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Groundbreaking ceremony for Hedges Project was held during assembly on Monday, April 6, 2015. This year’s project of planting hedges around the school compound is to beauti-fy the school and to encourage students to be aware of the beauty of nature. It gives students the opportunity to acquire first-hand experience in gardening and learn to appreciate the green around them. The Nature Club, the Art Club and the Christian Fellowship Club had agreed to give their best to ensure that this project will achieve its objectives. The implemen-tation of the project will be done every Monday, during co-cum time.

Editor’s Note

The recent scorching weather that hit our state was no way to deter our ever dedicated administrators and teachers to carry out activities and special func-tions as scheduled in the school calen-dar.

This 10-page issue featured all the ac-tivities we had in school for the month of March and April. Credit goes to all teachers who had contributed in this

issue in spite of their tight schedules on top of prepa-ration for the Mid-Year Exam Papers.

My apologies for not be-ing able to include the Ex-am Timetables in this issue due to technical problems. However, students had received their exam timeta-bles from the Form Teachers.

Mar/Apr 2015 Volume 3, Issue 2

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Dates for Your

Diary

2015 MAY

1 : Labour Day 4 : Replacement for Wes- ak Day 6 : 8th Games 7 : 8th Uniform B. 8 : LS Dating Game (Form 2) 11: MN Choir Practice 15-28 : Mid-Year Exam

JUN

1 - 14 : Mid-Year Break

15 : 8th Club

MN Choir Practice

17 : 9th Games

18 : 9th Uniform

19 : LS Premarital Sex

Form 3

22 : 9th Clubs

24 : 10th Games

25 : 10th Uniform Bodies

MN Choir Practice

27 : Report Card Day

29 : 10th Clubs

(Photo Taking)

MN Choir Practice

JUL

1 : 11th Games

(Photo Taking)


(Photo Taking)

3 : Friday Mass

Abortion Form 4

6 : 11th Clubs

6-10 : Audition Talentime

7 : 7th Games 8 : 12th Games


MN Choir Practice

13 : MN Choir Practice

23 : MN Choir Practice

17-18 : Hari Raya Puasa

20-31 : Assessement 2,

SPM mock 1

27-31 : PT3 mock 1

To show support and, being part of this project, every student donated RM6 to the buying of the hedges. When teamwork and supportive spirits are being exercised among students, teachers and staffs, this project will sure-ly be a success.

MN 2015 Project - Hedges

Ninis Giloi-Yapp

Volume 3, Issue 2

Chinese New Year

With festive spirit, Maktab Nasional cele-

brated Chinese New Year of the Sheep

on Friday, February 27, 2015.

Principal, Mr. Alexander Funk, delivered

his special Chinese New Year message to

begin the whole day program in the

morning.

The presence of our former principal.

Mdm Winnie Voo, Mr Jason Soon, Datin

Mimie Ang Chui Mee, Ms Monica Chua,

and Mdm Mary Lojinon-Naun had made

the event more significant for Maktab.

As tradition, the MN Teachers kicked off

the entertainment session by singing the

favorite Chinese New Year Song, “Gong

Xi Gong Xi” followed by our students

mesmerized the audience with their fasci-

nating and melodious voices. Our young

friends from SRS Datuk Simon Fung, had

come over to add in more colors to our

program, they amazed us with their

graceful dances as they sang their Chinese

New Year songs.

Among many items held that day, the

Chinese New Year Card Decoration

Competition, Calligraphy Competition,

Eating Mandarin Orange Competition,

Fashion Show Competition, Transfer-

ring Beans With Chopsticks Competi-

tion, and quizzes based on Chinese

New Year were also given in between

performances and competitions.

To conclude the celebration of the day,

students returned to their respective

classrooms for open-house accompa-

nied with their class teachers and the

guests and parents, to the Conference

Room for reception. The Best Deco-

rated Classroom 2015 was awarded to

Form 1 Joy.

The much awaited Lion Dance Perfor-

mance had to be postponed to the

following Monday as the lion troop was

caught in a traffic jam. Congratulations

to the organizing committee for such

an eventful celebration.

This year the citizens of Maktab Nasional were privileged to witness how democra-

cy functions in a society albeit one as small as our school.

In the earlier part of the year, we man-aged to form two separate political par-

ties; The Council party led by Kevyn Lee Jia Wen (4 Modesty) and Student Council Association party led by Dexter Lee

Chun Yew (4 Prudence).

Both parties and their cabinet ministers

campaigned for a little more than a week to gain the confidence and votes from the

student community. Campaign posters and banners were put up and many

speeches and lobbying were done much like the real thing for adults. The students

showed a lot of gusto and enthusiasm for the exercise which was aimed to give

them a taste of how it’s done in the real world.

Finally on Election Day March 4th, all cam-paign materials had to be removed and the school looked “normal” again. Stu-

dents were called down from their clas-ses to cast their votes and place the bal-

lot paper in a ballot box that was later removed for counting.

The final results for the 2015 MN Gen-eral Elections are The Council Party won

in a landslide victory to garner 70% of the votes. Thus, the new Student Council for

2015 will be formed by Kevyn Lee Jia Wen. Our heartiest congratulations to

the party!

Student Council members are as follows:

Chief Minister: Kevyn Lee Jia Wen

Deputy Chief Minister: Ameerjeet Chahal

Political Secretary: Tan Wen Hui

Minister of Finance: Kathryna Haw

Minister of Education: Shafaq Iqbal

Minister of Sports: Brian Tan

Minister of Works: Ian Cheng

Minister of Health: Howie Liew

Minister of Culture: Mohd Nazim Ajit Manan

Minister of Information: Ryan Lim

Traditionally, the opposition party will form a shadow government to observe and check

if the Council is doing what it had promised to do during the election campaign.

A parliament sitting will be held sometime in June/July to report on activities done and

debate about issues concerning student wel-fare. An interesting spectacle not to be

missed! Alexander Funk

General Elections!

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On the 8th of April 2015, the school, under the supervision of the teacher in-charge, the

school prefects and the student council organized the annual Installation. This formal func-

tion is to officially install the school leaders. They are the Class Leaders, the Presidents of

Clubs, Games and Uniform Bodies, the Librarians, the Student Council and the School

Prefects.

The Guest of Honour for this function was Madam Eleanor Cheng. Madam Winnie Voo,

as member of the Board of Governors, was also present. The leaders of the school were

given their badges and also officially received their duties as leaders. The members of the

Prefect and Student Council also recited their oath as school leaders.

Madam Eleanor reminded students who are not installed as leaders that they are leaders

too in their own way because leaders are people who inspire others to do better. Every-

one has a task as unique as their fingerprint.

Our guest of Honour did read this poem:

If each note of music were to say:

One note does not make a symphony,

There would be no symphony.

If each word were to say:

One word does not make a book,

There would be no book.

If each brick were to say:

One brick does not make a wall

There would be no house.

If each drop of water were to say:

One drop does not make an ocean,

There would be no ocean.

If each seed were to say:

One grain does not make a field of corn,

There would be no harvest.

If each of us music were to say:

One act of love cannot save mankind,

There would never be justice and peace on Earth.

Begin now, why are you waiting?

Michel Quoist (Breath of Love)

Clare Yong (4 Modesty)

Installation

Volume 3, Issue 2

In conjunction with the Easter Season, on

the 6th to 10th of April, 2015, the Chris-

tians teachers of Maktab Nasional organ-

ised the first ever Easter Egg Hunt in our

school.

On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, MN stu-

dents together with the SRS Primary 6

students had a great time doing the Easter

egg hunt. Our teachers hid 280 nicely

decorated and wrapped eggs around the

school compound before the hunting game

began. Some eggs were hidden between

flower pots, among flowers and behind

stones. The search was not as simple as

one thought. The fast runner usually

picked up the egg first. However, all had

enjoyed the egg hunt and the excitement

lingered on for some time.

One of the Primary 6 students got the high-

est number of eggs and became the winner

of the 2015 Easter Egg Hunt Competition.

As the egg symbolizes a new life, may each

and everyone be grateful of the new life

around us.

A big thank to all the students who had vol-

unteered to help Teacher Janet in the eggs

decorations before the special event.

Let’s look forward for another exciting

Easter egg hunt next year.

Easter Day

Basketball Friendly Match

actual competition. Our basketball teams

need exposure and lots of trainings in order to boost up their confidence. Building up

their stamina as well as to exercise their techniques and coordination as a team are

very necessary for them to perform better.

May our boys’ and girls’ basketball teams not only are strong and fearless but also well-

disciplined. They have to know that when-ever and wherever they play, they are a re-

flection of the school.

Congratulations to Maktab Nasional Bas-

ketball teams for giving us another rea-son to be happy as they won against

their opponents from the Kota Kinabalu International School during a friendly

match at our school basketball court on

the 13th March of 2015. Our Girls’ Bas-ketball team excelled with a score of 24-

14 and our Boys’ Basketball team, 28-17.

Maktab Nasional welcomes neighboring

schools to compete with our Basketball teams either to a friendly match or in an

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Volume 3, Issue 2

Language Week

Each had its own objectives. The Peraduan Menulis

Esei was aimed to encourage students to practice

their talents in writing and to give them more

opportunities to compete with each other. For

the Peradua Perbahasan, it was intended to devel-

op students’ knowledge on current issues, to ex-

pose students to real debating skills and to identify

those who are great debaters. The Peraduan

Peribahasa was aimed to arouse students’ interest

as well as to expand their knowledge on Malay proverbs.

The following were the winners of the three com-

petitions.

A. Peraduan Menulis Esei: Form 1: Group A: 1. Siti Nur Farisah Osman

2. Abigail Victoria Malukun

Group C: Ngok Xin Yee

Form 2: Group A: Anderson Chong

Group LC: Nurmahirah bte Marsha

Form 3: Group A: Aaron Axel Labadin

Group LC: Jeremiah Hermis Mogindol

Form 4: Group A: 1. Clare Yong

2. Zeranietta Nobby Chin

3. Shafaq Iqbal Hashim

Group B: 1. Jonathan Chow

2. Ryan Lim

3. Kelvin Lo

Form 5: Group A: 1. Noratiqah Izzaty

2. Putri Nafiesatul

3. Diana Fransiska

Group B: 1. Angeline Chong Li Ying

2. Tai Vun Kiet

3. Kelvin Lo

B. Peraduan Perbahasan:

Form 4: Title: GST Memberikan Banyak Kebaikan

Kepada Masyarakat dan Negara Debate 1: Clare Yong, Mohd Nazim Ajit

Brian Tan and Henrie Lim

Debate 2: Kevyn Lee, Chou Ming Kit,

Ryan Tan and Ameerjeet Singh

Form 5: Title : GST: Kebaikan Lebih Banyak Dari-

pada Keburukan. Debate 1 : Noratiqah Izzaty, Mohd. Ruzain

Izaz, Michelle Ting

Debate 2: Diana Fransiska, Muhammad

Iman and Arnold Jess.

C. Peraduan Peribahasa: Form 1: Thaddeus Lee

Form 2: Anderson Chong

Without students participations and teachers

doing the extra miles in their works, the Lan-

guage Week could not be a success. Thank you

everyone and let’s anticipate for another exciting

activities in the coming year.

The Maktab Nasional Language Week was held

between Monday, 30th March and Thursday, 2nd

April, 2015.

To celebrate the Language Week, the English

Department organized two events, which were:

1. An Essay Writing Competition (Form 1- 5) The chosen title for all forms was “My

Three Wishes”. The top two best written

essays were chosen as First Place and Sec-

ond Place winners from each form level.

They were awarded Certificates of Achieve-

ment showing their First or Second Place

Ranking.

The 10 winners were: Form 1: Clover Labadi (1st)

Mauis Hsu (2nd)

Form 2: Ariz Bryan Shah (1st)

Genesis Tristan Godon (2nd)

Form 3: Matthew Chin (1st)

Muhd Yassin Bin Mohd Yunus (2nd)

Form 4: Mujtaba Nasir(1st)

Zeranietta Nobby Chin Buata (2nd)

Form 5: John Julius Danker Khoo (1st)

Putri Nafiesatul Binti Datuk (2nd)

In addition to the Certificates of Achieve-

ment, each Essay Writing Competition win-

ner also received a Rm10.00 Gift Voucher

which could be redeemed towards the pur-

chase of books at any Popular Bookstore

throughout Malaysia. Bookstore Gift Vouch-

ers are the gifts that keep on giving. The

English Department promotes the good

habit of reading and those who love reading

always make the best writers.

2. A Public Speaking Competition (Form 1- 5)

The chosen theme for all was “Self Improve-

ment” or anything inspirational and motiva-

tional. All in all, there were 12 participants.

The rule was simple: Speak within the cho-

sen theme but do not read from notes or

scripts. All participants received a Certifi-

cate of Participation. One winner from the

Junior Form Category, Ira Elisa Lajium of

Form 1 Peace and another from the Senior

Form Category, Ameerjeet Singh Chahal of

Form 4 Modesty were chosen. This was

enjoyed by all present that students have

requested for another Public Speaking Com-

petition to be organized in Term 3.

From the Bahasa Malaysia Department, they

carried out three different activities: Peraduan

Menulis Esei, Peraduan Perbahasan and Peraduan

Peribahasa.

The History and Geography Depart-ments had prepared a special cere-mony to declare the History and Ge-ography Week. The gong was stroke three times by the Principal, Mr Alexander Funk, as to declare the History and Geography Week which began on the 7th of April and ended on the 30th of April, 2015. Many activities for both inside and outside of the classroom were pre-pared. An activity, which was held from Monday to Thursday during History and Geography lessons, was drawing a map. The map had to be completed and submitted by Thurs-day, the 29th of April. This is only for the lower forms. The highlight of the week was Thursday. Four different exciting traditional games competitions were simultaneously carried out during co-cum time at 2:30pm to 3:30pm. Students were given op-portunity to choose which competi-

tion to participate. Fishing Bottle was held next to the teachers’ parking lot, Coconut Bowling, be-hind the school foyer and the Me-nyumpit as well as the Melastik, were at the Co-Cum Centre. Congratulations to all the winners. Nurul Nuhaa Binti Nasri (4 Pru-dence) was first in Melastik; Aver-ill Joseph (3 Faith) and Mohd As-mal (4 Modesty), in Menyumpit; Kevyn Lee (4 Modesty) and Ryan Tan (4 Modesty), in Fishing Bottle; Samson Ng (5 Justice), Coconut Bowling. For the Drawing Map Competition, the Form 3 Faith group which consists of Mohd Adi Irfan, Roland Ting, Aaron Axel Labadin and Rasmi Sahanah Binti Tahir became the winner. All the activities for the week were interesting and educational. We hope that all our students will con-tinue to participate in these activi-ties next year.

History and Geography Week

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Volume 3, Issue 2

Science and Mathematics Week

Additional Mathematics quiz was carried out

on the next day during school recess hour.

Teacher Janet carried out Score A PT3

Mathematics workshop for all of the Form 3

students. This workshop aimed at sharpen-

ing the skills of students in answering the

PT3 Mathematics.

There were two workshops given by Cur-

tain University on Friday. The first work-

shop was carried out with all the upper

form science stream students. The activity

was Spaghetti Marshmallow Building. Stu-

dents were divided into groups of 5 and

given materials such as cellotape, spaghetti

and marshmallow. They were required to

build a building and the tallest was the win-

ner. Next workshop was airplane manufac-

ture for the upper form art stream students.

They were divided into small groups and

given certain amount of money. They need-

ed to make full use of their money to pur-

chase raw materials in order to build air-

planes. The winner group is the group

which made the highest profit.

Janice Khoo

The opening ceremony was held on Mon-

day during school assembly. It was officiat-

ed by the Principal, Mr Alexander Funk,

Senior Academic Assistant, Mdm Chong

Yoke Cheng and Senior Co-curriculum

Assistant, Mdm Marrlina Maklin. They

were invited to guess the number of candy

and wrote down their answers. This game

was opened to all students throughout the

week.

Killer Sudoku Competition was held by

Teacher Rosita on Tuesday during school

recess time. Score A PT3 Science work-

shop was held for all Form 3 students.

This activity was carried out by Dr Janice

and Mr David. Students were briefed re-

garding the latest PT3 Science papers for-

mat and skills to answer the questions pre-

cisely.

The running Math activity was done on

Wednesday by MSU. This activity was held

during school co-curriculum time and su-

pervised by Teacher Janet.

Activities for the Technical and Vocational

Week from the 20th to 25th of April,

2015, started during Monday assembly.

The Principal, Mr Alexander Funk, Senior

Academic Assistant, Mdm Chong Yoke

Cheng and Senior Co-curriculum Assis-

tant, Mdm Marrlina Maklin were asked to

toss balls in between rows of students.

Students had to pick up the balls and bring

it to the front. Then, they needed to

name different carpentry tools. If correct

names given, they would receive a prize.

This simple activity marked the opening

ceremony of the Technique and Vocation-

al Week.

On the same day, another activity was

conducted at the foyer during recess time.

Students in groups of three built towers

using old newspapers and cellotape. The

group who made the tallest tower became

the winner.

On Tuesday, students had the opportunity

to show off their motor skills as they par-

ticipated in the passing of peanuts using

chopstick.

Based on the theme, “Balance Diet”, cook-

ing competition started at 1:45pm to

3:30pm on Wednesday. Four groups of

students participate and each comprised of

3 members.

A special program was prepared mainly for

the Form 5 students on Thursday. MSU

facilitators were in-charge.

Trivia Quiz was given to interested stu-

dents of all forms. Teacher Naimi con-

ducted the quiz at the Multi-media Room

on Friday.

During the Technical and Vocational

week, students could purchase bubur ka-

cang hijau and bubur kacang merah prepared

by Teacher Naimi and Teacher Audrey.

Students could also participated in guessing

the total number of objects in a box at the

school foyer.

Technical and Vocational Week

On the 10th to 12th of April, Maktab Nasional sent three young scouts,

Kristian Bakimewa (2 Love), Keith Klaus (2 Grace) and Mohammad Saifud-din (2 Love), to attend a training camp for all the scout patrol in South

West Coast of Sabah at Sembulan Scout House.

Approximately 121 participants from several schools in Kota Kinabalu, Penampang, Tuaran, Papar, Putatan, Kawang, Inanam dan Sembulan partici-

pated in the 3-day and 2-night camp. The camp was organized with the objectives to teach patrol leaders scouting skills as well as to provide guid-ed situation for them to exercise appropriate leadership attitude.

Our three young scouts were exposed to many interesting and challenging

activities which indeed had helped them to acquire new scouting skills. The activities were as follows:

1. Arch Building 2. Marching Sticks

3. Knot Tying 4. Scouts Secret Signals

5. Jungle Cuisine 6. Introduction to First Aid Box

7. CPR 8. Slings and Wraps

9. Traditional Night 10. Scouts Badge Scheme for Beginner and Junior Scouts

11. Raising and Lowering of the Flag Ceremony The closing ceremony was concluded with the presentations of prizes to

the best patrol, the best female leader, the best male leader and the best performer in the traditional night. Tokens were also given to all of the

Sabah West Coast Scout Commissioners and Advisers.

Everything went smoothly at the camp with the help of trained skips. It is hope that there will be more participants from Maktab Nasional to such a

camp in future. Gain as much knowledge as you can while you are young. Remember, “Once Scouting, Forever Scouting”.

Ronald Sikuat

Scout Patrol Training Camp

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Leadership Camp

Maktab Nasional believes in building up leadership skills in the younger gener-

ation. As part of the Form 5 students development program. A 2-days and 1-night leadership camp was organized on the 27th and 28th of March for

them.

The camp was held in the school compound and was compulsory for all the

Form Five students, 12 teachers and 7 facilitators from the Generasi Gemilang

(GG). (Generasi Gemilang is a foundation committed to building a strong nation,

raising an exemplary next generation and strengthening families.)

The theme of the camp was “Out of the Box”. The objectives were to cre-

ate a sense of responsibility towards ‘self’, to encourage proactive participa-tion, to build a sense of belonging to the school and to instill confidence in

execution of duties.

During the camp, several activities were arranged and among them were

games, talks and an appreciation dinner.

The topics covered during this exciting camp were as follows:

1. Why Character is Important ? 2. Values That Make Us or Break Us

3. Discipline and Priorities 4. Becoming a Positive Influence and Overcoming Negative Influence

5. Serving Others and Have a Compassionate Heart 6. Life Purpose and Staying Focused

The camp was a great success. Students did not only enjoy themselves but also learned many valuable lessons. Not forgetting to mention that all partic-

ipants were drawn closer to each other.

Please be informed that the Complex had started implementing new security rules on the closing of school gates on 1st May 2015 in view of recent incidents where students left the school compound without the school knowledge or permission. 1. Closing of the school gates. Maktab Nasional and SRS Datuk Simon Fung : 7:30am (Mon-Fri) Taska & Tadika Datuk Simon Fung : 8:30am (Mon-Fri) All vehicleas and visitors entering the complex after 7:30am must use the Maktab Nasional entrance/exit gate and must register at the guardhouse. 2. Opening of the school gates Maktab Nasional and SRS Datuk Simon Fung : 12:00pm (Mon-Thurs)/11:00am (Fri) Taska & Tadika Datuk Simon Fung : 11.00am (Mon-Fri) Your cooperation and understanding on the implementation of this new rules are very much appreciated.

Closing of School Gate

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