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EVENT OF THE MONTH Lance King Visit
In This Issue Lance King Visit Page 1
Message from the Principal Upcoming Events Page 2
Message from the Vice PrincipalPrimary Page 3
Learning at ACG School Jakarta Page 4
Learner Profile of the Month As a follow up to our professional development for our teachers, Lance King provided our parents with a snapshot of his work with his presentation “Courageous Parenting in a Digital Age.” We were so pleased to see a good number of parent participants and look forward to providing our parent community with more opportunities to learn and engage with our school. Parents who didn’t manage to purchase Lance’s books, can complete the online order form here: Lance King Book Order. Lance King also worked with our students in Years 10 – 13 over two days and focused on approaches to learning and study and examination strategies. Students found the sessions beneficial and were keen to put their newly developed skills and strategies into practice. October Newsletter
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Community Group Update Page 12
Events Page 13
Whole School Information Page 15
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Message from the Principal Dear Parents and Caregivers, We began this term with two full days of professional development for our teachers that included keynote presentations each day by Mr. Lance King and a variety of workshops delivered by Lance, and Jennifer Kesler, Richard Todd, and Annie Pickering. Teachers were able to learn more about the importance and value of helping students develop 21st Century learning skills, writing and reading workshops and assessment, creativity, and personalized learning and responsive learning environments. We look forward to seeing the new learnings implemented in our classrooms throughout the year. At the end of Term One, we held Parent Student Teacher Conferences in the Secondary School and Parent Teacher Conferences in the Primary School. I would like to thank all staff, students and parents for their work and participation during this busy and important time of the year. Providing students and parents with feedback about academic progress and social development is an important part of the learning cycle. After receiving feedback, it is important for our students to have a better understanding about their own strengths and areas for improvement and I hope that they can focus on further improvements throughout this term. We have a busy month of events and activities coming up and I’d like to see as many people as possible involved. We wish our ASAC Senior Volleyball teams all the best as they head to Hanoi for a weekend of serious competition. I am sure that they will represent ACG School Jakarta well. On Friday, 15 November, the Secondary Learning Celebration will be held and we would love to see as many parents as possible participate in this event. The Secondary Learning Celebration will give parents the opportunity to view the Year 11 Exploratorium projects, listen to the Year 12 students talk about their mini CAS projects and attend the Year 13 Group 4 Projects presentations. On top of this, parents will be able to experience ACG School Jakarta Secondary School learning firsthand. Parents are encouraged to register to attend our subject specific workshops to learn more about how our students learn in the classroom. Parents will have the opportunity to attend workshops for Visual Art, Design Technology, Mathematics, English, Information Technology in a Global Society, and Physical Education. Our first Open Day of the year will take place on Saturday 23 November from 9.00am to 12.00pm. All parents are welcome to attend, and we would love for you to extend that invitation to your own family, friends, and anyone else you think may be interested in our school.
Upcoming Events 1 November Halloween Assembly 1 - 3 November ASAC Senior Volleyball in Hanoi 6 November A Day in the Life Years 1-3 7 November Math Night 8 November Secondary Movie Night 15 November Secondary Learning Celebration 23 November Open Day 25 November Indonesian Teacher’s Day 27 - 29 November Years 7-10 Midyear Examination 29 November Primary Assembly
If you would like to support the ACG School Jakarta Community Group on the day by welcoming prospective families, please let me know. The more parent volunteers we have at school on the day, the better. Allowing interested families to see our campus up close is the best thing we can do to encourage future enrolments and support the ongoing growth of our school. Shawn Hutchinson Principal
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Message from the Vice Principal - Primary Dear Parents and Caregivers, Another month has come and gone, and what a month it was! We began with our Parent Teacher Conferences, where teachers and parents met to discuss each student’s progress and goals. Our Primary Sports Carnival was a huge success! The Geckos shocked everyone by winning the Sports Carnival trophy, but everyone is to be commended for their sportsmanship. Thank you to all of the teachers who organized such a great event. I’d also like to thank the parents for their support. The students and staff appreciated the delicious food you prepared. Just before term break, we were all treated to the end of term assembly, which was hosted ‘radio show style’ by our Head Boy and Head Girl. Everyone enjoyed the performances by Kindergarten, Year 3, Year 6, and Year 12. During the assembly, we found out who won the Term 1 House Cup. Congratulations to Biawaks for taking home the win! A new event this year in Primary was the “Day in the Life” event, where parents were invited in to be students for a day. During these events, parents get a taste of the core subjects taught in the classroom, such as reading and writing workshop, mathematics, and our unit of inquiry. Our Year 4-6 event was a huge success and we are looking forward to next week, when our Year 1-3 parents will join us. It was great to see everyone in their costumer today for our Halloween Parade. Our judges had a difficult time deciding on the costume contest winners. Our Student Council hosted a Halloween Disco this afternoon and the turn-out was huge! Students enjoyed dancing with their friends. Thank you Student Council for organizing such a fun event. Jennifer Kesler Vice Principal - Primary
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta A Day in the Life Years 4 - 6 Thank you to all of the parents who attended the “Day in the Life� event in Year 4-6. During the event, parents experienced reading and writing workshop, mathematics, and unit of inquiry lessons. In addition to the classroom lessons, parents and students played together at recess and ate together in the cafeteria. When speaking to parents after the event, many shared that they found the experience insightful and that they enjoyed spending time with their child at school. We are looking forward to our Year 1-3 event next week, and we hope to see you all there!
Ghina Volunteering I volunteered at UWRF originally for CAS. I have learned so much from the people I met there; they taught me communication skills and how to be responsible. I was placed in the film screening department, which allowed me to meet various well-known Indonesian directors and screen-writers, such as Garin Nugroho and Rayya Makarim. It was an unforgettable experience.
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Ubud Writer’s Festival From 24 to 26 October, the school held its annual trip to Ubud Writers’ Festival in Bali, where eighteen students from Year 10 and 11 attended. As always, it was an enjoyable and inspiring trip. The students had the opportunity to participate in private workshops with the international authors Jamie Marina Lau (Australia) and Jenny Zhang (USA) and learn from them about their writing craft. Our students joined in all of the sessions enthusiastically and represented ACG School Jakarta well. In addition to the workshops, we attended a comedy performance from a Filipino about his experiences emigrating to New Zealand and a lively Poetry Slam Competition, featuring poets from all over the world.
Learner Profile of the Month Balanced Social studies homework . . . or social media procrastination? Going to bed early to get a good night’s rest . . . or staying up late to finish an important project? Taking some time to share a snack with friends . . . or heading to the gym or playground for some exercise? Learning to find balance in all aspects of our lives can help lead to overall well-being. Understanding the importance of intellectual, physical and emotional balance is an attribute our students strive to improve and one that will serve them well as they continue to grow.
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Year 4 Assembly The Year 4 assembly was both educational and entertaining. Year 4 students taught the school community about how migration occurs as a response to challenges and opportunities. The assembly consisted of monologues performed by individual students, in addition to a maculele and capoeira performance, which are Brazilian art forms that were created in response to the Portuguese colonizing Brazil. Well done, Year 4!
Halloween Costume Parade
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Oxford MUN in Singapore Representing ACG School Jakarta at our first Model United Nations (MUN) Conference, a dedicated team of five globally minded ACG students recently attended the OxfordMUN in Singapore. This forum provides students with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of worldwide issues and conflict resolution, further develop their critical thinking skills and cultivate an outlook based on internationalism, leadership and problem solving. Lead by ACG School Jakarta ITGS/Global Perspectives teacher, Mr Brendan McTiernan, the team spent several weeks researching, writing position papers and polishing their speeches in preparation to debate relevant issues with other school teams within the various UN councils. Themes included the empowerment of women in the Commission for Status of Women (CSW), the illicit sale of small arms in Disarmament and International Security Council (DISEC), the regulation of cryptocurrencies in the Economic and Financial Committee (ECOFIN) and tackling of migration as a result of climate change in the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). One of our ACG delegates, Anastasia Iman Sufian, debated on both the empowerment of women issue and on women’s rights to attainable health standards issue in the CSW sessions. She shares her experiences below: How did you find your first MUN conference? My first MUN was very fruitful as I managed to learn a lot from the other members of my committee, CSW. I worked on topics that I was very passionate about and that made me more inclined to research and learn more. The initiative of my peers to solve the issues that we were presented with inspired me and I learned a lot from the different speeches that were presented. How did you prepare for your speeches? With the help of my teacher Mr. McTiernan. Individually, I prepared by researching the topic on many different online sources. We had weekly meetings, refined our speeches and practised them until we were familiar and comfortable with reciting them. What was your favourite part of the three-day conference? The unmoderated caucus. Watching everyone work together on a single draft resolution was very satisfying and I learned the most from the unmoderated caucuses that were held. I learned how to properly construct a draft resolution as well as what kind of approaches to take when solving the issues that we had. Many thanks to our students for their commitment to MUN since the beginning of the academic year, to Mr Brendan McTiernan who headed the MUN programme, and to Mayumi Hutchinson for her incredible support throughout the Singapore trip.
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Primary & Secondary Sports Carnivals
The sports carnivals in the Primary and Secondary Schools were a great way to end the term and it was wonderful to see house spirit in action and students participating wholeheartedly. I would like to thank the members of the Physical Education Department and faculty and support staff for making the days run so smoothly. Congratulations to all students involved and congratulations to the winning teams.
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta The Arts October has been a shortened month thanks to a well-deserved holiday and two days of Professional Development for the teachers. Is it strange, then, that when I look back at October I think of it as one of the busiest months I can remember? We started with a Y12/13 Visual Arts trip to Jalan Tolong Selor, a canal-side street that shows an extremely colourful but desperately poor side of this amazing city. We have used this trip as a starting point for a piece of work that examines the relationship between the city and its people. Some of the photographs produced were incredible. Afterward we visited the Macan Museum, a gallery so ambitious in its scale and exhibition offerings, I was literally speechless. World class indeed! They were showing a retrospective of Xu Bing’s work, ‘Thought and Method, an exhibition as thought provoking as it was grandiose. The exhibit continues until 12 January 2020 and I fully recommend you visit if you haven’t already done so. The Y11’s are making progress with their amazing coursework preparations in readiness for next year’s exams. There is a lot of talent here, so watch this space for a showcase soon!
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Student Council
Halloween Movie Night To get into the Halloween spirit, the Secondary Student Council is holding the Halloween Movie Night on November 8th from 5pm to 9pm. Tickets are sold for 70,000IDR each in the school cafeteria at 10am every day. Students will enjoy two movies, snacks, a Halloweenthemed photo booth and a great time with friends! 50% of proceeds will go to the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. For more information, please visit the student council Instagram account (@acgjstuco).
Student Council Instagram The Secondary Student Council have been hard at work this year organising events around the school. To keep up with school news and updates for both primary and secondary events, please follow the Student Council Instagram account @acgjstuco. If you have any other questions regarding student-life at ACG Jakarta, feel free to message the student council on Instagram as well.
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Learning at ACG School Jakarta Years 7 -10 Midyear Examinations Students in Years 7 – 10 will be sitting Midyear Examinations on 27 – 29 November. Years 7, 8 and 9 sit exams in Science, Mathematics, English, Global Perspectives and a second language, either Bahasa Indonesia or Mandarin. In Year 10, all IGCSE subjects are examined. The full schedule for the examination period can be found below or here.
Midyear Examination Schedule 27 - 29 November 2019 Grade
Wednesday 27 November
Thursday 28 November
Friday 29 November
Mathematics 10.30am - 11.30am* A117
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
7JDI
Study Hall 8.00am - 9.45am A117
Global Pers pectives 8.30am - 9.30am A117
Englis h 10.30am - 11.30am* A117
Science 1.30pm - 2.30pm A117
Study Hall 8.00am - 9.45am A124
Mathematics 10.30am - 11.30am* A124
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
7JHI
Global Pers pectives 8.30am - 9.30am A124
Englis h 10.30am - 11.30am* A124
Science 1.30pm - 2.30pm A124
Study Hall 8.00am - 9.45am A106
Mathematics 10.30am - 11.30am* A106
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
8WHA
Science 8.30am - 9.30am A106
Global Pers pectives 10.30am - 11.30am* A106
Englis h 1.30pm - 2.30pm A106
Mathematics 10.30am - 11.30am* A111
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
8JWI
Study Hall 8.00am - 9.45am A111
1.30pm - 2.30pm A111
Science 8.30am - 9.30am A111
Global Pers pectives 10.30am - 11.30am* A111
Englis h 1.30pm - 2.30pm A111
Study Hall 8.00am - 9.45am A113
Global Pers pectives 10.30am - 11.30am* A113
Science 1.30pm - 2.30pm A113
Englis h 8.30am - 9.30am A113
Mathematics 10.30am - 11.30am* A113
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
9LSA
Study Hall 8.00am - 9.45am A115
Global Pers pectives 10.30am - 11.30am* A115
Science 1.30pm - 2.30pm A115
Englis h 8.30am - 9.30am A115
Mathematics 10.30am - 11.30am* A115
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
9MEL
Englis h / ESL 8.00am - 10.00am A122 / A120
Chem / Phys Ed 10.30am - 12.00pm A122 / A120
Econ / Art 1.00pm - 2.30pm A120 / A404
Phys ics / Des . Tech 8.15am - 9.45am A122 / A120
B.Indo A / B.Indo B / Mand.
Year 10
Mathematics 1.00pm - 2.30pm A122 / A120
1.30pm - 2.30pm A117 1.30pm - 2.30pm A124 1.30pm - 2.30pm A106
10.30am - 12.00pm A122 / A120
Regular school day for students in Years 7 - 9
1.30pm - 2.30pm A113 1.30pm - 2.30pm A115
Englis h Lit / Study Hall Global Pers pectives 8.15am - 9.45am 10.30am - 12.00pm A122 / A120 A122 / A120
Biology 1.00pm - 2.30pm A122 / A120
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Students are expected to be in unif orm and at school in time f or their f irst examination of the day. Examinations are to be written in the rooms indicated. The schedule shows the invgilator f or the examination - students should check with their teacher if they are unsure about an examination. Students WILL be expected to remain in the examination room until the scheduled f inish-time f or the slot. Students' subject teacher will detail specif ic examination requirements; however students must bring to each examination: Pens, pencils, eraser, ruler, basic translation dictionary and calculator (f or Maths and Science, this is at the discretion of teachers). Teachers will not supply these materials f or students who f orget to bring them to the examination room. ♦ Students may bring a transparent water bottle - f illed with water only - f or use during the examination. *During the middle examination block, students in Years 7 - 9 will remain in the classroom until 12.30pm
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Community Group Update Our next ACG School Jakarta Community Group Meeting will be held after the Primary Assembly on Friday, 29 November at 9.00am. The School currently communicates information via a number of WhatsApp Groups. The official ACG School Jakarta WhatsApp group can be joined by adding the following number: +62 816-297-800. We also have Year Level Parent Reps and encourage parents to join the relevant Year Level WhatsApp groups.
Year Level Representatives Luciana Silva (K2 & K3) lusilva373@gmail.com Jooyoung Noh (K4) joo.leo08@gmail.com Merry Slusher (Year 1) merrydw77@gmail.com Simret Kaur (Year 2) simretdeep@hotmail.com Nancy Ludlow (Year 3) nancygrace1307@yahoo.com Sumit Sonia (Year 4) sumitsonia0329@gmail.com Nolita Duder (Year 5) nolita.duder@gmail.com Dewi Sumawijaya (Year 6) dewi.sumawijaya@gmail.com Maggy Good (Year 7) maggygood2012@gmail.com Arlini Evans (Year 8) arlinisyah@gmail.com Puntipa (Ning) Dumlaeid (Year 9) puntipa_dum@hotmail.com Shawn Hutchinson (Years 10-13) shawn.hutchinson@acgedu.com
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Events
would like to invite you to join our
PARENT WELLNESS CLASSES All classes are free for parents. English Class Every Monday in A117 3.00-4.00pm Body Combat Every Tuesday in Gym 4.15-5.15pm Power Yoga (Max 10 people) Every Thursday in Black Box 4.00-5.00pm (Ladies only)
Mandarin Class Every Thursday in A120 3.00-4.00pm Bahasa Indonesia Class Every Friday in A113 3.00-4.00pm
Parents only need to register with Ms Tia (Tia.Kristianti@acgedu.com) for Yoga class.
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Events
We would like to cordially invite you to ACG School Jakarta’s first-ever Whole School Math Night. The purpose of this event is to have fun with math by playing games and engaging in friendly competitions. This event is open to all students from Kindergarten to Year 13, and there are activities catering to all ages. We encourage families to come together to the event. Every student who comes will earn a house token for their team, and there are house competitions throughout the event where you can earn more tokens. This free event is next Thursday, 7 November from 4.006.00 pm in the ACG Gym. We hope to see you all there!
Parents are invited to attend the morning at school to see the following: •
Year 11 Exploratorium
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Year 12 Mini CAS Presentations
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Year 13 Group 4 Projects
Parents also have the opportunity to experience how students learns by attending two of the subject workshops below: ONE selection from Group 1 •
Middle School Math
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High School Visual Art
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High School Information Technology in a Global Society
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Middle School Sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics)
OR ONE selection from Group 2 •
High School English
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Middle School Design Technology
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Middle School Physical Education
Please go to this link for registration.
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Whole School Updates Parent Volunteer Opportunities
Lunch Menu Updates:
Many parents have indicated that they would like to volunteer and help out in the Primary classrooms. We have opportunities for parents to come and read with individual students or with a small group of students in the classrooms. If you would like to volunteer your time on a weekly basis to read with children, please send me an email at Jennifer.Kesler@acgedu.com to sign up. We look forward to seeing parents supporting our students!
Please check the lunch menu updates (every two weeks) in the Parent Information Portal.
Parent Information Portal Please visit https://jakarta.myacg.org/ for updated information for parents and students. Social Responsibility As a community of learners, we have the responsibility to model behaviours and actions that we want our students to display. We are committed to embracing the energy and events of our time to advance social change in the areas of environmental protection, animal welfare and disaster relief. Parents as Learners Parents are encouraged to visit this section of our Information Portal to learn more about upcoming parent workshops and learning opportunities.
Renewal of Car Registration: Parents should complete the online form in order to receive their new Car Pass for the 2019/2020 academic year. ID Card Registration: For new domestic staff or other family members who haven’t received an ID card, please visit this section and complete the relevant form. Transport: Parents are advised to communicate bus questions or issues to ahmad.ahmad@acgedu.com or mia.sari@ acgedu.com. Uniforms: We now have an online uniform order system and would like to encourage parents to use this online service. Payment can be made easily by bank transfer, credit card or cash. ACG School Jakarta Calendar
Student Responsibility It is the responsibility of the student to arrive at school fully prepared for the day’s activities. We need parents to support us in establishing expectations and encourage students to be independent, responsible students. Students who arrive to school without personal items (shoes, books, swim gear, library bag, homework, etc.) should not call home and request parents, drivers, or domestic helpers to deliver items during the day. Vehicle Access Only registered vehicles with an ACG School Jakarta car pass are permitted to enter the school grounds. Students / Parents arriving to school during drop off and pick up times in taxis or app-requested vehicles will be required to drop off / pick up outside of the main gate.
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