- Celebrating Success In The French Department

- Ms Pelat & Ms Sharma’s Trip To The Bakery

- Cultural Kaleidoscope and Face-2-Face Paris ‘08

Co-Curricular Activities

- Dragons Results

NEWS FROM PRINCIPAL

You will notice the newsletter this week is far smaller than usual. The mid-term break causes these next two weeks to be shorter than normal, therefore we will be providing bulletin style newsletters for these weeks. We will return to a full newsletter on the 26^th October 2007.

I apologise to anyone who attempted to access the newsletter through the website last week. We experienced some difficulties converting it into a PDF file, these difficulties have been resolved and it has now been posted.

Have a safe and restful mid-term break.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Simon Mann

Principal

NEWS FROM SECONDARY

CELEBRATING SUCCESS IN THE FRENCH DEPARTMENT

The French Department would like to thank Mrs Gruberska, Head of MFL and highly committed teacher of French, for contributing to last year’s, Year 11 French student, Lida WANG’s remarkable achievement announced in last week’s newsletter : Best IGCSE French results in Malaysia.

We would also like to congratulate our last year’s, Year 13 French student, Luwita Hana Randhawa MOHD JUGINDER’s on achieving the BEST IN THE WORLD A2-French results for 2007. Well Done to Ms Pelat, Ms Sharma and Dr Conti who contributed to her success through their hard-work in and outside lesson time.

MS PELAT & MS SHARMA’S TRIP TO THE BAKERY

Two weeks ago, Ms Pelat and Ms Sharma took four Year 8 classes to the Bakery for an authentic French meal. It was a great way to combine effective language learning with a taste of French culture. The food was great and everyone was buzzing. The children learnt a lot and had a great time. What made the occasion particularly exciting and touching was the unexpected arrival of someone all the students loved and miss. The following is a write-up by two students involved on the trip.

On the 26th and 28th of September, we went to The Bakery in Sri Hartamas. The trips were conducted by Mme. Sharma and Mme. Pelat. The Bakery is a French restaurant where we went to have lunch. We had to order food in French and we were asked questions there by some French speakers. All Year 8 students learning French went on this trip over the two days during their French lesson. The food was marvelous and the service was great. The group that went on Wednesday were happily surprised by the presence of Mr. Davis who had come there to have lunch with his Mum, this was a sheer coincidence. We had a great time with him and he was very glad to see us there. He spoke in French to us.

The trip was not only fun but educational too. We learnt to order food in French and we also had conversations with one another. The food included “du boeuf”, “du poulet ” and “des lasagnes”. We had a plate of French cheese (du fromage) and for dessert we had “de la mousse au chocolat” which everybody loved. We had a great time and would love to go there again. The owner of the bakery was very glad to have us and we hope that we get to go on more trips like this. Special thanks to Mme Sharma and Mme Pelat for a great time there. We thoroughly enjoyed it !

Bon appétit!

By Aaron Au Yoong, Abhishek Kamat, Rachel Chee

Many thanks to the two very hard-working and dedicated teachers who organized the trip: Ms Pelat and Ms Sharma. More initiatives like this one to come. Watch this space.

Dr Conti

Head of French

CULTURAL KALEIDOSCOPE & FACE-2-FACE PARIS 2008

These two projects are open to students in Year 9 and 10. Cultural Kaleidoscope takes place during International Week (25^th – 29^th February) 2008. Students who take part in this project will host a student from a visiting school (schools from Estonia, Singapore and Paris). They will participate in very interesting programmes throughout the week including cross-cultural exercises and tasks, sight-seeing and team-building activities. We are looking for students keen to act as our ambassadors to our visitors.

Face-2-Face Paris is a follow on from CulKal where ten of our students will visit and stay with students from Deutsche Schule Paris for a week and a half (Mon, 24th Mar – Fri, 4^th April 08). Students who host during CulKal will have priority for this trip but those who still wish to participate may do so if there are places available.

An information sheet for these two exciting projects is available from Ms Peers. However, if you would like to learn more about these trips, there is a meeting for ALL interested parents and students on FRIDAY, 19^th OCTOBER at 3pm at the PRIMARY HALL. This meeting is very important especially if you are still undecided.

All participants will receive certificates of participation endorsed by the Asia-Europe Classroom Net (www.aec.asef.org). I hope to see many of you at the meeting. Thank you.

Leonora Anne Peers

International Coordinator

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Dragons Results

ISAC League

U18 Girls Football - vs KLASS losing 2-0 (rain stopped play)

U18 Boys Football - vs KLASS losing 1-0 (rain stopped play)

U13 ISAKL Football Tournament

Unfortunately, the football tournament held on Saturday was rained off. However, both the girls and the boys remain in the tournament. The girls are in the semi-finals while the boys are due to play Alice Smith in the final.

Good Luck to them!

Mr. Wellington

Head of PE Faculty