Director's Circular to Parents -February 2015
Dear Parents,
1.
Introduction
The new school year started 1 week later than scheduled
because of serious flooding in Peninsular Malaysia. For your information, the
school calendar will have no changes as we are instructed by the Ministry of
Education to record school session starting from week 2 (12th January 2015- 16th
January 2015). This is done to standardise teachers’ yearly plan and assessment
time especially the implementation of School Based Assessment (PBS).
2.
Student’s Leaving School
Compound During School Hours
With your
children’s safety being our primary concern, the school has implemented the One Card System which will help to monitor and record
students’ movement during school hours. Whenever
there is a need for them to leave the school compound during school hours for
whatever reason, they need to account for their absence from the school. We
seek your co-operation to ensure that your children’s safety is taken care of.
3.
School Sports Day 2015
Lodge Group of
Schools Sports Day 2015 will be held on the 8th February, 2015 at the
SMK Tabuan Jaya Sports Complex. We strongly encourage your presence to support your
children during the Sports Day. Staff and students will be given a day off on
the 9th February.
4.
Chinese New Year Holidays
In conjunction
with the Chinese New Year holidays on the 19th February 2015 and the 20th
February 2015, the school is taking two additional occasional holidays on 17th
February 2015 and 18th February 2015. The schools will be closed
from 17th February 2015(Tuesday) to 22nd February 2015(Sunday).
On behalf of Lodge Group of Schools, I
wish all parents, staff and students a very prosperous Chinese New Year (Year
of the Goat).
5.
Staff and Students’ Electronic
Pass for all Entities
All staff and
students of Lodge Group of Schools will be given an electronic security card.
The card (including a lanyard and card holder) costs RM10.00. However we are
still in the process of staff and students photo-taking. Once they are ready,
we will implement electronic attendance taking of staff and students in order
to save time and roll call. The security card will also function as a library
card and student ID card.
6.
ICT Needs and Infrastructure
For Lodge Group of Schools
Lodge Group of
Schools plans to upgrade the ICT infrastructure to meet the needs of teaching your
children 21st century skills. Currently, we have a simple network
system with internet access for administrative purposes. We are not able to
provide on-line learning and ICT integrated learning for your children yet as
we have low bandwidth internet access. The school invites parents or alumni with
related knowledge or capabilities to come forward and assist the school in this
matter.
7.
Compulsory Pass in UPSR BM and
English Language for Admission to Form 1 starting 2018
The Board of
Management at its monthly meeting on 8th January 2015 decided that commencing
2018, Lodge National Secondary School will only admit Lodgians who have a pass
in both UPSR Bahasa Melayu and English Language. This is to ensure that they can cope with the
subject requirements in Secondary School which requires them to pass Bahasa
Melayu, Sejarah and English Language in the SPM Examination starting 2016.
8.
Lunch Depository and Drive
Through Service
To
reduce traffic congestion prior to lunch break, the National Secondary School ancillary
staff is providing a drive-through service for parents sending lunch to their
children. The service started on the 16th January 2015. It will trial
run for a month to gauge parents’ response. We will extend this service to the
other entities upon positive feedback. Therefore,
we request all parents to tag all lunch boxes/containers clearly so that your
children can pick up the correct items. We do not encourage the children to
bring their lunches to class as it will create other issues in the classrooms. We
also strongly discourage parents to supervise their children’s lunch in the canteen
due to limited space.
9.
Punctuality and Safety of
Students
We would like to
thank parents who have been co-operating well to make sure that your children
arrive punctually to school. We would like to draw your attention to the new pedestrian
crossing at the National Primary and Secondary School. Please keep clear of the
pedestrian crossing whenever you stop your car for your children to alight.
Please cooperate to ensure the safety of your children.
10.
IGCSE and Cambridge International AS Level 2014
Results
Lodge
International School is extremely proud to announce that we have achieved our BEST IGCSE RESULTS since our inception in
2002. Not only have our students achieved 100% passes in 13 IGCSE subjects, the number of straight A/A* scorers have doubled to 16 students, which
is close to 30% of the 2014 graduating cohort. Congratulations to parents and
teachers as well as students of the 2014 cohort for this outstanding result. We
also received good news regarding the 2014 Cambridge International AS Level
examinations. This significantly larger cohort had recorded a 96.3% pass rate
for 9 AS Level subjects ranging from Mathematics, Sciences, and the Humanities.
THOMAS HUO KOK SEN
Director
Lodge Group of Schools
