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Nine-year old Hwang Gyuho, delivered his speech with great eloquence and fluency. “After coming to R.E.A.L Schools for this camp, I am able to communicate better in English with my friends. This trip will be a great memory. Thank you for taking good care of us and teaching us English.” Cultural and student exchange programmes form part and parcel of R.E.A.L Schools’ extracurricular offerings. Early this year, R.E.A.L Schools’ Shah Alam Campus collaborated with QB Global to welcome 11 Korean students to Malaysia for a three-week ‘Fun with English Camp’, with several being as young as seven-years old. The main…
For the third consecutive year, POWIIS successfully organised the World Scholar’s Cup Malaysia Round, Penang. The first of two Malaysian qualifying rounds in their annual calendar, the Malaysia Round Penang saw 376 young scholars from 20 secondary schools across Malaysia competing over the weekend of 26-27 March in four team events, namely debate, writing challenge, quiz challenge, and quiz bowl. The POWIIS team represented the school very well, emerging overall champions out of more than 50 junior teams. The senior team earned a credible 8th place overall out of 70 teams in that category.What was noteworthy, however, is that every POWIIS team…
Driven by its success so far, Marlborough College Malaysia is building a new Preparatory School building. Located on its 90-acre campus near the Tuas crossing, the new building will include 30 classrooms, a drama hall, library, specialist learning support department, science, art and design suites, dining facilities, and dedicated music rooms. This stage of its development will also see an additional air-conditioned sports hall being built for the Preparatory School pupils and two more boarding houses. The Preparatory School building has been designed by the noted school architect Stefan Jacobek of HOK London and will be completed for opening in…
It is incredible to contemplate, in hindsight, what a team of 17 learners can achieve over six months of sweat and toil. On the 4th of March, the third annual session of NISPMUN took off, welcoming 207 delegates for a total of around 230 people from all over the country to a three-day conference that has become the hallmark of Model United Nations at Nexus. The opening ceremony, symbolised by the memorable aesthetics which marked the conference, was kicked off by inspiring addresses from both Nexus’s Principal and its Head of Secondary. The atmosphere of academic discourse was palpable as one strolled between the seven committees packed with delegates in suits and dresses, discussing global issues which affected the lives of others.…
On the 9th of March at 6am, 18 Prince of Wales Island boarders and 9 day pupils travelled to Weld Quay to observe the partial solar eclipse. With the aim of promoting Science and Mathematics, the organisers, Penang Science Cluster, arranged a few simple hands-on activities to help educate the students as well as the public to understand the natural phenomenon of a solar eclipse. Many activities included how to use the pin-hole reflecting mirror to project the image of the sun for safe viewing, observing the sun through a properly configured telescope, and trying the experiment of standing eggs. Some students together took great photos of the eclipse which were published in some of the local newspapers.…
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Marlborough College Malaysia was honoured to recently host Her Excellency, Vicki Treadell, the British High Commissioner to Malaysia, as part of the College’s annual University and Careers Fair for Sixth Form pupils. Her Excellency gave the opening address and delivered an inspiring talk to Marlborough College Malaysia pupils, drawing upon what it takes to succeed in their education, their future careers and their role as global citizens. She further advised our pupils that a combination of good teamwork, passion, initiative, being kind and considerate towards one another, and not being afraid to speak to people who are an inspiration, will…
Prince of Wales Island International School hosted the St Christopher’s International Primary School (SCIPS) Athletics Meet on 19th February. The event included 200 students from SCIPS, Dalat International School, The International School of Penang (Uplands), and The British International School, Kuala Lumpur. Under brilliant sunny skies, all the students and parents enjoyed the extensive facilities. After the event all shared an enjoyable BBQ and ice cream feast. Thank you to all of the staff that helped on the day from all of the schools, but the biggest thanks goes to the POWIIS Junior Sports Leaders who did an excellent job running all the…
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This article is brought to you in part by Prince of Wales Island Iternational School (POWIIS). With the Year of the Monkey now underway, we can take stock of our many blessings and look around to see how we can come together to help those who are in need. Prince of Wales Island International School began a tradition three years back, a tradition of giving to the needy at the end of every year. In 2013, the POWIIS family came together and collected funds to help with the rehabilitation of the Philippines’ Haiyan typhoon victims. In 2014 POWIIS identified a…