Secondary eNews – Sept 2nd, 2022

September 2, 2022 Secondary Secretary

Arts Department
Secondary Music
It is a busy time in the Arts right now with students expressing themselves through Music, Drama, and Visual Art. Grade 6/7 Musicians are studying the musical and cultural aspects of Rock ‘n’ Roll, whilst 8/9 explore Jazz and grade 10s the Classic Hits such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn. Stay tuned for announcements regarding Showcases that will take place over the coming months. In the meantime, here are some photos featuring grade 8,9, and 10 Music classes performing at the beautiful Independence celebration.

BIS Theatre Spotlight
BIS Theatre kicked off the new academic year with an inspiring and lively performance of “CICAK and KANCIL”. To honor Indonesian Independence Day celebrations and further experience Indonesian culture, students in DRAMA 6-7 first arts rotation explored the traditional folk tale about two animal creatures – cicak, a small gecko, and kancil, a small deer. Students presented a theatrical version of this humorous folk tale and also displayed their growing understanding of performing arts fundamentals, physical theatre techniques and ensemble/collaborative work. Congratulations to all performers and actors involved:

Narrator/Balinese girls – Emma, Kirana, Jasmine, Nika, Lilly, Mandalay; Narrator/Balinese kecak boys –Youngmin, Lael, Mees; Cicak’s friend – Sven; Cicak’s friend – Gibran; Main Cicak – Sean; Kancil – Philippe.

College Counseling Updates

Upcoming SAT Test Date and Registration Deadline

Click here to login/create CollegeBoard account to register
More info about SAT

Upcoming ACT Test Date and Registration Deadline

Update from AP Exam School Year 2022-2023
For students in grades 11 and 12 who would like to register for the AP exam in May 2023, please contact Ibu Thari in the Counseling Office at: counselorsecretary@baliis.net

The 2023 AP Exams will be administered in school following the regular schedule in May 2023: May 1–5 and May 8–12. Registration deadline November 15th, 2022 – additional fee applied to each exam for the late registration

More information about AP Exam:

AP Online Courses and Exams (Web)
Register for AP Exam (Web)
College Board student account help (Web)

For more updates please visit
Counseling Corner at BIS

The University of Melbourne – Indonesia Information Day on Saturday 3rd September
World Education Expo on Tuesday 6th September – in person dan available online
Find webinars from UNiversities all over the world here
Uni Webinar search

Counselor Workshop Series

On September 1st, Ms. Noortje conducted the first two workshops in the BIS Counselor Workshop series.

In the morning session, 18 parents from Primary school joined a session about Child safety; how to talk with children. In this interactive session, we discussed why it is important to talk with the children about safety and child protection. We learned what topics to talk about at what age and there were small group discussions on different safety topics.

The discussions were lively, and we all learned from each other.

In the afternoon session, the DP parents were invited to learn about the College and university counseling process.

There was a lot of information taken in by the parents and personal stories and questions made this session interactive. BIS started using a new university tool Unifrog for students to explore universities all over the world and the counselor to send their documents. There was not enough time to show and explore this new tool. Ms. Noortje will communicate to the DP parents when there will be a workshop solely on the use of Unifrog soon.

Coffee with the Counselor will be back after EOTC

Join Ms. Noortje every Thursday morning at 8:00 for a coffee and informal chat at Fun Bites.

* Thursday Coffee with counselor will be back after EOTC

* Except the first Thursday of each month