Mathematics and Science Dept Meeting

A day before the next activity for NRP normally the Mathematics and Science Department members would held a meeting in order to understand the rules and regulation of the game before it is introduced to the students.

Today, the teachers are taught about INTEGERs and how they would use Snake and Ladder game to learn this topic. Beside learning the theory behind it, the teachers have to try out the game.

Seems that if the teachers are enjoying the game, so will be for the students.

Best Practice Talk from SM Menteri

The SMSB delegates consists of SLP team, admin and ICT members were invited to study the School Best Practice in SM Mentiri. Their Best practice is known Live@edu. The SMSB delegates was fist welcomed by their Deputy Principal (Academics) and then followed by presentation from the D&T HoD, Science HoD and Senior Master.
Lastly there is a question and answer session on Live@edu.

Second activity of NRP

The second activity for Numeracy Recovery Program was held on 20 January 2011 during the 45 minutes. It is called SNAP SHOT. The students are using the cards for this game. There are two types of cards, which are questions and answers. The questions card are first reshuffle and the answer cards are equally distributed among the members of the team. A student is responsible to pick a question card on the top and place it on the table openly. The members had to work out the problem by calculating mentally for the answer and whoever got the answer in her hand,  will call out SNAP! and place the her answer card on the table. The other members can check the answer whether it is correct or not.

 The students had a great time playing the game and few groups had even try 2 rounds for this game.

45 minutes activity for Numeracy Recovery Program

 On Thursday 13 January 2011, the Year 7, 8 and 9 students are having their first NRP's 45 minutes intervention Program activity. They are doing the cross-number puzzles game that involves mathematics skills supervised by Mathematics and Science Deparments' teachers.

For other level, year 10 and Year 10 - 5, the students are also having the enrichment program with other departments. Below are pictures taken during the 45 minutes activity.

The pictures below are for Year 10 and Year 10-5's 45 minutes program done by other departments.

First test for Numeracy Recovery Program for Year 8 and 9

The first test for Year 8 and 9 was held yesterday (6 January 2011) from 7.30 am to 8.15am. The Mathematics and Science Department members are invigilating the students throughout this 45 minutes test. The test is one of the NRP activity to indentified the weaknesses of the students in mathematics skill especially in 4 basic operational skill. The papers will be marked by their own mathematics teacher. Then the data will be collected and be brought forward for the next meeting on Monday 9th January 2011.
For the year 7, the test will be held on Saturday 8th January 2011 for 45 minutes.

Below are the pictures taken during the test held in each class.

Successful ALP program for SMSB teachers

Another ALP workshop has been done for 2 days organised by SMSB's SLP team. Presenters and facilitators for the workshop are Cikgu Asurah, Cikgu Salanjat and Cikgu Hafizuddin. The other facilitators who assisted in running the workshop smoothly are Cikgu Salwati, Cikgu Goh Siah Ching and Cikgu Khairul.
As usual the workshop was started off with a welcoming speech by the Act. Principal, Cikgu Asurah. In her speech, she also mentioned about the School's values, ACTT eventhough she has already mentioned them to the students and teachers before during the first day of the school 2011's assembly.
During the workshop, the teachers are given the tools for developing and running the projects, leadership skills such as TPOV, RASI, Journey line, GPRI and the 9 cells matrix. Two games were introduced to support the tools are Thumb-wrestling and Traffic games.
At the end of the second day, we had closed the workshop by instructing individual to express their feelings with one word. The feedbacks were very encouraging as they mentioned the word such as Interesting, New, Fun, Like, Transformed, Stimulating and lots of positive words.

Below are the photos taken by Cikgu Hafizuddin during the workshop.