approach the beach? If so, you should have been with the four Year 11 geographers at Tanjung Aru on 25th January because we had to measure such phenomena. We also measured the frequency of the waves, as well as considered the environment at Tanjung Aru. Then it was off to the Kota Kinabalu Wetlands to get a feel for mangroves and again an environmental assessment was conducted. Finally, we conducted pedestrian and vehicle counts as well as mapped the land use on Gaya Street. Back in the classroom, we, the Geography 4, will process our data and consider our hypotheses. And those frothy drinks in Starbucks? Well, they also linked to our studies …on globalisation!
Gabby, Marwan, James and Eric
I hope that all our families have a wonderful half term break and we look forward to seeing all our students back in school on Monday 11th February.
Mrs Margaret Renshaw
Deputy Principal/Head of Secondary
