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UEM Land rewards its Students’ Output (English) Project Participants

NUSAJAYA, Wednesday, 3rd November 2010: UEM Land Holdings Berhad, the master developer of Nusajaya and key driver of Iskandar Malaysia, today organized a prize giving ceremony to award its PINTAR School students and teachers for its Students’ Output (English) Project as a culmination of its English Programme for its PINTAR schools.

76 students from UEM Land’s “adopted” schools under the PINTAR Programme, were presented with certificates and the winners were presented with attractive prizes by Tuan Haji Kamaruddin Bin Sa’ayun, the Johor Bahru District Deputy Education Officer in a ceremony held in Bilik Tayangan, Bangunan Dato’ Jaafar Muhammad, Kota Iskandar, Nusajaya, graced by En. Rusli Zainal Abidin, General Manager of Township, Infrastructure & Planning, Bandar Nusajaya.

This ceremony was organized to recognize the teachers’ and the schools’ commitment in supporting UEM Land’s quest to develop an English-literate generation in Nusajaya as well as engendering an English-speaking environment in UEM Land’s PINTAR schools. It was also an acknowledgement of the effort made by the students towards this project.

The Students’ Output (English) Project was initiated by UEM Land Holdings Berhad for all 17 of its PINTAR schools’ students in July 2010 and ended on 25th September 2010 following the completion of the English Teachers’ Training Programme conducted in collaboration with British Council from March to June 2010.

The objective of the Student Output project was to gauge the program’s effectiveness and how much the teachers have successfully applied the techniques and ideas to their students in their daily classroom teaching.

The winner of the Students’ Output Project, themed ”My Community” went to SJK(T) Gelang Patah where all four students in the group each walked away with an exclusive watch and a book voucher from Harris Bookstore. The second and third placing went to two groups from SK Morni Pok while two consolation prizes went to a group from SK Nusantara and another group from SK Morni Pok. The students were respectively awarded with pendrives, school bags, stationeries and book vouchers from Harris Bookstore.

The teachers who provided the “champions” the guidance throughout the programme were also awarded with cash prizes.

In addition to the prize giving ceremony, UEM Land Holdings Berhad also handed over recycle bins to all of its PINTAR Schools as part of its green initiatives to create awareness among the schools on the importance of protecting the environment. Certificates of participation were also presented to 20 lucky primary schools students who had participated in the Golf Clinic during the Iskandar Johor Open Tournament on 15th October 2010

Today’s ceremony was also attended by the school heads and teachers, representative from the British Council as well as UEM Land representatives.