Primary eNews – June 5, 2020
PYP Exhibition #PYPX2020
The PYP Exhibition encourages in-depth, collaborative inquiry. In the final year of the PYP, students carry out an extended, in-depth, collaborative project known as the PYP exhibition. This involves students working collaboratively to conduct an in-depth inquiry into real life issues or problems. Our originally planned PYP Exhibition has changed due to the extended school closure and Distance Learning.
The Grade 5 students have been inquiring into the Sharing the Planet transdisciplinary theme with the Central Idea of ‘Biodiversity relies on maintaining the interdependent balance of organisms within systems’. They have built on this learning for their Exhibition and have inquired further looking at how ‘Innovation is a response to challenges’.
The Grade 5 class will share their PYP Exhibition from Monday 8th June on our Exhibition website and we hope that everyone in our school community would like to visit and see the great inquiries these hard working students have been undertaking. https://sites.google.com/view/baliispypx2020/home
Primary Step Up Days
Now that classes and teachers for the 2020 – 2021 School Year have been finalised, we have organised Primary Step Up Days. Returning students and new students will be invited to a Zoom Step Up Session with their new teacher at 8:30am next Monday 8th June. Ibu Deni will send these invites out today.
Primary & Whole School Staffing for 2020 – 2021
Reports
Primary Reports will be published via Managebac next Tuesday 9th June. All families will receive an automated email from Managebac informing you that your children’s reports have been published. Simply follow the link in the email to log into Managebac and access your child’s reports.
Primary reports will not include grades this semester but will have narrative comments from teachers. After a great deal of discussion the teachers felt that assessing primary students to allocate grades for specific learning outcomes for language and math and strand outcomes for other subjects may be inaccurate while running with Distance Learning. Teachers have used learning outcomes from our scope and sequence documents to guide their teaching, assessing and reporting. Please note that all Primary Teachers will administer start of year benchmark assessment for reading, writing, spelling and maths to inform their teaching and grouping of students next year.
End of Year Whole School Assembly
All students, staff and parents are invited to the End of Year Whole School Assembly from 11:00am next Wednesday 10th June. Zoom invitations will follow.
Grade 5 Graduation
Our Grade 5 students participated in their Graduation Ceremony on Zoom earlier today. While nothing will match a real ceremony, the students enjoyed the celebration of their completion of Primary School. They viewed video messages from their teachers and parents, addresses by Mr Wyncol and Ibu Alison and also shared their own reflections of highlights of Primary School. We wish these wonderful students the best of luck as they move onto Middle School.
Farewell to Staff
As we have almost reached the end of the school year, we say goodbye to some members of our wonderful Primary Team at Bali Island School. Sam Watson, our PE Teacher will return to Victoria in Australia with his family to continue his teaching career. Rachael Gerbic, our School Counsellor is moving to Morocco with her family to continue her teaching career. Kristina Hutapea, our Bahasa Indonesia and Indonesian Studies teacher and Alison Wighton, our Grade 5 Teacher are also leaving Bali IS as their positions will not be available next year. I would like to thank these four wonderful educators for their contributions to the learning, social and emotional growth of our students and wish them the best of luck for their next adventures. I will also be leaving Bali Island School to return to NSW in Australia with my family to continue my teaching career. On behalf of the leaving teachers, I would like to thank all of the students, staff and parents for making our time in Bali and at Bali Island School such a rewarding one.
Craig Eldred. Primary Principal & PYP Coordinator
Grade 3 Bahasa Indonesia A
Grade 3 has been focusing on the transdisciplinary theme of Sharing the planet with the conceptual understanding ‘To meet our needs and wants, people make choices that impact animals’. In Bahasa Indonesia A, they have been inquiring into different kinds of animals, their habitats, physical features, foods and how to look after the animals and to be a better impact on them. Students developed their vocabulary using Quizlet online activities. They read, guessed and created their own riddles. Students listened to stories, viewed videos and showed their comprehension by retelling using their own words or answering questions.
Kristina Hutapea. Bahasa Indonesia A and Indonesian Studies
From the P.E. Shed
The last dance. The past few weeks have been great to see our regular students continuing their hard work (a thank you as well must be extended to parents who are involved in set up, filming and uploading of videos/photos of their children’s work). It has also been great to see a few of our more passive P.E. students getting involved, especially in Kindy, Grades 1 & 4, well done! Please see below for some of our hardest working P.E. students over the past few weeks, congratulations to all students below.
Pak Sam Watson. Physical Education Teacher
Preschool Art
“Art encourages children to think, developing skills and confidence.”
During Term 4 the children have been exploring different mediums to produce some wonderful art works. The children have explored bubble blowing, nature rubbings, painting in nature, nature sculptures and collages. Children noticed that in nature there are many shades of colour. The children explored coloring mixing, primary to secondary, and looked at making shades by adding white to coloured paints. Children used their imaginations to incorporate natural objects in new and exciting ways into their projects. The children could talk about their art works, extending their vocabulary, and describe the process followed to achieve their final outcome. Children also used art to communicate their thoughts and ideas.
Ibu Siska and Ibu Suellen. Preschool Teachers
Music Grade 5
Music Appreciation
Musical activities in music learning consist of listening to music, responding to music with rhythmical motion,singing, reading
music notation and recording music, playing instruments, as well as analyzing and appreciating. Grade 5 students were given the opportunity to analyze and give feedback to different music using music vocabulary. And these are samples of their work.
Nina’s
Woods’s
Thank you
Ibu Isti. Primary Music Teacher
Grade 1 Indonesian Studies
Grade 1 has just finished their unit of inquiry of How we organize ourselves with the conceptual understanding “Making and distributing products depends on various processes and people. In Indonesian studies, students analyzed the processes involved in making Batik and have learned to make their own batik design. They also explored the processes involved in the rice production.
Kristina Hutapea. Language A Indonesian and Indonesian Studies Teacher
Grade 1 Treasure Hunters
As part of our unit of inquiry under the theme Where We are in Place and Time, Grade 1 have been exploring mapping and position. Firstly, students read the story Me on the Map and then explored their home, street, region, country, continent and planet using Google Maps.
To support their use of positional language such as over, under, next to beside and in between, students created treasure maps. First, students made hand drawn maps using a compass, key and symbols. This activity encouraged student to sequence ideas, use clear and specific directions and consider what a bird’s eye view would look like.
They also developed their tech skills by combining backyard materials and drawing tools, to share a map with a bird’s eye view perspective that was uploaded to student portfolios.
Nadia Demolder. Grade 1 Teacher