Methodist Boys’ Secondary School Kuala Lumpur

MBS Alumni New Zealand Chapter made a memorial visit to MBSSKL with the planting of an olive tree. Two members of the chapter, Robert Chan and Foong Kok Chuen helped to plant the tree which is hoped to spur the students about the significance of the alumni regardless of where they are residing. With the tree in the school compound, students will appreciate the role of the alumni in the development of the school, even if the alumni are far away in New Zealand. The ceremony was witnessed by Dato’ Teo Chiang Quan, president of the MBSKL Alumni Association and Wong Chee Kheon, the principal of MBSSKL.

Again MBSSKL boys emerged as KL champions in the RHB Spelling Contest in both the team and the individual events for 2009. With 26 top and premier schools like VI, Convent Bukit Nanas, Sekolah Aminuddin Baki and Sekolah Bintang Selatan taking part, the school still managed to clinch the title. Team work and diligence had contributed to this win. The team was represented by Liew Ern Khai, Quah Zhong Yan, Samuel Ong and Lim Kar Wee. The individual title was bagged by Liew Ern Khai, after a nail biting win over a very talented Form 1 boy from SMK Taman Maluri. Ern Khai was also last year’s KL Champion. Both titles carry cash prizes of RM2000, certificates and trophies. The school’s effort in excelling in co-academic areas of English has bore fruits as shown by this win the second time around. English Language is a niche area of the school as a Cluster School of Excellence.

The dedication service and the opening ceremony of the West Wing, hereby named the Yong Chee Seng Block will held at 0830 on Saturday, July 18.  The dedication service will be officiated by the Bishop and the opening by Mr Yong himself. Alumnus Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay has also been invited to jointly open the block with Mr Yong. Built in 2007 and opened in 2008, this block was built from donations from the alumni, PTA and other well wishers. With this block, the school has additional 12 classrooms which has enabled it to fulfill its aspriration as a single session school. Further news on this block can be found in the article in The Star. Please click here to read the article.

MBBSKL Under 15 boys achieved a historic first in the 5th National Robotic Competition (NRC) at the local (Bangsar) level. Competing in a field of premier and well known schools, two of our four teams came back with a gold and bronze medal respectively. Robotics being part of our ICT niche area has seen much improvement over the past year with the boys training diligently under the guidance of their teacher advisors. The boys will now represent Bangsar in the state level competition. Let’s hope they will perform even better in the state competition. The NRC is part of the government’s effort in creating students who are creative and innovative in the field of Science and Technology. Globally the Robotics Competition sees the participation from many countries each year.