Student Council

Junior School Student Council

by Ibu Ratna Putri

Junior School Student Council (StuCo) has been busy since the student leaders' inauguration in October 2021. To begin with, they held a Christmas hat & trivia party on Zoom for Junior School students. Then, they attended leadership training in January 2022. If you are curious about what they learned in their leadership training, check out the StuCo president and vice president’s reflections.

Valentine's Day has sparked another idea for Junior School StuCo’s program. They held a Valentine-envelope design competition. Grade 1-6 students were invited to the competition. The competition was held on the school’s Seesaw to accommodate the online learning mode. Contestants could showcase their skills by drawing their designs manually or digitally.

Sixty-six contestants submitted their entries. After a careful selection, six winners were chosen by the StuCo.

Grade 1: Kyra Tanujaya

Grade 2: Serin Je

Grade 3: Ria Yu

Grade 4: Samuel Maximilian

Grade 5: Sumin Cho

Grade 6: Caleb Wu

Congratulations, winners! Kudos, StuCo, for neat organizations of the events!

StuCo Leadership Training

by Varo

In the StuCo leadership training, StuCo members learned how to be good leaders. First, our school principal, Ibu Yuni, prayed with us and told us about being a leader. Then, we got to know each other by making paper airplanes with fun facts about us on them. After that, we played some games to learn how to be a good leader. The guest speaker told two people who joined the training onsite to fill an empty plastic bottle with sand, pebbles, and rocks. First, she told them to put them in that order. Then, she told them to reverse the order. When we put in the sand first, not everything fit inside the bottle. However, when it was the rocks first, everything fit nicely. The guest speaker told us that the sand is the not so important thing in life (TV, games, etc.), the pebbles were necessary things (school, food, water, etc.), and the rocks were really important things (family, friends, God, etc.). She told us that if we prioritized less important things, we would not fit the much more essential things in our lives. On the other hand, if we prioritize the more important things, we would fit everything in our lives.

Next, we played some games. One game was the people joining the training in person had to go through an obstacle course blindfolded, while the people online had to give them orders to dodge the obstacles. In this game, we learned that not only to talk, but leaders also need to listen. When we finished the first game round, we reflected on what we could have done better, such as better strategy, better orders, etc.

After that blindfolded game, we played another one. This time, we had to pass on a sentence to other people while we all had disabilities: can't see, can’t talk, etc. We had to find a way to work around these obstacles. We had three rounds, and each round was more challenging than the last. Executing strategy and teamwork, we successfully did all.

The last game was a matching game to find the leadership traits of famous leaders from the Bible. It was an insightful closing of the whole training. Then, we said goodbye, and the meeting ended.

Student Council Leadership Training

by Hezekiah

The Leadership training for the Junior School Student Council was about learning how to be a good leader and cooperate with other leaders. In the leadership training, we did many activities. To begin with, we spent time knowing each other better. We threw paper airplanes with a fun fact about us, and we had to guess which person threw this paper airplane.

Then, we learned strategizing, taking the initiative, and sharing responsibility. We had to navigate through an obstacle course and give each other instructions.

Next, to figure out how to plan and cooperate, we all had an activity how each of us had a disability, but we had to send each other a message. So, we had to plan on which person tells which person the message by employing specific tactics, such as the muted writes on a piece of paper and showing it to a deaf person so the deaf person can receive the message.