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We close the school year on a high note, celebrating the children’s success and the wealth of support from families. On behalf of the staff I would like to thank all our parents for their support during a busy successful year and wish you all a happy and healthy holiday. We will certainly miss all our children and parents who are posted and leaving us and wish you all the best for the future. For those children and families remaining with us we look forward to seeing you back in school on Wednesday 2nd September.
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We wish all of children and their families who are leaving Brunei a very safe journey and all the best in their new schools in the UK. We will certainly miss all our lovely children and parents.
Similarly we are extremely sad to see some of our very hard working and talented staff members leave Brunei next week and they are Ms Lou Tarpey, Mrs Sarah Whitticase, Mrs Mandy Russell, Ms Karen Palin, Mrs Sharon Noble, Mrs Bina Gurung, Mrs Durga Gurung, Mrs Premlata Gurung, Mrs Mamata Gurung, Mrs Shiela Gurung, Mrs Radha Gurung, Mrs Jessica Fletcher, Mrs Suzanne Pattinson, Mrs Tika Ale and Mrs Sudha Gurung. We wish them and a safe journey and the very best in their new schools or in the UK. We thank them for their tremendous hard work and contributions for the benefit of our children and school. We will always miss each and every one of them in Hornbill School.
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Foundation News
We would like to say a fond farewell to all our children leaving. We have had to say a very sad farewell to the following staff Sushman Gauchan from Saffron Class, Sarah Eliasson and Puspa Gurung Red Class, Tara Pun and Tara Rogers Blue Class and Hannah Berry, Luna Gurung and Dhan Maya Thapa all from Purple Class we wish them well in the future.
Children remaining in FS we look forward to seeing you on Thursday 3rd September.
Please let any new neighbours about induction day for new children on the Wednesday 2nd September.
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- News from last week
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CONGRATULATIONS !
We are extremely happy and proud to share with all parents the wonderful news that Mr Govinda Gurung, Nepali Specialist Teacher and Mrs Radha Gurung, Community Liaison and University for Children Co-ordinator, received last Friday a well-deserved commendation from the Commander British Forces Brunei for their tremendous amount of hard work, dedication and contributions not only for our children and the garrison community but for the wider community as well. Well done to both of them. We are so proud of you.
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Expressive Arts Week and Art Week
This week has been very exciting for the children as they have thoroughly enjoyed the Expressive Arts and Art Week. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Ian Westhead for running brilliant sessions on Scottish Dance for our children and the pipers LCpl Govinda Thapa Magar and Rfn Tika Bahadur Gurung for their beautiful tunes. Likewise, we would like to thank Mr Gill Donaldson for running wonderful art sessions for the children. Our children have gained so much from their expertise and experience. All the children have had opportunities to participate in wonderful activities involving expressive arts or art throughout the week enabling them to learn so much and enjoy every moment of it. A big thank you and well done to Mrs Angela Bennett, Mrs Helen Cowlan, Mr Susheel Shahi and Mrs Liz Measom for having organised such a brilliant and successful week for the whole school.
Thank you to all the parents who came to see our ‘Hornbill’s Got Talent’ at the Main Site today. All the participants were absolutely terrific and displayed great talent. Well done to all those who were involved. We are very proud of having such talents in our school.
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As we have 28 children leaving Brunei this week, we are sorry that we will not be able to name them individually but would like to wish all of children leaving and their families a very safe journey and all the best in their new school in the UK. We will certainly miss our lovely children and parents.
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- News from the week 29th June - 3rd July
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OPEN EVENING AND OPEN DAY
This week, we had our annual Open Evening at Main Site on Tuesday 30th June and Open Day at Foundation Site on Wednesday, 1st July. Parents and guests came to see their children participating in a number of activities including singing, dancing and gymnastic. They also saw their children’s works and talked with their teachers. We hope they enjoyed the interesting display of children’s work and presentations. We would like to thank all the parents and the garrison community for their kind and much appreciated support throughout the year.
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SCHOOL PRODUCTION
Thank you to all the children who displayed such great confidence and talent during our end-of-the-year school production, called ;Robin Hood’. Thank you to all the parents who came and supported the children and a big thank you to Craig Gill, Helen Cowlan and Liz Measom and other staff members behind the scenes who put in so much time and effort in making the production a grand success. So, well done to all those involved.
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UK SCHOOL BROCHURES
We have school brochures from Kingesmead Primary School, Cheriton Primary School, Pilgrim’s Way Primary School and Harcourt Primary School. If your child is going to any one of these schools and you would like to see their brochure, please feel free to come to the main site office during school hours.
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We had Mr Bill Collar, ICT CORE Advisory Teacher SCE, Mr Tony Burrett and Mr Eamonn Horton, ICT Assessors from Becta UK visit our school this week. Becta is the government agency leading the national drive to ensure the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning. Mr Burrett and Mr Horton were here to assess how ICT is integrated into our curriculum and how it is being used to help children make progress. Mr Burrett and Mr Horton were extremely impressed with all the work they saw and have judged our school a worthy recipient of the ICT Mark. So, we are very proud of all our children, staff and especially our ICT team consisting of Sharon Noble, Govinda Gurung, Vicky Thrippleton, Adam Bennett, Freddy Chan and Terry Banks. Congratulations everyone. Mr Burrett and Mr Horton have also assessed us for ICT Best Whole School Excellence Award. There are only 40 other schools in the UK who are competing for this award. We will not know the result of this assessment until later in the year.
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Last visit by His Excellency Mr John Saville, the British High Commissioner
His Excellency Mr John Saville, British High Commissioner paid his last visit to our school on Wednesday. We had a special farewell assembly for His Excellency who had come in his special ceremonial dress which was really impressive. He also officially inaugurated our Eco House and our Eco Team children showed around the eco-garden and the eco-house. We thank His Excellency for taking time, out of his very busy schedule, to visit our school and giving us an opportunity to say farewell to him. Please, click here for pictures.
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Mrs Wood, Mr Thapa and Mrs Gurung are all back in Brunei
Mrs Kathy Wood, Mr Rajesh Thapa and Mrs Radha Gurung are all back in Brunei having visited the UK where they met the parents from 2 RGR and visited ten of the local schools in Kent where most of our children go for their schooling. They gave a presentation to 2 RGR parents and another one to Headteachers and staff of the schools they visited. They were very impressed with how Hornbill school and parents of 1 RGR have been working closely together and expressed a wish to rise to the challenge and expectations 1 RGR have set over the last 3 years.
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HEALTH AND FITNESS WEEK 2 - 5 June 2009
Our Annual Health and Fitness Week was a grand success this week. The children enjoyed lots of exciting activities and challenges including Jump Rope for Heart, Tae Kwon Do, Orienteering, Road Safety, It’s a Knockout, Yoga, Nepali dance, Modern dance and Inflatables! Thank you to all the parents who came to support the children during KS1 and KS2 sports days today. Special thanks go to Mr Mike Crichton, Mrs Laura Hunter who worked very hard to organise and co-ordinate this successful week and Mr Bennett for leading KS2 Sports Day. Thank you to all members of BFB who have supported the children’s learning this week. FS children also have had a great Health and Fitness week. The bouncy castles were a real source of delight and the children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions led by QMSI PTI Andy Clark. For pictures please, click here.
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FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAMME (FLP)
Thank you to all the parents who attended our FLP on Healthy Eating on Wed 03 June at the Main Site. It was an important session on Accident Prevention and Healthy Eating. We hope you have all found it very useful. We would also like to say a big thank you to Teresa Mah, SSAFA Health Visitor and Carly William's, Child Health Nurse who led the session. For pictures please, click here.
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