Berry Event No. 2 – Co-curriculum Integration Carnival 2010 – SMK Dato’ Jaafar : School Level
August 10, 2010
School days are always thought about in fond memories many years after students leave school and usually extra curricular activities are the ingredients which give flavour to school life. Among more memorable activities in school will be the co-curriculum carnivals held in most schools. This post will be about “Karnival Integrasi Ko-Kurikulum” at school level which will remind older students of their canteen day and also to allow Berry Readers who are not from the Malaysian education system to have a glimpse of what this carnival is all about.
Berry Event #2 – Co-curriculum Integration Carnival 2010 (Karnival Integrasi Ko-Kurikulum 2010) – School level
- Event: Co-curriculum Integration Carnival (Secondary School ) – SMK Dato Jaafar
- Date: 19-24th July 2010
- Venue: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato’ Jaafar Johor Bahru
- Event Covered by: Miss Isabelle Wong – The Berry Berry Teacher
- Dedicated to: All students in SMK Dato Jaafar
Every year around July (in recent years), all students and teachers in SMK Dato’ Jaafar will participate in this important co-curriculum carnival which usually last for a week. There are sport (physical) events, non-sport (intellectual) games and (affective) small scale of business for the students to dabble on.
Among activities this year include:
1) Physical: sport events – hockey, futsal, rugby, volleyball, basketball, softball, petanque, netball and football. Students participate in these events to score points for their “house”. [The four houses are balau (blue/biru), keruing (yellow/kuning), meranti (red/merah) and jati (green/hijau)]
(Figure 1: Hockey match at Stadium Hoki Johor Bahru. Jati house versus Meranti house.
2) Intellectual: non-sport games – sahihba, batu Seremban (five stones), catur bestari and chess. Academic students would love to join these activities. These events are aimed at training Dato’ Jaafar students to be more holistic and be developed as an all-rounder.
3) Affective: small scale business. Every club or association will have the opportunity to open a stall and all the students were given hands-on experience in selling food, drinks or start a game stall in the school. This is a good experience to improve students in socialising and communication skills with other people.
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Small scale business
The Robotics Club for which I am the teacher-in-charge also involved themselves actively in the food and drinks selling stall. Robotics Club members prepared Monster Coney Dog (45 coney dogs), I Love You drink (100 cups sold), Monster Potato, Monster Corn, Monster Mushroom, Sweet Deserts and Monster BBQ Wings! Club members got themselves to be exposed to the real life business in the school and at the same time can collect some funds for next year.
Figure 2: Berry Berry Teacher with I Love You drink.
This was one of the most popular drink for the Co-curriculum Integration Carnival which sold out within 1 and half hours!
Figure 3: Robotics Club members prepared I Love You drinks for the drinks stall.
The scene half an hour before the Robotics Club’s Food & Drinks stall opening! All the Robotics Club members were working extremely hard to prepare the I Love You drinks and Sweet Dessert.
Figure 4: BBQ team prepared BBQ wings and hot dogs
These were extremely dedicated Robotics Club members that barbequed chicken wings from 7.30 a.m. until 1.30 p.m.! They did not even leave this station even thought this was the hardest and hottest task. In addition, there was another team had worked extremely comprising of Darwin, Ian and Bernard. They fried the most Moster Potato and Monster Mushroom. The multicooker pot were even damaged after non-stop frying of the “monsters”!
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Highlights of the co-curriculum carnival
On 23 July 2010 (Friday), all the students who took part in Marching Competition (Pertandingan Kawad Kaki Unit Beruniform) had to participate in the night camp. They had last-minute intensive training during evening and night. Students remained highly spirited despite the long training hours. Once again, this showed the fighting spirit of the students who I hope would go on to achieve greatness in the future.
24 July 2010 (Saturday) was the day of the culmination and highlight of the co-curriculum carnival. From 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m., final matches for football (L15 and L20), basketball (L15 and L20) and netball (P20) were held. The finals were held simultaneously in the school field and hall.
Between 9.30 a.m. and 10.00 a.m., all the unit uniform prepared themselves for the competition at the school car park. From 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., the NGO and GO Marching Competition (Pertandingan Kawad Kaki NGO dan GO) school level was held at the Jaya Hall (Dewan Jaya) SMK Dato’ Jaafar Johor Bahru.
Figure 5: Winner Marching Competition: NGO Land Scout (Pengakap Darat) I
The land scout (4th JB land scout) commander gave his commands in a loud and clear manner in the school hall.
Figure 6: Winner Marching Competition: NGO Land Scout (Pengakap Darat) II
The Land scout troop marched confidently and no major mistakes were made during the marching competition.
Figure 7: Winner Marching Competition: NGO Land Scout (Pengakap Darat) III
As such, they emerged as the best NGO marching team – 4th JB Land Scout.
Figure 8: Runner-up Marching Competition: NGO Malaysia Red Cresent (Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia)
The Malaysia Red Cresent group was also outstanding, snagging a runner-up position in the NGO category.
Figure 9: Second Runner-Up Marching Competition: NGO St. John Ambulance
St. John Ambulance round up the other outstanding team with a second runner-up position.
Figure 10: Marching Competition: NGO Sea scout (Pengakap Laut).
Other teams include the excellent NGO SMK Dato’ Jaafar Sea Scout (Pengakap Laut 2nd JB), which was establish after English College Land Scout. This is another troop with a great history and list of outstanding alumnis.
Figure 11: Winner Marching Competition: GO PKBM (Pasukan Kadet Bersatu Malaysia)
GO SMK Dato’ Jaafar PKBM was the deserving winner for the GO Marching Team.
Figure 12: Marching Competition: Kadet Polis
SMK Dato’ Jaafar Kadet Polis was no less great by becoming the runner-up for the GO Marching competition.
Figure 13: Marching Competition: Kadet Bomba
SMK Dato’ Jaafar Kadet Bomba participated the marching competition.
Frpm 12.30 p.m. until 2.30 p.m., SMK Dato’ Jaafar Gymnastics performed in the school hall. After that, it was followed by martial art from Wushu and Malay Silat. The latter was originally founded in Malaysia. The SMK Dato’ Jaafar Band also performed in the school hall.
Figure 14: Performance by SMK Dato Jaafar Band
SMK Dato’ Jaafar band was performing in the school hall.
Figure 15: Performance by Wushu team
Performance by SMK Dato’ Jaafar Wushu team which formed in 2008 and the first President Ching Yong Han.
Figure 16: Performance by Malay Silat.
One of the great performance by SMK Dato’ Jaafar Malay warrior: Malay Silat with the real action. These students trained every Saturday morning.
At 1.30 p.m., the prize giving ceremony was held in the school hall after these performance. The overall winner for 2010 was Meranti house. Second place went to Keruing house and the third place was shared by two houses which were Balau house and Jati house. All in all, the event was a great success.
For those who participated in this event, do tell us what you think of this event. If you have any photos or stories that you want to post on Berry Berry Easy, we could do it for you too. There were many great and beautifully decorated stalls (especially those Form 6 girls stalls, yup female touches) and performances (too bad, not in time to take the photos) that will be wasted if not shared with the broader public. So do send us the pics or share with us your links if you have blogged about it.
Berry Event No.1 – National Robotics Competition (NRC) 2010 – Zone H : Johor State Level
July 12, 2010
[This is the inaugural post of the new Berry Berry Easy category called Berry Event. Posts from this category is dedicated to the student-related events which team members from Berry Berry Easy participated or were invited to cover the event. Yeah, you heard us right! You may invite us to cover your student-related event if you want to raise the profile of your event. All in all, post from this category would be mainly to highlight the activities of students under the Malaysian education system, so that students who were unaware of the events may take part in the future, while parents who were worried about what their children is up to will be able to see the event first hand.]
In this very first Berry Event, the Berry Berry Teacher would like to bring attention to all Berry Readers and parents about the National Robotics Competition (NRC) 2010 for the Johor Zone (State-level) competition. For those who are unfamiliar with this nationwide robotics competition for all school going children in Malaysia, the 2010 event is the 6th edition of the NRC and second for the Berry Berry Teacher (and her students in SMK Dato Jaafar).
Figure 1: The gladiators from SMK Dato Jaafar Contingent for NRC 2010 (Back row (L-R): Toh Ian Kim, Darwin, Luqman, Kelvin, (slightly front) Aaron, Founder Jin Heng, Founder Wai Loon, and Founder Zebedee. Front row (L-R): Aniq, Fikri, Ian, Clerence, Tahir, Yee, Wen Wen and Berry Berry Teacher SDJ Mentor Isabelle Wong.
Berry Event #1 – National Robotics Competition 2010 – Zone H (Johor State Level)
- Event: National Robotics Competition 2010 Zone H (Johor State)
- Date: 26th June 2010 (Primary School), 27th June 2010 (Secondary School)
- Venue: Persada Johor International Convention Centre , Johor Bahru
- Event Covered by: Miss Isabelle Wong – The Berry Berry Teacher – SDJ Robotics Mentor
- Dedicated to: The founding batch of the SDJ Robotics Club and this year’s competing robotics team from SDJ
Unlike in 2009, this year’s NRC competition for Johor district/local level competition were scrapped and teams were fast-tracked into the state-level copetition. So competition for this year were stiffer than in the previous year and teams only had one chance to show their mettle against their friendly opponents.
1) Treasure Hunt – Regular Category for Lower Secondary
This category was a keenly contested category with 69 teams from all over the state of Johor competing for the sole slot to advance to the national finals. The great SMK Bandar Putra (with strong history) teams once again dominated the field with a 1-2 finish in the category (their other teams finished 12th and 13th, which are very commendable too). The winning team B49 of SMK Bandar Putra blazed the trail with a perfect 100 score and a time of 24.94 seconds. A total of 5 teams scored perfect 100 score, and they are:
- SMK Bandar Putra (Kulai) – 100 points – 24.94 seconds
- SMK Bandar Putra (Kulai) – 100 points – 30.07 seconds
- SMK Dato Menteri (Batu Pahat) – 100 points – 30.38 seconds
- SMK Dato Jaafar (Johor Bahru) – 100 points – 32.06 seconds (Yup, this is my school team)
- SM Sains Kota Tinggi (Kota Tinggi) – 100 points – 45.44 seconds
Congrats to the medalists in this category. All of you thoroughly deserve your victories as it must have been tough training for the competition. It is also heartbreaking on a personal note for myself and my students who missed out on a bronze by 1.2 seconds. Nonetheless, great effort to be no.4 in Johor and highest scorer of Johor Bahru. However, it must be said that everybody is a winner, as we all learnt some new stuffs and struck out new friendships.
Other statistics (at the moment you can find the analysed data only from Berry Berry Easy):
- The average score (mean) for all teams are 31.449 points. So all teams that scored above 30 points can be said to have done very well.
- The most common score (mode) for teams in this category is 0 points. A total of 25 teams (~36% of all teams) did not register any score. This showed the difficulty of this category.
- The median score for teams in this category is 20 points. So any teams who scored more than 20 points can declare themselves to have won more than half of the teams on the field.
2) Vertical Limit – Regular Category for Upper Secondary
Teams in this category were even more evenly matched with more than 10% of all the 56 teams scoring perfect 100 scores. However, the percentage is misleading as 4 of the 6 teams who scored perfect 100 scores were from the dominating SMK Tinggi Batu Pahat. It is no wonder that they also got 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th place for the category. The only team to break the stranglehold is SMK Taman Daya 2 and SMK Teknik Johor Bahru with a 3rd and 6th place, respectively. The perfect score teams are:
- SMK Tinggi Batu Pahat (Batu Pahat) – 100 points – 11.53 seconds
- SMK Tinggi Batu Pahat (Batu Pahat) – 100 points – 11.81 seconds
- SMK Taman Daya 2 (Johor Bahru) – 100 points – 11.97 seconds
- SMK Tinggi Batu Pahat (Batu Pahat) – 100 points – 12.38 seconds
- SMK Tinggi Batu Pahat (Batu Pahat) – 100 points – 15.12 seconds
- SMk Teknik Johor Bahru (Johor Bahru) – 100 points – 28.47 seconds
Congrats to the SMK Tinggi Batu Pahat for dominating this category. A special congratulation also to SMK Taman Daya 2 for garnering the best team in Johor Bahru district. On a personal note, I’m pleased that my school team from SMK Dato Jaafar did a commendable job of scoring 60 marks with a 16th placing.
Other statistics (at the moment you can find the analysed data only from Berry Berry Easy):
- The average score (mean) for all teams are 44.82 points. So all teams that scored above 40 points can be said to have done very well.
- The most common score (mode) for teams in this category is 60 points. A total of 25 teams (~44.6% of all teams) scored 60 points, which is equivalent of the successful climbing of the first tower. This showed the difficulty of this category lies in transferring the robot from Tower A to Tower B.
- The median score for teams in this category is 60 points. So any teams who scored more than 60 points can declare themselves to have won more than half of the teams on the field.
3) Open Category for Lower Secondary
Scores in this category were not published publicly. However, it must be said that all teams performed well in this category. Countless of photos has been published on Facebook and other photo sharing sites which showed the excellence achieved by the lower secondary school students. (At the moment, do not have the list of the winners yet)
Figure 2: The open category team from SMK Dato Jaafar with their creation of Wan the Robotic Dragon. The spirit of 1Malaysia is displayed when Malaysian irrespective of race come together to promote Dragon dance to the rest of the world.
I’m delighted with the performance of the Form 1 students from my school, SMK Dato Jaafar who battled against the elder boys from the other schools valiantly. Although a bronze is all we can show, but this should be something that we can build upon in the future, in order to launch an assault on the gold medal.
Figure 3: The open category team from SMK Dato Jaafar with their bronze medal in the Lower Secondary Open Category in the NRC 2010 Johor State level.
Awards given to the SMK Dato Jaafar team:
- Bronze medal in Johor State level
- Best Spirit Award in Johor State level – to the entire school team
- Best Mentor in Johor State level – to the guiding mentor
Figure 4: The spoils of victory from the NRC 2010 Johor State level competition. Good job done from all the competitors of the SMK Dato Jaafar Robotics Club.
I must say that I’m very happy to have won the best mentor award for my category in my second year in charge of the SDJ Robotics Club and first venture into the open category. I would like to say that all the mentor for all teams are equal winners in my eye. All our sacrifice are worth it in the end when we see the product of our student’s ability.
Figure 5: Berry Berry Teacher collecting her NRC 2010 Best Mentor (Johor State Level) award.
I’m also happy with the undying spirit shown by my student, not only in the open category, but all from Form 1 to Form 5 who have embodied the Jaafarian spirit. So we are humbled to have won the Best Spirit award. In all honesty, we would like to share this award with all teams especially those who travelled from the other district just for this competition. They should too be given best spirit award.
Finally, a hearty congratualtions to the winners in this category, best innovation and best presentation. (Will update this when I get the full list) Hope to see you all again in next years competition. Hopefully, our Johor state winner will do us proud and win the national and world championship.
Other categories that were not covered in this report include:
- Open category for upper secondary
- Primary school competition
