{"id":21968,"date":"2023-09-01T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T02:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kis.edu.my\/kisnewsletter\/house-news-26-08-2023-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T02:49:49","slug":"house-news-02-09-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kis.edu.my\/kisnewsletter\/house-news-02-09-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE NEWS 02.09.2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite this week being a shorter week, our Primary students have continued to amaze us across the school as their hard work and diligent attitudes towards learning have seen more housepoints generously awarded. This week, Primary collectively earned 591 housepoints. Another great total to continue from the great start we\u2019ve already seen. The battle between the 3 Houses was close again, but the winning House snatched victory with a 10 point lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The housepoints we awarded to each team was:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 3rd place with 189 housepoints is<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><b>Sapi<\/b><b>!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2nd place with 196 housepoints is <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Gaya<\/b><b>!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1st place with 206 housepoints is <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Sulug<\/b><b>!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our congratulations go to Sulug Sharks\u00a0 for their first win of this school year! Who will we be celebrating as Housepoint Champions next week?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>GO GAYA PANGOLINS! GO SAPI SUNBEARS! GO SULUG SHARKS!!<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each week we will share details of the Monthly Maths Challenges and Fun Dojo Challenges we share through the School Story on Class Dojo. These challenges are an optional activity Primary students can choose to complete and they will earn housepoints for their House totals for every challenge they take part with..<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please read below for the details of this week\u2019s challenges!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>The Monthly Maths Challenge<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Monthly Maths Challenge returns for the first time for this school year with our September Challenge! Make sure you check out the Google Drive for the Maths challenge for your year group! There are challenges for F1&amp;F2, Y1&amp;Y2, Y3&amp;Y4 and Y5&amp;Y6. Check out the challenge details and get those maths brains calculating and solving! All submissions for this month\u2019s challenge are due by Friday 29th September 2023. Good luck KIS!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Fun Challenge<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/t4.ftcdn.net\/jpg\/04\/66\/24\/29\/360_F_466242932_XJAfqiQlKdW5FcNkp3GZEe9DtrQskJts.jpg\" alt=\"Lego Letters Images \u2013 Browse 1,387 Stock Photos, Vectors, and Video | Adobe  Stock\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our first Fun Challenge for this new school year is celebrating our return to school! Go on a scavenger hunt to find as many items as you can that all start with the letters found in BACK TO SCHOOL. For example, you might find a BOOK for B, an APPLE for A, a CUDDLY TOY for C. Can you find something for all the letters in the phrase for this chosen challenge?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, if you\u2019re feeling arty and creative this week, use the videos uploaded to the shared Google Drive folder to create some BACK TO SCHOOL drawings or draw your own picture of KIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please share your completed challenge entries through this Google Form link:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/Pj97VXZ6C9qhhyiR8\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DOJO CHALLENGE ENTRY FORM<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Lisa in our Marketing Department may use some of the wonderful challenge submissions each week to celebrate and share your wonderful work through videos created for the KIS newsletter and social media sites. Please use the link above, complete the required information in the Google Form and upload your photos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you missed the challenges when they were shared on Dojo on Friday, please check out School Story on Dojo to find the link to the Weekly Dojo Challenge folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can also use this link <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cutt.ly\/LfcFEyn\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/cutt.ly\/LfcFEyn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to access the folder and find the details for all the challenges shared this week. If you have any questions, please do get in touch via email; <\/span><a href=\"mailto:sbarlass@kis.edu.my\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sbarlass@kis.edu.my<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or through Class Dojo messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible participating with these weekly challenges, but please do remember that all challenges are optional. All entries for all challenges will be awarded with housepoints towards their House Team total, because <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTeam work makes the dream work!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy challenging KIS!<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Despite this week being a shorter week, our Primary students have continued to amaze us across the school as their hard work and diligent attitudes towards learning have seen more housepoints generously awarded. This week, Primary collectively earned 591 housepoints. Another great total to continue from the great start we\u2019ve already seen. 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