ACG School Jakarta April 2022 Newsletter

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Dear Parents, Caregivers and Students,

We have had a very positive and successful month of teaching and learning, and it is a credit to our faculty, staff, students, and parents as they have all been challenged by the regulations and health and safety protocols throughout this academic year. With six weeks remaining of this incredibly challenging 2021-2022 academic year, we are all focused on a positive finish.

Our Year 6 students and teachers were incredibly busy before the Eid holiday break with the culminating experience of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme Exhibition. Our students are to be congratulated for their commitment, hard work and creativity as they have all tackled importants issues and topics with a great deal of maturity and dedication. Special thanks to all experts, mentors, and the Year 6 Team who have supported our students throughout.

We have several important events coming up. Our first ASAC E-Sports Tournament will be held on Thursday, 12 May and we wish our students all the very best as they represent the school and compare against other students in the region.

Students across the school will have an opportunity to participate in the Photography Competition in May and we look forward to seeing creativity on display. Our Year 11 and 13 Art students are presenting their Visual Arts Exhibition in the lobby area of the school to celebrate the wonderful artwork produced throughout the IGCSE and IBDP programmes. Congratulations to Mr. Mark Ellison (Arts Team Leader), Mrs. Olivia Owen and Ms Tia Kusmugiarti for their guidance and support of our young artists.

Our Middle School students have been busy preparing for their ACG Racers Event, which will be launched on Thursday, 9 June and we can’t wait to see what they have been up to this year.

Our Class of 2022 will graduate on Saturday, 4 June and we look forward to celebrating and acknowledging their incredible achievements.

Shawn Hutchinson Principal

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VICE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents, Caregivers and Students, For Middle and High School students and teachers, Term 4 is the busiest part of the year. Mock exams might be over for Year 11 and 13, but End of Year Exams are just around the corner for Years 7-10 and 12 and will be held 23 – 27 May. All of the IBDP students have now completed their IA uploads and their teachers have input their predicted grades into the IB system. We have also run our S2 PSTC’s and Year 9 and 11 students have started to think in even more detail about their preferences for the next two academic years. It’s a crucial step and one that needs lots of thought, conversation and considering the longer time-frame. Please do take the opportunity to speak with Mr Todd, Mr Hutchinson, subject teachers, older siblings and alumni. It is a very smart idea to talk things through with a wide range of people so that you know you have made a considered choice that fits who you are, what you love and what you are good at.

Of course that is not the end of school for Year 11. For the next 5 weeks of Term 4 they will be learning some very practical skills related to study and also building a portfolio that helps them understand themselves at a deeper level as individuals.

Graduation planning is well under way with gowns, caps and sashes fitted and we begin rehearsals very soon. Speeches are being written, banners and certificates printed; it’s a very exciting time.

Richard Todd VIce Principal, DP Coordinator and University Guidance Counsellor

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Message from the SENIOR TEACHER EARLY LEARNING and PYP COORDINATOR Dear Parents, Caregivers and Students, Thank you for your attendance and participation in our Parent Student Teacher conferences of Semester 2. As our students near the end of this academic year, these meetings were an important opportunity for them to spend time reflecting on their learning, showcasing their achievements and progress, and identifying next steps and goals. I hope you found these meetings as enjoyable as we did.

Our Student Leaders once again successfully planned and delivered another week-long, whole school event, in association with the ASAC community, to celebrate Earth Day 2022, with a focus on ‘Investing in our planet’. Students had the opportunity to plant in our new and developing green space area, and a big thank you to our students and parents for their donations towards future gardening projects.

Our Year 6 students have certainly worked hard over the last 7 weeks on their individual PYP projects, with the continued support and guidance of their mentors, Year 6 teams and single subject teachers.

I had the pleasure of working with the students to develop their understanding of how they could ‘Take action’ and how this can create an impact, however small. Please remember that action doesn’t have to stop when exhibition is over. The idea is that their action can grow, so that it creates change for the better and through the lens of their Sharing the Planet theme, hopefully make some valuable contributions to taking care of our planet. We look forward to sharing with you, a compilation of our PYP Exhibition of 2022 in next month’s virtual assembly, celebrating individual student work and their class collaborative Arts piece.

As we approach the final weeks of this school year, we look forward to our Kindergarten and primary students being able to attend school every day from 8.00am-14.40pm. The primary team will also be delivering their final PYP Units of Inquiry and writing their semester 2 student reports. It is always a busy time of year, but a fun and enjoyable one, as we make the most of the time we have left with our students before they move up, or move on to new adventures.

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Upcoming Events 9 – 13 May Photography Competition 12 May ASAC Esports 16 May Waisak Public Holiday School Closed 20 May Year 1 Transition Meeting 26 May Ascension Day School Closed 27 May Year 3 Transition Meeting 27 May Whole School Virtual Assembly 1 June Pancasila Day School Closed

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Learner Profile Attributes Name of student: Aesha Alshehhi Name of student: Mohammed Alshehhi

Year level: Year 4

Year level: Kindergarten

Learner Profile: Risk-Takers

Learner Profile: Inquirer

Reason: For growing confident in her abilities and being resourceful and resilient in the face of challenges and change. She is a great role model.

Reason: For showing curiosity for new things and learning in Kindergarten Name of student: Kalyla Jasmine Amin Tan Year level: Year 1 Learner Profile: Open-Minded Reason: For respecting differences in others and always being open to listen to the opinion of her peers. She makes a good team player that her peers enjoy working with her and she is also responsible for ‘Stuco Earth Day Green Space Project’.

Name of student: Fakhrul Year level: Year 2 Learner Profile: Reflective Reason: For reflecting on his learning, especially his writing. He is often seen learning from his own mistakes and this is what great learners do! Fakhrul is consistently trying to improve his writing at school. Keep on growing Fakhrul!

Name of student: Miso Panavasu Year level: Year 5 Learner Profile: Thinkers Reason: For using creative thinking to solve real-world problems. Miso is a determined and reflective learner who doesn’t give up when presented with a challenge. Miso also encourages her classmates to work hard daily.

Well done Miso!

Name of student: All Year 6 Students Year level: Year 6 Learner Profile: Knowledgable Reason: Year 6 students enjoy exploring concepts, ideas, and issues that have local and global significance. They are able to conduct an independent inquiry and acquires in-depth knowledge from a range of disciplines during their PYP Exhibition.

Name of student: Pranjal Yadav Year level: 3 Learner Profile: : Knowledgable Reason: Extending her own knowledge in areas relating to our learning at school. Pranjal is always ready to take her learning further and share her knowledge with the class.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Kindergarten Celebrating Earth Day with Kindergarten! Planting in ACG’s new green space was a great opportunity for our Kindergarten students to apply what they have been learning in our Sharing The Planet unit, all about living things. They did a great job!

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 1 Year 1 have been busy this week writing reports on what they observed in the different process on states of matter. We also learned about capacity measurement, where students were introduced to terms like full, half full, half empty, and empty. For this unit of inquiry we explored and researched on the evaporation process. Students had the opportunity to conduct an experiment to see how the volume of water reduces under the sun and related to the evaporation process. They enjoyed observing and summarizing their hypothesis in their own words. Last week Year 1 has also been busy participating in Year 1 Earth Day and ASAC Challenge. They sure had a fun time.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 2 Year 2 students are celebrating Eid Fitr with creating greeting cards. We hope you have a safe and relaxing break with your families. For those celebrating Idul Fitri, we wish you a wonderful time.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 3 Year 3 students have been completing their summative assessments for their How We Organise Ourselves Unit: “People create a variety of systems to communicate with others”. They have created advertisements for what they consider to be the ‘best’ system of communication.

Year 3 has been discussed about how Eid al-Fitri is celebrated in Indonesia. The students created greeting cards as a part of Indonesian traditions.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 4 For Earth Week, Year 4 students looked at the types of action they could take at home to be more sustainable. They created videos as well as challenging their families to pledge a sustainable action. Year 4 dressed in green and blue along with the whole school on 22 April to acknowledge Earth Day. They participated in the Green space project where students planted plants and seeds with the help of expert gardeners and raised funds for the upkeep of the Green space.

Trash to Fashion - Year 4 students collaborated in three groups to create a fashion piece that incorporated a theme. The objective was to collaborate, using their listening, speaking, and thinking skills to design and create a garment that used recycled materials, is flexible and incorporated a theme of their choice. The groups chose playful , spooky and military themes.

It was great to see how students were able to work together within a specific time frame to complete the task which culminated in a fashion show. Students then shared their designs to Mr Hutchinson, Ms Vanessa and Mr Todd.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 5 During the month of April, students in Year 5 have been working on two Units of Inquiry. For their ‘Who We Are’ Unit, we are inquiring into our Line of Inquiry, ‘The Connection between acquired traits and the environment’. To help students experience this, students have created goals, considered how they would be best successful, including the environment and resources needed, and practiced over the course of multiple weeks. Following our Idul Fitri holiday break, we will reflect on this process and discuss what we have learned.

For our How The World Works Unit, students have been learning the steps of the Scientific Method. For their Formative Assessment, they planned, conducted, documented, analysed data from their own science experiments. They reflected on their hypothesis and whether they have opportunities to continue their learning on the same topics. Please click the image below to view the video.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 6 As part of their International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), our Year 6 cohort recently produced an outstanding exhibition of independent research projects focusing on protecting the environment.

Students were introduced to a range of topics related to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals a few months before the exhibition formally began. This allowed them to connect to different topics and have time to select the exact scope of their research. Providing them the agency to select their own topics was of the utmost importance. We then began the process in April, and our students had approximately eight weeks to complete the entire project.”

With the help and guidance of teaching staff, the exhibition was an in-class project, with specialist mentors providing assistance whenever possible.

In line with IB requirements, students were required to have a Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry with associated Key Concept Questions to frame their research.

Students were able to choose how they wanted to fulfil these requirements and were assisted by their mentors, experts, and teachers. They had a great passion for their topics and handled the bumps of virtual learning, took in feedback and completed wonderful projects. Everyone involved with our Year 6 cohort is extremely proud of them.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Primary Art Linking with How We Express Ourselves unit of inquiry, students learned about Masks from around the world such as the Balinese mask from Indonesia, Day of The Dead from Mexico, Mass Kara from Philippines, African mask, Japanese Mask, and mask from Venezuela, Bhutan, and China. In Art class, Year 4 students used their imagination to create an illustration of a 3D Cultural mask to enhance their emotions/feelings/story inspired by masks from around the world. They also learned about the meaning of colours to convey a message and as a symbol, such as Red is the colour for energy, anger, passion. Blue is the colour for sadness, calm, Yellow is the colour for happiness, hope, Purple is the colour for fear, magical, green is the colour for nature, freshness, etc. This unit also an integrated unit with dance subject. Students learned several dance movement and created a choreography to express their emotions.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 8 Music Year 8 students are now heading into Unit 4, Music in Latin America. They will be presenting the first stage of their ensemble performance using keyboards on different voice registers, snare drums to accompany the rhythm, as well as the flute which will played by our very own student, Samuel Long. The lesson objective will be for students to recognise basic characteristics of the tango, the rhythm pattern, and its major exponents. Students will then need to perform Level I arrangements of this musical genre.

Year 9 Economics Year 12 students investigated recession conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to see whether wages and prices have fallen for in the United States. To watch our video, please scan the following barcode.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 9 Bahasa Indonesia In this unit, Year 9 Bahasa Indonesia students learned how to write and analyse a poem. This academic year, students have improved their skills in understanding of figurative language and how diction and rhyme have a significant influence on readers. To demonstrate understanding, students needed to write a poem with a minimum 2 stanzas and 14 lines, as well as identify and analyse the figurative language, diction, rhyme, theme, tone and meaning. As a summative assessment, students then created a video of them reading their poem. Please click the images below to view the videos.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta ACG House E-Sports Tournament Well done to all the students that participated in the ACG House E-Sports Tournament. The point totals for each house are listed below. Students earned 3 points for participation, 6 points for a win, 10 points for 3rd place, 20 points for 2nd place, and 40 points for 1st place.

Congratulations to the top three players in each division. They will represent ACG (along with the 4th place finishers) in the 2022 ASAC E-Sports Tournament on 12 May.

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Learning at ACG School Jakarta ASAC Earth Day Challenge and Green Space Earth Day is celebrated to remind us to look after the planet and the theme for this year was ‘Invest in our planet.’ In conjunction of Earth Day, Primary Student Leaders worked together to organize a planting activity at the green space.

Student Leaders kicked-off the event with a speech to thank ACG community for their participation to play a role in saving mother earth. The event was then continued by the school gardener demonstrating the planting process, thereafter having participants to plant themselves. Students were excited to experience the planting activity.

In addition, ACG community also participated in the fun activities organised by ASAC to celebrate Earth Day. They took part in creative art activities using recyclable such as preparing costumes, puppets and also building. We would like to once again thank ACG community for your participation and making this awareness event a success!

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