13 June, 2009, The S.K. Selama Alumni Committee Officially Formed

It is definately a day to remember as the Alumni Committee is officially formed today. It is hoped that the Alumni will serve as a platform for all ex-pupils to meet, interact with one another and contribute to their alma mater. For a start, this committee will be working hard on a campaign drive to encourage as many ex-pupils as possible to be members of the alumni and the portal. Whatever it is, we all have to join hands together to ensure success in any project. Congratulations to the committee members who have been appointed into the committee. Dr Mahmood Othman, UiTM senior lecturer is its Chairman. The two Vice Chairman are Mr Lingaeswaran a/l R. Subramanian,PJK and Mr Eddie Chua Soo Seong, PPT. Its secretary is Pn Khananun Hana Abdul Hamid and Assistant Secretary is En Abdul Rauff Tajuddin. The treasurer is Tn Hj Zaaba Zainuddin. The 15 committee members are En Mohd Roslan Bani Amin, Tn Hj Fuaddin Kamaruddin, Dr Md Taufik Hidayat, Pn Nazirah Abdul Rahim, En Zainal Abidin Mansor, Pn Siti Kartiwi Zainal Abidin, Mdm Oon Lay Wah, Mdm Yee Siew Lan, Mdm Lee Tai Pin, Cik Fatin Ajlaa Abd Kamal, En Shafiq Abd Aziz, En Md Husni Md Ariffin, Miss Rupa Devi, En Md Syaiful Izham Md Tamin and En Hasnan Jamaluddin. A good networking among all committee members through internet will be a wonderful idea.

Larut Matang & Selama District ICT Month 2009

15 June - 15 July is ICT Month for Larut, Matang & Selama District 2009. Hopefully, all teachers ,pupils and even parents are aware of the importance of ICT knowledge. Thus, are interested to learn and improve on their computer skills. Teachers and pupils must grab the opportunity to learn theseskills and apply them effectively in the teaching & learning process.

With the introduction of Web 2.0 application it is hoped that both teachers and pupils are able to work as a team even from their own homes to complete a project. On top of the school computer laboratory, the cITaKU Lab run by facilitator, En Fadly Hadi from the NCER team provides ICT knowledge to both the teachers and pupils.

The ICT Camp from 1 to 12 June, 2009 has benefitted the Yr 4 and 5 pupils. These pupils have learnt to create emails, surf the websites for information, create greeting cards and their own blogs. Hope, the S.K. Selama ICT Team which is participating in the Anak Perak UPSI ICT Competition will gain a lot of new experience as its members venture into this new project. We believe in, " Nothing Venture, Nothing Gain".

In addition, it will relaunch the recyling campaign in school in order that pupils will use the recycle bins correctly. With the cooperation from the Art and Living Skills teachers, the pupils will be able to create beautiful posters and make handicrafts from recycled objects.

Then, only will the ICT Project entitled,"Waste Disposal AffectsThe Environment" be effective in raising awareness among all pupils in the school to play their role in keeping the environment clean. Thanks for your cooperation in making this ICT Month a great success.

What The ICT Project Is All About

It is an environmental issue and the title of our project is "Waste Disposal Affects Our Environment"

What saddens the whole world is the disposal of rubbish in the wrong way. In all forms rubbish, garbage or waste is disposed off in different ways. However, it is the bad attitudes of human beings that had caused many problems to the environment. Thus, it had affected the health of human beings badly , destroyed marine life and the beauty of natural surroundings.

What gave me the idea to pick this topic for my group project was what I saw when passing through the jungle of Pondok Tanjong on the way to Taiping or back to Selama. These photos speak a thousand words. It is already shocking to the monkeys here which had found their habitat being destroyed and intruded now it is getting worse.

The so called 'generous ' human beings have been throwing plastic bags of 'food' or what nots for the monkeys, even matresses for the romantic monkeys to sleep on, I guess. What a shame, not only have human beings done enough destruction, now to make it worse, they have created an eye-sore in the area. Stretches of rubbish are strewn on both sides of the road despite the warning sign reminding them not to feed the monkeys or litter there and the condition has been like this for months and nobody cares to clear it.

Kids in the ICT Team have been given tasks to do and I hope they are learning fast.

S.K. Selama ICT Team

The Anak Perak Competition For LMS Schools In Conjunction With ICT Month 2009

Thank you for giving the kids this opportunity. As it is their first try, we are still going at snail's pace. However, with encouragement, determination, confidence and enthusiasm injected, we hope to meet the objectives and complete the project on time. This hols will be a busy time for us. Winning the competition is not important but the experience for the beginners is.

The members of the team are:

Teacher : Mdm Oon Lay Wah

Pupils:

 

Ameer Firdaus b. Ahmad Fauzi, 12

Khairul Ikhwan b. Saufi, 12

Aliff Iqbal b. Mazufil Hanim, 12

Calling On All Ex-Pupils Of S.K. Selama To Join Alumni-13 June Historical Meeting. Welcome Back To School

S.K. Selama celebrated its Golden Jubilee or 50th Anniversary in October, 2004 in a grand scale. It had also won the Excellent School Award at the district level for a few times and at the state level too. Last year, it won the national award for the Excellent School For Rural Primary Schools as you can see in the photo on the first page of this blog.

Hopefully, the school will be able to maintain its excellence and bring back the glory of yesteryears too . Having been nominated for the Cluster School Award for the rural school category by the district education office, it is quite challenging for the whole administration and everyone involved. However, what is important at the end of the day is our core business, that is the pupils who will gain in terms of a wholistic education. Another being the teachers and staff will always be happy coming to school to work and are always healthy and not overstressed.

For more than 50 years this school had produced thousands of pupils who are now spread out all over the world living their own lives. Many of whom are very successful in their careers and professions and S.K. Selama is proud that it is part of their successful stories.

When these ex-pupils are relaxing, they could spare some thoughts for their alma mater. I am sure it is nostalgic to be able to return to this school one day and recall the happy school days they spent here long ago. Of course, years ago, the school looked different then. In fact, photos showed the school in poor condition and the wooden main block looked like a 'cowboy salon' . Pictures of the school then will be pasted in this blog soon and they will surely be a favourite among our ex pupils.
As years passed , S.K. Selama had been slowly transformed into how it looks today. Even now development of its infrastructure has not stopped. On the field, a new block of a four-storeyed building is going to be built. It would be noisy as piling work begins. However, parents, teachers and pupils have waited a long time for this development and they would not mind bearing the noise and discomfort. A little sacrifice won't matter as long as the building is up and end the double session. Studying in the hot afternoons is definately uncondusive.

S.K. Selama had excelled in the field of academic and co-curricular activities. Indeed this success would not have been achieved without the full-cooperation among parents, guardians, teachers, staff and the pupils themselves. Having taught here for 26 years , it is enough for me to proudly say that the school had managed to produce thousands of pupils. A good foundation in English had helped in a way to bring success in their life. So did they excel in Maths, Science , Bahasa Malaysia and other subjects.

Years ago, when S.K. Selama was known as the National Type Government School and when English was used as the medium of instruction, its pupils could speak and write better in English. Even pupils from the 'kampung' as far as Sg. Dendang , Sg Siputeh, Sg Bayor, Ldg Malaya, miles away would come to study here because it was the only English medium school in the Selama district. Many of whom are holding high posts in the government and private sector today.

In public exams like the Year 5 Assessment Test and UPSR or Year 6 Assessment, S.K. Selama still fair excellently beating even town schools in the Larut, Matang and Selama district and has won a placing among the top ten schools. Its position in the Perak state UPSR result analisis recently showed the school placed around the 70th position among 876 primary schools in the state.

All these years our ex pupils have done us proud and hopefully their younger brothers and sisters will follow in their footsteps in producing excellent results not only academically but also in co-curricular activities such as sports,uniformed units and academic supporting activities. We will not be left out in competitions such as choral speaking, story telling, action songs, the RHB-NST Spell-It-Right Challenge and others . Pupils in the past and present have always tried their best and won in the Islamic activities, Malay story-telling and others too. We believe in giving the pupils here opportunities to experience and stand tall among others when they compete with them in these competitions. They are trained to be sporting ,do their very best and present confidently in front of a crowd outside the school.

Don't be surprise, we even have a bowling star. Before it was her brother, Farhan but now 11-year old Nur Fadhlin Arisya bt Ariff has done us proud as the state bowling champ. Now, our darling Fadhlin is preparing for the national level in a centralised training session in Ipoh. Well, this year, even our 12-yr old Abu Ayub is representing Perak at the national level football under 12 competition in Kelantan. We have produced national stars too before. If you all could remember, our nasyid team once won the National Nasyid competition in 1994. If only all its members could return for a reunion , how nice it would be! We must remember our Ustazah Noraini who had passed away .

We have to pay tribute to our longest serving headmaster of 25 years, Mr Anthony Kanikasamy who too had passed away. He was a disciplinarian and had contributed a lot to the education of the pupils then. Another dear headmaster who had passed away was Tn Hj Azahari. Mr Letchumanan and En. Shamsudin Shaari had left the world but are still remembered. Today, we are able to keep in touch with two of our headmasters, Tn Hj Ahmad Isa and Tn Hj Ahmad Yahaya .
Our present headmistress, Pn Hjh Jamaiyah bt Hj Zakaria is doing a good job by continuing to lead the school to further success.

Throughout the years, teachers come and go but they are fondly remembered by their pupils. The school would like to thank them all for having contributed to the success of the school.

On top of all the achievements, we hope to develop pupils here who will grow into useful adults one day possessing good characters as well. Proper character building will help produce excellent pupils and a truly successful person.

Calling all ex -pupils back to the school this June, 13 at 3.00 p.m. is an effort to realise our dream to see the full functioning of the Alumni Committee. With the establishment of the Alumni, it will indeed be an excellent platform to gather all the ex pupils of S.K. Selama back to school or at least be connected to their alma mater again. We are trying to create a networking among the ex pupils wherever they are.


Thanks to the advancement of ICT that we can enjoy surfing the internet, the world of blogging, portals, websites and S.K. Selama now has its own official portal, http://www.skselama.net/. In fact, this blog is linked to it. Some ex pupils accidentally discovered the portal and were excited about it. Many have sent messages and joined the portal too. The alumni form is easily downloaded, filled and sent back to the administrator by email or post. Hopefully, more ex pupils will be able to get in touch with their alma mater. We also welcome all ex teachers to join in our forum and keep in touch with the school. At any time , ex teachers and pupils may visit the school by simply contacting the school authorities.

Well, as an ex-pupil , one should have that special nostalgic feeling and be able to return proudly to this primary school which had played an important role in one's childhood days. It is not much to return to the school for the benefits of the younger generation. One can contribute in all kinds including cash of course, but besides that, it may be in the form of sharing of expertise and training to name a few. Perhaps, ex pupils themselves are able to conduct motivation camps, run football clinics, organise seminars or workshops both for parents and pupils. When it comes to 'gotong-royong' or writing articles , ex pupils can chip in to help. Reunions can be held regularly and trips can be organised to visit beautiful Malaysia or other countries. Carnivals and lots of activities can be planned together and ex pupils far or near can get involved.

The Alumni and the Parent Teacher Association can work hand in hand to contribute to the success of this school and its pupils. Through this effort, we will be able to contribute to nation building. It is a dream to build the nation and society together and its fruits we plant will be enjoyed by all.

S.K. Selama, you are great! The spirit of 'System Is Power', its motto proudly lives on in the hearts of all who love the school.

Written by Oon Lay Wah
who started teaching in this school in 1983

WELCOME TO SK SELAMA

Welcome to S.K. Selama, Jalan Menteri, Selama, Perak. Through this blog, we can reach out to anyone and spread the news of the school and its pupils. ICT has brought wonders to the school as we can get connected easily now with the existance of the new cITaKU Lab in addition to the school computer laboratory. Pupils in this school always get the opportunity to participate in various activities or events so that they are not left behind. Now, its team consisting of a teacher and 3 pupils is participating in the ICT Web 2.0 competition under Anak Perak Programme. Let us wish them success.

Selama, Perak situated about 50 km north of Taiping is sharing a common border with Selama, Kedah. It is no more a sleepy town as before as there is rapid development here . With the growing number of housing projects, more villagers from Sungai Bayor or Sg Si Puteh are settling down in this town. Therefore, S.K. Selama will be expecting a larger enrolment in the near future.

All parties including the government, the private sector, parents, ex-pupils, teachers , service staf and pupils all play an important role in bringing success to this school. Without cooperation and support , S.K. Selama would not be able to reach success before, today or tommorrow. Therefore, let's join hands and work together.