Novel Knockout 2019

Novel Knockout competition is about to start! Calling Years 5 and 6 students to be part of GIS team. You can now borrow and start reading the selected books for the Novel Knockout 2019 competition. They are all available in the library right now. Be quick!

For more information, please see Ms. Jenny or Ms. Firah in the Primary Library.

Kuala Lumpur Novel Knockout 2018

Calling years 5 and 6- the competition is about to start! You can now borrow and start reading the selected books for Novel Knockout 2018 competition. They are all available in the library right now. Be quick!

Kuala Lumpur Novel Knockout 2017

On Tuesday, 9th May, two teams represented GIS in the Primary section of the annual Kuala Lumpur Novel Knockout reading competition at ISKL Melawati. This a very challenging competition where the participants need to read and remember every details written in all eight books, fiction and non-fiction. Our students competed against students from 15 other international schools, answering written and socrative question about all books they have been reading over the last term.

Our two teams came away with 1st and 2nd position, what a fantastic result. Well done to all the students involved for their commitment in preparing for the competition, as well as their performance on the day.

Poetry Wars

The last writing competition of the year is upon us! This year's Poetry Competition themes are:

Journeys

Some ideas for the subject of your poem could be:

• a journey you have been on
• a journey you would like to go on
• a great (or terrible!) journey
• people or animals that embark on great journeys

Home Sweet Home

Some ideas for the subject of your poem could be:

• your home - either the place you live or the place you are from
• a place you would like to live
• objects or belongings that remind you of home
• people that you feel 'at home' around

You do not have to use one of these ideas - be creative!

Poems must be submitted by Friday, 19th May 2017.

Years 1 & 2 - hand your entries in to Miss Rachel

Years 3 - 6 - submit your poems digitally to Mr. Archer at archer.a@gardenschool.edu.my

(Please make sure you include your name and class in the title.)

Book Week Illustration: Winners

Congratulation to everyone who took part in the Book Week Illustration competition, you have all been awarded a house point. 5 individuals from each year group received 5 house points.

The final results are:

The following are the overall winners from each year group, they receive 5 house points, a certificate and a special prize.

Year 6

'It was a dark and stormy night'

A wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle

Year 3

'Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.'

Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne

Year 1

'Once there was a little girl called Sophie and she was having tea with her mummy in the kitchen. Suddenly there was a ring at the door'

The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr

Year 5

'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Year 2

'Once there was a little girl called Sophie and she was having tea with her mummy in the kitchen. Suddenly there was a ring at the door'

The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr

Year 4

'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Well done to everyone who took part!