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GEMS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PEARL CITY, PENANG (GIP)
gree with a disserta-tion on Mandarin teaching and learn-ing. The students are already benefitting from her contribution
We would like to intro-duce our new Manda-rin teacher Xin Jing who joined GIP this
term. Xin Jing has a passion for her sub-ject recently complet-ing her Masters de-
A new look at Mandarin By Glen Mundy, Principal
Extreme Reading The extreme reading com-petition in pri-mary caused a real stir and a lot of laugh-ter. Many chil-dren had sub-mitted their photos of them reading in ‘extreme’ places from the top of a
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as we look forward to the fruits of her energy and commitment in sup-port of Mr Jordan and his team.
forklift truck to reading in a washing ma-chine!
If you want to smile go and see all ex-treme reading pictures on the notice board opposite the 'reading tree'. All the winners from each year group earned a certificate and a prize (see photo above). Many thanks to Mr Watkins who organ-ised the competition.
Here are some of our secondary students (above) watching calligraphy expert Mr
Jordan demonstrate and (left) writing their own characters! Great work!
GEMS International School of Pearl
City, Penang
No. 2, Persiaran Mutiara 5, Pusat
Komersial Bandar Tasek Mutiara
14120 Simpang Ampat
Phone: 04-504-7000
Fax: 04-504-0613
Email: [email protected]
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GIP: Malaysia first, the world next
Special points of interest:
Thaipusam Public Holiday 25 January
Science Week 26—29 January
Parent Focus Group 26 January 2 p.m.
Chinese New Year Celebration 5 February 1
p.m.
Chinese New Year Holiday week beginning 8
February and return to school on 15 February
Year 5 students posing together for a smile on the first day back of Term 2.
Mr. Ready is teaching his Little GEMS students how to balance scales, having them
remove or add a block until the scale is evened out.
Mr. Clarke is not only a great Maths teacher but also has a fantastic smile!
A new term of swimming classes has begun for Year 1 & 5 in the Junior Pool and for Year 8 in the
25M Pool. How exciting!