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NTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME,IBDP

NEWSLETTER Iss

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April Issue

IBDP JULY 2012 INTAKE @ ECA STUDENT LEADERSHIP CAMP UPCOMING EVENTS

The Pie-A-Teacher Fundraising Event allows

students to contribute to charity while being

able to get back at their teachers at the

same time. Following the success of lastyears Pie a Teacher event that was held by

the IB seniors, this years IB students called

for a revival. The idea of smashing a pie into

a teachers face was obviously too good to

pass up. Just one rule of course: the

smashing should not be too severe for it to

harm any of the teachers face.

How the event works is rather simple.

Teachers are asked to volunteer by agreeing

to being pied if their stated prices were

achieved. When a teachers price has been

reached, an announcement would be made

for the time of the pie-ing. The chosen

person who will pie the teacher is the one

who donates the highest amount for the

specific teacher. Before the pie-ing takes

place, the IB prep team will have to get the

teacher wrapped in plastic overalls and

shower caps for hygiene purposes. After a

quick preparation, a 10-second countdown is

held right before the teachers are pied. As

the countdown reaches its last syllable at

one, the pie crashes right into the victims

face and the crowd goes wild shouting for

more.

This years Pie a Teacher was needless to

say, heaps of fun and a large success. The

whole event ran smoothly and the

exhibitions were delectable. Although manyteachers were left untouched, those who had

their filling of pie got what they deserved.

And this is not the end. They only got their

dessert.

Pie a Teacher One of the fundraising projects forthe international trip 2013

April 16-17:Group 4 ProjectA compulsory project that encourages student

appreciate the environmental, social and et

implications of science. This exercise is collaborativ

interdisciplinary and provides an opportunity

students to explore scientific solutions to g

questions.

April 27 May 1: IB International

Trip 2013The IBDP July 2012 Intake students will embark oenlightening journey to Cambodia to change the liv

others and theirs as well! Fundraising events have

conducted continuously since October 2012 withpurpose of helping the unfortunate in Cambodia.

CONTACT US

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Programme

Taylors College Sri Hartamas

G1, Ground Floor

No.62, Jalan Sri Hartamas 1

Sri Hartamas50480 Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Tel : 603-62030168 (ext 211)

Email: [email protected]

Fundraising Event for International Trip

2013:Pie A TeacherbyAlastair Lim Chen Yuan


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NEWSLETTER| Issue2

As the TCSH students were ushered into the

new year of 2013, we were greeted by a new

and wonderful addition to our Taylors

community- the new principal of TCSH, Ms.

Lauren Elizabeth Wilson. She, who started

her work in mid-January, is now well-

received and loved by the TCSH community

for her ever-cheerful and friendly

demeanour, close connections with students,

and constant encouragement towards

students activities and initiatives.

Ms. Lauren found her calling in teaching at a

very young age. She was inspired by thegreat storytelling skills showed by her

English teacher in Grade 3 and her brilliant

Mathematics teacher in Grade 9. She

graduated from York University, Toronto in

1979 and began as a Mathematics and

Computer Science teacher in Ottawa. At the

height of her career, she was promoted as

the Assistant Head Principal and later, the

Head Principal. In the late nineties, Ms.

Lauren decided to join a private international

school in Venezuela as the principal for four

years to experience and immerse herself in a

different culture and setting from Canada.

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The Emcees of the French Film Festival2013 getting ready to host and kick-

start the event in French and English.

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hen asked about Malaysian students in

neral, she finds us polite, determined andrdworking. However, she feels we do not

derstand the true meaning of education as

e spend too much time memorizingfor

aminations. To be globally competitive

d be aware of the world we live in, she

lieves that Malaysian students need to be

ore inquisitive, be involved in more

scussions, research deeply into the things

at we are passionate about and question

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e 14th of March. It showcased the

dividual talents of TCSH's IB students toplore their individual creativity by creating

short film that incorporates both our

ique Malaysian culture and the exquisite

ench language. Our French teacher, Miss

oi Moi initiated the idea of creating the

ort film to encourage the IB French

udents to explore French beyond their

assrooms and apply them in their daily

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SPECIAL FEATURE

ncitement Youth!: Featuring Ms. LohyChin KarYern

On 28th

February 2013, Incitement Youth was held in

he TCSH Library. This event was a talk about sharingdeas and inciting positivity within the community of

tudents. The theme was relevant to the current

iscourse both among students and within Malaysia:

edefining Education.

We had five speakers: DzameerZulkifli, CEO of Teach for

Malaysia, DatoSaifuddin Abdullah, the Deputy Minister

f Higher Education, Miss Anne Tham, Co-Founder ofce-Edventure, Michael Reyes, CEO of MoneyTree, andur very own Miss Loh Mei Lin, our Theory of

nowledge (TOK) lecturer. Each of them had their ideas

f changing the education but they seemed to converge

t some points.

Miss Loh spoke about the nature of Theory ofnowledge across different areas of knowledge. She

alked about the different ways of knowing used in

hese areas and how and why they would differ fromne another. She also wondered about the possibilities

o implement TOK within the current education system

o train students to think critically and have a holistic

erspective on knowledge.

Overall, it was an inspiring event with a powerfulmessage for parents, ex-students and students. The

haring of ideas opened up to new possibilities that in

uture education may indeed be redefined.

The crowd stood up to give a round of applause to the

speakers signaling the end of the event.

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TEACHER ADVISOR

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Literature Lecturer

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n 1-2 March 2013, I headed to the wild

ngle or more precisely, to the Dusun Eco

sort, Pahang along with my fellow

mrades from the IB programme. Along

ith TCSHs club presidents, vice presidents

d editorial board members, we went therer a leadership camp organized by the ECA

partment.

pon reaching the campsite, all participants

ere assigned to groups and told to create a

oup cheer. Here, it so happened that my

oup was chock-full of people with quirky

stes and a rather odd sense of humor. So

e named ourselves The Pandas, appointed

rather chunky Chief Panda, and stomped

ound him in a circle while chanting,

anda! Panda! We love bamboo!

ur first team-building event was the flyingx activity. This, in my opinion, was

rticularly amusing as I had the opportunity

observe my beloved IB mates in their most

mical moments. It was wonderful to see

stin being petrified of heights; Ray being

ared losing his fatherhood due to the

htness of the harness; and Arif bringing his

ptop bag and iPad along with him as he

hizzed through the sky.

inner that day was a splendid outdoor

fair. A campfire was lit and everyone

thered at a pleasant, grassy area. At one

int in time, all the IB juniors camegether, and spearheaded by none other

an Eleasha, webegan to indulge in one of

r most cherished IB pastimes singing. In

rmony, The Lion King.

ter on in the night, we had a jungle-walk

heduled for us. But as luck would have it,

g, heavy raindrops began pelting down

ht before we had to head off to the dark

cesses of the jungle. So we waited. And

aited.(And hoped that the rain would never

op.) But as Murphys Law goes: Anything

that can go

stopped.

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the jungle.

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ture line was: Good job guy

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through a muddy patch; wh

suffered from a leech attack.

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mbuilding event. This time, w

struct a raft. My group work

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tacle course. For short momen

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order to swing from tire to ti

lithery salamanders in order

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of string. At the end of the da

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