More new books

Good news! Your Scholastic orders have arrived. Please ask your English teacher for your orders. Thanks to all students and teachers for buying items from Scholastic because we received 7 more free books!

1. Madagascar Joke Book
2. 101 Pet Jokes
3. 991/2 School Jokes, Riddles & Nonsense
4. Horribly Famous: Darwin and Other Super Scientists
5. Horribly Famous: Tutankhamun and His Tombful of Treasure
6. Horribly Famous: Roald Dahl and His Chocolate Factory
7. Horribly Famous: Henry VIII and His Wicked Wives

These books will be added to our collection in the reading room. See you next year and happy holidays!

The Reading Room

Please be considerate to others by cleaning up the reading room after you use it. You need to put the books on the right shelf. You also need to arrange the furniture and pick up any rubbish you see on the floor.

Please do not eat or drink in the reading room.

Thank you for your cooperation.

New Books in the Reading Room

Would you like to become a magician? Learn a few card tricks and how to make things disappear by reading The Great Book of Magic Tricks. Also learn how to levitate yourself without wires and spook your friends!

Another very interesting book is Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2010 Edition. This book is hard to miss because of its interesting 3D lenticular cover. The book contains amazing details and pictures like the ones below.





Another book you might be interested in is "Incredible Animals". The book contains pictures of animals around the world and some details about what these animals can do.


Another new book under non-fiction is Horrible Geography of the World.

Amazon description: Geography with the gritty bits left in! Inside you'll find out what happens when a volcano turns nasty, whether you'd survive at the frozen poles, how a frog can help you get a drink in the desert. Hold on tight as you embark on a whistle-stop trip around the globe taking in everything from the perishing poles to desperate deserts, stormy weather to earth-shattering earthquakes. Crammed full of far-out facts, it's the ultimate "Horrible Geography" guide to the planet. Geography has never been so horrible.


Are you a big fan of Twilight? In addition to the full set of the series, we also have All Access Totally Unauthorized: The Guys of Twilight. Learn about the male actors of the movie, including Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Cam Gigandet, Peter Facinelli and more. You'll discover what they think about their character and much more by reading their profiles. Plenty of pictures for you to admire.

For lower secondary students and fans of High School Musical, you are in for a treat! The Zac Efron Scrapbook is available in the reading room. Read about how Zac started his career, what his favourite food is, his best subject at school and so on. The book contains many pictures of Efron for you to admire.

Three new fiction books are now available in the reading room. They are the Ghost in the Machine, Oliver Nocturne-The Vampire's Photograph and Oliver Nocturne-Sunlight Slayings.




Amazon description: Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek...and Ryan and Sarah are trying to find out why. Ryan writes down everything in his journal, and Sarah records everything on her videocam. The two move deeper into the mystery they've uncovered, determined to discover the secrets buried in Skeleton Creek, in the conclusion to Patrick Carman's thrilling series.

In this groundbreaking format, the story is broken into two parts -- Ryan's text in the book, and Sarah's videos on a special website, with links and passwords given throughout the book.

Amazon description: Oliver Nocturne has a fairly typical childhood - for a vampire. But Oliver is different from those around him - his gore-loving vampire schoolmates, his loving vampire parents, and his obnoxious older brother, Bane. That's because, unbeknownst to Oliver, he's a little more human than the rest of them. When Emalie, an artistic and defiant human girl with a troubled past, unknowingly takes a picture of him, its sets them both off on a quest to uncover his true origins and the special purpose the vampire world has in store for him.

Oliver Nocturne finds himself reunited with Emalie's cousin, Dean, who has returned as a zombie. Dean has information on something that is shaking up the vampire community - vampire children are mysteriously being turned to dust. Oliver and Dean reconnect with Emalie, and the three of them set out to solve the mystery and in the process encounter the Fallen Brotherhood, a human group fighting against vampires. And the Brotherhood has some news for Oliver ....

Please take note that you cannot borrow books anymore for this term, however you may still read these books in the reading room. If you still have some borrowed books, please return them as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Free Books from Scholastic

We have received 9 books from Scholastic through the reading reward program. They are:

1. The Great Book of Magic Tricks.
2. Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2010 Edition.
3. Horrible Geography of the World.
4. Incredible Animals.
5. Zac Efron Scrapbook.
6. The Guys from Twilight.
7. The Ghost in the Machine.
8. Oliver Nocturne -The Vampire's Photograph.
9. Oliver Nocturne- Sunlight Slayings.


The more you buy from Scholastic, the more point the school gets. With these points, we can order free books for the reading room.

Thank you to those who have helped us get the free books.

Please collect your items

Please collect your orders as soon as possible. Collection time is from 7:30 am until 12:30 pm only. Please come to the English staffroom and look for Cg. Hjh Haryati.

1. Abd Faaiz 3B
2. Siti Nuraqilah 3B
3. Md Ajmir 8E (Your orders are with Cg. Ratna)

If you wish to buy more, please get copies of the new catalogues.

Thank you.

Scholastic Issue 7

Your items have arrived, please collect them on Saturday, November 7th starting at break time in the English staffroom. The items are only for those who paid before the 20th of October.

For year 7 & 8 students, your orders will be distributed next year.

Scholastic issue 8

The new Scholastic catalogues are available. Please ask your English teacher for them or drop by the English Staffroom.

To calculate how much an item costs in Brunei dollars, multiply the price stated by 1.30. Please fill in the order form correctly and cut out the form, don't submit the whole catalogue.

The deadline for returning your order forms is the 23rd of November 2009. Please hand in the exact amount of money.

You will receive your items next year. Please read this blog or the noticeboard outside the staffroom for updates.

Scholastic News

The closing date to submit your order has already passed.

Those who submitted their order forms before the 20th of October, your item(s) will be available next month. Please check this blog for pick-up information.

For those students who submitted their order forms after the 20th, your purchase(s) will only be distributed next year.

With the points we have accumulated, I managed to get 10 books for the reading room. The more you buy, the more points we'll get. The higher the points, the more free books we can get.

Thank you.