Secondary Newsletter 15 – November 8, 2019

Almost Maine
Bali MUN
DP Corner
CAS Corner
StuCo Spooky Day
MYP Corner
Counselor’s Corner 

‘ALMOST, MAINE’ – Senior Drama Production 2019

Featuring Grade 9, 10 and 11 actors and supported by a fabulous backstage crew, we are excited to invite you to see ‘Almost, Maine’. 

Almost, Maine’ by John Cariani, is a vignette duologue play featuring a series of slightly offbeat characters who find (almost) love in the coldest and strangest of corners. Love is lost, found, and confounded. And life for the people of Almost, Maine will never be the same.

Tickets will be on sale from Monday 4th November! Don’t miss out on our very first Senior Production! 

Please note the performance starts at 6pm – just enough time to grab a bite to eat in Sanur beforehand! The expected running time is 1 hour and 20 minutes. 

Any questions, please email salborn@baliis.net 

BIS @ Bali MUN VIII

On November 2nd and 3rd, BIS MUN students once again participated in a conference designed to come together to discuss and ultimately propose solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.  Our delegation was made up of 16 students (12 paiges/assistants, 3 delegates and 1 chairwoman). Please go here to read each of our participants personal experiences and reflections on the event and process and be on the lookout for our next MUN conference events. Congratulations to all of our participants, who performed exceptionally and represented our school in an exemplary manner.

Mr. Marshall and Ms. Taylor, BIS MUN Directors 

DP Corner

Theory of Knowledge (TOK)

Does the length of time that knowledge has existed determine its value?

Is there value in knowledge that has no practical application?

Should we trust knowledge created through an uncertain methodology?

These questions of knowledge and uncertainty are some of the issues that our DP students struggle with in TOK, a core component of the IB Diploma Programme. Students used some of the aforementioned Knowledge Questions as a way of exploring the importance of the knowledge created in the world around us. Can you make a connection between brewing the perfect cup of tea and determining research funding budgets?

On Wednesday, November 6, the class of 2020 gave their TOK Presentations, which accounts for 1/3 of their overall grade in TOK, and could contribute to a total of 3 additional points in conjunction with a good Extended Essay score.

The critical thinking skills developed throughout this course stand the students in good stead in their later years and teach them to question everything. The final piece of assessed work the students have to complete is the TOK essay. An example of one of this year’s six prescribed titles is: “Does it matter that your personal circumstances influence how seriously your knowledge is taken?”. Do you think you could answer it?

Matt Wood (DP Coordinator and TOK teacher) 

CAS Corner by Winona Azzara Othman

• Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
• Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively 

(Teaching the children to play Ode to Joy on the xylophone).

This week’s lesson was mainly focused on preparations for initiating and planning how this CAS experience could develop further such as our plan to get the children to perform during assembly on October 16th. We plan to get them to understand the importance of music while also having fun when learning how to play an instrument. Since our class this week was large, we asked for them to be able to come weekly to practice before the final performance on the 16th. The children were committed to learning how to play musical instruments while also getting out of their comfort zone by choosing to perform in front of the entire school. Some of the girls at first were hesitant to perform however through my motivation and optimism, they felt more confident and positive in wanting to perform. This week’s lesson was focused on learning the chords of the song by using the two instruments we plan to perform with the which are the bongos and xylophones. 

Through collaboratively working with my peers, we were able to divide and work with the two groups differently. We chose the song Ode to Joy as we felt that it was the perfect song to perform to and that it was easy to be able to play along. I focused on teaching the girls how to play the xylophone while my peers taught the boys to play the bongo. This lesson, I felt that we all were committed to do our best and practice to the best of our abilities in order to perform on the 16th. Hopefully during the next lesson we could teach them how to play more songs or switch things up and have the girls learn to play the bongo and the guys to play the xylophone to get them to have more familiarity in learning to play an instrument.

STUCO “Spooky Day”

Last week, on the 1st of November, STUCO has organised its second spirit day for this year called “Spooky Day.” The central idea of this activity was to promote school spirit and encourage students to bring out their creative side. We held lunch activities such as dodgeball in costumes, musical chairs, and face painting, where we also involved the primary students.

 

 

 

 

 

We also encouraged the secondary to dress up with a homeroom competition, and this time the winner was Grade 10B. Congratulations!

Thank you to all the students and teachers who participated and we hope we will maintain the same kind of school spirit at our future events. 

Thank you!

Malikha Aryatantra, STUCO President 

MYP corner

Grade 6 & 7 Arts Sharing

On Tuesday afternoon, grade 6 & 7 students shared their work in Music, Visual Art & Drama for the first rotation of this academic year. Teachers and parents were treated to some entertaining performances in Music & Drama for the first half of the session. In the second half the Visual Art students presented their work to the other classes and then took their artworks home to share with their parents. A fantastic way to end Rotation A and we are all excited to commence the second rotation and get creative with our new Art subjects.