Tunku Putra Students Receive Awards Recognizing Both Academic And Citizen Achievements

Kuching, 15 November 2013 – As students of Tunku Putra School gear up to end their scholastic year, the school have honored their young stars by celebrating their student awards day designed to recognize character and citizenship in addition to outstanding academic achievements performed by the students throughout the year.

Amongst the 85 awards that were given out to students in each year at the TPS campus in Petra Jaya, was the ‘Most Improved’ student award, the ‘Star Student’ award for academic progress, the ‘Citizen’ award for students who have shown strength of character and awards for sporting prowess. In addition, ‘Gold Certificates of Achievement’ were given out to students who had received 100 bronze points for their individual achievements throughout the academic year.

In attendance was YB Datuk Hajah Fatimah Abdullah Minister in Welfare, Women and Family Development who gave a heart-warming speech to the students as well as Datuk Syed Ahmad Alwee Alsree, Chairman of CMS Education Sdn Bhd who awarded the trophy to the winning house. Also in attendance were members of the board of management of Tunku Putra School.

The school’s principal, Mr Peter Morris, said “we are pleased to offer these awards to our bright and hardworking students who have performed admirably throughout the year. We are also pleased to have awards that recognize academic excellence and our ‘Citizen’ of the year award and sporting prowess awards in each year group. One of the main attractions to Tunku Putra School is its unique range of curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular programmes designed to stimulate unconventional academic excellence through subjects such as music, arts and drama in addition to traditional academic subjects to create a holistic learning experience.”

Tunku Putra School which is a wholly-owned by CMS Education Sdn Bhd (owned by Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad), is committed on delivering quality education and authentic opportunities for children to become successful, independent and self-directed learners. Tunku Putra School has established their overall reputation in quality in a relatively short period of time. Public examination results in the shape of PMR, SPM and IGCSE are amongst the best and TPS students are recognized as being well rounded future citizens as TPS’ focus on holistic education includes life lessons that are also taught outside the classroom.