{"id":8728,"date":"2019-02-02T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kis.edu.my\/kisnewsletter\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T01:49:24","slug":"from-the-head-of-primary-02-02-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kis.edu.my\/kisnewsletter\/from-the-head-of-primary-02-02-19\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Head of Primary, 02.02.19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Week<\/h3>\n

As you are aware, KIS hosts many different theme days and weeks throughout our academic year, but Book Week has remained my firm favourite for many years. This year’s event has been just as magical as previous years. Students in Years 6 and 7 have been seen around school ‘muggleising’ each other during break and lunch times. The story tent has been very popular with many of our younger students this week. On Thursday when we all came to school in our pyjamas I was very pleased to see that we didn’t have anybody fall asleep as we were all so comfy! Along with the well loved drop it and reads, guess the teacher and book swaps we have also had the new event of having a reading monster come in to class to kidnap the students if they were not reading enough!<\/p>\n

I am a firm believer that reading is the best gift you can ever give to a child. If somebody, no matter their age, can read and develop a love of reading then they have a whole world of information at their finger tips. and can use this skill to develop their knowledge and understanding of any area that they would like to learn about.<\/p>\n

I would like to thank all of the teachers and TLAs for the effort that they have put in to making Book Week 2019 a huge success. I would also like to particularly thank Mrs Colbeck, Mrs Walker and Ms Kerry for all the hard work\u00a0that they have put in over the past few months to ensure that this Book Week will be just as memorable as the many others we\u00a0have hosted at KIS.<\/p>\n

Chinese New Year<\/h3>\n

A huge thank you to the Mandarin Department for decorating the Primary school so well this week in preparation for Chinese New Year. The scrolls and other decorations welcoming in the new lunar year have been very carefully made by our older students. I would also like to say thank you to the staff again for the assembly that was held yesterday. The time and effort taken to create something like this does not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

TA JAWS Hosted by KIS<\/h3>\n

It was with great excitement, and some trepidation, that we hosted our\u00a0first JAWS event from the 25th to the 26th\u00a0January. After much planning and logistics we were able to release all of our Teaching and Learning Assistants to join with TAs from four other schools (Alice Smith, KTJ, Tanglin and British School Jakarta) for the Primary TA JAWS. In all 30 participants came together for the two days of workshops.<\/p>\n

After a very energetic team building activity presented by some of the staff from KIS, the participants were treated to a wide ranging selection of workshops that covered many aspects of a TA\u2019s role – such as How to be an Effective Teaching Assistant and Teaching Assistants, Best Practice – as well as how to help support students with specific needs like English as an Additional Language, students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders or anxious students. Additional workshops included:<\/p>\n