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From the Principal

Kimbe International School The Right School For Your Child

Website www.kis.ac.pg ~ Email [email protected] ~ Phone 983 5078 ~ Fax 983 5579

Thursday 25th June—Mid Year Reports Given Out Friday 26th June—Dami Beach Walk / End of Term Two Sunday 19th July—Provincial Government Day Monday 20th July— Term Three Starts Thursday 23rd July—National Remembrance Day

Dear Parents,

Here we are once again at the end of another term. As I sit in my office writing this letter I can hear the Rugby supporters in the school hall watching the second State of Origin match. A big thank you to the Parents & Friends for organising the BBQ.

Again we have had a very busy two weeks since my last letter to you.

On Tuesday of Week 9 two representatives of the SRC, Apolosa Lisio and Thershy Boromana, went up to

Valoka Health Centre to donate a cheque for K340 to the Valoka Eye Clinic. Mrs. Lisio accompanied us on the trip too as it was in Valoka that Apolosa was treated when he was ill three years ago. Apolosa was remembered by all the staff and very warmly welcomed. Thershy presented the cheque and the SRC were thanked for the donation. We were then given light refreshments before returning to school.

Last Friday we had the Parent Assembly hosted by the Primary section and we counted over a hundred parents at that event.

Newsletter Number 5 Term 2 Year 2009


From the Principal ~ continued The Grade 9 MEEP course ended today and our students went out to Buluma Primary school to pass on the knowledge that they had gained at Mahonia.

I am told that they did very well and that it was a very worthwhile visit.

The MOSA netball and soccer tournament finished on Saturday of Week 8. KIS did very well in the final day's games winning all three netball games and one soccer game.

You might notice that some played in more than one team to make up the numbers.

I hope you all have a very enjoyable time over the school vacation and I look forward seeing you

all back on the 20th of July 2009. Ifor Jones - Principal


Grade 7 News The grade’s seven have been learning how to write letters.

Let’s read what Daphen wrote to her friend.

Kimbe International School,

P.O.BOX 307,

Kimbe.

West New Britain Province

23rd June, 2009

Dear Jenny,

Thank you very much for your last letter. I’m sorry I haven’t written to you earlier. The post office was shut down for almost a week due to some problems. You asked ask me to send you a set of stamps showing the various wild birds which live in P.N.G, but I’m afraid I can’t. My collection of stamps ran out and I would have to wait another week in order to send you some. However, I’m sending a traditional mask from the Sepik area. I do hope you’d like it. There’s not much news from here since everything is just the same. Nothing much has changed. We hope there will be no power cuts, but it is likely that electricity will be cuts in some parts of town due to nonpayment of electricity bills. Our school had a holiday yester-day. I didn’t go anywhere because I was feeling ill. I’m feeling better now and I look forward to hearing from you.

Your friend

Daphen

In PD/ICT the grade 7’s have been looking at Problem Solving. They have identified some of the common behavioral problems faced in the school. Let’s look at Darius and how one of the groups has helped him to solve his own problem in a play form.


WELCOME TO OUR EDITION. Please read and enjoy.

Thank you.

Ms. Symond & Grade 3 class.

KIDS’ SAY!

SAE– I discovered that there are two types of re-sources; Renewable and Non Renewable re-sources– Christine Molom

TECHNOLOGY

My group and I made castles out of cardboard boxes. We had to be very careful when using blades and scissors.

Sylvester Wakore

SCIENCE– I learnt that cocoa grows from seeds.

Philip Mathew

I learnt that plants are made up of tiny building blocks

-Michael Vaki

MATHS- I learnt that Area is

measured in square units

Benjamin Eremas

I learnt that Area is the size of a

surface– Robinson Vanoh

I measured length, width and perimeter

using a ruler– Jordan Kaliop

ICT– We use ‘paint’ program to draw

castles from the story ‘Jack & the Beanstalk.’ -Willie Owen

SPELLING– Every morning we look at spelling rules. Jamie Mu-uh

BUDDY READING– We have buddy reading with the Foundation class twice a week-

Ex. Arts– We practiced a dance– Mordecai

WRITING– We have been writing using the Narra-tive text form.

A narrative starts with’ Once upon a time, has a plot in the middle and has a happy ending.’-

TERM 3 TOPIC


Shots from our market trip

Norbert & Benjamin interviewing a sea food seller.

Have you heard of the 6 thinking hats? It is a thinking system invented by Dr. Edward de Bono. This system helps you to organize your ideas more effectively. Nancy, Christine, Naomi and Elize are here to briefly explain what each hat means.

– Helps you to organize your factual information. Yellow Hat– Helps you to make positive judgments about a subject. Black Hat– Assists you make critical judgments. Red Hat– Helps you to say how you feel about the subject. Green Hat– Gives you an opportunity to share other ideas that you might have. Blue Hat– Enables you to organize your planning.

Small group work in action.

Genesis measuring with informal units.

Luke & Norman interviewing a meri blouse seller.

Marquell’s model of a castle.

Nancy and Christine chatting with a vegetable seller

White Hat


GR A D E EIGHT 8 N E W S

SUBJECT REPORTS

TECHNOLOGY

In our Design & Technology lessons, we have been using our imagina-tions and creativity to make necklaces, bracelets and mobile phone decorations to sell as part of our fundraising activity for the end of the year educational trip to Alotau. As we continue in Design & Tech-nology, we believe that the students will make use of the skills and talents to become craftspeople, architects or engineers.

We would like to thank Mrs. Jones for her time and support

By Michelle. Thompson & Frankie.Kapudia

MATHEMATICS

In our Math lessons, we learnt about Statistics. We did a project in which we created questionnaires about various topics and did surveys . The data we collected were then presented in various graphs which were displayed on charts and reports were done on the information collected. We also studied Directed numbers and Algebra.

We have learnt a lot during these lessons which is preparing us well for the upcoming National exams.

By Marvin Manuel & Chrioni . Mungore

ENGLISH

English classes have been exciting this term as we did the fol-lowing : Book Reviews, Journal writing, Reading & Comprehen-sion, Instructional text, Procedural texts, Recounts, Dictations, Grammar, Written Expression practice, Debate and we looked at every aspect of English.

By Florian.B, Melanchthon.M & Adam . E

SCIENCE

This semester , we have been learning about Changes with Matter in Physical and Chemical changes and The Growth, Feeding and Adaptations of Living things. The topics we covered were : Adaptations of plant structures , Struc-tures of Cells and their specializations, Body structures and functions of plants , Photosynthesis and food chain and web. By Inali Kurumbi & Tahirih Suppan

SOCIETY & ENVIRONMENT

Our focus this term has been on Rural communities. We studied communities from Africa, England, India and PNG. We looked at the Environment, the structure of the commu-nities, and the services they received. We studied how these isolated communities are organised and the problems of rural-urban migration.

We have used six thinking hats in our lessons .and at the end of our study, we had a debate on ‘Village Life is better than Town Life” .Congratulations to the Government team who did well , to Chrioni for being the Addjucator and Inali for being the time keeper.

By Romley.Kauyola & David. Topeni

EXPRESSIVE ARTS

Hi Everyone, we explored some interesting topics in our Expressive Arts lessons. In Term one it was all about Identity. This term we looked at expressing ourselves through songs and collages based on issues that are affecting and influencing youths in the country at pre-sent. We presented our creations during one of the as-semblies. By Rhea Ganesh & Gilewa Philip

ICT ( Computing) We have ICT class once a week on Thursday which we enjoy because we learn new skills in Computing. We covered the following programs : Word Processing, Power Point Presen-tation, Microsoft Excel chart wizard and used the Encarta, Britannica and Internet to research information on different topics that we have been studying this term . By Bertinah .Seseru , Tamara.Momis & Debbie.Wohwiehembe

CLASS NEWS

We have been very busy this semester with our studies especially with preparing for our upcoming Exams and the End of the Year Educational trip to Alotau. We have been doing fundraising by selling flexcards, cakes, doughnuts, Technology products and we are planning major fundraising activities next term like a Fashion Pa-rade Show and a Talent show. We have also written to business houses for Sponsorship.

On the whole the class has been working hard in their studies and having fun as well.

FAREWELL DAVID TOPENI ! .Dear David, (aka Main Character) you are a great friend and a clown body. We all look up to you as a re-sponsible person. You are a great Sportsman and cricket Captain for the U15 Boys team. You have been true friend and brother. Thank you for being with us at KIS , you will surely be missed by the class esp. the boys. We’ll miss your jokes, stories but God has a plan for you so farewell. Remember us and Good luck. By Romley on behalf of Gr.8.

COMMERCE

During the semester, we studied the following topics:

Income and wealth, The need to budget, The wise budget, Saving Money, Cash and Credit buying. We learnt how wise buyers budget their money and spend wisely. We found out that Commerce is a subject needed if one wants to be a Businessman.


Grade 5 & 6 News Awards time.

Grade 5 / 6 have been counting their Merit awards, no one has won a prize from the inter house box yet, but as you see many pupils have collected points – enough for their Bronze award. Three pupils, Kayla Reimann, James Korerua and Nathan Tonar have even collected enough for their Sil-ver Award. Great work.

Buddy Reading.

Our class readers this term were the Spiderwick Chronicles. One that we all enjoyed very much. It also led to the pupils creating their own story books to share at Buddy Reading time with other classes.

In Design technology the children designed and made hand puppets and presented their group plays to grade 4 / 5.


Staff Profile—Ms. Henry Name: Miss.Dorcas Henry

Place of Origin: Hoskins, West New Britain Province

Educational Background: Primary Years – Kimbe International School, High School- The International School of Lae (TISOL), Work Experience- Class Room Assistant (KIS), College- Kabaleo Teachers College.

This year is my third year of teaching, and it has been a success working with the Par-ents and the staff here at Kimbe International School, together we make a difference.

Staff Profile—Ms. Wong NAME : Mei Li Wong NATIONALITY : Malaysian RACE : Chinese MARITL STATUS: Married to a planter with 2 sons and 1 daughter SPOKEN LANGUAGE: English language, Malay language, Mandarin, Dialect – Hakka, Cantonese. HOBBIES: Sewing, a bit of gardening, some crocheting and a lot of cooking EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Bachelor in Agricultural Science (UPM) Malaysia, Diploma in Education (Ministry of Education Malaysia), Certified and registered IEA teacher – PNG.

Schools I taught so far: Chaah Secondary School, Johor, Malaysia. (1994 – 2005) and Kimbe International School (2005 – till now) What do I like about KIS – The students’ cheerfulness and the school’s motto – Learn by doing

Staff Profile—Mr. Aire Name: Mr. Dafal D. Aire Place of origin: Pari Village, Port Moresby - National Capital District ♦ I am happily married and we have three girls. I attended Madang Teachers College and gradu-

ated with a Teaching Certificate in 1990. From 1991 to 1998, I worked as a Judge’s Associate in the National and Supreme Court. In 1999, I entered the teaching service and taught in my village school for four years. In 2004, I enrolled at PNGEI where I obtained a Diploma in Teaching (Primary) and in 2005 I was accepted at the IEA Teacher Induction Program. I arrived here at KIS in 2006 and hope to remain a few more years if things go well. I have enjoyed my time with the team at KIS.

♦ I take this opportunity to thank my Principal and Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Symond and the rest of the team for the cooperation and support I have received from each and every one at one time or an-other – let us continue to work hard to serve the needs of the students under our care. Lastly, to all the parents of KIS – three big CHEERS and many thanks from me to you for your continued sup-port in ensuring our students turn up each day in school.

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