Haka Dance from New Zealand to Tungku, Brunei

Everyone was waiting and eager to know what Haka dance was, until Mr Simon Green, our English CfBT teacher showed and performed the dance on stage in front of others. Haka dance originates from Maori tribes in New Zealand which is also called the dance of war. To know more about Haka dance, click this link.

The school informally organised a sport day for fun on 21st November 2013, encouraging and engaging all teachers to participate in the games. Organised by our Physical Education teacher, Cikgu Haji Azreem arranged challenging games for both male and female teachers. The peak event was the Haka dance.

Mr Simon Green firstly explained about the Haka dance and performed a demonstration soon after that before the teachers and students in the school's hall. He showed the steps and movements and sang the native Maori language Haka song.

A group of male teachers were then called up to come to the stage, accompanying Mr Simon doing the dance together. The dance movements were introduced in steps, easy for the teachers and the kids to follow. This then became the warming up exercise before all teachers geared up for the games.

The Haka dance was a new experience for the people in the hall. It is truly will be a new experience among Bruneians too. Thanks to Mr Simon Green for the Haka dance. Everyone seemed enjoyed.

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Tungku Primary School Open Day 2013.

Pengiran Hajah Sarah binti Pengiran Haji Kamaluddin, Director General of Education from Ministry of Education, as the guest of honour accompanied by some officials from the ministry attended the School Open Day organised by Tungku Primary School this morning, 18 November 2013.

The guest of honour was welcomed by the school's headmistress, Cikgu Hajah Norliha binti Haji Matali. Also welcoming her were the Assistant Headmistress I and Assistant Headmaster II, Cikgu Hajah Samziah binti Haji Sabtu and Cikgu Hashnalhakhim bin Haji Abd Halim.

The visit started in the English Pra and Pra classes as they were the main focus and attraction of all show cases. The pra kids together with their teachers welcomed the visiting guests into their classrooms and showed their educational work and end-products they made based on their learning for this year.

Some of the pra kids showed their talent in playing a traditional Bruneian game called 'gasing' before the visitors.

They then moved into the hall where all show cases from Year 1 until Year 6 were held. Each level personally presented the hands-on and talent show.

Year 1 did the cursive writing done by 7-year-old kids. The Year 2 did the Show and Tell where the 8-year-old kids performed the reading into action and drama activities.

The 9-year-old kids of Year 3 presented the 3D models creation. Fantastic models were seen marvellous made by them. The creative writing activity done by 10-year-old Year 4 kids, made a move from basic but creative writing into picture stories in sequences, adding more creativity into fine drawings and scene set ups.

11-year-old kids of Year 5 showed the steps of making kites. They used raw materials like bamboos and crafted into fine straws for the skeletons. They were then modified into any shapes and plastered and designed with colour papers to give them to look more attractive.

The Year 6 of 12-year-old kids did the handicrafts and "Junior Chefs". The end-products they made this year were sold to public.

The visit then ended with a group photo with all teachers and an appreciation gift was given to guest of honour from the headmistress representing the school, teachers and students.

To view more pictures on the occasion, please do visit our facebook page at www.facebook.com/Sekolah Rendah Tungku Brunei III.

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Learning At A Young Age with English

Mr Simon Green, a Pra English teacher.

Mr. Simon Green, a CfBT English Pra teacher conducted a staff development for all teachers from the school. The occasion took place in the afternoon in his Pra English classroom on the 28^th May 2013. Also attending the workshop was the Headmistress, Cikgu Hjh Norliha binti Haji Matali.

The workshop focused on the class layout, behaviour management systems, routines, expectations and standards that were to be instilled among the Pra pupils so that they would know the rules and regulations they needed to follow ensuring their lessons were a success. In other words, the pupils must have the discipline at a young age, which then gradually overtime it will become a habit without the teacher to repeat saying the same thing.

In the class layout management, Mr. Simon Green explained that the pupils must know clearly what is expected of them while in the classroom, where they are expected to be at any given time, what they are learning and what stage they are at, what the specific goal is and how they will know they have reached success, what the expectation is while learning, what can help aid their learning and how they are expected to perform.

He added that the Pra kids would learn 11 themes for that year in 7 areas for learning and these included the behavior management during the lesson, the clear explanation of learning intentions and success criteria, reading and writing, teaching and learning with use of square grids and finally the production or outcome of the pupils’ learning. The aims of these 11 themes which are shifted around the classroom as the year progresses are there to be referred to by the pupils, to extend learning and fill in gaps so indirectly they are encouraged to speak among themselves about their past lessons.

About the behavior management, Mr Simon showed how he did to his pupils to behave nicely and to be good with teachers and friends. He introduced the space rocket Behaviour Management theme to becoming a ‘star student’. This correlates to the teaching and learning area. Apart, this tactic is like selling the reward to the kids aiming the pupils to get rid of unwanted behavior in classroom. It also encourages them to behave modestly and nicely to others. This then affects and sets standard for the class. It also gives boundaries which they respond positively to, helps them better understand the expectation while in class and reduces class ‘breakdowns’.

Learning Intentions and Success Criteria explained where the pupils can learn and articulate what they are learning to do. The pupils will have clear visuals for success with the learning system and they can see where their success lies.

In the reading and writing, they are designed for pupils to further their learning, extend or bring others up – like the motto “No one gets left behind”. Mr. Simon added that the areas should hold things that have already been taught. If not, pupils will simply play if they haven’t been taught the expectation with equipment or how to use a particular resource. For ability groupings, such as the colour coded seating plan, allow for fluent pupils to help less able ones.

The teaching and learning with use of seating grids link with the behavior management theme, the chart. Each pupil has their square tile and they are split boy and girl to reduce distracting and unwanted interaction. Each pupil with identified learning or behavior issues is seated in a specific area and each is specifically partnered with alternate ability partner.

In the production or outcome learning, pupils will move on to the desks allowing greater opportunity for group work, interaction familiarity with partner or group and encourages team building. Pupils are ability grouped, in accordance with the seating or behavior plan which allows those more able to guide or inspire the less able.

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National Day at School

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.

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SBAfL, New Techniques for Teachers

 

SBAfL or School Based Assessment for Learning is a fusion of two terms, the SBA and AfL. SBA stands for School Based Assessment at which currently is being practiced since the new SPN21 education system started in 2010. AfL or Assessment for Learning is a new integration of teaching and learning with SBA that was introduced into the Brunei education system in 2012.

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.

 

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Hakeem and Syafiqah Excelled in Azan and Reciting Surahs

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.

 

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