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August 2011 Edition
Sekolah Victory Plus - Kemang Pratama Bekasi
Education for a better world School Director Message
The SVP Pledge
It has been almost seven weeks now since the school year 20112012 commenced. It feels great to write again for the SVP newsletter.
I pledge to be a CHAMPION Treating ourselves, each other and the environment with respect. I will be Courageous, Honest, Active, Moral, Positive, Innovative, Optimistic and Noble. Ibu Yustina Ries
As we open this year, let me inform everyone in the community again that Ibu Evelyn Siburian has moved to Jakarta to search for more challenges in her career. We are always in gratitude to her for all her contributions, efforts and everything that she has done for the SMP Victory Plus. We all wish her the best in all her future undertakings. As we all know, Ibu M.M. Isti Handayani is now our new Middle School Principal.
Ibu Esti Mangesti P.
Ibu Evelyn Siburian
This year, we will still be focusing on our theme, “Build Your Character, Build Your Future.” We realize that shaping a good character is a process that needs to be done with the collaboration of the community around you. This means that the involvement of the parents, staff, teachers and students themselves is very essential to the process. This will assure us that the virtues we teach our students are implemented and reinforced in their daily lives especially when they are at home or outside the SVP compound.
Ibu Isti Handayani
This school year we have also assigned Ibu Sri Mangesti Pangastuti to be our Head of Service whose main responsibility is to supervise all the leaders of Service Departments and their team, i.e. The Administration, Admission, Finance, Marketing, GA and HR, Library and the Clinic. This is aim to improve our services and assist you effectively.
It is always a struggle in any institutions, companies or other organizations to adapt to new habits or routines. This is now the challenge we are posing to the SVP community and we are inspired by the quotes from Plato, “The first and the best victory is to conquer self.” With this as our guiding principle I am very positive when we introduce this new routine in the classroom this year. Everyone will recite the SVP Pledge by heart everyday, as we believe in the power of words and that anything that is done repeatedly become part of our system and soon become us. We are in good hopes that by this new routine we will become people with good deeds who possess the character of a real CHAMPION.
An International Standard School
In addition to our theme, we have introduced a new routine entitled Morning Character Building (MCB) Headed by yours truly, Mr. Adam Huntly and Ibu Rosa Furey. We are also involving all parents who are willing to participate in this program. This is the rationale behind the shorten period every Monday, to give way to a 35-minute session for Middle School, High School and Primary Students. The program consists of sharing stories of successful people where we all can learn, related video clips and singing together to create a positive atmosphere. The activity varies according to the character traits that we need to discuss and emphasize to our students. So far we have covered 3 MCB and it started with RESPECT. We first defined Respect as showing high regard for self, others, property and environment. During the first session, we taught them how to respect themselves by doing positive things to ourselves including to see, to say and to hear no evil. It means that we have the control to always get positive exposure. Here, we learnt how to do a self-positive affirmation (positive self talk) as from the research done by Sandy Mc. Gregor he mentioned: - Negative self talk influences us negatively - Scientists have proven that we talk to ourselves 65.000 times a day. We encourage all of you to always choose positive words whatever happens, wherever the place is and whenever the time is. So Listen to your self talk & be aware of that.