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NORMAWAR AHMAD MARZUKI

Prince of Wales Island International School (POWIIS)

Students were friendly but facility was a little old and some teachers are just to angry and food portion was small only like 6 pieces of tiny chicken if you want your kid to go to this school only recommend if you want to meet kind kids

It has a very nice boarding facility, and the boarders are looked after very well. But the cafeteria food is horrible according to many students' experience including my sons. The school is still quite new, has nice facilities, but besides academics, school mostly places emphasis on only music and performing art, quite disappointing about sports programs.
As to the student demographics, majority is Malaysian-Chinese students, few students from overseas. Teachers must remind students to use English in school, but in vain. As soon as teacher leaves, Chinese is spoken. Except for its British curriculum, the school
is almost like a Chinese school, not quite international.

I attended POWIIS from Year 7-Year 11. Not only is it insanely overpriced, but I feel like it was not worth the money at all. I have quite a few things to say so this review may be quite lengthy.

-Most of the teachers (especially in the science department) are awful at teaching. I tried to mention my frustration with my physics teacher to another member of staff and they did not take into account anything I had to say. As teachers, you are supposed to care about what students have to say, and the least you could do is listen. May I also add that reading slide shows/making students take notes for the entirety of the lesson is not teaching. This is something quite a few POWIIS teachers do and it’s not an effective way to learn at all and it in fact feels like self study instead; or rather a complete waste of time. Teachers like this are really frustrating to have especially for older years such as students in IGCSE or A-Level because those are particularly important times for a student in which they need the teachers’ help as much as possible. (I’m aware that POWIIS has great results but speaking from experience I felt helpless.)

-Some teachers were way too strict on uniform. I understand things like skirt length in order to maintain a sense of appropriateness in a school environment, however constantly nagging girls to tie their hair back is completely unnecessary as well as dictating how they can express themselves (piercings, hair dye, nail polish etc). These sorts of things don’t affect a student’s learning at all, but a lot of teachers here seem to make a massive deal out of it for no reason. There is also a number of unintelligent decisions being made by staff.

-The general cleanliness of the school is quite bad. The bathrooms are filthy (especially the ones by the pool & outside the canteen) and I felt extremely uncomfortable everytime I entered one. The facilities are generally quite decent but the cleanliness of the school is something a lot of students in POWIIS have concerns with. As well as this, the school is pretty much located in the middle of nowhere (However I understand that Balik Pulau is still a developing township) but its location makes it difficult for students to travel there and back because a lot of students live quite far away.

-The community; POWIIS mainly consists of Malaysian-Chinese students so the majority of the students there can speak Mandarin to the point where it’s basically a government school with an international curriculum. This also ostracises students who can’t speak Chinese. Speaking of ostracism, this school has a serious issue with racism. I often hear a lot of insulting things being said about Indians & Malays by the Chinese students and vice versa. I know a number of students who would partake in casual racism and the POWIIS community is generally quite divided. I feel like this school doesn’t take much action when it comes to serious matters but rather focuses their attention onto things that are less significant (I could name some instances but for privacy’s sake I won’t.)

-Also POWIIS does not necessarily have a good sports program because most of their energy is put towards performing arts. This is something I’d love to see some work on in future because I believe athletics and sports is just as important for students to find out what they really love doing.It’s always good to have something for everybody to enjoy.

All the negatives aside, the new counsellors/support team is very good. They are really kind, approachable and easy to talk to and I was helped a lot of times by them. Prioritising mental health is important for students during these challenging times and I’m very glad that POWIIS has a team of supportive people that understand and help. The pre covid house events were also enjoyable and I made some good friends here.

but the wifi and food is awful and i’m glad i left, i really dont recommend.
and forcing students to do triple science (i know this has been changed) for igcse was also unnecessary and made studies harder for a lot of people.

My daughter has been in Powiis for 2 years and she likes it very much.  The teachers and staffs are good and helpful. The only complain she has was the canteen food. She didn’t have any problems making friends although she doesn’t speak Mandarin. All her friends spoke good English. I have 2 more children in another international school and I am transferring them to Powiis. If this school was located in a more strategic place, it will be a very popular school.

My son started year 8 here in September. It's only been a couple months but so far things are going very well. All the teachers and school management have been great. My son likes the school and is even OK with the 40-min bus ride from the side of the island where we live.

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