Pre-Ramadan Surprise Birthday Party

Teachers at Bandar Putra threw a surprise birthday celebration for ELC, Lynnette a month in advance.
My thoughtful and sweet Teachers knew we couldn't celebrate during Ramadan so we celebrated a month in advance with a wonderful chocolate cake! So delighted to have such wonderful thoughtful people around me.

Mentor Down

Dramatic rescue of doomed TPD. Due to unforeseen complications, a 3 hour TPD in Saleng nearly didn't happen. However, Kulai cluster Mentors, Lynnette and Randall stepped in and saved the day, and what a great day we had with the five schools from the Seletan Sub-cluster.

Non -TELL 2 Phonics Event

On the 19th of July, 2014, the Kulai Cluster hosted an Non-TELL Event to which we invited 40, schools not on the TELL 2 Program.
This was held in conjunction with the DLO from Kulai, Puan Saerah. We are delighted to report that we had a great turn-out and had an immensely fun time.
Reports-back have been very favourable with interest shown in the TELL Program.

Best Practices.

A few images of what the Utara teachers have been up to...

First up we have Ms. Sally Siti Salehah Binti Masrom at Bukit Batu who with a genius idea helped her kids develop plants as a reward system.
The kids really enjoyed learning about the Unit and the quiz afterwards. Please see attached images of this and speech bubbles we used during our lessons(Thanks to Ms. Lynnette Vince-Jillings for this great idea!).

Below we have students and Teachers from the Utara area in Kulai: 

Next up we have a teacher from the same school, SKLTP Bukit Batu, Nur Atiqah Liviani Binti Lausin. 

She used Origami and had her students learning about clothing. The images indicate part of the artistic side of the students. 

Below we have students from the Bandar Pulau area in Kulai: 

Much much more to follow... please keep your eye on this space as well. 

Johor cohort sharing ideas, plans and... a meal.

So the long awaited Johor group of Mentors finally got together to sit down with their Project Manager to talk about all things Brighton. Needless to say, the day turned out to be a great success! Please peruse our site to have a look at some memorable images of the people who made the day possible. Many thanks to Kareem Chris Storer from Brighton Education Group and the many faithful people(too many to mention) who helped make the day educational and fun at the same time. Thanks to Ashanti Paul for the images.

Events for August

A look into our schedule for August. More events/schedules to follow... please keep an eye on this space?

Welcoming our new Mentor, Irfaan.

 An old day passes and a new day arrives. A previous Mentor left and a new one arrived to assist the Kulai Cluster.

The importance, however, is to make it all meaningful. Make meaningful friends and relationships and work towards making every day ... a meaningful day!

This is our aim and our goal as we welcome Mr. Irfaan Ansari to the Seletan Sub-Cluster and to the Kulai area as a whole. A South African English Language Professional, he brings with him a wealth of experience from Saudi Arabia. 

The times ahead may bring with it many new challenges - a teacher, for some a new school, perhaps some unfamiliar faces or a friend.

Shall we all rally around and make our new colleague feel thoroughly welcome and we all wish him all the best in his new role.