Tenby International School Miri @ Curtin University Sarawak Open Day 2013!

Hello everyone!

This would be my final post and I will be sharing about my working experience with the staffs and my colleagues of having a Tenby School booth at Curtin University Sarawak, Miri Campus. One of the best way to promote Tenby International schools and the chances to allow the people to get to know better about Tenby International School.

A couple weeks ago before the open day, I was involved in several tasks to prepare for the open day. I worked together with the 2 interns colleagues and we were under the supervision of Esther. Three of us work together as a team to gather ideas to plan things that we can do on the open day. Previously, I have designed the leaflet for the Tenby International School Open Day. So this time, the other interns colleagues were given the chance to do the leaflet with a different design for the Open day.

Besides, we have discussed and outlined a PR event plan which include event plan, checklist, running sheet and running schedule. The event plan is arranged accordingly to the timeline which has been set after we have meeting and discussion with Esther. This is the second event that I have involved so far, and the most important thing is I have learned a lot from the staffs here. They are all very friendly and patient. They are willing to teach and help me once I occurred with any problems with my work. I felt very grateful about it.

Tenby International School booth was located at the entrance of the Recreation Hall. 

Our booth was originally at the other side in front of the John curtin building but then they have changed the location to the kiddies corner entrance as requested by the staff.  The Tenby School banner was hung up attached to the tent so that people could see our booth from far. The school principal, Philip Brisley, the Head of Secondary, Mr Peter and Head of Primary, Mr Nicholas have joined and participated with us, and will enthusiastically welcome all the visitors at the booth.

Curtin Sarawak Open day was begun at 10 a.m. and it ends at 4 p.m. We arrived at the Curtin campus at 8.30 a.m. We went earlier so that we have enough time to set up the booth before the event started. Once I have reached there, I helped the staffs to arrange the stuffs and decorate the students’ works on Science, Art, Literacy and Music on the board stand. One of the way to promote Tenby International School by displaying some students’ art works at the booth.

 Tenby International School banner hung up by Simon, one of the staffs who came to help us to set up the booth.

 Besides, the corporate video of Tenby International School has shown and played on the projector throughout the day. It is to attract the attention from the people who walk pass by our booth. I was working morning shift of the day for the Open day while the other interns colleague came in the afternoon. I was pretty busy throughout the morning session to assist with the school enquiry while my other colleagues were busy serving the parents who drop by our booth.

Besides, I walked around the campus with my supervisor, Esther to distribute the leaflets and flyers to the visitors. We have also prepared the promotional materials including notebooks, mini diary and pens with the Tenby School logo to the parents who have visited our booth. Balloons with Tenby School logo were also prepared as gifts for children.

And, I must say it was really amazing to see everything especially the efforts that we have been putting in, come to real life on that day. Everyone had fun and enjoyed themselves.

Note: Pictures belong to Tenby International School, Miri.

 

Leaflets and staffs' name cards were prepared to be given out to the visitors.

 Parents/visitors dropped by our booth to have a look at the art works displayed.

Students' art works displayed
 by us.

 Staffs and I were busy preparing in the early morning.

 Mr. Peter was sharing and promoting about Tenby International School to the visitors.

Last but not least, I feel very honored to be able to work with such amazing people and also being to participate in the process of the committee during my placement at Tenby International School. I definitely would love to join the big family and be a part of the member if I were given another chance. 

Group picture with Tenby International School Miri teachers and staffs on the last day of my placement internship

Thank you!

Regards,

Wong Pei Ling

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Curtin University Sarawak

Tenby International School Open Day 2013 & Welcome Back to School!

Hello Everyone!

Previously, I have shared the post about my experience in preparing for the Open day event. So, today I am going to talk about Tenby International Open Day 2013. I supposed some of you here might have forgotten about it or still do not know what is going on. So, before I proceed to the Open day event, I will first briefly explain what Tenby International School is about and also I will have to recall of what I have done so far in the preparation for Tenby International School Open Day.

Tenby International School is a private Malaysian school which is originally from Ipoh, Malaysia. It offers and teaches children from early years, kindergarten, primary and secondary students, from 4 to 16 years old. Most of them are foreigners which come from overseas such as Japan, Korea, Netherlands, South Africa, England, Scotland, Nigeria and etc.

Mr. Phillip Brisley is the principal of Tenby International School, Miri and he is also the Director of Tenby Schools. It is the first international and private Malaysian school in Miri, Sarawak and the school is relocated to its current location, from the old Piasau campus to Desa Senadin.

A couple weeks ago, the staffs and teachers in charge, were busy unpacking boxes and preparing their classrooms for the students. Meanwhile we were rushing to get the job done, including all the design and documentation of event plan. We need to perform, deliver and be reliable in order to gain trust from our clients.

The big day has finally arrived! Open day was scheduled to start at 9 a.m. We arrived at the office at 8 a.m. to ensure that all final preparations are done, while awaiting the arrival of parents and students dropping by to visit the new campus. All the staffs and including us, the interns are looking forward to welcoming the parents and students on Tuesday, 27^th August.

The purposes of Tenby Open Day is to raise awareness of Tenby International School branding itself and allow the current and new parents to have a look around the beautiful new campus, new facilities, meeting new teachers and staffs. They will get a feel for what will be a great learning environment for all the students at Tenby International School.

On the actual day, all of us were busy assisted in handling the parents and visitors. All the admin staffs and my supervisor were very busy entertained with the parents and visitors in the office. My interns colleagues and I were helping them out with the class registration, enrolment and touring them around the new campus. Leaflet which designed by me, was prepared and given out to the parents and visitors so that they have something to refer to.  I personally think that it is quite useful to have it so that the parents have something to refer back in case they might have forgotten about the important details which they have asked earlier.

The leaflet which provided has included with basic information about the school, such as contact details and map at Tenby International School Miri.



I have learned a lot from the people there and communicate better with different types of people. . I am very grateful to be able to learn from my supervisor, Esther and also I want to thank her for willing to give me such opportunity to participate in the Open day event during my internship!

Feel free to enjoy the pictures below :)

Note: Pictures belong to Tenby International School, Miri.

 Assembly in the Auditorium - First day of school

 The Head of Principal, Mr Phillip Brisley, was giving a warm welcoming speech on the stage.

 School Improvement & Development Manager from Tenby School Ipoh, Denise Sinclair greetings with teachers, students, parents and staffs.

Teachers, staffs, and parents were standing aside listened to the speeches given by Principal.

 First assembly of the month in TISM

 Introducing the teachers from all classes in Primary and Secondary school.

Parents checking out for their children's classes on the first day of school.

 Welcome back to school - Day 1

Till then, take care and I hope you have enjoyed reading about my experiences working in an international school.

Best regards,

Wong Pei Ling

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Curtin University Sarawak

Education vs. Working experience. Why is it so important?

Hi again!

In this post, I would like to share about the experience of me working together with my supervisor, Esther and the 2 interns colleagues, assisted in drafting and helping out to plan for the upcoming event, Tenby International School Open Day 2013. It was on Tuesday 27^th August, a week before the school officially get started. Our target audiences for Tenby Open Day are the existing parents, new parents and also the middle and upper classes family among local community.

In the preparation for the Tenby International School Open Day 2013, I was given several tasks by Esther to work on with my interns colleagues for the open day event. My colleagues and I were participated to discuss and come out with ideas and to be proposed for the Open Day event. Therefore, three of us were given different role to work on different tasks.

I was assigned to design a new leaflet and I got it done by using Publisher and Photoshop. It is something similar to what I have done in the unit of Public Relation 220 Techniques from the assignments which I have learned to design newsletter, website homepage and E-newsletter. Besides, we have discussed and decided to come out with a PR event plan, including event plan, checklist, running sheet and running schedule. All of these are nothing new to me anymore. I have learned all of these previously in PR 220 Techniques and 250 Media units which are pretty useful to us, for example preparing media kits for journalists.

With all these precious experiences that I have gained at work, I could even feel this is how I will be working in real life in future. We do made mistakes while working on the tasks. In fact, we are willing to learn from each other to make ourselves improve for the better one in future. We are working as a team under the supervision of Esther.

 Public Relations lesson #1: Communication!

Throughout this working experience, I have learned to interact and communicate well with the people and staffs. Communication is always very crucial. Without good communication and teamwork, we could not have got this whole event plan done within these two weeks. Lastly, I hope to improve my communication skills and time management from gaining the experiences in the past.

I am very grateful to have such helpful staffs and colleagues in the department who are always there to assist me, and most of all, willing to teach me, so that I have managed completing all the tasks in time.

Next, I will be blogging about Tenby International School Open Day (27^th August 2013), from an intern’s perspective.

Take care and I hope you do enjoy your internship too!

Regards,

Wong Pei Ling

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Curtin University Sarawak

Welcome Back to Tenby International School Miri

Hi, everyone!

As promised in my previous post, I will be sharing the preparation and the things happen on Tenby Open Day 2013 and Tenby School Reopen today.

Tenby Open Day was held on 27th August 2013 but it took two weeks for me and my colleagues to complete it. Before the open day, me and my colleagues were fully occupied on the designs of the leaflet and the lay out of the Tenby International School Miri new campus so that the leaflet will be able to be distributed on time. Meanwhile, we also helped the staff to do some simple tasks when we were free  although these were not really related with the PR such as unpacked the boxes and arrange the books. Before the Open Day, my colleagues and I were being informed that what should we do and don't on that day by our supervisor and management executive. 

The objective of the Tenby Open Day is to allow the parents and students to familiarize themselves with the new environment before the school starts. Before the Open Day, Tenby staff had emailed the parents to inform them the upcoming event. Nevertheless, the map layout of the new campus also send as attachment with the invitation mail. On the Open Day, there is a hard copy prepared and distributed to the parents. Parent also being guided by the staff and us to have a side tour on the new campus. 

Tenby International School Reopen on 2nd September 2013. On the day School Reopen, there was an assembly in the early morning. The assembly was started by the Tenby Principle Mr Philip Brisley by giving a welcoming speech to the students and parents. Parents, teachers and staffs attended the assembly as well. 

After Mr Philip finished giving his speech, Denise Sinclair (School Improvement & Development Manager of Tenby School Ipoh) also being invited to give a speech on the school reopen.

After half an hour of the assembly, students were led by the teachers to their own class.

Most of the parent were going to the office to pay the registration fees and asking for additional information. My colleagues and I were assisting the staff on serving the parents. On that day, I learnt how to deal with different people from different background. As some parents are from Western country and Asian country, the way they behave and expectation are totally different. It really was surprising me a lot. 

Thanks for reading my post and I hope you guys enjoy it. I will update the upcoming event which is Curtin Open day in my next post. Wish you have a nice day and cheers!

To be continue...

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Ready to start a new chapter in life?

Greetings!

My name is Wong Pei Ling. I am currently taking Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication under the Media, Culture and Communication Department from Curtin University Sarawak.

This is my 8th semester in Curtin University Sarawak Campus and also my final semester of studies. I am a 23 year old from Kuching, Sarawak. I am currently working with Tenby International School, Miri Sarawak.

For your information, Tenby International School is originally located at Piasau and they are now relocate from Piasau to the new location at Desa Senadin. I'm currently working at the new campus with the staffs that are mostly new and some of them are the existing staffs. They have been working for the school since it has been operated two years ago.

I still vividly remember the first day of working at Tenby International School. I was very nervous when I think about the new environment and people that I am going to meet at work. At the same time, I was feeling excited to explore new environment and meeting my colleagues.

The first person I have met was Esther Choo, my supervisor, she is working as a marketing executive. There are 2 more interns who are also from Curtin University Sarawak. They started working in the beginning of August while I joined them two weeks later.

We have a briefing with Esther and Elysie in the office. Elysie explained to us about the history of the school, activities of the year, events and some information which related to the school. Later, Elysie toured the three of us around the campus. We met a lot of new people and staffs. While touring we get to know each other pretty well. Elysie showed us around by making an introduction to the department and each colleague’s job scope.

Everything was still very new as the school has just moved into a new location. During the first few weeks, we were asked to do some researches on international schools fees and courses offered, media monitoring and press clippings. As usual, my daily routine is reading newspapers and always hoping that there would be any news that related about Tenby Schools will definitely catch my attention.

I have learnt on how to work with my colleagues and they have assigned me with some other works such as office documentation, key-in academic staffs’ and students’ information as record. Besides, I have involved in the two most important tasks to be working with my supervisor and the 2 interns colleagues, and assisted in planning for the events Tenby International School Open Day and Curtin Sarawak Open Day.

I will be sharing more on my internship journey soon. Stay tune to my next entry.  I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about my experience.

Feel free to enjoy the pictures below :)

Note: Pictures belong to Tenby International School, Miri

  Tenby International School Logo

  Tenby International School campus model displays to be shown in the office

 The lobby outside the office

  Trophy display cabinet for storing awards, achievements and trophies to show parents & visitors

 Administration - Office

Cafeteria

Tenby International School Newsletter corner & Announcement section

 They even have this Smart Kiosk which I think is a very useful machine to all of them. It is newly implemented for the students and parents by the school and it is use to reload credit balance for paying the meals, drinks, stationary, fees etc.

Staffs showing and teaching the students on how to use the kiosk machine.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Wong Pei Ling
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Curtin University Sarawak