Garden International School

Newsletter

18th May 2007

 

 

Headlines For This Week

 

Message From The President

 

News From Principal

-          Council of International School Accreditation

 

News From Secondary

-          Doing Our Bit for the Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia

-          Celebrating Success in the MFL Faculty

 

News From Primary

-          Walk the World

-          Safety of your Children/Going Home Routines

 

Co-curricular Activities

-          Sukan Wilayah Persekutuan

-          Dalat Tournament A Positive Experience!

-          Swimming

 

Parent, Teacher and Friends of GIS

-          Walk The World / Family Fun Day

 

 

NEWS FROM PRINCIPAL

 

Council of International Schools (CIS) Accreditation

As you may be aware, last week, the school underwent a 5 Year review of its CIS Accreditation. The CIS visiting inspection team spent three days at GIS re-affirming that the school continues to conform to the exacting accreditation standards and assessing the improvements and developments that have been made over the past five years.

 

Although the final report will not be available for several weeks, the Team Leader provided some verbal feedback at the end of the visit. The team’s overall impression is that GIS is an excellent school. They were highly impressed with the improvements and development that had taken place over the past 5 years. They praised the school management and leadership for having vision and for ensuring that the school remained firmly on the path of providing the best possible educational experiences and educational facilities for students.

 

They had great praise for the staff for their commitment to the students, their dedication and their high level of professionalism. The team praised the level of parental support for the school aims and the way in which parents engendered community spirit. Team members were impressed by the dedication to providing high quality education shown by the Board of Governors.

 

The final report will not only contain such commendations but will also suggest a number of recommendations for further improvement. Contents of the final report will be shared with all sections of the school community.

 

Ray Davis

Principal

 

 

NEWS FROM SECONDARY

 

Doing Our Bit for the Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

A fundamental orphanage fortunately caught the eye of Mrs Cheah whilst on her visit to the renowned temple, Angkor Wat in Siem Reap Cambodia. This orphanage was home to about 40 inmates, young children in dire need of basic amenities. Mrs Cheah was quick to respond and she promised to send them some of the items they required on her return to Malaysia.

 

Upon returning to school after the Easter break Mrs Cheah lost little time in trying to rope in the Year 9s to help her with this magnanimous task. Fortunately for us, her brother–in law had kindly agreed to deliver these items personally to these children. This was most heart warming as now we were fully assured that the goods were in safe hands and would reach the children safely

 

This left us only a few days to rummage through our homes and gather all those items that we have in abundance but is unfortunately non – existent in this Cambodian home. The Year 9s set about this task with great zest and enthusiasm and returned the following day with large paper bags filled with items that they lugged up all those stairs without a murmur or complaint. This continued for three days and bags began to amass in Mrs. Cheah’s office.

 

However, now, we were faced with another problem of sorts, fitting in all these things into two duffel bags. Well we did! The numerous pencils were squeezed into pencil cases along with crayons, marker pens and colour pencils. This more or less filled up one bag and the other was filled with notebooks and clothes. When we finished both the bags were bursting at their seams! This left a fair amount of notebooks and clothes still unpacked.

 

Finally we decided that we just had to send every one of those items to those children. They needed them                     desperately! Thus we stuffed them into polythene bags to be hand carried, though I did not envy the person who had to carry all this, but it was for a cause well worth the effort. Such was the generous contribution from the warm hearts of our very own Year 9s!

 

In addition to these, cash donations were collected too. This was sent to them to purchase bulky items we could not ferry there on the plane. It was great to see so many people pitching in to help and this overwhelming contribution by the Year 9s only goes to prove the caring and sharing nature of the GIS family and in a broader context, the generosity and warmth of the Malaysians.

 

With such a resounding success, Mrs Cheah hopes that we will continue to help these children out there in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Remember you have put a smile on the faces of the little children and they now feel that there are people out there who are concerned about their welfare and well being.  

 

Zoe Chan

9S

 

Celebrating Success In The MFL Faculty

The French Department is proud to announce the winners of the French Book Competition, the Best Linguist of the Term Award and the French Dictation and Essay Writing Competition at LFKL (KL French International School) 

 

The Book Competition, which coincided with the Book Week (last month), involved the Year 3 to 6 classes taught by Ms Sharma, Ms Pelat, Ms Gruberska, Mr McKenna and Dr Conti.

 

As part of the competition, the children were asked to create a French book or magazine in which they could put anything French, from simple words or phrases to poems and songs, from comic strips to short narratives.

 

The books produced were fantastic! The winners and runner-up’s, who were awarded, respectively, a RM 50 voucher and a bag of chocolates each, are listed below. Their outstanding work is still on display in the MFL corridor (Arts Centre Building, 5th floor).

 

                         BOOK COMPETITION AWARD

 

WINNERS

 

RUNNER UPS

YR 3

Sun Ji Hwang

Haya Sardar

YR 4

Radhah Ahmed

Natalie Khoury

YR 5

Kasuni Higewake

Sasha Ang

YR 6

Drew Tucker

Elle Kim

 

As far as the Best Linguists of the Term award is concerned, as per every term, each MFL teacher selects their two best students for each year group on the basis of their outstanding achievement in the subject or their efforts. The names of the winners are listed below (A =achievement; E=effort).

 

The winners received a certificate and a letter of commendation. Well done GIS boy and girls!

 

Special congratulations goes to the following students who managed to win the award for more than one language: Zoe Chan (Year 9), George Jones (Year 8), Foo Kew Lee (Year 7)

                                   

                                                                YEAR 7

French

Malay

Mandarin

Spanish

Sha, shaneel (A)

Lee, Bryan (A)

Tan, Ling (A)

Riva, Shela (A)

Sowlani, Puja (A)

Mei, Hue Jia (A)

Jones, Chris (A)

Augustine, Johan (A)

Yaw, Kariss (A)

Lei, Foo Kew (A)

Woo, Shing Tze (A)

Lei Foo Kew (A)

Kamat, Abishek (E)

Tang. Ying J.(E)

Tan, Khye J.(E)

Mittal, Maulik (E)

(E) Ang, Andrew

Udugoda, C. (E)

Amiruddin, N. (E)

Azlan, Zharif (E)

(E) Riva Sheyla

Tan, Terence (E)

 Lim, Rebecca (E)

MacPherson, Adam(E)

 

 

                                                                  YEAR 8

French

Malay

Mandarin

Spanish

DOWLANI, Puja

GAN, reuben

JONES. George

JANSEN, Soraya

SARASWAT, Rashika

SYED, Sofia

CHUNG, Jackie

ANG, Andrew

LEE, Jenny (E)

RATILAL,

Sumitra (E)

LEE, Yea Rin (E)

SARASWAT, Rashika

ANG, Andrew (E)

YI, Oh Jea (E)

CHOY, Kin Mann (E)

TAN, Jean Li (E)

 

 

WATADA, Eiichee (E)

PENG, Hoh Yen (E)

 

 

 

JONES, George (E)

 

                                                 

                                                                   YEAR 9

French

Malay

Mandarin

Spanish

BHATNAGAR, Aakriti (A)

VENKATARAMAN, Sekar (A)

YEE,

Jonathan (A)

ANG, Stefano (A)

MUKHERJEE, Deepti (A)

ASHMAN, Emina (A)

HSIAO,

Vincent (A)

SHAJAHAN, Shafeeq (A)

TAI, Rachel  (E)

CHAN, Nicholas (E)

LIM, Khai Wern (E)

CHAN, Zoe (E)

GRANDA, Michelle (E)

SOO, Vincent (E)

 

SHAKOR, Nadia (E)

 

CHAN, Zoe (E)

 

 

 

HWANG, Ha Hoon (E)

 

 

 

                                                                    YEAR 10

French

Malay

Mandarin

Spanish

CHOI, Na Ri (A)

SEOW, Florentyna

(A)

THANCHANOK, Isryatraipop (A)

CHAN, Natasha (A)

OZTURK, Burcu

(E)

BIN AHMAD , Mohd (A)

SEONG, Hong Seok (A)

HASSAN,

 Numanadiah (E)

 

HASHION, Fairuz (A)

LUKMANTARA, Ivan Ekaputera (E)

 

 

TEOH, Jason (A)

 

 

 

XAVIER, Nicholas (E)

DYDYAN, Pamela (E)

 

 

AZAFIA, Yahya (E)

 

 

 

NOORAZMAN, Muhammad (E)

 

 

 

WOO, Jane ((E)

 

 

 

Still on the theme of success in Modern Foreign Languages, we are very proud to announce that Lakshmi Adapa, Year 12, won the French Dictation and Essay writing Competition held at the French International School in Segambut last month to celebrate the ‘Semaine de la Francophonie’ (thanks Ms Sharma for taking the students there!) It was a remarkable achievement!

 

"On 16th April, I went to the French International school- LFKL as a representative from Garden International School for the awards ceremony of the "Semaine de la Francophonie" that our Year 9 and 10 students attended in the last week of March. Awards were given for two activities, which were "la dictée"- dictation and "la redaction"- essay writing, to all age groups from Year 1 to Year 10. I had received not just one but two in both of those activities in the foreign language category. It felt really great to receive the awards from the French school-it has really encouraged me to do much better in this subject in the future."

 

I would like to add that Lakshmi has been a model student all year around and that has helped the French Department in many ways since the very beginning of the year. Thank you, Lakshmi for being such a great asset to the French                     Department!

 

Dr Conti

Head of French

 

 

NEWS FROM THE HEAD OF PRIMARY

 

Reminders for your diary :

All Parents

Tuesday 22 May

Mexican Themed Food in the Canteens

Reception Parents

Tuesday 22 May

Trip to Cold Storage

Letter sent this week

Year 1 Parents

Wednesday 23 May

Open Day

Letter sent this week

Year 2 Parents

Thursday 24 May

Open Day

Letter sent this week

Reception Parents

Friday 25 May

Open Day

Letter sent this week

 

 

Advance Warning for your diary :

All parents

Tuesday 29 May

IPC Briefing Meeting

Details soon

EYD Parents

Wednesday 30 May

EYD Sports Day

Details soon

KS1 Parents

Thursday 31 May

KS1 Sports Day

Details soon

All Parents

Monday to Friday 4 – 8 June (inc)

School Closed

Mid-Term Break

 

Walk the World

Many thanks to everyone who supported our Orange and Blue Day and also the Walk and Family Fun Day on Saturday. They were both successful days and hopefully as well as raising a significant amount of funds for this worthy cause we will have raised our children’s awareness about child hunger in the world.

 

Christopher FitzGerald

Head of Primary

 

Safety of your Children / Going home Routines

The safety of your child is very important to us. However, many class teachers continue to have parents changing the home time routine without informing their child’s teacher. If your child is expected to go home with someone different then we ask that you add a note in the Student Diary highlight this.

 

Should we not be aware of a change then we are obliged to call you and will only let your child go with another adult with confirmation from you.

 

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation with this important safety matter.

 

Moira Hall

Head of KS1 and EYD

 

 

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 

Sukan Wilayah Persekutuan 2007 (SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP)

Calling all Dragon Swimmers (Malaysian) between ages 11-21 years (Born in year 1996 – 1986).

 

There is no limit to the number of events a swimmer can enter. This meet is used to select potential swimmers for the next Sukma Games.

 

 

Meet Information

a)        Date                                      :  8th – 9th June 2007

b)        Venue                                   : Kuala Lumpur Swimming Complex, Cheras

c)        Closing Date                       :  26th May, 2007

d)        Entries                                    : open to Malaysian Only

e)        Entry Fees                             : free

 

Those who are interested register with Mr Ong, PE Department before 24th May. 2007

 

Mr Ong

Swim Coach

 

 

PARENT, TEACHER & FRIENDS

 

Walk the World / Family Fun Day

We would like to thank all who came to support the walk to fight hunger and enjoy the Family Fun Day. Your participation in all the games and activities organized on the day was very much appreciated.

 

Special thanks to all those who helped make the day a success.

 

A special thank you to Andrew and his team for a job well done.

 

Also Walk The World - T-Shirts , Bandannas and wrist bands are still available and if anyone would still like to buy these , they will be available at the PTF  Uniform Stall. Ground floor,