There were two articles in the Star newspaper on Wednesday. One directly involving our staff and the other the family of one of our board members. The front page article was about the forthcoming marriage of Zara Salim Davidson, who is actually a grandniece of first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and the daughter of Bill Davidson, who is the CfBT Malaysia lawer and one of our board members. For more information see the article on-line: Zara Salim Davidson will become Raja Puan Besar of Perak.
The second article "English lessons for rural students" is a follow-up to my previous posting about PIERS. The article shows Mohd Arif (aka Chris Bell) with Tunku Naquiyuddin at SK Undang Johol, one of the schools participating in Kuala Pilah, and gives some details about this particular PIERS project.STOP PRESS
"Today I gave a demo class to the Education Ministers of Malaysia and Thailand, who I think were impressed and seemed very happy that PETs were doing such good work in schools. So their trip to SMAPK may be in the Star or NST tomorrow or Monday perhaps. Don't know if I shall be mentioned, but it doesn't matter, what is
important is that he promised to help the school with some of the things we needed and I'm sure he will look on the continued relationship with CfBT with good heart. ... the theme of my lesson was "The Future:, and when I showed a picture of a UFO and asked the students what type of vehicle it was, the Minister piped up; "it's a space ship it's a space ship".Everyone laughed at his energetic answer. Then, when they left, everyone laughed again when I told the Ministers they both had detention for sneaking out of the class.
A good day I think." Vance Carson
See also related article (Sorry Vance, the school got a mention but not you. But then there's always next time, eh?) re SM Alam Shah
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