Newsletter No. 52 - August 2014 The Beginning of the New Term Welcome back to all! It’s the beginning of the new term where both TIS & Sekolah Tenby are back to school. Here we share with you some moments captured in this first week of “Back to School”. Students at the classroom. Break time at the canteen. Students having singing lesson & outdoor activities.
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Newsletter No. 52 - August 2014
The Beginning of the New Term
Welcome back to all!
It’s the beginning of the new term
where both TIS & Sekolah Tenby are
back to school. Here we share with
you some moments captured in this
first week of “Back to School”.
Students at the classroom.
Break time at the canteen.
Students having singing lesson &
outdoor activities.
From the Campus Principal
Dear Parents and Friends of Tenby Ipoh,
Welcome to the first of our weekly newsletters; the aim of sending this
letter weekly is to improve communication and ensure that you are kept
up to date on what is happening in our schools as well as to celebrate the
successes of your children. We are working hard to establish a good da-
tabase of e-mail addresses and our intention is to be able as soon as
possible to send this letter directly to your mailbox every Friday. Please
ensure that you always keep your contact details up to date and let us
know of any changes.
It has been wonderful to welcome back our staff and students from the international schools
this week. The campus has had a real buzz about it all week and I extend a very warm wel-
come to all new students and families who joined us on Tuesday. I hope that you will settle in
very quickly and feel part of our school community.
We are very fortunate to have such a spacious and pleasant campus on which to work.
There have, however, been some challenges over the past weeks as our tennis courts were
hit by an exceptionally strong storm and considerable damage was done. Our Bursar and
her team have been working hard to put this right and new improved shading with a stronger
base will be put up as soon as details have been finalised with contractors. We are commit-
ted to a programme of ongoing maintenance and improvement and I would like to assure all
of you that maintaining a safe, clean and healthy environment for our students is high on my
agenda.
I have enjoyed my first meetings with both the Student Council and the Parents’ Association
this week. As I have said at a number of meetings already, open communication lies at the
heart of any good school. I am always happy to meet parents either to discuss issues directly
concerning their child or general matters concerning the school. An appointment through my
PA, Siew Peng, will always guarantee a meeting.
Next week will see our Moon Cake Festival celebrations next Friday evening. You should be
receiving a circular regarding this today; if you are intending to come please collect your free
tickets from the office to give us an idea of numbers. We hope to see you there.
Finally a reminder that there will be no school on Monday of next week in respect of the pub-
lic holiday.
With best wishes,
Howard Bullock.
From the Head of Secondary, TIS
Dear Secondary Students and Parents,
For those returning to the school after our 4 week vacation, it is lovely to
have you back. The campus has been eerily empty in the absence of our
vibrant students. To all those new to TIS Secondary, a heartily warm wel-
come to Tenby. I have been here in Tenby Ipoh for just 4 months and can
readily acknowledge that it is an extremely welcoming campus where the
students and staff learn passionately and happily. If your child has just
joined the school then by now they will have met their respective form tutor
and mingled with their new class mates. All lessons are taught by subject specialist teaching
staff and both lesson and homework timetables will have been distributed. I am keen to pro-
mote enhanced communication between home and school, and vice versa. This can be done
in the first instance through the use of the student planner/diary. Incoming notes from you will
initially go to form tutors, and as required will be forwarded on to relevant colleagues, where
we will aim to reply in an expeditious manner. We encourage you to sign the planner on a
weekly basis and they will be countersigned by Tutors weekly. All Teaching Staff are on cam-
pus from 7.30am and so if you need to speak with a teacher, then there might be scope to
meet briefly before school. Similarly after school, if colleagues are not involved in CCA’s then
time can be made to discuss and issues or matters that you may have. Across the wider cam-
pus we operate an ‘Open Door’ policy. Feel free to pop in and see me at any time if there are
any concerns whatsoever. Alternatively, you are more than welcome simply to call by and say
hello and introduce yourselves over a cup of tea or coffee. We welcome and embrace your
constructive feedback, so if you have any thoughts or ideas, by all means introduce us to
them.
As we welcome are new students and families within the Tenby family, we also welcome 6
new teaching staff. They will be providing their own pen portraits in this newsletter, but ahead
of those, I will provide their names and respective roles on the campus. Darren Nicoll joins us
as Design Technology teacher and tutor to 8 yellow. Dave Rajan joins the school as a Teacher
of English. Diane Beresford joins us Head of English and Languages. Myra Pyne joins us as
Senior Science Coordinator covering Key Stage 2-5. Pong Kwai Lai joins us as a Mandarin
Teacher. Finally we are joined by Susan Thomas who will join us as a Teacher of Science and
tutor to 9 Yellow.
The school has bedded down on to this new site very well indeed. We have much to be proud
of as it is clear that there is wide scale good practice in evidence. Our recent A-Level and
IGCSE grades were very encouraging and we are tremendously proud of the achievements of
all of our students. The bar continues to be set higher and higher, and with continuous assess-
ment in operation, and subject specific target setting being implemented, we are confident of
helping our leaners make notable progress.
I hope that we have a great year, working collaboratively to ensure that our learners are
happy, healthy and making forward stride with their attainment. In any event should you need
to make an appointment with me, kindly contact my secretary, Sheena at ext: 110 or email: