Happening This Week, Aug 14

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

Assembly, all teachers and students attend

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday: Staff Briefing MPR3

Weds: Extended Essay PD from Pak Ram in MPR3, all teachers.

Except: New MYP Teachers attending the online workshop, meet in the Library. These teachers have already been notified by Pak Patrick.

This Week’s Message

Welcome back to the second week of classes--we already have a short week! Thursday is Indonesian Independence day Click here for history. Click Here for national anthem.

There is a lot going on this second week of school, including a couple of special activities which may affect your planning. These include Upacara celebrations on Friday, and a Special SSS assembly on Weds from 1:00-3:00 for the Y 9 and 10 Young men and women, and of course no school Thursday.

     Weds Y9-10, 1:00-3:00 no class, assembly

     Fri 7:40-9:40 and 1:30-2:50 no class, special activities

For your information, there will also be a New Parent meeting on Tuesday Morning from 8:00- 9:00, and the Year 7 Trip parent meeting from 9:00-9:30. Also this week, Ibu Popy will make available Personal Project titles and topics so teachers can start to select students to work with. See communications from Ibu Popy.

Friday 18 Arrangement (Independence Day celebration)

7.30-7.40 : Tutor group

7.40-8.30: upacara in gym

8.30-9.40: games

9.40-10.10: break time

10.10-11.50: NORMAL LESSON

11.50-12.30: Friday prayer

12.30-13.30: lunch time

13.30-14.50: knowledge ball in theater

DP

1. EUP - Agust 14, 2017 ( Congratulations to those who have already submitted)
2. M17 Exam reflection - August 18, 2017
3. 2017-2018 DP Year 11 Students Calendar - August 17, 2018  ( In this calendar departments are supposed to enter Final or Introduction of IAs, Major Unit Tests, class trips, completion of differents assessments and tasks, etc.) 

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 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 the month of 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.

Please note, many of the units reviewed are already outdated because we made so much progress last year with units, therefore the theme of the feedback should be considered over the actual content.

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.

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

MYP IDU Units need to:

       Include 1 IDU with 2 subjects for each year, 7,8,9,10 

           Be Recorded on an IDU planner

           Be Assessed by the IDU A B C D criteria collaboratively by all teachers involved

           Include All four strands, every criterion

           Be Reported on managebac and report card to parents as an IDU

           Include Common Global Context, Key concept, ATL

Personal Project Corner

On Monday, August 14 Y 10 students are submitting the titles of their projects. This will be used to help teachers select projects to supervise. See communications from Ibu Popy.

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 above.

Tuesday's PP ASA will be on Global Contexts with Ibu Dani

Thank you very much, and have a great week.

Patrick and Ram