Happening this week Aug 21-25

VISION

Global Jaya School facilitates the development of lifelong learners who:

• are creative problem solvers with a broad perspective of the world around them.
• are respectful, moral individuals who take pride in their national heritage.
• are equipped to participate in the international community as team members and leaders.

MISSION

Based on the vision, Global Jaya School will:

• provide experiences through which the knowledge and skills necessary to encourage problem solving are developed.
• cater for individual learning needs and a range of learning styles.
• develop students’ communication skills to actualise their academic potential in both English and Bahasa Indonesia or their mother tongue.
• deliver and enrich an internationally accredited curriculum within an Indonesian context.

MONDAY Period 7

Extended Tutor Group. Y7 Jogya camp prep, Y 8,9,10 SSS Workshop. Y 11 CAS/EE

(MYP Online workshop team meets in Library during EXT)

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday: MPR3, 3:00 pm. IB Office updates on MYP and DP this year. Focus on Unit completion and IDU.

Weds: Curriculum Collaborative Planning Time.  

IDU Year level teams meet for the first time. Everyone else works on Curriculum in departments, with a focus on completing the Reflection and Resource section of your first two units.

Thursday: New Teacher induction at 3:00 in MPR3, all new secondary teachers.

Important resources this week, please download and save these.
Click Here for the IDU Guide "Fostering Interdisciplinary Learning"
Click Here For the DP Unit Checklist
Click Here for the MYP Unit Checklist

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This Week’s Message

Greetings from the IB office. It is only the third week of school, and the year is starting to ramp up. There are a number of things to be aware of this week. Students will be taking part in i ready. See Ibu Tamara’s communications and the schedule at the bottom of the page to help you plan your lessons. Also, teachers will be meeting their Personal Project students for the first time this week.  See communication from Ibu Popy and the instructions in the Personal Project corner below. 

Tuesday there will be a fire drill. Thursday at 8:00 am there will be a Y11 parent meeting, and after school Thursday there will be a new teacher induction which will carry on for the each Thursday afternoon for the next month. 

We will have meetings Mon and Weds to get us started on important IB initiatives, planning Interdisciplinary Units, updating MYP and DP units. See the Resources section above for unit plan checklists, or:

• Click Here for the MYP checklist, In addition, see Pak Andy's communications about the updated Outlook calendar. 
• Click Here for the DP unit checklist. 

DP

Y 11 parent  DP Meeting Aug 24, Thursday, 8-9:30

MYP

New MYP teachers will be taking part in sessions to support them with their online workshop

Weds August 16 3:00 PD Time

Week Aug 21 Extended Tutor Group Time (Permission given by Pak Edi)

Monday, Aug 28 during house meeting (Permission given by Pak Andy) Period 7

Monday, Sept 4 During YLM (Permission given by Ibu Tina) Period 7

Monday, Sept 11-15, No special time arranged

Monday, Sept 18. Y12 assembly. Time available if needed for the deadline. This is the last day, and work will hopefully be done over the weekend so teachers can enjoy the Y 12 assembly; they set the standard for assemblies for the year.

Building Quality Curriculum (BQC)

Semester 2 last year we got the report back for the work we sent last October 2016. This has been shared with the Department Heads to help guide future planning. 

Over the next few weeks, departments will be asked to review units completed in June to send in during Sept

Here is an excerpt from the overall feedback from last October’s submission:

Most of the teachers at Global Jaya School have developed rich statements of inquiry that have the potential to support transferable understanding and direct purposeful learning. The statements of inquiry are communicated in student-friendly language that invites inquiry and engagement.

The units reviewed demonstrate that most teachers are familiar with the current subject guides and include prescribed concepts, contexts and some approaches to learning skills in their planning.

The Theme of the feedback included Resources and Reflection:

Resources: One theme that appeared often was about the importance storing resources in the unit planner.

Reflection: Another theme is the importance of providing full and complete explanations of what is happening in the unit, including in the reflection sections.

IDU Corner. 

The MYP Interdisciplinary Units being planned this year are listed below. If you teach the year level and subject groups listed below, then please be familiar with this schedule. Click Here for the "Fostering Interdisciplinary learning" guide.

Year	Subjects	When, what
Y7	PHE and Hum	Jogya Trip Term 1 Reflection tools
Y8	Math and Sci	T4 Statistics, graphing, modeling
Y9	Lang Lit and LA, Hum	T2- or T3 NHD, Research note making and documentation MLA, including annotated bibliography and source analysis for PP prep.
Y10	PHE and SCI	T1, Year 10 Trip Team building and environment (This is the first time Y10 is doing this trip

Personal Project Corner

On Monday, August 21 at noon the names of supervisors and students will be released by Ibu Popy.

Students will be told to find their advisor. The job in the first meeting is to:

• Set up an agreed meeting time, once a month at least.
• Students explain what they did do so far, are doing, and will do.
• Students fill in the details of the first meeting on their report template

Next submission for PP is Aug 31, including the first draft of Part A with the work cited section and cover page. All information for students and teachers can be found on the PP blog on the tab at the top.

i-Ready