Recently, The Science , Technology and Environment Partnership (Pusat STEP) in association with the Ministry of Education presented the awards for this years National Level Primary Schools Mathematics and Science Olympiad. At the prize-giving ceremony held at Ministry of Education, NAZIHAH BTE AWG HIPNI was awarded the gold medal in the Maths Olympiad, and sixth place in the Science Olympiad, netting her a total cash prize of $200 and certificates.
The Tinkerbell Learning School made its own surprise classroom presentation to Nazihah presenting her with ceritificates of recognition and a $50 cash gift in expression of the school's appreciation of her efforts.
Asked why he thought Tinkerbell had jumped through the ranks to snatch the gold medal, school director Robert Bartholomew remarked, "Nazihah is a gifted student who has come to our school with a history of academic achievement. We therefore fortunate and grateful to her parents for having the confidence to place her into our school - she has made us all very proud, in particular her teacher Dennis Salamanca Sitjar, and is an inspiration to her classmates. But being a small school as we are, we dont have numbers to blitz a scholarly competition. Our strengths at this time are probably the small class numbers and the opportunity that gives a good teacher to challenge the students more directly and inspire them - and the challenge as the school grows is not to lose the focus. We take the view that all the children that come to our school are smart, and some like Nazihah will jump into limelight. Our job is to capture their talents and abilities and show them what they have, and where they can take it."
Nazihah will continue her scholarly quest as one of the ten students chosen to represent Brunei Darussalam at the International Mathematics Competition 2010 in Incheon, Korea on the 24-29 of this month.
The Tinkerbell Learning School made its own surprise classroom presentation to Nazihah presenting her with ceritificates of recognition and a $50 cash gift in expression of the school's appreciation of her efforts.
Asked why he thought Tinkerbell had jumped through the ranks to snatch the gold medal, school director Robert Bartholomew remarked, "Nazihah is a gifted student who has come to our school with a history of academic achievement. We therefore fortunate and grateful to her parents for having the confidence to place her into our school - she has made us all very proud, in particular her teacher Dennis Salamanca Sitjar, and is an inspiration to her classmates. But being a small school as we are, we dont have numbers to blitz a scholarly competition. Our strengths at this time are probably the small class numbers and the opportunity that gives a good teacher to challenge the students more directly and inspire them - and the challenge as the school grows is not to lose the focus. We take the view that all the children that come to our school are smart, and some like Nazihah will jump into limelight. Our job is to capture their talents and abilities and show them what they have, and where they can take it."
Nazihah will continue her scholarly quest as one of the ten students chosen to represent Brunei Darussalam at the International Mathematics Competition 2010 in Incheon, Korea on the 24-29 of this month.
