Secondary Newsletter 17 – December 11, 2020
CAS Corner by Jadon Scures
Languages Updates
University Counseling
Counseling
Worls Theatre Traditions Trip – Mask and Puppet Museum
Broadway Lab
CAS Corner by Jadon Scures
Wakeboarding
Description and Goals
My goal for this CAS activity is to push myself out of my comfort zone and try a new thing on the water. I will be building off my strengths and challenging myself to learn new skills.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth
- Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process
- Show commitment to and perseverance in CAS experiences
Reflection:
- Perseverance and commitment – over the past few weeks I have been training regularly working towards achieving my goal. I have gone riding 3-4 times a week which is been very hard to manage with school and exams. During exam week I took a break from wakeboarding but with a long session following the exam, I think I am back at where I was.
- Strength & growth – When I was performing overtricks in the build-up to my final goal I learned that I am extremely more comfortable landing right foot forward rather than a land left foot forward. I discovered this and decided that I would first learn a switch under flip rewind as I discovered that I am actually a lot better this way and feel more comfortable.
- Challenge & skills – To achieve my goal I had to challenge myself to become more comfortable flipping. I also challenge myself to learn more grabs that I could perform in a flip so that I could stay more compact and spin faster. I think I am almost ready to achieve my goal because I have learned new skills and improved areas of my riding needed for me to perform the trick.
In Indonesian classes, students explored some topics and expressed their ideas in some forms of written and spoken texts. The following are some works that students had produced.
Biography of Prominent Figures (Grade 8 Indonesian B Phase 5)
Biografi John Green oleh Kristina Park
Fan Fiction for The Last Chapter of Burung-burung Manyar by Cintya Roby
Holiday Vlogs by Grade 11 Indonesian B SL/ HL
Collaborative Writing: Opinion Column by Grade 12 Indonesian B SL/ HL
Grade 6 Indonesian Language Acquisition students have been learning about the Family Unit. They completed a family tree, explaining the details of all family members including the physical appearance.
Grade 7 & 8 Indonesian Language Acquisition students have been learning about Dreams and Aspirations. They completed research about the kind of dreams and aspirations people have. They practiced their writing skills by making sentences.
Grade 9 & 10 Indonesian Language Acquisition, Emergent level students, have been learning about The Office. They practiced writing about types of jobs in Indonesia that need an office.
Grade 9 & 10 Indonesian Language Acquisition, Capable students have been learning about Occupations. They practiced writing about the differences between “Tukang” and “Ahli”.
Interested in aviation in Canada?
Mount Allison University
University of Waterloo
Western
Select Aviation
University of Fraser Valley
Your teen doesn’t know what they want to study after high school? Grade 9s and 10s have been assigned the task on BridgeU of exploring careers over the break.
Here are additional tools they can use:
UCAS tool for exploring careers
Career tool provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Career quiz from Job Outlook in Australia. They also have career searches on the site.
Counseling
The end of Semester 1 is a natural time for transitions to happen at international schools. Whether your child is leaving, staying, or arriving, it is helpful to recognize that this time of year brings a change in friendship and peer groups, impacting all in the community.
Moving or arriving after a move
Early childhood aged children who move are uprooted from the safe space they spend most of their time, their home. Many experiences the loss of a beloved caretaker. Primary children and teens are fully aware of leaving friends, teachers, school, a sense of what it means to be a BIS student, and Bali.
- Understand that children and teens rarely have any say in a family move.
- Try as best you can to give your children and teens some sense of control on the other side. Perhaps they pick their room, or you agree to let them decide how to decorate their space. Maybe your children can choose what family routines they liked, like “pizza night,” and one they would like to add relevance to the new place they live, like “exploring restaurants night,” and some to replace, like “beach night.”
- Help them learn and get excited about their new school and ask the counselor to help them connect with new students.
- Figure out ways to help them stay connected to close friends they leave behind.
- Support them with farewells and hellos.
- Make sure you listen to how they feel about leaving and arriving in a new place and understand that regression happens.
- Make sure the school knows your family is leaving. Schools want to help with the transition.
Staying
Children and teens, who stay in one international school for an extended time, experience repeated losses of peers and friends.
- Ask your child if they know of anyone moving from their class or friend group.
- Find out how they are feeling and processing that loss.
- Try to help them find power because they do not have control of this situation.
- Agree to ways they can say farewell in a caring manner and stay connected to close friends who are leaving.
- Be careful that your child or teen is not talking about how it’s easier not to connect with new people because it hurts too much when people leave. Even adults staying in transient communities start to do this. Be careful you are not modeling this approach.
Children and teens from international schools build resilience, but that does not mean that they naturally know how to stay, leave, and arrive well. Be patient and take time to work through transitions together. Lastly, all family members tend to do as well as the parent struggling the most after a move. Look after yourself and other adults in the community.
World Theatre Traditions Trip – Mask and Puppet Museum
Students in grades 10 and 12 embarked on a fascinating journey of exploration and discovery of world theatre traditions. We visited a Mask and Puppet Museum in a small wood-carving village in the middle of the tropical jungle near Ubud. The museum’s collection includes more than 1300 masks and 5700 puppets.
Grade 12 students are studying Indonesian theatrical and dance drama traditions of Topeng, Kecak and Barong/Rangda for their Research Presentations.
Grade 10 students are exploring connections between Commedia dell’Arte, an Italian Renaissance theatre tradition and Indonesian dance drama.
Broadway Lab
CATCH A FREE MUSICAL THIS WEEK-END: GYPSY, A STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S MUSICAL
Let Broadway and West End come to your living room! An absolutely spectacular live performance of GYPSY Musical with fantastic music by Stephen Sondheim featuring Imelda Staunton as Rose, an English actress and singer. You can start watching at 3:00 am on Saturday, December 12, the show is available for free for 48 hours on www.youtube.com/theshowsmustgoon .
Speculated by many (including NY Times) to be the greatest of all American musicals, Gypsy tells the story of the dreams and efforts of one hungry, powerhouse of a woman to get her two daughters into show business.
“Everything’s coming up roses and daffodils! Everything’s coming up sunshine and Santa Claus!”