Visit by Sakura (SM Sains Kucing Utara)

I just have to blog today after such a long break! First up, SAKURA visited us last week, precisely on the 6th April. SAKURA is as 'young' as my school but their achievements are truly inspiring. At such a tender age, the school has already shot up to no.8 in the SBP rankings. It is we who should be bench marking them and learning from them! Anyway, I was tasked to share our PLC programme and I hope I didn't disappoint anyone :) Thank you for visiting us and we hope to emulate you!

One for the album!

Yours truly, my principal on my right and on far right Dr Norisah, principal of SAKURA

The briefing...

Those who can DO, Those who can do more TEACH

Hari Raya Get-together for Teachers and Staff

Enjoyed this gathering..simple but joyful and the food was delicious, especially the rendang. We are so lucky to have the new canteen operator. Everything I tasted was to my liking :)

'Kambing golek' by popular request!

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Back to school...ouch!

Come on! Drag those heavy feet to school (teachers included) tomorrow. After a week of Adilfitri celebrations, it's time to pit those brains against the SPM Trial :) Whoever said Hari Raya is for a month is utterly confused and has got to get his brains fixed hehe... All the best guys! That goes to 5 Syafie and5 Abu Hanifah too :) May the best man win!

 

My lovable mentees in Dorm L01

 


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A lesson on Wonder Product: My favourite

A continuation of the lesson on a wonder product with 4 Abu Hanifah. Boy would I like this machine!! Click here for lesson plan.

From the group Zafasya..well-done!!

 





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Wonder Product: Fm 4 Al Farabi and 4 Abu Hanifah

Congratulations to 4 Al Farabi dan 4 Abu Hanifah for coming up with creative wonder products during this lesson! Objectives achieved. Click here for the lesson plan.

 

 

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Wordsmith Quiz #1 Winner!

Congrats to Kamaliah Suhardi from 4 Abu Hanifah for winning quiz #1!

Watch out for the next one Sasemians!

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SPM English Workshop 1.14

Date: 21st February 2014
Venue: Khalifah Hall, SASEM

175 SPM candidates attended the workshop this morning. Radhika and I handled the session with 36 Young Tutors. In this workshop we dealt with Form 4 poems and Grammar namely tenses and SVA. Students' reponse was very encouraging and the Young Tutors played their roles really well. Alhamdulillah...Wait for the next session :)

Those who can DO
Those who can do more TEACH

Tokoh Nilam Kluang 2014

Date: 23rd January 2014
Venue: SJKC Chong Hwa (2) Hall

Congrats to Lukman from SASEM for getting first runner up in this district competition. I had fun judging this one with Rosleen (STK) and Atifah (SMK Belitong). Overall it was well-organised by the PKG and 4B Youth Association of Kluang. Congrats to En Razip for coordinating the competition.

Tn Hj A. Manap Muslimin, Kluang PPD giving his speech

Well-done!

Mr Kifli, senior assistant and Lukman

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Farewell to Mr Mohd Noh Mohd Yusof, SASEM's first principal!

Date: 16th January 2014

Venue: Khalifah Hall

The pictures say it all. A farewell was arranged for our first principal En Mohd Noh Mohd Yusof in Khalifah Hall. It was quite an elaborate ceremony with presentations from students, speeches and tokens of appreciation. May Allah bless him with good health and even more success in his new school!

Pn Noreta, MC

Mr Kifli, Senior Assistant 1

Em Mohd Noh giving his speech for the last time

Pian and his wonderful song!

All the best to you!

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Welcome to Tn Hj Sharif Junidek, Sasem's second principal

Welcome to Tn Hj Sharif Junidek, SASEM's second principal! Tn Hj Sharif hails from SMK Sri Sembrong, Kluang and was an ex-student and teacher of SM Sains Johor, a school I taught for 21 years. In addressing his first assembly today, he had a few important talking points for all students:

• Tagline: "Anak yang baik mendengar kata"
• The differences between "cerdik" and "pandai"
• Being grateful to God always
• See problems as challenges and challenges as opportunities
• Teachers will take their oath ("Aku Janji") next week

His briefing with teachers touched on:

• The need for teachers to support the head of the school
• Empowering senior teachers
• Empowering teachers
• A teacher's touch

SASEM extends a warm welcome to Tn Hj Sharif Junidek. May SASEM scale to greater heights with your leadership.

Our new principal- Tn Hj Sharif Junidek

New form 1 students in the forefront

Hopeful new ist formers!

First briefing by the principal for teachers

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Feeling upbeat about 2014 academic year!

Center: The Principal, En Mohd Noh Mohd Yusof flanked by our new PK HEM (Cik Noraazizah) and PK Koko (En Mazlan)

Funny how some meetings are conducted. Our second meeting today only required me to listen, listen and listen :) The day before yesterday, we had our first meeting and tomorrow will be the Curriculum Meeting . More listening strategies will be adopted I guess. Someone said to me once, having too many meetings is "the recipe for failure" based on the Germans' experience of losing the world war. I wonder if there is any truth in this...

I look forward to 2014 and teaching! I want to do a better job than I did last year especially with the PBS classes and I pray for better health.

A note on PMR 2013:

• SASEM's PMR: GPS 1.13 
• English Language: GPS 1.23 
• Anugerah Cemerlang Sekolah Yang Mencapai ETR
• Anugerah Emas (Kehadiran Pelajar)

Congrats to SASEM and all English teachers. This is what Allah has decided for so Alhamdulillah!

The Thinking Teacher

Dinner Treat for Perfect Score Club, Prime city Hotel, Kluang

Top scorers from Form 3 and 5 were feted with a sumptious spread in Prime City Hotel, Kluang last night. The food was great but I missed the 'cendol'! Later, I ferried Hidir, Din, Sulaiman and Ummu back to school for another do- Tuanku Hisamudin's House dinner. Ummu unexpectedly vomitted in the car so I drove her straight to her hostel to get a change of clothes. Poor girl! Rain messed things up a little- the tables and chairs at Dataran Kristal were all wet. However, well-done to the Form 4's for organising this for the seniors. Good job! I had a teriible headache and didn't stay long.I heard the beriani was good.

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All the best Sasem's first batch of SPM candidates!

All the best to 189 candidates in our very first SPM! Despite the problems and upsets, we have faith in you. Make us proud Sasemians! And may I add make me proud 5 Bukhari and 5 Syafie!

Such nice thoughts from their juniours :) Brilliant idea!

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'Solat Hajat' Programme in SASEM

Date: 13th September 2013
Venue: Sasem, Kluang

Thanks to the committee members for a successful programme and to parents for making time for this programme. May Allah bless all our efforts and bless SASEM's first PMR and SPM candidates. I promised Afiq that I will post their pict so there you go! Enjoy your weekend boys :)

Solat Hajat Programme...top right, jejaka jejaka hensem sasem lols!! From left: Afiq, Ikhwan and Azam

 
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Nuero-linguistics Programming for PMR Candidates 2013 (Phase 2)

Date: 24th August 2013

Venue: Library

70 PMR candidates were chosen for this second phase based on their trial exam. I hope they have benefitted from the course.  Thanks to Pn Siti Sheahila Abdul Rashid from SMK Kota Jaya, Kota Tinggi for sharing your expertise.

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WORDSMITH QUIZ 1: Winners

Congratulations to the two students who won the first quiz during the Ramadhan! Quiz No.2 coming soon. Watch the space :)

Siti Khadijarh Talib (2 Majah)

Noor Aliza Ngali (1 Majah)

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Neuro-linguistics Programming for PMR and SPM 2013 candidates (Phase One)

One of my responsibilities as Coordinator for Excellence Programmes in SASEM is to organise courses that help PMR and SPM candidates as they will be sitting for the first public exams for SASEM this year. For a change, I decided to call Counselor, Pn Siti Sheahila Abdul Rashid, from SMK Kota Jaya Kota Tinggi to hold a half day course. She is a certified practitioner of NLP and is pursuing a PHD on the discipline. Students' evaluation was excellent and a second phase was in order for other candidates. Since this was my first experience of the NLP, it was definitely and eye-opener :)

selected students

En Kifli, PK1 doing his welcoming address

surreal! what the sub-conscious can do!

my bubble

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Teacher's Day Dinner by the fifth formers

Date: 18th May 2013
Venue: Khalifah Hall, SASEM

A million thanks to all the fifth formers for the special dinner to celebrate Teacher's Day. The food was great and the waiter service was first rate. I wish more teachers had attended though and that this was not held in the midst of the mid-year exam :) Proud to see Idayu and Afiq performing as well as Tarmizi. Well-done to all!

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Teacher's Day in SASEM: 16th May 2013

An awesome Teacher's day celebration despite the gloomy outlook! I must admit I was really happy on this day. Thanks to the organising committee. However, perhaps a little coordination would have prevented some delays in the programmes. Still, a day to remember :) 

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PMR In house training

Date: 25 April 2013
Venue: Meeting Room 2

Thanks to Atifah for the in house training today despite the short notice. I hope it was useful for the teachers and that they had taken the opportunity to learn as much as they could.

 

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