SK Sultan Sulaiman I student infected with H1N1

SK Sultan Sulaiman 1 won’t be closed

KUALA TERENGGANU (NST): State Education director Ariffin Embong said SK Sultan Sulaiman 1 will not be closed as two of its students who were infected with the influenza A (H1N1) virus had not attended classes.

The school would remain open, he said, despite claims by some parents that the two had been seen in school on Monday.

The two sisters, in Year Six and Three, have not attended classes after they were found to have contracted the virus. They are the daughters of a prominent Umno politician here.

Their mother and younger sibling, 6, had also tested positive for the virus and are hospitalised together with the two.

The politician and his family had just returned from the United Kingdom.
“They were immediately sent to Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital after they went through the screening when they returned from abroad. They did not set foot in the school,” Ariffin said.

The kindergarten in which the youngest sibling is enrolled has suspended classes until July 20.

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Spell-It-Right Challenge: Parents, teachers spell out their hopes for competition

KUALA TERENGGANU: There is strength in numbers.

Parents and teachers here feel that the RHB New Straits Times Spell-It-Right Challenge could help strengthen the command of English among students if more schools participated.

They said more students would also have the advantage of competing with their peers and learning new words.

SM Lembah Bidong’s English for Mathematics and Science panel head, Azimah Dollah, said more schools should participate as the competition had proved to be a winner with participants expanding their vocabulary.

“We were a little late in sending our registration form and some of us thought we were not going to make it as there were only 48 places available but we did and have benefited from it,” she said.
MRSM Kota Putera teacher Fatihah Nur Izzati Benjamin Abdullah was hoping to see two other MRSM schools in the state at the tournament.

“The programme is a good one and the powers that be in the state education department should do something about having more schools competing,” she said, adding that she appreciated what the department had done so far.

State Education Department sector head (academic) Zuber Embong said the competition was a good opportunity for schools to make use of the “smart partnership programme” between NST and RHB.

He said the department would try to get more schools to participate next year.

SK Sultan Sulaiman teacher Yusnita Md Yunus, said it took effort to prepare for the competition with some teachers seeing that as a burden.

“But all of us were happy in the end. We could see the fruits of our labour when we came away with the title,” she said.

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