Nov 6 Happening This Week

Nov 6

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

Y 8 Assembly

PD and COLLABORATIVE MEETING

Monday: See communication from Principals

Weds: See communication from Principals

Special events:

Mon Special assembly 1:30 pm. See Pak David’s messages

Weds and Thursday, open house.

Fri. No classes. Staff PD retreat in Bogor.
Library week starts this week. see communication from Library

This Week’s Message

A number of teachers just finished presenting at the Dunia conference over the weekend. Congratulations and thank you to all who took part. Last week on Monday we discussed how to help students complete and submit work by establishing learning continuums and multiple stages of assessment. See the “important to know” section below for more information about submission of work.

Also last week on Weds we looked at Part A of the personal project. This practice helped us share understandings of application of assessment criteria, a skill that is useful at all levels. For more information on Personal Project, click the Personal Project Corner below.

We also just submitted our Building Quality Curriculum Unit samples for MYP. See the BQC Corner below for more.

This week we have open house. See communication from school leadership. We also have our PD Retreat at Bogor on Friday. The focus will be on Bringing the School Vision and Mission to Life.

Personal Project Corner

We just completed the first standardization meeting with our teams. In Jan and Feb we will have three meetings in a row to assess our students work. This includes all teachers and is a good PD activity to help us understand each others application of assessment criteria, help us get to know the students who will be selecting DP course in just 5 months, and help us learn the skills that students bring with them from MYP to DP. For more on Personal Project, see the PP Tab at the top of the page.

Some important things you can find on the tab above:
Students made their first submission on Feb 10 last year, and have made 6 submissions since.
Many teachers have provided support on the Thursday ASA. The full lists of submission dates past and present and topics for ASA can be found on the PP page above.

Building Quality Curriculum

We just sent in our third straight year of BQC units. We will get feedback by January. The purpose of this is to improve our understanding and articulation of our curriculum, so we can better deliver it and promote student learning.

What we learned from the last round was to:

• complete reflections before, during, after
• include more resources linked to the unit
• generally, include more details throughout the unit

Thank you all for the work that was put into this, this is an important growth and improvement initiative for this school.

Service and Action Corner

 All Year 7 students have just submitted their first semester S&A Journals- yes ALL of them! We will be gathering the year level journals in staggard order in the upcoming weeks.

Thank you, Ibu Ocha for making this possible!

IMPORTANT TO KNOW

The GJS  ‘Parent-Student Guide to MYP’ has just been released to the parent community using the school web page and various social media. This is similar to the GJS MYP-DP Teacher Guide, providing parents with information such as:

FAQ:

Question	Where to find the Answer GJS DP Guide	Where to find the Answer MYP Parent-Student Guide
What are HW expectations	NA	P14
How many assessments need to be done in MYP by the end of a semester?	See P 22 of the MYP DP guide and the Semester Information tab above. Each criteria needs to be done at least one time each semester, 2x per year.	P19
What is the procedure for accepting late work?	See P 19 of the MYP DP Guide. Gather work as you go. In the end, if you have to, grade the work you have.	P17
Can I take points off for work being late?	See P 20 of the MYP DP Guide “inappropriate grading practices” (the title of the section alone should help answer the question)	P18
What exams will be given this semester? Who takes exams?	See the Semester information tab above. Y7 and 8 do NOT take a semester exam this semester.	P18
Do we use MLA 7 or MLA8?	See p 30. MLA8. MLA8 includes the URL for online sources	P 20