Newsletter
30th March
2007
Headlines
For This Week
Message
From The President
News
From Secondary
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Important Dates Term 3
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Reports! Reports! Reports!
News
From Primary
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Year 6
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World Maths
Day 2007
Co-curricular
Activities
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MSSM Swimming
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GIS Little League Soccer
Parent,
Teacher and Friends of GIS
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Events for Term 3
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New Parents Coffee Morning
MESSAGE
FROM PRESIDENT
Dear Parents,
It is with great pleasure that I announce
the appointment of our new Principal, Mr. Simon Mann, who will be joining us in
mid-August 2007. Having been born in Britain, his career has truly been
International; spending the last four years as the High School Principal at the
American International School in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was the Assistant
Principal of the Southern Cross Senior School in
His beliefs
on what the school should stand for, was very much aligned with the plans set
for GIS in the years ahead. We are confident that Mr. Mann will lead the School
to a higher level of holistic education.
We look
forward to Mr. Mann joining us and it is our hope that you, as parents, will
give Mr. Mann all the support he needs in his new role as Principal of GIS, the
same support you have warmly accorded to Mr.
Thank you.
Yours
sincerely,
B K Gan
President
School Division
Taylor’s Education Bhd
NEWS
FROM SECONDARY
Dear Parents,
This
last week of term has continued to be a busy time in the secondary school.
Mock A level
and AS level examination have taken place; all students in Year 9 have been
interviewed with regard to their courses for Year 10 and all Year 11 students
who have applied for places in the Sixth Form have also been interviewed.
Decisions on offers of places in the
Sixth Form will be made at the very start of next term and students and parents
informed by the end of the first week. Decisions on Sixth Form
scholarships will be made soon after.
This week also saw yet another excellent
production by the Drama Department. “Grimm’s Tales” was performed by the Year
12 Drama Class at the Actors’ Studio in Bangsar. With
a minimalist set, it depended greatly on the quality of acting and energy of
the performers. They all met this challenge with great success.
Today is the last day of the school
term. I would like to remind all students taking IGCSE and A level examinations
to use this time wisely over the holidays in preparation for their final
examinations.
Term 3 begins on Monday 16th April.
Term 3 - Important
Dates Term 3
EXAMINATIONS IN TERM 3
IMPORTANT DATES
Year 7 to 9
Year 9 Checkpoint tests 24th to 27th April
Year 7, 8 & 9 exams 29th May to 1st June
Year 10
Exams Week 1 21st May to 25th May
Week 2 11th June to 15th June
The Year 10 exams have been divided into
two separate weeks because of the U15 FOBISSEA games taking place during the
intervening week
Year 11
All year 11 students to attend school
following normal timetable from 16th April to 7th May.
IGCSE exams start on 8th May and continue until 7th
June (Examination leave during this period.)
Year 12 and 13
Year 12 and 13 to attend school
following normal timetable from 16th April to 18th May
Year 12 & 13 AS/A2 exams start on
May 21st (examination leave from this date)
Year 12 return to normal A2 lessons on
June 18th
Best wishes for a very good holiday!
Head of Secondary
School
REPORTS, REPORTS,
REPORTS!
Dear Parents and Guardians,
You should by now have received a school
report for your child. Yesterday – Thursday 29th March, all students
from Years 7-10 and Year 12 were issued with reports.
Years 7 and
10 have received a full academic report and Years 8 & 9 have received short
grade reports. Also included in the report envelope was a reply slip which
should be returned to your child’s form tutor on Monday 16th April.
Year 8 and 9
students will have been given a short reply slip in which parents simply have
to sign to indicate that they have received a report. For Years 7 and 10,
however, the reply letter is longer and includes spaces for parents and pupils
to make a comment on their report. These comments are important and may be used
by form tutors to help formulate overall targets for pupils.
Parents of
pupils in Years 8 and 9 may well wish to bring their reports to the Parent
teachers Conferences which will take place soon after the Easter holiday.
The Year 8
Parent Teachers Conference will take place on Thursday, April 19th.
The Year 9
Parent Teachers Conference will take place on Tuesday, April 24th.
Deputy Head
Curriculum
NEWS FROM THE HEAD OF PRIMARY
Reminders for your
diary :
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All Parents |
Monday 16 April |
Term 3 Commences |
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Year 4 Parents |
Monday 16 April 18.00 – |
Sex Education Meeting Letter has already been sent out |
Advance
Warning for your diary :
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Year 3 Parents |
Friday 27 April |
Year 3 Earth Day Assembly Details next term |
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All Parents |
Monday 30 April |
School Closed |
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All Parents |
Tuesday 1 May |
Labour Day / |
Year 6
It may
be holiday time but Year 6 pupils may wish to start revising ready for their
Cambridge Achievement Test, which take place during the week of 28th May. That means there are only eight
weeks to the tests. If you have a child in Year 6, please encourage your child
to use the holiday time wisely.
A good
strategy is to focus on the areas, which your child is least confident in,
rather than trying to revise everything. Encourage them to make a list of the
all the things they need to revise and then choose a topic area each day.
Two
excellent websites to use are www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise
and www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise These two sites
provide guidance on all the areas covered in Science, Mathematic and
English tests along with fun activities and quizzes so that you child can see
how they are performing in each area. The Skillwise
site provides A, B, C level tests, which give instant feedback. If a question
is answered incorrectly, it provides an explanation why the answer is incorrect
and how to answer it correctly.
All
pupils will be given a basic revision list that highlights key areas that they
should know, understand and be able to do. This will be going home with pupils
on Friday. The CGP English, Mathematics and Science study guide will also be
arriving in the bookshop next week.
AR&R
Coordinator
World Maths Day
2007
On 14th March 2007, some of our Year 6 children
took part in an online maths challenge to mark the
inaugural World Maths Day. The mental arithmetic
challenge was hosted by 3P Learning in partnership with Microsoft and Voyager
Expanded Learning.
The
main objective was, to bring together as many children as possible from around
the world to answer a world record number of 10 million correctly answered
questions. At the end of this day, about 38,904,275 correct answers were
recorded and more than a quarter of a million students from 98 countries participated
in this mammoth Maths Challenge.
The
students from GIS who participated in this challenge enjoyed the experience of
competing “live” with other children from another part of the world. We are
proud to mention that Saaj Shah of Year 6K in our school
is the 16 millionth Question Answer Winner.
Congratulations, Saaj! And a big thank you to all the
teachers who were involved in this maths challenge.
KS2
Maths Coordinator
CO-CURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES
MSSM Swimming
Claudine Low
recently represented KL state and achieved a bronze medal in the 50m
breaststroke with a time of 38.88 second. She came 6th for 100m breaststroke. Claudine's KL team
came 4th and 5th for 200m
Freestyle relay and 200m Medley relay.
Mr.
Wellington
Head of P.E
GIS Little
League Soccer (Term 3)
Dear Parents
of Year 1-4 students,
The GIS
Little League Soccer training sessions for Term 3 will commence on Saturday 28
April.
Please sign
up now at the Fee Collection Office if your child is interested to join.
PARENT, TEACHER & FRIENDS
The PTF would like
to thank everyone who had helped and donated towards the cake sale during the
friendly swim between GIS and Alice Smith which was held on 13th March. It was much appreciated.
Forth coming event
for Term 3 – Family Fun Day / Walk for Life, 12th May, 2007.
Make a note in
your diary now! Details to follow next term.
New Parents Coffee
Morning, Thursday 19th April
There will be a
Coffee Morning for new parents on the Thursday of the first week back from
holidays. All parents are welcome. It will be in the usual
venue, Primary Hall from 8.30-10.00am. Breakfast will be provided for,
compliments of the PTF.
The PTF would like
to wish everyone Happy Holidays and for those celebrating Easter, Happy Easter!
Tina and Cheryl
PTF Communications
Sub-Committee
NOTICE
The school
bookshop will be opened during the Term Break; however, the bookshop will be
closed from 4th - 9th April 2007.
Operating
Hours: 10.00am - 2.00pm