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Student Council

Student Council elections offer opportunities for individuals and the student body to get involved in governance. Kids learn about self-determination and making decisions that benefit the School community.

Duke of Edinburgh Award

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a real adventure from beginning to end. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from. realise there’s more to life than sitting on a sofa. You just need to be aged between 14 and 24 and watching life pass you by. You can do programmes at three levels, which when completed, lead to a Bronze, Silver or Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. You achieve your Award by completing a personal programme of activities in four section (five if you’re going for Gold) Volunteering, Physical, Skills and Expedition and for Gold a Residential. You’ll find yourself helping people or the community, getting fitter, developing skills, residential activity (Gold only). All limitation settings for awards and activities criteria are set by Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Student will start at Bronze level in regardless of age and proceed to the next level.

Extracurricular Activity (ECA) Committees

Joining a committee introduces kids to co-operative leadership. They learn to be open to different opinions, weigh them fairly to find the best solutions together, manage conflict, and disagree respectfully.

Year Group Excursions

Every excursion is devised to ignite genuine curiosity and passion for a specific area of study through immersive, hands-on learning which textbooks cannot provide. More on Learning Journeys.

Kingsley Student Exchange Programme

The programme offers opportunities for students to embed themselves in new cultures and gain personal insight on living in a wider world.

Bully-Free School

Through role-play, discussions, and daily interactions, kids are taught the importance of reflection and respect in an environment of trust right from the start. Anti-bullying awareness is also one of the 3 pillars of the PSHE curriculum.

PSHE Programme

The Personal, Social & Health Education (PSHE) programme focuses on 5 Core Values, Anti-bullying, and Financial Education. Kids learn to manage themselves, their health, relationships and money while exploring what it means to be a citizen of the world and country.

Extracurricular Activities (ECA)

There are over 40 ECA through which Kingsley students may pursue their interests, nurture their talents, and build life skills. Students from Key Stage 2 onwards must join 1 Sport and 1 Club or Society each year.

Sports

Kids learn the value of discipline, healthy competition, teamwork, sportsmanship, and determination while exercising their bodies, minds, and social skills through regular sporting activities and inter house games.

Performing Arts Programme

This enriching programme helps kids use their voices and bodies to express themselves through drama, dance, and music. In addition to developing artistic talents, kids get to practise language skills and learn to be comfortable in the spotlight in a fun, informal environment.

Awards Week

The Student Exhibition at the Annual Performance and Awards Week is where kids get a chance to shine and celebrate their talents in front of a supportive audience of family members, teachers, and friends.

KIS & the Orang Asli Foundation

Kingsley’s work with the Orang Asli Foundation, Northern Malaysia, hopes to shine a light on the challenges faced by our countrymen and offer students a life-changing opportunity to devote their time to help people in need.

Ape-ril

The month of April is dedicated to our furry friends, the orangutans of Borneo. Kids learn about the impact of human activities on the environment and what they can do about it through our collaborations with wildlife NGOs.

Movember for MAKNA

The Movember movement offers another lens through which kids discover meaning through social activism. Kingsley students are often involved in organizing events and fundraisers supervised by teachers.

Aristotle tells us that “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. His words resonate with me personally. As an academician, I appreciate the premise that an individual’s cumulative actions can result in a fantastic end product. At Kingsley International School, we have taken this even further. We have taken action, will continue to take action – this year and every other year, collectively, and I can only pay tribute to the outcome. We have had a remarkable year at Kingsley and the school has grown from strength to strength. Traditionally, many would see one of my roles as a teaching and leading role. I have been fortunate this year to learn a great deal myself. I have learned that Kingsley is the sum of all our actions and that each child, parent, teacher, staff member and Board of Management have all acted together to further enhance and develop Motivation and Excellence in our School. I have seen our Board of Management giving focused and knowledgeable expertise to provide solid financial and strategic direction for Kingsley. I have witnessed our parents, giving selflessly and enthusiastically in a fellowship and supportive role. We are grateful for the positive, motivating role that they have played. I have continued to learn that the teachers at Kingsley are a remarkable group of individuals whose collective actions deserve our thanks and admiration. We need to find the words to thank a teacher and to pay tribute to their actions, in the classroom, on the sports field, culturally and musically and probably most importantly, the guiding and nurturing role that they play on a daily basis in their students’ lives. Kingsley’s boys and girls have also contributed to the successful outcome of the school. Through their actions they have shown motivation in the classroom and grasped the opportunities available to them with both hands. They have worked hard and played straight and they have been fine ambassadors of the School, their parents and most importantly – of themselves. We are all destined to make choices and those choices do largely control our actions. I am most fortunate and grateful that Kingsley is filled with so many motivated people who make positive choices, which ultimately lead to so many meaningful and productive actions. The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing, according to Robert J.Havighurst. I know how motivated and committed everyone is to Kingsley and I value each and every stake holder’s input and determined motivation in the classroom and in the broader school community. My warmest thanks to you – one and all.