| Azlan Othman |
THE Ministry of Education (MoE) held the School Incentive and Co-Curricular education for 2017 at the Raja Isteri Girls High School (STPRI) hall yesterday.
The event aimed to recognise the efforts of schools that showed significant achievements and improvements in academic and school co-curricular education.
Guest of honour, Permanent Secretary (Core Education) at the MoE Dr Shamsiah Zuraini Kanchanawati binti Haji Tajuddin presented the awards.
The annual School Incentive presentation ceremony was first held in 2014 organised by the Department of Schools. Since 2017, the event has been jointly coordinated by the Department of Schools and the Co-Curriculum Education Department.
Acting Director of Schools Dr Hajah Zurina binti Haji Harun said the ceremony aimed to motivate primary and secondary schools, colleges and sixth form centres to achieve success in academic, outdoor activities and niche areas.
School incentives are based on the increase in academic achievement of the schools for 2017 school session.
Dr Hajah Zurina said the school’s niche area incentive is aimed at recognising schools that have a strong niche area, sustainable, and possess high achievement record at the cluster, district, national, regional and international levels.
Niche area can be in the academic, co-curricular, entrepreneurial or society. A strong niche area will function and serve as an image to the ethos, character, mold, performance, identity, tradition, positive culture, uniqueness, excellence, credibility, personality and trademark of a school capable of producing students as dynamic human capital, evolving in a holistic and continuous manner and uplift the names of schools and countries internationally.
Co-curriculum Education Incentives 2017 aims to reward the active and brilliant schools in implementing co-curricular activities in schools.
It also sought to promote the importance of co-curriculur activities towards creating healthy and vibrant students besides motivating school staff in enhancing the excellence of co-curricular activities in their respective schools.
Among the other programmes organised at the event were the Sharing Session on ‘School Leadership Empowerment’ delivered by Principal of Jerudong International School (JIS) Barnaby Sandow.
The sharing session aimed to share expertise and best practices in the leadership of JIS, themed ‘Underpinning the Notion of School Leaders for Great Success’.
Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the MoE Dr Haji Azman bin Ahmad and senior officers at the ministry were also present.