Secondary Newsletter 29 – March 6, 2020
Upcoming Events
March 9 – Grade 5-6 Transition Feedback Parent Session
March 11 – Personal Project exhibition
March 16 – Term 3 Reports
March 17 – 3-Way Conferences
March 18 – Last day of term, 12 pm finish for students
Indonesian Studies: The Significance Of Ogoh-ogoh In Nyepi Day Celebration
March is the month where the Nyepi (silent day) celebration will be held. Thus, on Thursday 5 March the Secondary School held an Ogoh-ogoh workshop. Ogoh-ogoh is a giant statue in the form of a scary creature that is usually made by the youth in Bali to be paraded the day before Nyepi. Ogoh-ogoh symbolizes bad spirits humans can turn into if they can not deal with negative things around them.
The workshop was led by a guest speaker, Gus Rai, and his team. He is an Ogoh-ogoh specialist from Banjar Taman near the school. He has years of experience of conceiving and creating ogoh-ogoh with different themes and shapes. He shared his knowledge about the concept of Ogoh-ogoh and its creation process.
The workshop let the students experience collaborative work to finish the ogoh-ogoh. They practiced how to install its body part, make its accessories, decorate with clothes, and give some extra creative touches. (photos credit: Ibu Aurora)
Artist of the Week
Emil Patria Adjani
Hi, I’m Emil. I’ve always been interested in art but I’ve only really been taking it a bit more seriously for the last 2 years. I draw a lot of my inspiration from anime and manga, especially mangaka (manga illustrator) Junji Ito. I also like including a lot of flora and plants into my drawings. I don’t color my drawings much mainly sticking to pencil and paper but I’m slowly beginning to color more. I’m learning watercolor, acrylic and digital.
Personal Project Exhibition
When: Wednesday 11 March
Time: 8:30 – 12:00
Where: MPR
Who: BIS community!
Please show our grade 10 students your support and view their (almost) year-long project.
CAS Corner by Han Kang
Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
I was able to achieve my overall goal, being confident and able to present in front of a large crowd. The most challenging part was to run the competition. Our volunteers weren’t taught enough, and they struggled a bit during the competition. I think throughout this experience I developed leadership skills, assigning specific jobs for volunteers. I also lead the discussion for what went well and improve for next year’s competition. Overall I think my presenting skills improved a lot, and this will definitely help me in the future. I also presented in school assembly and I definitely have gained experience and improved my skills to present in front of large crowds. We did not really have time to practice or make a very formal speech, despite this situation we were both able to speak confidently at the opening, and closing ceremony.
Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
We were able to plan out and set deadlines for tasks to be completed, and we successfully ran the competition. We also created a schedule of the competition day to make sure our competition ran smoothly and ended in time. It went so smoothly that it finished an hour early.
Show commitment and perseverance in CAS experiences
In order to keep the competition going, we held a meeting discussing what to improve for future BMC. We received feedback from our volunteers. Generally, we were told that it was prepared very well in the room for the rounds to be started. Especially in the individual round, it went really smoothly. However, we still had lots to improve such as, tables arrangements in the senior division, and making texts bigger for people at the back to see.
Here was the list of what went well and improvements:
What went well:
– Preparing everything.
– The individual round was very smooth
Improvement:
– Not able to see the presentation
– Not able to see diagram
– Make the question bigger, and font size must be increased or change room.
– Lighting needs improvement (Mrs. Mac’s room avoid)
– We couldn’t turn off lights for MPR because too many people weren’t able to see.
– For Senior there were teams sitting across, they could’ve created. Maybe change the direction of the table set.
– Keep the escape room allocation the same.
– Change the order of events, or make the escape room simpler
– Adjust difficulty for Senior Code Breaker
– Junior code breaker was too much large crowd, and students are talking, maybe separate them.
– Instruction for volunteers wasn’t trained
– Plan training volunteer day earlier.
– Bathroom breaks are too lenient. (If the members go out, the question they are on doesn’t count).
– Put room numbers in their name tags
– Just do the opening ceremony in the library, and make the library a waiting zone in the beginning
– Vegetarian options for lunch?
– Passback round question given time was too long
– Passback round took too much time
– Passback question needs to say what round is it each makes hard to know which question is for.
– Breaktime for afternoon needs to be shortened
– Make the codebreaker final event.
– The instruction was not clear
We need to have a clear volunteer session, however, this was not possible due to most of the volunteers having sports after school activity to do so we were unable to do this well. Passback round question took too much time, and participants were given too much time. The junior round took too much time since there were 60 students, therefore we had an idea for next year to prepare separate rooms in primary classrooms, to manage the session better. And also personally I think we should also prepare rooms for students who are in a tiebreaker. We couldn’t hold a tiebreaker inside the MPR for junior because, at that time, the special round was ongoing. I had several arguments from the parents, and math coordinators from other schools that students can not focus outside, and they were urging my team and myself to open a room in the primary area. To prevent this, we should ask one of the primary teachers to get a room for tie-breaker round. Also in the senior division, some students were having a problem reading the presentation because it was too bright. It was specifically Mrs Mac’s room and for future competition, we should try to avoid rooms that are exposed to too many lights.
Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
When we were faced with problems, by having a co-host I was able to gain help and also give help in order to finish a certain task. However, there were cons to this such as not coming to a consensus at certain decisions such as lunch provider, adding extra rounds, arranging a goodie bag, trophies, prizes. There were tons of advantages when working together as a team, however, there are also cons when working collaboratively. However, I wouldn’t have been able to run this tournament without her work in the senior division and her help in the 10th annual Bali Mathematics Competition. It was a great experience and it was an honor to be the host of our school’s traditional event. It was also one of the biggest challenges for me to get rid of my fear of presenting in front of large crowds, but it was worth it.
