End-Of-Year Celebration Honours Retiring Teachers By Hanni ABD

Bandar Seri Begawan - Nineteen teachers from Sekolah Menengah Pg Jaya Negara Pg Hj Abu Bakar who have recently retired were awarded yesterday morning at a Teacher's Day celebration. They received their awards as a form of recognition for their teaching service of over 25 years.

The guest of honour at the event was Awg Juna bin Jumat, the Acting Assistant Director of Schools Department.

In his speech, he said that professionalism in teachers was a key to quality increase. "A quality and excellent teacher would not only offer effective teaching but also assist in influencing the future lives of the children they guide," he said.

He urged teachers to practice a strong and excellent work culture to lead the children to be future leaders.

He then praised the secondary school for their achiedement and efforts by school members in building the school's image through character-building. As one of the secondary schools with a special scheme on science class, the school was able to compete with other secondary schools, and succeeded in exhibiting a good reputation in various participating activities within the national, regional and international levels.

Academically, the school through the science class special scheme achieved 100 per cent pass rate in PMB and GCE `O' level examinations from 2003 to 2005.

The school has also constantly won first and second place in project competitions organised by the Ministry of Education such as Quality and Equity in Education for SMARTs System project, Science CD-Rom competition, and won a gold award in the National School Health Exhibition and many more.

In the regional and international level the school's students were selected and committed in the participation of student exchange programmes to Japan and Manila last year, Sports Olympic Camp 2004 in Athens, SUKMA. Sports and a chess competition in Italy.-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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