In the last month, school events and activities have largely gone back to the normal of 2019. We have had students competing in sports fixtures with other schools, sports days in Primary, performances, CSR projects and of course a lot of lessons. The school is ‘buzzing’ again with constructive noise, and energy.

Congratulations to Mr Ed for the role of campus Principal. As parents will have seen from the email from Mr Gan, we have taken the strategic move to develop senior staff from within the campus. This very much fits with our purpose statement of developing leaders. On a simple level, Ed (and then in a year's time Ms Anne Marie) will take on the responsibility for the day to day operations of the campus, while I will have the overview and strategic direction for both campuses together with the main administration processes that large organisations like TIS have. I am still easily available and very much involved in the school operations should parents wish to speak to me, however, please remember to contact the person most relevant to your question, and in most cases that will be the class teacher or head of section.

The food and Games Carnival held a couple of weeks ago was a resounding success on so many levels. It was the first time in a few years that we were able to bring together the whole school community; Primary and Secondary staff and students, admin staff and parents. The atmosphere was superb and the community spirit was very generous.

Thank you everyone for attending and for spending money to support those who are less fortunate than ourselves. We have very nearly finalised the accounts and hope to have over RM36000 to split across the six charities.

As you will be aware, we have been using Care.mvmt as a direction to support Self, Others and the Earth in school activities. This carnival very firmly fits into Care for others and will help a number of charities to further their work. The Charities we supported in this event are: Befrienders KL, Buddybear Childline, Fugee School, Make a wish, Yayasan Chow Kit, and Buku Jalanan Chow Kit.

As reported in previous weeks, TISKL was fortunate to be asked by Puzzle Planet to help them with a record breaking jigsaw puzzle. Our students were asked to create graphics to be put on a very large map of Malaysia to celebrate the 65th Merdeka. This record breaking puzzle was unveiled at the Intermark shopping Mall earlier this month, and has now been moved to the school foyer. Please take the opportunity to recognise the super creativity and imagination of the students as you look from state to state to see what they have designed to reflect Malaysia.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone of some more routine matters.
Students (and parents) need to bring their ID tags when they are on campus. For parents this helps security and staff to identify you as a parent. For students this tag is essential for buying food at the cafeteria and also for borrowing books at the library. For food, please make sure that you ‘top-up’ the tag regularly so that you have the credit to make purchases.

Year 11 students start their final IGCSE papers at the start of October. These exams will then take until the last week of school to complete. Year 11 will be on study leave and will only come into school when they have a paper or for final support lessons. I would like to wish all Year 11 students “Good Luck” with these exams and remind them that preparation is the key to success. There is a famous quote from Gary Player the golfer, he said “the more I practise, the luckier I get”

Peter Wells