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| Proud and happy parents, teachers and Pn Rose, YDP PIBG with the straight A's SPM 2012 students. |
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| Star write up on SPM results. |
I heard on the news that there was an increase in the percentage of straight A for SPM 2012 so I thought our improvement would roughly correlate to that. However when I read the actual report and did some calculation, I had a pleasant surprise. I was delighted to discover that the increase in all A's nation wide was about 3.44% but SMK Convent Sentul's increase was about a seven fold increase. Whoa!
I want to offer my congratulations and grateful thanks to all the teachers who worked very hard with our girls to achieve the wonderful results. Eleven subjects showed improvement in grade average. These subjects are B. Inggeris, Pend. Islam, Pend. Moral, Mathematics, Ekonomi Asas, Add. Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,Kesusateraan Tamil and B. Punjabi. Two subjects showed very marked improvement - namely Ekonomi Asas from a grade average of 4.57 improved to 2.85 and Physics from 5.02 improved to 3.83. Nine subjects recorded 100% passes.
Often students and parents see the happiness associated with good results but teachers know full well the hard work they have put in behind the scenes. The pic below shows the teachers hard at work even on SPM exam results day.
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| Teachers and YDP PIBG Pn Rose happy with the results. |
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| Pn Wang ecstatic over the great improvement in Ekonomi Asas |
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| Mr Lim and Pn Sarimah intently checking out the wonderful Add. Maths and Maths results!! |
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| Our happy all A's students with teachers, parent and Pn Rose |
This year we have three 10 As students, Divyeruthra, Teoh Wei Yee ( our head girl ) and Dharshyini. We also have seven 9As students. Mr. Lee Geok Ai, the chairman of our Board of governors has promised me over RM 6K in cash prizes for girls with results over 5As to be given on our annual Speech Day on 20 April 2013. We hope this will be an inspiration for the students to work hard and to achieve even better results for 2013.
Much hard work has been put in by students, teachers, parents and supporters of the school to achieve the good results we had. Often the hard work is unseen but it is clearly there, behind the scenes. I am reminded of this by a special flower that bloomed this week near our fish pond.
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| Pink lined white lily from Amsterdam in its 3rd blooming in SMK Convent Sentul in 2 years. |
This plant is special to me. I bought the lily bulb for 7 euro from Keukenhoff Gardens, Amsterdam, Holland in late April 2012. Maran our gardener planted it and it bloomed beautifully, twice last year sporting about 9 blooms. Then it lay dormant for almost a year. Only leaves sprouted. Suddenly this week on Monday morning, I spotted this beautiful blossom. To me, this beautiful bloom was a prophetic symbol of the beautiful results that was to come on Thursday and believe me, on Wednesday night, I was not at all anxious.
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| Little flower bulbs waiting to blossom |
This time, it is not just one blossom but you can see the rest of the flower buds waiting to bloom. Again, the many little buds speak prophetically to me that we will not just have one beautiful moment of results but many more, unusual, unexpected beautiful moments.
Students and teachers and stakeholders of SMK Convent Sentul, I want to remind you that when a flower blooms, it speaks of the unseen work below the ground at the roots. It speak of the hard work behind the scenes, below the ground, at the roots level. So .. girls and teachers .., don't ever give up working in the very place where it counts - in the classroom - learning and teaching, marking scripts and books and doing corrections etc. Learn to work hard diligently and quietly below ground level.
One day, your beautiful flower will bloom and bring pleasure to all the world.
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