The celebrations at the end of the year can vary from big to small for each school. However, Jimmy's TELL2 SJKC Khee Chee school had a fantastically huge celebration. Jimmy was very proud to be involved with this celebration by helping his year 2 English students choreograph a dance for their segment of the presentation. These students were the only ones that were able to sing their own song. This event was attended by Jimmy and Martina from the Temerloh cluster.

Bottom Left: Year 2 English class singing and dancing to "Let it Go" from Frozen.

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TELL2 school SK Kampong Tengah had a funfair this week. This project was headed by TELL2 mentee Mr. Arif with the help of the other TELL2 mentees from that school: Ms. Amiliah, Ms. Maisyara, Mr. Azman, and Ms. Hafiza.

Mentakab Mentors Jimmy and Martina and Maran mentors Tom and Sarah came to help out all day. Tom from Temerloh, as he was injured, came for some of the morning to help with what he could. He also helped bring the games to the school earlier in the week.

The kids seemed to have a great time and the events of the funfair were not limited to games. There were also contests for the best team chant, a team treasure hunt, and best mini-action song.

Pictured here are all of the students and teachers that participated. Jimmy and Martina are seen pictured here with their teams.

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Still on top of their game, Mentakab Mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin continue to move from school-to-school with their workshop. Hopefully, the skills from the reading and writing workshop will make a big difference with the students and teachers in the coming year.

The two mentors led their workshop at Jimmy's TELL2 SJKC Khee Chee school today with the two best year 5 classes. It is their hope that these year 5 students will continue to exercise the skills learned in their workshop in preparation for their year 6 UPSR exam next year. Mentors will continue to encourage level 2 teachers to give and create opportunities to review these skills over the next year.

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There's less than two weeks left until the end of the school year, but Mentakab Mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina are still working hard. Last week and this week, these two mentors have been busy leading workshops all over the Mentakab and Temerloh area.

Martina's TELL2 school SK Abu Bakar, invited Jimmy and Martina to lead their workshop on reading and writing skills. This workshop is aimed at helping level 2 students and teachers improve upon these skills and the methods used for strengthening these skills.

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Mentor Jimmy Ma is helping his TELL2 SJKC Khee Chee school with their year 2 end-of-the-year presentation. These students will be performing an action song based on the movie "Frozen." Jimmy is helping with the choreography of the students. Stay tuned for more!

The end-of-the-year celebration will be on Tuesday, Nov 18 and have 15-20 presentations from groups of students. Attendance by parents and supporters is estimated to be over 1000!

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Mentakab Mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin have started to provide a Level 2 UPSR workshop for their schools. The first school to schedule these mentors for this workshop was TELL2 school SJKC Mentakab 1.

In this workshop, TELL2 mentor Martina Gilmartin provides different reading skills and activities for the students. TELL2 mentor Jimmy Ma provides a section on improving writing skills. It is the hope of these mentors that these students will learn and practice these skills throughout their final year of primary school, in order to help prepare them for their final UPSR English exams.

The workshop consisted of activities with opportunities for the students and teachers to make presentations. Students demonstrated the skills learned in the workshop and teachers demonstrated the feedback techniques from the workshop.

Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin make their presentations. Students make presentations and work together in their groups.

Students working together in their groups to make mind maps (left) and write journal entries (right).

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Brighton TELL2 mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin participate in many community events. One event held at the beginning of November was the annual dinner and dancing event. This event is held annually by the Mentakab Dancing Association. Not only does is this event held in order to raise money for the Dancing Association, but a portion of the proceeds also goes towards a different charity group each year. In addition to dance classes for adults, the Mentakab Dancing Association also offers classes for younger students. Some of these are Jimmy Ma's students at TELL2 school SJKC Khee Chee.

The bottom left photo feature some TELL2 students from SJKC Khee Chee

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A proud tradition of the Western world is dressing up on everyone's favorite day of the year: Halloween! Mentors from all over Pahang and Terrenganu came together in order to celebrate this holiday in Mentakab. Arrangements for this event were made by Maran mentor Sarah Higgs with some help from local Mentakab residents.

Pictured here are mentors from Temerloh, Maran, Raub, Bera, Bentong, Kuantan, and Kuala Terrenganu

Members of the community came out to support Halloween

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