The International School of Penang (Upland)

THE BEST school I have been to is Uplands. Uplands have lots of great teachers and they care about you a lot.

I attended from 1957 to 1958, and the headmaster was Mr Abbott, and his wife Clare was famous for watercolours of Malayan landscape. Sometime during the year there was an upset and Abbott was replaced by a lady headteacher whose name I have forgotten, I think it was Mrs Hawkins. She was more strict and made us wash behind our ears. Trying to remember names, I can remember my friend John Duncan, Barry Winser, Carlin Winser (Headgirl). Alastair Rennie, Pippa Cottrell.The Latin teacher Mrs Debeski , One of the matrons was called Miss Ong. I can remember many other people by their face, but it will take a time for the other names to return from deep memory. unfortunately, my family returned to England in March 1958 and I was removed before the end of Academic year. Even at the age of 68, I still check my Wellington boots for scorpions before putting them on. I used to enjoy the flights from Ipoh to Penang on Dakota DC3.

Uplands has consistently achieved a very high percentage of its overall IGCSE examination results at or above a B-grade. The last five years has seen Uplands achieve its best results in its 60-years of operation, with a 5-year average of 77% of all grades being of B-grade or above.