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Sister school programme

Sister School Programme with Global Islamic School, Indonesia

In August 2026, we began a sister school programme with Global Islamic School in Indonesia. Primary and secondary students from our Ipoh campus and our centres across Malaysia are meeting their Indonesian peers in four online sessions, running until November 2026, to share school life, culture, traditions, favourite pastimes and ideas for protecting the environment. The first session, held on 13 August 2026, focused on personal activities at and after school, with student presentations on topics such as learning how to be a global citizen, using AI to learn and extracurricular activities.

  • Students and teachers from both schools in a video call gallery view
    Students from both schools meeting online
  • Presentation slide titled Personally Responsible Citizen, showing hands planting a seedling
    Learning how to be a global citizen
  • Presentation slide titled How AI Models Work: LLMs in Simple Terms, with a cartoon robot
    Using AI to learn
  • Presentation slide about archery as an extracurricular activity, with photos of students practising
    Extracurricular activities: archery

Family day

Family Day Bowling Tournament

On 4 October 2025, we held our second consecutive Family Day Bowling Tournament at Ampang Superbowl, Ipoh Parade. Students, parents and teachers from our Ipoh and Cameron Highlands centres came together for a day of friendly competition, cheering each other on from the lanes. At the prize-giving, our teachers presented medals, certificates and gift bags to the players.

  • A player in a purple polo shirt swings a red bowling ball down the lane while a student in white looks on
    Bowling down the lanes
  • A player holds a green bowling ball and looks up at the scoreboard, with families and students waiting behind
    Getting ready to bowl
  • A player wearing her medal smiles as teachers hand out prizes at the prize-giving table
    Medals at the prize-giving
  • A student wearing a medal ribbon smiles as two teachers prepare his prize
    Prize-giving time
  • A student wearing a medal ribbon receives a certificate from a teacher
    Collecting a certificate
  • A player and a teacher hold up a floral gift bag, with trophies on the table behind them
    Gift bags and trophies

Parents' talk

Parents' Private Talk

On 10 July 2025, we welcomed a group of parents to our school in Ipoh for a Parents' Private Talk. Our team explained how our modular education system is changing the way children learn, making lessons more effective, more engaging and focused on results. Parents were impressed by our transparent approach, our passionate educators and the real success stories they heard.

  • A presenter in a pink polo shirt explains the UK GCSE and IGCSE pathways on a whiteboard as parents listen around a long table
    Explaining the GCSE and IGCSE pathways
  • Parents seated around a long glass-topped table listen to two presenters at the front of the room
    Parents listening to the talk
  • A presenter in black walks parents and their children through a slide titled About the Student Book
    A look inside the student book

School trip

School Trip to Taiping and Kuala Kangsar

Our students spent a day on an educational trip to some of Perak's most iconic spots in Taiping and Kuala Kangsar. At Taiping Zoo, Malaysia's oldest zoo, they got up close with a variety of animals, learned about wildlife conservation and enjoyed a tram ride through the zoo. At the Telegraph Museum in Taiping, they explored the history of communication in Malaysia, saw vintage telegraph equipment and even tried out Morse code for themselves. The day ended at Victoria Bridge in Kuala Kangsar, one of the oldest railway bridges in Malaysia, where students walked across the bridge, admired the views and learned about its importance during the colonial era.

  • Students and teachers pose in front of the Telegraph Museum building in Taiping, giving thumbs-up and peace signs
    Outside the Telegraph Museum, Taiping
  • Students wearing lanyards give a thumbs-up in front of a jungle mural at Taiping Zoo
    Thumbs-up at Taiping Zoo

School trip

School Trip to Papan

On 26 October 2024, our students spent a day in Papan, a historic tin-mining town about 15 km from Ipoh. On a guided heritage walk, they looked at a map of Papan in 1907 and a model of the old town, listened to talks outside the town's old wooden houses and shophouses, and saw Rumah Besar Raja Bilah, the grand house built in 1896 by Raja Bilah, the Mandailing headman of Papan. They also visited a room filled with Chinese calligraphy scrolls and red couplets. Later, at Papan Roses Horse Park, the park's staff helped children up onto the horses, and everyone gathered in the riding arena for a group photo.

  • A guide wearing a headset microphone stands beneath a large wall map titled Papan 1907
    A map of Papan in 1907
  • Students and parents gather around a guide outside a wooden stilt house shaded by large trees
    A guided talk on the heritage walk
  • The white two-storey Rumah Besar Raja Bilah with arched verandas and wooden shutters, with visitors on the lawn in front
    Rumah Besar Raja Bilah, built in 1896
  • Hanging scrolls of Chinese calligraphy and an ink painting of a lotus on a wooden wall
    Chinese calligraphy scrolls
  • Staff in Papan Roses Horse Park T-shirts help a child in a riding helmet onto a horse
    Help getting onto a horse
  • Students, parents and staff pose in the covered riding arena between two horses with riders
    Group photo at Papan Roses Horse Park

School trip

Field Trip to Qing Xin Ling Leisure & Cultural Village, Ipoh

In April 2024, our students visited Qing Xin Ling Leisure & Cultural Village in Taman Saikat, Ipoh, a lakeside cultural village at the foot of the Gunung Rapat limestone hills. The group gathered at the entrance before setting off, then explored in small groups, sheltering under umbrellas from the morning sun and working through a worksheet quiz together. Students also stopped for photos by the lake, with the limestone cliffs behind them.

  • Students and adults from the school pose together under a tent at the entrance to Qing Xin Ling Leisure and Cultural Village, Ipoh
    Gathering at the entrance
  • Students chat and cool off with a hand-held fan while waiting together under a tent
    Getting ready under the tent
  • A small group of students stands in the shade of the trees, two of them holding umbrellas against the sun
    Exploring in small groups
  • A student writes answers on a worksheet clipboard while two classmates react and think over the question
    Working through the quiz sheet
  • Students give peace signs by the railing of the lake, with limestone cliffs and greenery in the background
    By the lake below the limestone cliffs

Guest talk

Guest Talk: Overcoming Procrastination

On 21 March 2024, we were delighted to host Associate Professor Dr Bhajan Lal Rahanu, a Chartered Chemist from the Chemical Engineering Department at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), for a talk on overcoming procrastination. Dr Rahanu shared practical strategies to stop putting things off and make the most of every moment, including the Pomodoro Principle and visualisation. Our students left inspired to put his tips into action and tackle their goals head-on.

  • Dr Bhajan Lal Rahanu, wearing a face mask and a UTP shirt, speaks beside a screen showing a UTP at a Glance slide
    Dr Rahanu introduces UTP
  • Dr Bhajan Lal Rahanu gestures as he talks to students in front of a slide titled 3. Visualization
    Strategy three: visualisation

School trip

School Trip to Gua Tempurung

On 20 April 2023, our students explored Gua Tempurung, a limestone cave near Gopeng, Perak. Following the cave's lit walkways and stairs, they passed towering limestone formations, crossed huge chambers and climbed through narrow rock tunnels. Our founder joined the trip and stopped for a photo with three of the guides.

  • Students, teachers and parents pose together for a group photo on a walkway inside Gua Tempurung, with the dark cave wall behind them
    Our students, teachers and parents inside Gua Tempurung
  • Students gather on a cave walkway to listen to a guide, beneath pale limestone formations
    Listening to a guide in the cave
  • Our founder, in a white T-shirt, stands on the right beside three men inside the cave, one wearing a cap and a Gua Tempurung T-shirt
    Our founder (right) inside the cave
  • Our founder, in a white T-shirt, gives a thumbs-up with three guides in grey vests
    Our founder with three of the guides
  • A huge cave chamber with pale limestone formations and a lit staircase in the distance
    Inside a vast cave chamber
  • A lit steel staircase climbs beside giant limestone walls inside the cave
    Stairs climbing through the cave
  • Stone steps with railings wind up through a low rock tunnel
    Steps through a rock tunnel
  • Students walk along a cave path beside swirling limestone walls
    Exploring the cave
  • A visitor poses by the railing of a cave walkway while a man in a cap takes her photo
    A photo stop on the walkway

Studio visit

A Visit to a Dance Studio

Our students paid a visit to a dance studio, where framed black-and-white dance photographs were on display around the room. Seated on the studio floor, they learned from a dancer, then took turns presenting in small groups. The visit ended with a group photo in the studio.

  • A dancer kneels on the black studio floor and talks with students seated around her, with framed black-and-white dance photographs on easels behind them
    Learning from a dancer
  • Students sit on the studio floor in front of a brick wall as the dancer raises her arm to demonstrate
    Seated on the studio floor
  • Three students stand in front of a brick wall and a framed photograph, reading from their notes
    Presenting in small groups
  • Three students present to the room, one holding a potted plant
    Another group takes its turn
  • Five younger students stand in a row on the black studio floor holding their notes
    Younger students presenting
  • Students, teachers and parents pose together in the brick-walled studio
    Group photo in the studio