It was the last day of the first term before all pupils would enjoy their 2 weeks school holiday. On 9 March 2013, the school organised a school-level National Day celebration in the hall.

Teachers and pupils all gathered to commemorate Brunei Darussalam's 29 th National Day with patriotic performances from the pupils of Year 1 to Year 6.

A Doa was recited by Ustaz Amiruddin, marking the event was about to start. Cikgu Hjh Norliha binti Haji Matali, the Headmistress of the school made her welcoming speech on the stage.

Lower primary of Year 2 and 3 made their first performances by singing the national anthem, followed by Year 1 being models showing the Brunei national attires from 7 ethnic groups. To name a few, some showed the Bisaya and Murut ethnics and the Brunei Malays.

The occasion was then followed by singing the patriotic songs performed by Year 4, 5 and a special combination group of Year 4 and 5.

Year 6 students performed the poems about the National Day, recalling the history of freedom that Brunei was officially declared free from a foreign reign on 1 January 1984.

At the end of the event, Cikgu Hashnalhakim, Assistant Headmaster II of the school gave rewards to pupils who won the National attire competition and the patriotic song performance. Also, more rewards were given away to teachers who did best in the National Day quizzes.

More pictures can be seen on our facebook page as here are shown a few.

SBAfL's main focus is the pupils where they play a lead role in their own learning. Teachers are the facilitators and pupils must know the quality and potential of their very own learning which then lead to their success.

Assessments are integrated into learning and teaching, allowing pupils to see for themselves how far they have progressed in their subjects through self evaluation and self feedback. These, then, lead to pupils recognising the next steps needed to achieving learning outcomes and how to take them. The prime purpose is to improve learning and teaching in order to raise pupils' achievements.

In conjunction with this, a group of teachers who attended the seminar on SBAfL in 2012 made a presentation about it and delivered it to teachers from the school as part of teachers' professional development. It took place in the school's hall in the afternoon on 29 January 2013.

Cikgu Hashnalhakim bin Haji Abd Halim , the Assistant Headmaster II led the presentation before the teachers. Other facilitators joining the team were Cikgu Hjh Siti Khadijah, Cikgu Hjh Kamsiah, Ustaz Amiruddin, Cikgu Arie and Cikgu Zul Ariffin.

They presented the SBAfL contents on Learning Intentions and Success Criteria. The presentation started off with an activity where teachers were instructed to fold shirts within a given short time. This became the warming up assessment for teachers that they were assessed for the quantity of shirt folded within the given time. For this first task, the assessment was just simple and general.

Soon after they were shown with a video clip on how the shirts should be folded in 2 seconds and all instructions on doing the steps for folding were explained and showed in the video. This explained well to the teachers that they now, after watching the video, knew to fold shirts in 2 seconds.

The video linked well with the presention on Learning Intentions and Success Criteria. The learning Intention was to fold shirts within a given short time. The Succes Criteria were the steps folding the shirts in 2 seconds. When everything was explained then the learning and teaching were a success. Consider the teachers were the pupils and the facilitators were the teachers.

At the final before the presentation dismissed, Mr Simon Green, a CfBT Pra English teacher showed his talent on folding a shirt in seconds proving that his learning on folding the shirt was really a success.

Abdul Hakeem bin Haji Ali, a student from Year 6 got 84% for his result thus ranked number 1 for Azan competition in conjuction with a religious event Maulidur Rasul or Prophet Muhammad S.A.W's birthday celebration in the school's hall. Others, ranking number 2 was Md Izz Fadlin bin Md Fadillah with 78%, Ak Md Hadi Syukri bin Pg Hj Yusof got number 3 with 64%, Saifullah Aiman bin Salim was at 4 with 62% and Muhammad Afiq Aiman bin Awg Matusin got 62% at number 5.

The criteria assessed for the Azan competition were the fluency, rhythm in delivering the Azan, voice projection and finally the doa after the Azan.

On the other hand, the reciting of the Surahs performed by a group of five girls was won by Syafiqah Nazirah binti Suaime with 79%. At number 2 was Nurrasiqah binti Samsul Adi with 77.5%, Siti Nor Duratul Asilah binti Zulkefli got 76%, Siti Norafifah binti Rimi got 71.5% at number 4 and Siti Nor Syahirah binti Muhammad Irul Iffandy got 68%. They firstly would need to recite one compulsory Surah, the Adh Dhuha, followed by their chosen Surahs for the competition.

Similarly, the criteria assessed for reciting the Surahs were based on Tajwid, fluency, voice projection and rhythm in delivering and reciting the Surahs.

The occasion was organised by the Religious Section led by Ustaz Md Amiruddin bin Hj Md Zaidi and attended by teachers and pupils of the school itself. Cikgu Hjh Norliha binti Hj Matali, Headmistress of SR Tungku and the Assistant Headmistress and Assisstant Headmaster, Cikgu Hjh Samziah binti Haji Sabtu and Cikgu Hashnalhakim bin Hj Abd Halim also attended the event. Other performance included was the Nasyid by Year 2A and 5B. This event took place on Thursday, 31 January 2013 corresponded to 19 Rabiulawal 1434 Hijrah.