SMK Pengiran Omar

Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pengiran Omar or SMKPO is a secondary school located in the town of Sipitang, in the Interior Division of the state of Sabah, Malaysia. The school is listed as one of the 88 smart schools in Malaysia. [Smart School DepartmentSocio-Economic Development DivisionMultimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd, (2006). List of Smart Schools. Malaysian Smart Schools. [Online] Available at: http://www.mscmalaysia.my/smartschool/whatis/department2.asp. Accessed: 03 September 2008] This school has achieved several awards for their academic and co-curricular performance and have also broken a Malaysian record. [Schools official websites : http://smkpo.edu.my]

History of the school

The school was a British school before Sabah's Independence. Then a few year after independence was achieve, the school's name was convert to the name to Sekolah Menengah Sipitang which then was changed to Sekolah Menengah Pengiran Omar to commemorate Pengiran Omar bin Syaifuddin for contribute to the local economy. The school was nominated to be a smart school in 1999.The 'Kebangsaan' in the name is a title for every secondary smart school or primary school which it means national. Many of the students usually great success and go to university such as UMS(Universiti Malaysia Sabah).

Academic and Co-curricular Achievements

The school is very active in rugby [ New Sabah Times"Plan for residential rugby" : http://www.newsabahtimes.com.my/nstweb/fullstory/8683] [Rugby News : http://www.sdc.net.my/sdc/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=22&topic=84.msg448] . In April 6, 2008 the school won 3rd place in the under 16 age category in the state finals. [Daily Express (2008). SRC Eagles live up to top billing. 6th April. [Online] Available at: http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/print.cfm?NewsID=56740 (Accessed: 03 September 2008)]

The has also been awarded for the students stunning achievement in the town.The school lately also was nominated to inquire two program from the Ministry of Education for F1 in school and for robot building. These two program are usually for urban students. The also have broken the Malaysian record for the longest (thank you) card. The school always was chosen for test strategies programs because of the high success rate of the school's students [Utusan Online, Portal Pendidikan : "Program peperiksaan di Papar dan Sipitang" : http://www.tutor.com.my/tutor/dunia.aspy=2004&dt=1025&pub=DuniaPendidikan&sec=Motivasi&pg=mo_01.htm] . The school also have a "rukun negara" club [List of schools that participate in (rukun negara) club : http://intra.jpnin.gov.my/rukunnegara/krnsabah.php]

List of headmasters through the ages

1 MR. CHANG SIEW BOK (1967-1969) 2 MR. CHIN HOCK YIN (1970-1971) 3 MR. LIAW BENG TECK (1972) 4 MR. LEE TIEN SHIONG (1973) 5 MR. KAMAL D.E. QUADRA (1974-1975) 6 MR. FREDERIK SUBAL (1976-1977)

7 MR. MD. YUSSUF SUDIN (1977-1978) 8 MR. OTHMAN MAHALI (1978-1980)

9 MR. ABDUL AZIZ AHMAD (1980-1981)

10 MR. ABDULLAH HJ. ISA (1981-1988) 11 MR. AK ALI PG JUMAAT (1989-1990) 12 TN. HAJI MOHD SHAFIE MATZAIN (1990-2004)

13 TN. HAJI MAHAMAD BIN HAJI ABDULLAH (2005-Now)

School's Photo Gallery

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