The Inked Volume 1

Welcome to Harvest!
Harvest Academy is a school under Pertubuhan Kebajikan dan
Pendidikan Harvest, which aims to provide a dynamic learning
environment that prepares children for success in a borderless
world. It also aims to instill the spirit of lifelong learning among
students.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
CEO’s Words ......................... 3
Classes ................................. 4
Activities ………………………… 10
Student’s Corner ………………. 18
December 2016 marks Harvest Academy first year anniversary. In
one year of its establishment, the academy currently has 19
students aged 12 to 15. The students are divided into three classes;
Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9.
Activities throughout the year!
2016 is about to end. The first ever issue of The !nked will bring
you to go through all the activities that Harvestians have done
throughout the year. It started with the Remedial Class, which
marks the start of Harvest Academy till the Halloween’s
celebration—the final activity for the Harvestian to
enjoy with the whole Harvest family before they go for
the break.
Parents will get a glimpse of the activities that your
children have participated in their one year experience
in Harvest Academy.
Not learn to study,
but study to learn.
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Mr Lee In Chiew, CEO, Harvest Academy
CEO’s words
Welcome to our first newsletter of Harvest Academy for the
year 2016. I hope everyone is going to have a great break and
enjoyable holiday soon.
At Harvest Academy, we believe that every child has a
successful story to tell! Our goal is to partner with families to
provide a welcoming and peaceful school environment with
high academic expectations and positive students’
behaviours. I am pleased to share that Harvest Academy has
had a successful first year of school.
HARVESTIAN
Harvestian is the
name given to people
of Harvest Academy.
Be it a student, a
teacher or a staff, if
you are a part of
Harvest, you are a
Harvestian.
Here are a few of the things that will keep us busy in
December.
Our school will be having English remedial class for 2017’s
new intake students.
Our management team is also busy preparing for 2017
boarding facilities.
In December, our school will be having four new teachers
including a foreign teacher - Ms Aylan from Azerbaijan.
Last but not least, I sincerely express my gratitude to all,
especially staff of Harvest Academy for their generous
support to this school and their incredible effort with us.
This is reckoned to be a memorable year and we are thrilled
that we have the opportunity to share it with you.
That’s all for now. Harvest is always open for discussion.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions,
concerns or comments.
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Remedial class 2015
Remedy Class was held in December 2015. The
purpose of the class was to introduce the
students to the school and to improve their
English Language skill.
There were 14 students who had joined the
class last December. For the whole month,
students brushed up their English Language by
learning vocabulary and grammar.
Every day, the students would engage in
English activities to help them with their
language skills and thus making them to enjoy
learning English.
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow
belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
-Malcolm X
Year 7
Classes
Currently, there are 19 students
in Harvest. These students are
divided into three different
classes; Year 7, Year 8 and Year
9.
Year 7 has the most number of
students which is 9 while Year 8
and Year 9, each has five
students.
Year 8 Year 9
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City of Mine
City
I write the city of mine
The city that never shines
It’s never lively like New York City
It would never stop making me dizzy
The city of mine is blue
But it doesn’t have oceans to view
The city of mine is grey
Thunders and lightning are on their way
The city of mine secretly cries
It’s full with crimes, full with lies
It hopes that everything could be fine
And maybe one day could find someone
Who understands the city of mine
Under the snow in a street,
In a truly cold secretive street,
Snow falling gently in front of me,
I walk alone,
I walk alone in this strange city street,
In this city street,
I insist on believing,
There will be a man,
Thinking the same thing,
Looking at the same moon,
With similar frequency,
In a lonely station exit,
Arranged to meet with me.
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Haiku
The sky is dark,
For the God is angry,
Man, it was scary
The sun is happy,
He shines too brightly,
The cloud fills with jealousy
Chain Story using Justin Bieber’s Song’s Title by Derick Chan
It was at midnight, when I drank that glass of cold water. Thinking about the day when I
said sorry to you. Although not knowing what do you mean. But if I have one more chance
to be your boyfriend, I will give you company. I am sorry to tell you to love yourself. I miss
you baby. Can’t you just let me love you? I’ll show you how much I love you. As long as you
love me, I will love you till the day I die. It is like you and me are beauty and a beat. All
that matters is if you still love me. Finding somebody to love is not easy. I will never let
you go. You should mark my words.
* The song’s titles are in italic and bold
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A Sad
Memory
One day, I went to a park with a wonderful feeling.
On my way there, I saw a fishball stall across the
street. When I decided to go and bought the
fishball, a car suddenly came towards me with a
very fast speed. A dog came out and saved my life.
I was thinking about death at the moment but the
brave dog pushed me away and got injured
because of me. I felt astonished when I saw the incident and I screamed loudly. The
driver came out and asked me if I was injured and he checked his car. At that time, I was
very shocked since it was my first time involve in a car accident.
I was in a good condition so I brought the dog to the vet. When I reached there, the
vet took the dog into the surgery room. After an hour, the surgery was done. The vet said
the surgery was successful and the dog was safe. I felt relief. I made it as my pet. I
wanted to take care of it for the rest of my life. I sincerely promised my mother that I’ll
take care of it patiently and treated it like my little brother. I bathed the dog twice a
week. I made sure that it could eat and sleep well every day. I brought it for a walk at the
garden every evening. I took care of it from the bottom of my heart.
After two months, I started to feel bored and annoyed with it. As I was walking
towards my room, I patted its head harder and harder. “Ouch!” I screamed angrily. Sally,
the dog had bitten my hand. I lost my mind and kicked it hard. It kept barking at me.
‘Shut up, little devil!’ My parents did know that I hated Sally since the day I was annoyed
with it. Then I kept torturing Sally until its whole body had injured. It always cried in
front of me. However, I resented its sound and used the hangers to beat it viciously until
it was afraid of me. “That’s how you should be before this,” I said as I bowed down and
patted its head.
The next day, I was going to have breakfast with my parents and my little sister. I
dressed Sally up with a pink ribbon. “Oh, dear! Why is Sally injured?” my mother asked.
“It…It was…. It was actually an incident. I played with Sally yesterday and … and it fell
down from the stairs. It’s my fault. I didn’t take care of it. I’m… I’m so sorry,” I replied.
Then, my little sister interrupted and told the truth to my parents. I said ‘No, you must be
wrong! I’m not going to do like that to my beloved Sally’. My parents scolded my little
sister because accusing me. I won. My parents hugged me and tried their best to console
me. I secretly smiled and looked at Sally and my little sister evilly, but my parents did not
notice it. Then, we continued our breakfast.
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After a few months, Sally was badly injured and I kept telling lies. Sally was getting older and weaker.
My little sister was not bother with my acts anymore because our parents kept scolding her and did not
trust her words. One day, I watched a TV show. It was ‘Humans’ Loyal Friends’. The movie was about a loyal
dog and its owner. I felt bored and started to sleep. Out of a blue, my mother shouted and cried. I was
frightened. ‘What happened?’ I asked and looked at the TV. There was a dog sacrificed itself to rescue its
owner. It was bumped by a lorry when it pushed its owner away. Its blood was all over the road. The owner
was sad. I was touched and my eyes were filled with tears. I hugged Sally closely. I felt regret.
I promised Sally to not torture it anymore. Therefore, I took time to play with Sally every day. I was
very giddy like a kid in a candy store. Sally was also happy when we were playing. It kept licking my cheek. I
gave Sally some chocolate. Both of us were on top of the world. Started from that day, Sally became my
bosom friend. The next day, Sally looked weaker and exhausted. It was groaning. It kept vomiting. I noticed
this incident and told my parents. Then, we brought Sally to the vet. The veterinarian said that Sally was unhealthy
because it had diarrhea. It was because it ate too many chocolates which were already expired. It
made Sally collapsed and died. After hearing that, my hands clasped over my mouth in disbelief. I felt deeply
hurt and cried loudly. My parents tried to calm me down. At last, we performed euthanasia even though
we knew that we will never see Sally again. I was in a great despair and felt disappointed with myself for
few days. It was a very sad memory. I would never forget Sally.
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Chinese New Year’s celebration
In February, Harvest Academy joined
in the celebration of the Year of Monkey.
Class decoration competition was
held.
Students decorated their classes according
to the Chinese New Year’s
theme. Everyone did their best in decorating
their classes.
The students had been given around
two weeks to decorate the classes. During
the judging day, Year 7‘s students
had performed a special lion dance,
while Year 9’s students had prepared a
special presentation.
Year 9 was crowned as the winner
while Year 7 and Year 8 shared the sec-
Hari Raya Aidilfitri Celebration
On 13th of July, the students had the chance to experience the
festivity of Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Each teacher brought some of
the festive food such as rendang, ketupat palas, nasi impit,
lemang and many more.
The students had fun trying the food and the raya biscuits that
they never tried before. It was a good way for them to learn other
cultures.
On the same day, some Harvestians went to visit Pusat Jagaan
Rumah Sejahtera which is situated at Kaki Bukit, Perlis to donate
some rice.
The contribution is from the charity money of Honest Corner
and Cursing Jar—which students need to pay RM 1.00 for every
time they curse or speak other languages except for English.
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H-Explore
H-Explore or Harvest
Explore, just like the name
suggested is a programme
that encourage the students
to experience the nature
and to explore their
surroundings.
H-Explore 2016 was held at
Pusat Kokurikulum Kedah,
Kem Singkir, Kedah for
three days and two nights
together, be brave and be
creative.
The students also learnt
new things such as the
different types of knots.
At the end of the camp, the
students were responsible
to conduct the closing
ceremony by themselves
with the guidance from the
trainers of Kem Singkir.
Soh Hui Yong and Tan Ke
Xin had been chosen as the
best male and female
participants respectively
for the H-Explore 2016.
“The difference between school and life? In
school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a
test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a
lesson”
- Tom Bodett
starting from 25th—27th
August 2016. During the
camp, the students had
done many activities that
encouraged them to work
Some of the activities that
they did at the camp were
wall climbing, obstacles,
flying fox and jungle
trekking.
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H-Angels
‘H-Angels’ is a community service
programme which is fully handled by the
Year 9 students with the guidance and help
from the teachers.
The main purpose of H-Angels is to give
back to the society. For year 2016, H-
Angels, led by Mr Derick Chan Yi Fan had
decided to do a charity sale. Harvestians
created and decorated corner bookmarks
and ice cream sticks bookmarks to be sold.
RM 500.00.
The money collected from the charity sale
was given to Pertubuhan Kebajikan Rumah
Anak Yatim Mak Teh which situated at
Jalan Bukit Besi Hangit.
The selling of the bookmarks was done on
14th October. The students went and sold
them around Kayangan Square, Kangar
and managed to collect approximately
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Cross country 2016
During the month of April, Harvest has
held its first ever cross country
competition! Students were grouped into
three houses —Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
The cross-country track was around 5 km
long. The students were required to run
through the jogging track from Taman
Bukit Kaya to Gua Cenderawasih.
The first place
winner was Soh Hui
Yong from Jupiter,
while the overall
winner was the
Mars.
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“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success”. - Swami Sivananda
Teacher’s Day
Celebration
Harvest Academy’s first ever Teacher’s Day
Celebration was held on Wednesday, 18th
May 2016. The celebration took place at
Community Hall, Taman Bukit Kaya.
There were performances from the students.
Year 7 showed a dance performance. Year 8
did a short sketch and Year 9 sang some songs
for the teachers. The teachers also played
some games with the students.
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Halloween
The Halloween’s celebration is marked the last event for
Harvest Academy 2016.
The students had come to school on the 2nd of November
dressed in their chosen Halloween’s costume.
Besides donning a costume, the students also decorated
their classes during the last week of October, in order to
enjoy the Halloween’s mood.
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Talent Time
Talent Time is a platform for students to practice their
public speaking skill. Each week, two students will be
chosen to present their speech during the Monday
assembly.
This programme is under the supervision of Mdm Nor
Asni Syahriza. The students who have been chosen will
need to prepare a speech about their selected topic and
practise their speech with Mdm Asni before they present
it to the Harvestians.
“All those iconic presenters of today were a shy little kid back then”.
― Aayush Jain
Honest Corner
Honest Corner can be described as unsupervised convenient
shop. All transactions are done by the buyers. They choose their
things they want to buy, write down the code and their name, and
pay the total amount.
Honest Corner is under the supervision of Ms Nur Farhanis and
Ms Nurul Fatini. Each week, three students will be in charge of
counting the stock and calculate the transaction of the day.
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Readaholic, as the name suggests, is a programme which is aiming to encourage the
students to read. How does it work? It is very simple!
If the students have any book that they would like to read or any book that interests them,
they can go to Harvestian’s folder in their Google Drive and search for the Readaholic’s
folder. Once they find it, they can fill in the Readaholic’s form.
Each month, one or two books from the Readaholic’s list will be chosen. The students who
selected the chosen book, will have the first ‘dib’ of the book—meaning that he or she can
read the book first for one month before returning it to the library.
The first two students, whose their suggested book were chosen were Jamerline who has
requested The Fault of Our Stars, written by John Green and Tan Ru Wei (Rhay) who
requested for The Sister Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
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E
C
A
ECA or extracurricular activities focuses more on the
activities and physical learning. Every week, two hours
are allocated for the students to exercise. There are
badminton, basketball, futsal and running.
The students seem to really enjoy ECA and it is the
highlight of their week. Besides sports, ECA is also for
any activities such as English activity, where the
students play some language games to help improve
their English Language proficiency, treasure hunting
and more.
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the
tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
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My Dream Superhero!
Every time, after I have finished watching a movie about superheroes fighting villains, I always
think that creating a cool superhero for myself is way more epic. Perhaps, in the future, the superhero
that I created will actually exist. So, I created a superhero and named it Ultra Fusion.
Ultra Fusion is a normal person. His real name is Zack. He likes to work at a laboratory and willing
to risk anything in order to complete his experiment. He nearly died and is badly injured in the
four experiments that he had done. He is considered a very lucky person because any person will
definitely die in his extremely dangerous experiment. One day, Zack finds a virus. Nobody dares to
test the virus because it is new. Zack takes the risk and inserts it into his own body. Within minutes,
he grows muscular and gains infinite power. He has become immortal. He thinks that his power can
help his city to stay out of crime. Zack quits being a scientist and join the ‘Special Weapons and Tactics’
Unit or SWAT. He becomes the leader of the team and carefully leads them in protecting the city.
He has various awesome abilities. For example, mind reading which can help him to seizure the
real villain and prevent people from lying to him. This ability is used in many ways such as knowing a
lot of important things from the villain like his plans and his secret base. This will ease the police’s
work. Ultra Fusion can create anything he wants from a pile of rubbish. He always create robots or
transportation such as helicopter, jets, sport cars and many more. He creates it for emergency such
as escaping robbers. This can save his time and he gets to arrests the robbers as fast as he can.
Another ability is even more special. This ability is not for fighting but spying, which is invisibility.
Ultra Fusion can immediately be invisible and it will also help him to escape from villain and the
invisible power can also help him to walk pass through locked doors to get what he needs. It will reduce
any risks and easily complete a mission. The next ability is he can create water, wind, fire and
many more. He can basically use elements to become a weapon. He can create a small earthquake,
fire or tornado. He also has weapons like lasers and daggers. Another ability of his is disguise. He can
hide like a ninja and attack people by surprise. He uses the weapons like katana, kunai, or daggers for
near combat.
The final ability is kind of special. It is way much cooler than the others. He can stop time and
travel back to the past. This will help him to stop the crime in the past that he couldn’t prevent. Although
he can travel through time, he cannot meet himself in the past. If he meets his past self, there
is no guarantee that he will be safe. He can travel to the past to redo anything he had regrets.
That is the superhero that I always wish for. I truly hope this superhero will exist in the future.
If it happens, it will be one dream comes true.
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Harvest Academy is the first and only international
learning centre in Perlis. Our centre is a home-grown
learning centre that will provide primary and
secondary school education.
What’s next?
The new semester will start on the 3rd of January, 2017 and
Harvest Academy has some activities line up to kick of the new
semester.
New Intake 2017.
The registration for the new intake is opened. Any
inquiries can be addressed to Harvest Academy’s Facebook
page or directly contact our administration.
Remedial Class
The remedial class for the new intake will start on the 5th
of December, 2016. It will go on until the last week of
December.
H-Explore 2
We are also planning the second part for our H-Explore
Camp!
Do look forward to it!
Contact Us
Tel: +604-9704884
Email: admin@harvestacademy.org.my
Address: 45, Jalan Bukit Kaya, Taman Bukit Kaya, 01000 Kangar,
Perlis, Malaysia.
Web: www.harvestacademy.org.my
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