From The Principal’s Office - September 2017

Dear WInS Community,

Open Day

Many thanks to all the students, teachers, parents, grandparents, friends and friends of friends who

attended this years’ WInS Open Day festivities on Saturday 30th September. It was an all too rare opportunity for us to get together as a community to celebrate our school.

The diversity of activities from Early Years through to Secondary showcased all the wonderful experiences and opportunities available to our children who benefit from an international education.

A special “Thank You” must go to the organising committee, made up of Ms Josephine, Ms Low, Mr Jireh, Ms Ladonna, Ms Suhanti, Ms Ho and Mr Charles expertly overseen and led by Ms May.

A fun time was had by all, and the feedback I received on the day made me an extremely proud Principal.

Together we shine!

Official Launching of A’ Levels at WInS

On Friday 13th September, Woodlands announced its ‘AS’ and A’ Level launch for January 2018.

The event was attended by many of our Upper Secondary students, parents, news-media, guest speakers and VIPs (including many members of the Board of Governors and Board of Directors).

We were delighted to welcome the Regional Director of Cambridge for Malaysia and Brunei, Mr Ng Kim Huat, who presented an information session on the programme. Interestingly, Malaysia boasts some of the best A’ Level results among the 160 countries that run the Cambridge curriculum and this obviously bodes well for our students.

We are still operating our Early Bird sign-up for this programme – all fees included for 18 months – for just Rm 25,000

Staff In-Service Training

This month we are focusing on classroom management and behaviour. I had the opportunity to work with

all staff in an introductory session to look at a series of fundamental strategies, and this will be followed

up with Departmental sessions that reflect appropriate measures in the Early Years, Primary and

Secondary divisions.

Mr Darmel leads a brainstorming session

Sharing classroom management strategies – Ms Low presents

Sibu Marathon

I would like to congratulate all that took part in the Sibu Fun Run / Marathon held on Saturday 16 th

September. Plenty of Woodlands students, teachers and staff participated in this memorable event and

we hope it will become an annual event.

Going to the Dogs

Our Early Years students have been studying about “Transport and Occupations” and to this end we were fantastically assisted by the local K9 Police Dogs department who came into school on Wednesday 20 th.

There was much excitement when we were introduced to two of the police dogs for a live demonstration

of their skills for our students. Even some of our Primary classes came along. Our students were both

delighted and fascinated.

A big thank you to Sergeant McDonald and his team for organising the visit and assisting our young students in their learning.

Woodlands Outreach Road-Show

As part of our annual School promotion, I, Mr Charles and Ms Loh have been visiting numerous Primary

schools in Sibu. We had an opportunity to share our promotional video, updated our extensive PowerPoint

presentation and utilised a few of our student leaders to present the school from our students’ perspectives.

A big thank you to Deepti Nagori and Grace Tang Shi En (from 8W) and June Lee Jing (10W) for being great Woodlands’ student ambassadors.

Cyber World

A recent report that came out from the UK was published in the journal Psychological Science by Anne

Longfield (Children’s Commissioner for England) which compared the ‘consumption’ of online activity to

fast food addiction.

Longfield criticises the ways social media giants use to draw children into spending more time online. She said parents should be proactive in stopping their children from bingeing on the internet.

“Children are in danger of seeing social media like sweeties, and their online time like junk food.

None of us as parents would want our children to eat junk food all the time. For those same reasons we shouldn't want our children to do the same with their online time."

Longitudinal studies in binge use of ICT is still in its infancy, but the initial data looks worrying.

Over dependency can effect sleep patterns, stress levels, developmental speech impairment, childhood depression, attention deficit, increasing difficulties in real life social interaction and

eye strain. Children need parental guidance to live active healthy lives and avoid overdependency on ICT devices.

Morals and Ethics

During September our whole school focus in Morals and Ethics was on Attentiveness as our Core Value of the Month. Our certificate winners this month were:

WInS Angels – Tarang Raymond Cooper

Pre – K – Jayden Ngui Haw Heng

P1 W – Yeo Boon Look P2 – Daphne Kiew Kai En P1 I – Gwen Tan Chu

Wen

P1 N – Roxanne Siew

P1 S – Caleb Zhang Yue Sheng

P3 – Abigail Ngu Ang Miu

P4 – Jerrica Ling Jia Rong

P5 – Eydie Wong Ee Ting

P6 – Geolyn Ting Qian Huey

Y7 W – May Lat Kyae Sin Lin (Grace)

Y8 W – Caleb Lau Hui Xuan

Y9 W – Dylan Wong Zhen Ning

Y10 W – Demi Wong

Y7 I – Yeu Zhi Siong Y8 I – Alecia Hii Hung Yang

Y9 I – Lau Lee Giek (Nicholas)

Y10 1 – Aaron Yii

Y11 W – Ling Hou Lee

Y11 I – Clement Tie Yao Tong

Congratulations to all our certificate-winning students for being such role-models for our community!

Please note our last Value of the Month for this academic year will be Patience. Please feel free to discuss this topic with your child in the home environment to reinforce their understanding and learning.

Kind regards,

Aubrey Groves

Principal

Important Dates for Your Diary

Monday 2nd October – Start of IGCSE Exams for Year 11

Monday 9th October – Wednesday 11th October Primary Checkpoint (Year 6)

Wednesday 11th – Friday 13th October – Secondary Checkpoint (Year 9)

Wednesday 18th October – School shut for Deepavali

Monday 23rd October – 3rd November – Secondary Internal Exams

Friday 27th October – Early Years and P1 Parents Coffee Morning – Ms Suhanti’s Office 8am

校长办公室—2017年9月

亲爱的WInS社群，

学校开放日

非常感谢所有的学生，老师，家长，祖父母，朋友和朋友的朋友们在9月30日（星期六）出席今

年WInS开放日的庆祝活动。这是一个非常难得的机会，让我们整个社区有机会聚在一起参与学校

的重要日子。

从幼儿园到中学所呈现的多姿多彩的節目中, 可以了解，我们的孩子从国际教育中获得了许多美好

的经验和机会。

要特别感谢Ms May 所领导的筹备小组，其成员包括 : Ms Josephine，Ms Low，Ms Jireh，Ms

Ladonna，Ms MsSuhanti，Ms Ho 及Mr. Charles。

这一整天所有人都度过了一段愉快的时光，当天所得到的反馈使, 让身为校长的我, 感到荣耀无

比。让我们一起闪耀！

WinS A水平课程正式推展礼

在9月13日( 周五 )WInS主办了2018学年AS 及A-Level课程的推展礼。

当天有许多中学高年级同学，家长，新闻界记者，讲员及重要人物，包括教育理事会及董

事会的成员们出席上述推展礼。

我们很高兴邀请到马来西亚和汶莱剑桥区域主任黄金发先生, 到场介绍該课程概况。很有

意思的是，在全世界里采纳剑桥课程的160个国家中，马来西亚是名列A' Level成绩最佳

的其中之一的国家，这对我们的学生而言，无疑是个喜讯。

我们仍然为提早报读这项课程的学生们提供优惠价，18个月的课程费用为RM2500

。

教师在职培训

本月我们专注于班级管理和行为规范。我在开始时先向老师们介绍了一些班级管理及行为

规范的基本策略，随后由中学、小学及幼儿园的老师们进行小组讨论, 并提出了适当有效

的方法。

Mr Darmel带领小组进行脑力激荡的时刻

Ms Low在分享班级管理策略

诗巫马拉松赛

恭喜WInS的许多学生、家长及员工在9月16日参加了一次难忘的活动--诗巫马拉松赛跑。希望这项

活动能成为常年活动。

认识 警犬

在这个学期，幼儿园的小朋友在学习有关“交通及职业”的课题，于是我们很荣幸地邀请到本地

K9警犬部门在9月20日（星期三）到本校来。

幼儿园的小朋友们及一些小学部同学非常兴奋地观赏两只警犬现场表演牠们的技能。

非常感谢麦McDonald警官及其团队的到访，并提供小朋友们一个很特别的学习机会。

WInS招生活动

作为常年推广学校活动的一部分，我、Mr. Charles和Ms Loh已经拜访了多间小学。我们借此机会與

各小學分享了学校的宣传视频，并以PowerPoint介绍学校的最新情况，随行的几位学生领袖也从

他们的角度来分享在WInS的学习生活。

非常感谢WinS出色的WinS学生大使，她们是DeeptiNagori（8 W）、 Grace Tang Shi En ( 8 W) 及 June

Lee Jing (10 W)

Ms Loh 在向小六生介绍WInS

网络世界

英国的AnneLongfield（英国儿童专员）最近在“心理科学”杂志上发表了一份报告, 内容是有关上

网活动的消费与吃快餐成瘾的比较。

Longfield批评社交媒体巨頭使用各種方式, 以吸引孩子消耗更多的时间在社交网络上。她说父母应

该积极主动地阻止他们的孩子沉迷於上网。

“孩子们正处于把社交媒体看成像糖果一样的险境，而他们上网的时间就像在吃垃圾食

物，没有一个父母会希望孩子一直吃垃圾食物；同样的，我们也不希望孩子沉迷于上网如

同吃垃圾食物一样。“

对信息通訊科技的滥用所作的追踪研究仍处于起步阶段，但初步数据看起来令人担忧。过

度依赖可能会影响睡眠品质，压力水平，发育性语言障碍，儿童抑郁，注意力缺陷，增加

现实生活中在社交互动上的困难和眼睛疲劳。儿童需要父母从旁指导才能过上活跃、健康

的生活及避免过度依赖信息通讯设施。

道德与伦理

9月份，我们整个学校的道德伦理观聚焦于“ 专注 ”这个价值观上，获得奖状的学生名单如下：

WInS Angels – Tarang Raymond Cooper

Pre – K – Jayden Ngui Haw Heng

P1 W – Yeo Boon Look P2 – Daphne Kiew Kai En P1 I – Gwen Tan Chu

Wen P1 N – Roxanne Siew

P1 S – Caleb Zhang Yue Sheng

P3 – Abigail Ngu Ang Miu

P4 – Jerrica Ling Jia Rong

P5 – Eydie Wong Ee Ting

P6 – Geolyn Ting Qian Huey

Y7 W – May Lat Kyae Sin Lin (Grace)

Y8 W – Caleb Lau Hui Xuan

Y9 W – Dylan Wong Zhen Ning

Y10 W – Demi Wong

Y7 I – Yeu Zhi Siong Y8 I – Alecia Hii Hung Yang

Y9 I – Lau Lee Giek (Nicholas)

Y10 1 – Aaron Yii

Y11 W – Ling Hou Lee Y11 I – Clement Tie Yao Tong

恭喜所有获取奖状的同学，他们将成为我们社区的榜样。

请留意，本学年最后一个月份的价值观是“耐性”，请随时与你的孩子在家里讨论此课题，以协

助他们对此课题有进一步的了解与学习。

祝福您

Woodlands 国际学校校长

奥布雷谨启

在您日记里重要的日期：

10月2日（星期一） - 11年级IGCSE考试开始

10月9日（星期一）至10月11日（星期三）- 剑桥小学评测（6年级）

10月11日（星期三）至10月13日（星期五）- 剑桥中学评测（9 年级）

10月18日（星期三）- 屠妖节，学校放假

10月23（日星期一）至11月3日（星期五） - 学校举行第四学期考试

10月27（日星期五） - 幼儿园和P1家长咖啡早晨-8：00am在Ms Suhanti办公室