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Message from the Principal

SST SPM Examinations Good luck to those students taking examinations. If the pupils perform as well as they sang and danced at last week’s Awards’ Ceremony they will all get top marks.

TIS Parent Teacher Conference for Year 11: 16:00hrs to 18:00hrs Thursday 12th November This important meeting for students and parents and is intended to help chart the way forward for the challenge of IGCSE’s, and potential Sixth Form sub-ject choices. IGCSE and A’ level certificates from 2015 exami-nations ready for collection The original certificates are now available from the Secondary Office during Office hours.

Security Guards The new Guards are evidently finding the traffic flow at ‘going home time’ very challenging to control. As per email sent earlier this week, please can all par-ents respect common courtesy on driving in and from School. Please do not park thoughtlessly caus-ing difficulties for other parents. Problems have been exacerbated this week by the digging up of the pavement (without warning) by Setia Eco Park. The School is trying to get the pavement replaced as soon as possible. When the exit from the Car Park can be used again, please can the request to those collecting Secondary age students to use the Car Park, rather than come into School, be made yet again. The School is also requesting the return of the Auxiliary Police to help. Please let us act to-gether to alleviate traffic issues.

Well done PE Department Different teams are going out daily for Tournaments and Competitions; thank you for the PE Depart-ment’s evident enthusiasm to offer so much for Ten-by students. In recent days the School has had Un-der 15 Golden Boys, and Under 13 Boys winning Silver. Please see PE section for full reports.

Dear Parents, Friday 6th November 2015 Thank you for reading this Newsletter.

Good luck Poppy children: Ceremony of Remembrance 08:00hrs Sunday 8th November 2015 Tenby pupils lead the singing at Sunday’s Ceremony hosted by the British High Commissioner. They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn; At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. Bronze for Chailyse Lim Yong En (7E) In an Under 17 ‘local’ team, 12 year old Chailyse competed in the Malaysia Inline Hockey Tournament in the PJ Arena Stadium last weekend, and shared with team-mates the Bronze Medal position. Well done Chailyse. SST success Danial of Std. 3S won a round trip to Korea to attend the Eyelevel Model UN Camp from 25th -30th Novem-ber 2015 for winning an English Speech Competition organised by Eyelevel where he talked about “My Hometown”. His speech delivery is uploaded onto Eyelevel Facebook website www.facebook.com/EyeLevel.Malaysia/ on 30th September 2015.

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Celebration Concert 16:00hrs Sunday 29th November All children from TIS Year 5, Year 6 ,and Std.4 have been busy rehearsing John Rutter’s Celebration Mu-sic, which is written for Choir, Brass Ensemble, Per-cussion, and Organ; it is a very festive piece. The first part of the programme will be individual solos and small ensemble pieces. Tickets are now availa-ble for purchase from Miss Mandy. Please come and celebrate ‘Tenby’. Classical Music Asia Concert in EPC 15:00hrs Sunday 15th November Classical Music Asia’s Open Recital was started with the aim of providing classical music students with the opportunity to gain experience and build confidence by performing in front of a live audience. Many young performers have since used Open Recital as a plat-form to prepare for their auditions and exams. The next recital will include pupils from Tenby and other Schools, and performances will include a violin per-formance of Prokofiev's Five Melodies, a harmonica performance of Gershwin"s Rhapsody in Blue, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor for piano, and Britten's 6 metamorphoses for oboe after Ovid, among others. The next Newsletter will be issued on Friday 20th November. May I take this opportunity of wishing the whole School community Happy Deepavali celebra-tions. Kind regards,

Andrew Auster Campus Principal

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Prospective parents have the chance to tour the campus at our Open Day on Saturday 14th November 2015. There will be presentations and campus tours at 10:30hrs and 12:30hrs so families can get a full perspective on the curriculum options to suit them.

If you know anyone that would be interested they can register at

www.tenby.edu.my/setia-eco-park/visit-us

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Sekolah Sri Tenby

Upcoming Events

Subjects Options Afternoon for Form 3 parents & students

Form 3 parents are invited to attend this meeting to be briefed about the PT3 Assessments and the Subjects Packages which we offer for Form 4 so that both parents and children understand the criteria to choose the ideal subject electives for SPM 2017.The details are as follows :-

Date: Monday 16th November 2015

Time: 13:30hrs - 14:30hrs

Venue: EPC

Target: Parents & Form 3 students

All Form 3 students were already briefed about these options in a two days Subjects Option programme which was carried out on Tuesday 3rd November & Wednesday 4th November in EPC. At the end of the programme, they were given an option form to apply for the preferred option necessary to match with their intended career choice. The completed option form must be submitted to the Homeroom Teacher latest by Friday 13th Novem-ber.

During the programme, Subject teachers also briefed them about the coverage , expectations and the choice critera for elective subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Additional Mathematics, Ekonomi, Prinsip Akaun, Seni Visual and ICT (School level coverage for Form 4)

Event Date Venue

Tenby Schools Open Day Saturday 14th November

09:30 -15:00hrs

Around Schools & Auditorium

Subjects Option Afternoon for Form 3 parents Monday 16th November

13:30 – 14:30hrs

EPC

Parents’ Association Meeting Wednesday 18th November

08:00hrs (Joint PA Meeting)

08:30hrs (SST PA last meeting)

Conference Room

Meeting Room next to Conference Room

Primary Challenges Day Tuesday 17th November

08:00 – 14:30hrs

Field & Homerooms

Secondary Challenges Day Thursday 19th November

08:00 – 14:30hrs

Field & Homerooms

Celebration Concert by Std4, 5 & Year 5 & 6 Sunday 29th November

16:00hrs

MPH

Superstar Awards Ceremony Wednesday 2nd December

09:00 – 12:00hrs

MPH

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2016 Artistes & String Orchestra Workshops

The above are opportunities offered to students to take up additional CCAs while in school. These sessions will start on Wednesday 6th January 2016 for String Orchestra Workshops and Friday 8th January for Ar-tistes Workshops. For students participating in Artistes Workshops, they will be trained to participate in a musical drama which will be showcased during the Superstar Awards Ceremony held on Wednesday 30th November 2016. Students forming the cast for the drama will be required to pay for the cost of the costume. Once registered, there will be no refund returned if students are unable to attend these workshops.

Letters will be released for registration on Monday 16th November 2015 and the last day to register with payment is Thursday 26th November 2015. All students in Tenby Schools are encouraged to register early to avoid disappointment.

Primary Multitalent Day (Reported by Pn Amalia)

Sri Tenby has many students with varied talents, abilities and interest.

Multitalent is a day where students are able to showcase what they have learned through their participations during the four Academic Weeks held earlier on in the year.

The Primary Multitalent Day was held on Tuesday, 3rd November from 13:00hrs – 14:20hrs in EPC

It was a celebration of the children’s unique talents and skills at which they truly excelled. With the guidance of excellent teachers, they presented all their showcases to their proud parents and guests.

There were traditional fashion show, show and tell, poetry recitals, storytelling, speech and drama presenta-tion, slide presentation and Mathematics model display.

It was truly a great afternoon of performances and a proud moment to all parents and teachers.

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TIS Primary

E-Safety Focus Days Next week TIS Primary is having an E-Safety focus during the two days School is open. Key Stage 1 will be focusing on; keeping personal info safe, trust and assessing unsafe situations on to stay safe online. Key Stage 2 will be focusing on; using technology to communicate, communication and information, email safety, text chatting and picture messages safety, behaving responsibly and social Networking awareness. As a parent if you need any support or guidance of E-Safety a home and please use the following web-site. http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Multi-Skills Week During the week beginning the 16th November each class will be having outdoor multi-skills lessons dur-ing PE. The aim is to develop different skills, try new sports and take part in inter-house competition. How is TIS Primary changing? Student council has been gathering ideas for our new Primary playground. These ideas have been incor-porated into draft plans. We are hoping that the playground improvements will be in place ready for Term 2. Our new Junior Prefects are being proactive in rewarding good behavior at lunch times. They have also been invited to represent the School on our Open Day - Saturday 14th November 2015. Year 3 Entry Point This week I had the pleasure of visiting Year 3’s Entry Point – IPC Paintings, Pictures and Photographs. Many talented children and parents worked together to produce art and giving constructive feedback.

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Friday 20th November (Early Years)

Monday 23rd November

Tuesday 24th November

Time Class

08:35hrs NT

09:20hrs - 09:50hrs Break

10:00hrs RT

10:45hrs NE

11:35hrs - 12:10hrs Lunch

12:10hrs RE

12:50hrs RN

Time Class

08:00hrs 3T

08:45hrs 1T

09:50hrs 1N

10:45hrs 1B

12:10hrs 2T

13:00hrs 2E

13:45hrs 3Y

Time Class

08:00hrs 2N

08:45hrs 3B

09:50hrs 4B

12:15hrs 1E

13:00hrs 3E

13:45hrs 3N

Early Years / KS1 / KS2

Photography Schedule 2015

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Wednesday 25th November

Thursday 26th November

Friday 27th November

Time Class

08:45hrs 2B

09:30hrs 5E

10:50hrs 5N

11:30hrs 5B

13:00hrs 2Y

13:45hrs 5T

Time Class

08:00hrs 4T

08:45hrs 4E

09:30hrs 4N

10:50hrs 6T

11:30hrs 6E

13:00hrs 6N

13:45hrs 6Y

Time Class

09:10hrs 6B

09:50hrs 4Y

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SPORTS

U15 Boys Volleyball Team earned Bronze medal at ISAC League

Under 13 Boys & Girls Football Team

The boys comfortably won their opening two matches without dropping a set. Some great serving runs from Max and Yu Hang in separate sets helped propel the boys to victory.

Into the third place playoffs we headed. The first game was won easily after some good serves from Justin and Yan Ze. The second seemed to cause more problems with the sight of bronze looming. However the opposition continued to gift the boys points whilst several players held their serves for Tenby. The win and third place was secured without dropping a set.

A great effort with some excellent volleyball.

Last Wednesday our U13 Boys football team progressed into the final round of the KLISS league.

Tenby team went from strength to strength as the evening progressed. Building on their previous games together, they began to develop their team understanding and were playing some fantastic football by the end of evening.

Well done for making it through to the final.

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Under 15 Boys and Girls Football Teams

After the difficult experience of our earlier tournament on home turf we travelled to BSKL with a revi-talized, squad. In the first game against HELP we conspired to miss at least 6 golden scoring oppor-tunities before losing to our opponents only shot. Frustrated, but in the knowledge that our perfor-mance deserved more.

In the next game against an ISP team who had already beaten us this season, the duck was broken with an early goal followed by a winner in the second half straight from the training ground!

The final game saw us as underdogs against BSKL. Outstanding goals and a defensive perfor-mance that limited our opponents to one shot saw us come away with a great 2-1 victory. No individ-uals named because every one of the 11 girls played and contributed greatly to the team’s perfor-mance and success. Well done girls, you represented Tenby brilliantly. Now on to the finals!

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The U15 boys finally played their first fixture of the term and with very little training due to the haze and storms. It was always going to be an interesting affair. The team has a massive amount of potential and I was excited by the prospect of the KLISS tournament. After placing HELP under a lot of pres-sure throughout the game we were unlucky 1-0. Trying to avoid the expected head drop after some bad luck, we started brightly against ISP, but once again were unlucky to go 1-0 down in the first half. We remained composed and managed to draw back 1 goal, followed by an excellent solo goal from Gurshan to give us the win. We struggled with injuries throughout the event and by the final game we had no subs left after starting the day with 5. We held out and looked strong against BSKL gaining a 0-0 draw, this gave us a total of 4 points and put us through to the final finishing 2nd. Notable performances from Nadeem, Gurshan and Raaj in goal. Great result. Well done.

U15 Boys and U13 Boys

Gold & Silver Medals at ISAC League

Saturday 31st October was the day that Tenby U15’s Boys Football team attended the ISAC Final. An outstanding day and a great performance from the team.

So when we don’t believe in ourselves and other schools also believe we will not succeed then that is usually how the reality pans out. But on that day, no one expected something different to happen…

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We were to play a round robin tournament, most points wins. The other schools included Garden, Alice Smith, ISP and MKIS, so a particularly strong field of opponents. We began the day against ISP who we had just played on the previous Thursday and won 2-1 in a tough, hard fought match.

On Saturday we dominated from start to finish with a relentless pressure and deservedly we won 3 – 0. Excellent goals from Daffa, Ranveer and also an own goal engineered by Ranveer. Next, we played Alice Smith who were arguably one of the stronger teams in the tournament. Again, we dominated in a tough game.

We hit the crossbar, post and had several opportunities squandered. We were unlucky to only come away with a point from a 0 – 0 draw. But compared to previous years this was a great result. Our next game proved to be even tougher against Garden in which we played well but did not dominate. Several chances were wasted but our defense remained impeccable as even commented by the Garden coach. Before our final game we had a 1 game break, we needed the 2 games scores to go our way, which luckily for us they did.

That meant in the final game we must win 3-0 against MKIS, however, providing Garden did not score anymore. Playing at the same time meant I had to relay any score changes to the team in order for us to score more.

Garden won 2-0 meaning we had to win 5-0. We achieved this with only 30 seconds left to play and the moment the boys knew they had done it was quite a sight to see.

Tenby 3 – 0 ISP (Daffa, Ranveer, OG); Tenby 0 – 0 KLASS; Tenby 0 – 0 GIS; Tenby 5 – 0 MKIS (Daffa x2, Jay Ren x2, Shawn)

A huge congratulations to the boys. I am extremely proud of them. Well done.

November Sports Fixtures:

Monday 16th November Sunway Swimming Gala @ Sunway

Tuesday 24th November U18 Boys and Girls Basketball @ ISKL

Thursday 26th November U18 Boys Basketball @ Tenby

Saturday 28th November XC KLISS League @ Nexus

Sunday 29th November U 18 friendly football match @ Tenby

Monday 30th November U15 & U18 Girls basketball @ Tenby

Twitter:

Remember to follow the PE Department @Tenby_Sport for daily updates and news from the curriculum, clubs and teams #TenbyEagles

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U13 Boys.

The U13 Boys Tournament was held at Tenby and we opened our account with a 0-0 draw against ISKL, the strongest team in our pool. They had previously beaten ISBK 1-0. Our next match would determine who progressed alongside ISKL. Fortune sometimes favours the bold. We changed our defensive approach and sneaked a goal against the run of play. A passage of strong play from Navjoth ended with him finishing coolly. The game ended 1-1 with a very late equaliser from BSKL but that was enough to send us through to the semi finals.

Nexus were our next opponents. They had topped their group and demonstrated some excellent finishing. They looked strong.

Back we went to our defensive strategy. We also invited Nit and Saurav into the starting line up and they instantly made a difference. We should have taken the lead but the chance was blocked.

Down the other end Chris made yet another important save and the half ended 0-0. Semi finals are often tight games and so it proved. 0-0 at the final whistle and into penalties.

Cometh the hour, cometh Chris – again! After both teams scored their first 2 penalties Chris stood tall and parried away their 3rd. Over to Sacheev. Although visibly shaking at the thought of taking such an important penalty, he composed himself and struck an unstoppable effort into the roof of the net.

The final beckoned. A medal was secured. We'd reached the final scoring 1 goal and drawing 3 games.

Chris had been immense.

Our opponents in the final were Alice Smith. They were a class above the rest of the teams and deserved their gold medals. But Tenby, who were not given a chance will be remembered as the team who achieved the most on that hot, sunny, ‘hazeless’ morning.

Well done Tenby.

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National Leadership Symposium

Alesha Wong

On the 24-25th October 2015, five of our most active MUN-ers took Model United Nations to the next lev-el by attending the United Nations Association Malaysia, National Leadership Symposium at Islamic In-ternational University Malaysia.

Syuen, Wan Ting, Ryan, Timothy, and I (Alesha) had the privilege of spending two full days with five lead-ers from 27 education institutions from as far as Pe-nang, Sabah, Kedah and the Klang Valley.

There we gained valuable insights from inspirational high profile speakers on topics such as Human Rights & Activism; The Role of Social Media; Entre-preneurship and Innovation; Leadership and Perse-verance.

Additionally, all 135 participants competed in 'Project Pitching' competition. All participants were split into groups of 3-4 people. Together, they had to identify a problem with social impact, find a creative and inno-vative solution and pitch it to a panel of judges con-sisting of four UNAM associates. The top three teams would receive seed money from UNAM to im-plement their solution!

I am proud to announce that two teams (Alesha's and Ryan's team) with a delegate from Tenby each, were shortlisted to the top 5 finalist for this national competition! After the final round of pitching, my team of won 3rd place and received RM750 worth of seed money to implement our project which was to assist children in poor communities to receive better eye care.

Tenby also officially launched our UN Youth Chapters in conjunction with the United Nations Association Malaysia. As a result, Tenby will be able to organise events with the assistance of UNAM where possible.

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Miming out 'TENBY'

Alesha's team won 3rd place for 'Project Pitching'

Ryan's team made it to the top 5 finalist for ‘Project Pitching’

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Library

Scholastic Book Collection

The Scholastic Book Collection Day is on Friday, 13 November 2015.

Scholastic Representatives will take charge of the collection.

Orders can be collected at the Secondary Cafeteria just below the library from 10:00hrs to 16:00hrs.

Parents may collect after school hours.

Teachers and students are advised to collect on the said time.

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Junior Fencing Championship - 17th & 18th October 2015 Prince of Wales Island International School (POWIIS)

Gold: Philippa Jean Ong Ziyi (Under 15 Girl's Foil) Silver: Ian Zafir Harris (Under 15 Boy's Foil) Philippa Jean Ong Ziyi - Gold (Back row- 2nd from left) Ian Zafir Harris - Silver (Back row - left)

National Under 12 Grand Prix Competitions - 11th October 2015

Gold: Ian Zafir Harris - Foil Bronze : Philippa Jean Ong Ziyi – Foil Ian Zafir Harris (2nd from right) Gold - Philippa Jean Ong (2nd from left) - Joint Bronze

The Student Council at Tenby has come up with a Code of Conduct for students who travel on the school vans. This will be placed in all of the vans and all students will be expected to behave in accordance with this whilst travelling on the vans. We are very lucky to have a group of drivers who are keen to work with the school and who are very willing to accept advice. The vans will be checked regularly with regards to seatbelts and safety and students are expected to wear seatbelts at all times.

Message from the Deputy Head Pastoral

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Jimmy Chong

Drum Teacher, Tenby Schools

Being the youngest of five brothers and the son of a businessman, it seemed that Jimmy Chong would be destined to follow in the footsteps of his elders. Except he has decided to blaze his own trail with countless performances around the world in numerous countries including Singapore, China, Taiwan, United States, Maldives, France and many more.

Primarily a drummer with a piano upbringing, Jimmy first cut his teeth in 2003 as the drummer of the Malay-sian indie band "NAO". He was responsible for playing drums for songs, which defied easy categorization. His accomplishments in "NAO" include performing locally as well as in China where the band was invited to per-form twice for the Midi Music Festival held in Beijing. Whilst Jimmy is no longer playing for the band, his unique drumming can still be heard on their debut al-bum and subsequent EP.

Despite already having a Grade 8 certification in practi-cal piano (ABRSM), Jimmy's never-ending desire to improve oneself led him to earn a music degree at Wol-verhampton University where he learnt and cultivated other skills that make up a well-rounded musician such as composition, arranging and production.

His composition and arranging skills can be heard in the music for videogames such as Smart Fish Aquarium and Gridiator and the Chinese song "This Is Not A Dream" for singer Ludwig Lim's debut album. His produc-tion skills can also be heard on arguably the first ever Maldivian Jazz album; Shambe's debut Feshun, where he was also responsible for composition and drumming duties. A live concert to celebrate the album's launch in 2011 was held in MALE, the capital of Maldives where it was well received.

In order to feed his need for adventure and challenge, Jimmy joined the renowned percussion team known as HANDS in 2007 where he learnt a great deal of Far Eastern drumming and also incorporated Western drum-ming techniques into HANDS' rigorous routines. His tenure with HANDS led him to perform in France, Hawaii, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and Turkmenistan. The experience he has gained from being widely traveled shows in his conversations and outlook on life.

After playing with HANDS extensively for four years, Jimmy decided to take a break from touring overseas and is polishing up his drum chops by sessioning locally. The artistes he has played for include Germany's Chicks on Speed, Yu Heng, Ling Jia Jun, Wen Li Ming, John Wee, Wang Ming Li and many more. He has al-so sessioned abroad in Macao as part of the pop band "MONTUNO" where he plied his trade for 8 months.

In his spare time, Jimmy also likes to engage in experimental and avant garde music. A highlight of such en-deavors has been his collaboration with the famous local composer, Ng Chor Guan in the Polka Dot Play-ground where he plays eclectic percussion alongside Ng's Theremin.

Currently, Jimmy's main focus is drumming for the sensational new band Platform 11 and his well-honed grooves can be heard on their debut album as well as at future live performances.

Jimmy is well versed in multiple music genres as well as languages and can be found cheekily infusing a jazz song with rock grooves during practice sessions when the situation calls for it.

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Christmas Production - Aladdin

Sleepover Rehearsal

Please note that the sleepover rehearsal will take place on the 13th/14th November for all students involved in the production. Students should bring the following with them: Sleeping bag & pillow, sleepwear, toiletries and a pot luck dish to share for dinner on the Friday night. Rehearsals will

end at 16:00hrs on Saturday afternoon.

Extra Rehearsals

Due to the DoE trip, we have had to rearrange some rehearsals, so please take note of the follow-

ing dates and times:

Sunday 29th November 09:00hrs - 16:00hrs Monday 30th November 14:30hrs - 08:00hrs Students will be off timetable on Tuesday 1st of December for the dress rehearsal. Tickets will go on sale from the 23rd of November.

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Aromatherapy and Essential Oils for Wellness

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Useful Contacts

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