EMBRACE MARCH 2022

EMBRACE Vol .8 / MARCH 2022

Electronic Magazine
Sekolah Bogor Raya's Arts, Culture
and Events

FOREWORD Vol.8 / MARCH 2022

From SBR's Curriculum Coordinator

Dear Students, Staff, and Families,

What an exciting beginning to our last term of the year! We have been very
fortunate to be able to welcome back our students back on campus for learning
with the main surge of Omicron behind us. We have all enjoyed having the
students roaming the halls again, joining classes, and meeting their teachers and
peers.

This last term will see a whirlwind of activity for all. Our secondary students will be
going through their Cambridge and IBDP exams, and working on their TOK
(Theory of Knowledge) Conference. Some of our Primary students will have just
wrapped up their PYP exhibitions, and PGK will be enjoying more time exploring
and sharing ideas about their learning spaces.

And all of us are looking forward to our upcoming SBR anniversary, as well as
other important celebrations. One of these is Kartini Day, which celebrates her
championing of women's rights, and advocacy for their equal access to education.
This will be the capstone of a month-long celebration of Women's History month
where we as a school were fostering an understanding of inclusivity and equality
both within our campus, and our impact to the larger community. This is also
aligned with 2 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) #4
and #5 which looks to promote inclusive and equitable education for all, and
equality and empowerment for women respectively.

As part of SBR's community service outreach program, we are continually looking
to see how we can have the greatest impact in the areas needed most. It has
been encouraging to see how our values have been reflected as we dove deeper
into how those values were being expressed and presented in the classrooms,
and how that learning was used by our students to demonstrate their
understanding of those values through the projects they undertook, the
underserved groups that they reached out to to support, and even by sharing
simple acts of kindness that they witnessed, or were a part of.

Finally, I would like to extend my appreciation to all who participated in sharing
their feedback on the recent survey sent out for our Vision, Mission, and Values
refresh. Your input on where you see us as a learning organization that
continuously works to improve and reflect on our own goals and beliefs is
immeasurably helpful. We will be analyzing results from the survey, as well as our
first ever focus group discussions held recently to help inform our school
improvement plans.
As always, thank you once again for helping us all learn and grow as a
community!

Benedict Emil Rinne

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PLAYGROUP & KINDERGARTEN Vol.8 / MARCH 2022
K1-PREP

K1

Theme 3 has already passed, and students really Now the students are finally on the last theme! In
enjoyed it. They started to get to know the kinds this theme, students will learn about "Day and
of animals and plants. They planted the spinach Night." They will learn about daytime routines such
seeds and took care of them every day by as taking a bath, brushing their teeth, going to
spraying them using a sprayer. In the last week of school, and nighttime routines such as brushing their
theme 3, K1 students also learned about fruits teeth, reading a book, and going to bed. They will
and flowers, so they celebrated it by having a also learn about different kinds of natural changes
virtual picnic. They shared their favorite fruits and such as sunny days, rainy days, and cloud days as
ate them together. They also wore colorful shirts they are going to differentiate the tools to protect
and built tents and sunbathed to celebrate the their body from different kinds of weather.
last week of the theme 3.

K2 Welcome back to school! We are to begin with our new
transdisciplinary theme, “How We Organize Ourselves,”
with the central idea “Transportation may help people
and the environment." In this theme, students will learn
about different kinds of transportation modes (air, land,
and water), the function of each transportation mode,
and how transportation connects people, places, and
surroundings. To support the “How We Organize
Ourselves” theme, the learner profile for the March
certificate is balanced. Students will understand the
importance of intellectual, physical, and emotional
balance to achieve personal well-being for themselves
and others.

Glad to inform you, this month our school can also apply PTM (Pembelajaran Tatap Muka) so the
student are able to learn and play at school. Hopefully this PTM can make our children happy and
more enthusias to learn, though the PTM has not apply everyday yet. We can not wait to see you at
school Children.

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K3

At the end of theme 3, K3 students had a celebration
together. It was a one-day celebration activity titled
Microgreen Harvest Party. It was a new experience for
the students as they harvested the microgreens they
planted a week before and made a sandwich using
them.

With the uncertain situation we are facing now, this All new facial expressions were shown as the
activity made the students excited and more engaged students tried the microgreens for the first time.
with the learning. They prepared the place just as they Surprisingly, most of the students liked to eat it.
were picnicking and prepared all the ingredients to The activity was successfully done by everyone
make their own sandwiches. The activity was started finishing their sandwiches. It was healthy yet
by making a picnic decoration together by tracing their delicious!
hands and creatively decorating it to become a plant
picture. It continued with the harvest activity where The theme was closed by the students having the
the students cut the plants using the scissors and Student-Led Conference. This conference was
washed the plants independently. It ended with the conducted by the students in front of their parents
students eating their sandwiches together. demonstrating what they have learned in theme 3.
It was a big success since the students had
prepared well to present their work.

We cannot wait to face a new adventure in theme
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PREP

We have made it to the end of Theme 4! Prep students Prep A - Eating Morning Glory
have learned about “How The World Works” for the
past two months. They have more insights about the With all of the knowledge the students acquired, on
characteristics of living and nonliving things and March 11, 2021, they presented their learnings in
discuss the factors that make living things change and this theme in front of their parents in the Student-
grow. In theme 4, the students experienced planting Led Conference. The practice and preparation for
morning glory at their home using the toolkit provided the presentation before the day helped students
by the school and continued by harvesting their improve their confidence during the conference.
morning glory and eating them together. The students They chose the growth stages of living things to be
also developed their inquiry skills by doing an presented and arranged them from the first stage
experiment. They planted mung beans in three until the last stage. In Bahasa Indonesia, they
different conditions related to the factors that living arranged the words into simple sentences. In Math,
things need to grow. They shared their findings and they sorted out kinds of 3D shapes, and in Language
made conclusions about the experiment. Arts, the students read the Bob Book by themselves.
After presenting with the class teachers, the
Prep B - Harvest Morning Glory students joined the Music and PE session. In the
Music session, the students played the rhythm using
Prep C - Salt Painting a can as a drum. In PE, the students showed their
ability to dance or do gymnastics movements. Most
of the students looked so excited doing the Student-
Led Conference, and it went well, and it would not
have gone smoothly without the support from
everyone who took part in it.

Thank you, parents and students, for the hard work
during this theme. The new theme is waiting. Let’s
keep showing great effort for the last theme of this
academic year.

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PYP IN ACTIONS Vol.8 / MARCH 2022
PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHLIGHT

A Glimpse of the PYP Exhibition 2022

It's been a month since the end of the PYP Exhibition, but we still have a lot of interesting things to share. The
Who We Are theme has succeeded in inviting the 6th graders to truly dive into themselves, understand their
uniqueness and accept it as part of their lives. The journey to accept uniqueness, especially one's own
shortcomings, is not easy. At least, they are still trying to improve themselves daily.

As you know, various interesting topics were presented through the PYP Exhibition, such as the world of
visual arts, music, sports and singing. In addition, some of the students also raised topics about how to
overcome insecurity, how to think positively about themselves, how to manage emotions or ‘gifted’ talents,
the importance of effective communication and even the importance of mental health. One interesting thing
that we will discuss through this article is how some children chose topics related to the importance of mental
health in order to help them express themselves. One of the most memorable stories in the exhibition comes
from a child who had concerns about how bad experiences could affect emotional stability.

Cheryl sharing about the importance of mental health

She began her story by telling us about her anxiety that she might develop mental health problems due to bad
events that have happened in her life. If she could have it, so could everyone else. Unpleasant experiences can
affect people's emotions. In order to have a balanced life, she shared her coping skills to help her tolerate,
minimize and deal with stressful situations in life. It was a meaningful session when she was presenting her
journey on ZOOM. The Q&A session was more fruitful when someone questioned how she has managed
herself so far and how to deal with uncertain situations. Interestingly, she admitted that dealing with
unpleasant experiences is something that people will always face. Managing our stress can help us feel better
physically and psychologically and enable us to perform at our best. Mental health is not a common topic for
6th graders. Her courage to raise this issue has inspired us all to understand the importance of self-awareness
and self-acceptance. Thank you, Cheryl! (WA)

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STUDENTS MEET THE EXPERTS

Grade 2 Met The Illustrator!

“Do what you love and love what you do”
“Find your passion and once you find it never give up to develop your skill on it”

In the middle of this theme 5, Grade 2 students
had a lot of fun activities! One of those activities
was having a great expert sharing session with an
illustrator to support their inquiry stages about
how illustration can support the story and make
the story easier to understands.

Met The Illustrator

On Friday, March 25, 2022, grade 2 students had a wonderful
expert talk with Ibu Christina Damastuti. Ibu Christina is one of
the visual art teachers in Sekolah Bogor Raya who is also an
illustrator. She explores and works in various forms of visual
arts such as illustration, cartoon, comic, design, photography,
sculpture, sketch, and painting. She shared that she found her
passion in visual art and seriously develops her drawing skills
even today.

Grade 2 students showed their enthusiasm during the
session. They were so excited to get tips on being a great
illustrator, finding inspiration, and how to develop a
story using a picture or illustration. Afterward, their
excitement exploded when Ibu Christina challenged
them to draw an illustration using the picture that
appeared on the story cube she had prepared. The
second graders not only showed their enthusiasm for
the illustration but also for a story related to that
drawing, which Ibu Christina challenged them to try.

At the end of the session, our second graders shared their stories and illustrations actively and confidently.
They couldn’t stop pressing the “raising hand” reactions in Zoom to share their illustration and story with Ibu
Christina and friends. It was a wonderful experience for them. Thank you Ibu Christina for this inspiring session.
(RN)

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STUDENTS MEET THE EXPERTS

Observers from Gunung Salak and Gunung Gede

The Grade 4 students had a great opportunity to
meet two mountain observers from Gunung Salak
and Gunung Gede, Bapak Nur Rokhman dan
Bapak Anton S. Tripambudi. Bapak Nur Rokhman
dan Bapak Anton worked as professionals at a
post that observed Gunung Salak and Gunung
Gede. Their role is to record the activities of the
mountains, observe the changes that happen in
the crater, to see if there is smoke or gas coming.
Bapak Anton dan Bapak Nuh Rokhman also has to
observe the seismograph to report the volcanic
activities to the local authority.

The purpose of having observers of active
volcanoes is to prepare for natural disasters such
as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. The
observers and the local government of certain
areas create mitigation plans, to reduce risks that
can occur when earthquakes happen. They
prepare the route to escape from the volcanic
eruption, all the vehicles in that area must be
ready and parked facing the road, the local police
officers prepare the streets not to be crowded or
to avoid traffic jams.

According to the mountain observers, there are no accurate ways to predict when a volcano will erupt.
What we can do is to observe the signs by using various devices and to observe directly to the mountain
ranges. Indonesia is surrounded by the belt known as the ring of fire. That’s why the government and the
people must be more careful and ready to face earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. (YK)

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STUDENTS MEET THE EXPERTS

Let’s Begin the Science Adventure

Nicolas Tesla, Marie Curie, and Catherine Johnson are some of “Which one will

the greatest scientists that ever lived. They each possess the six dissolve faster,

key skills that constitute a great scientist: observation, sugar in cold

measurement, classification, prediction, inference and water or in hot

communication. As of today, 7th March 2022, Grade 5 invited
two science teachers from the SBR Secondary department, Ibu water?
Shinta and Ibu Endang for the expert sharing session. They
shared a lot of interesting things about science and also led a
simple experiment using a scientific method, related to the six
skills of a great scientist.

Students prepared all of the materials and tools needed, such as hot and cold water, sugar, a spoon
and also a stopwatch. They followed each step of the scientific method starting from asking
questions, making a hypothesis, doing experiments, recording the data and finally making a
conclusion. In the end, they were able to prove that sugar is dissolved in hot water faster than in cold
water

Curiosity kills cats but not humans. As the
experiment ended, students started to ask other
questions, such as “Does stirring the sugar make
it dissolve faster?” and “What if there is more
sugar in the hot water than in cold water, will the
sugar in the cold water dissolve faster?” They
started the first step of the scientific method
again. It seems that they now have become little
scientists and will probably conduct their own
experiments during the mid term break. water
faster than in cold water.

Grade 5 doing experiment to strengthen their science skills This expert sharing session seems to have drawn
the students’ attention. They were so active and
responsive during the sharing session. They had a
lot of fun during the experiment and also learnt
more about physical and chemical changes which
is the ongoing lesson of this unit of inquiry. (AS)

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Mini Exhibition 2020 Sharing Session

Eco-Enzyme and Jaker’s candle…These were two of the products displayed in the mini exhibition
2020 under the theme “How the World Works”. Kak Eliora and Kak Marlie from Grade 7 shared their
experiences during this process.

Grade 5 students are learning about how natural materials can undergo changes that may provide
challenges and benefits for society and the environment. This sharing session showed that eco-
friendly materials and products can also work to solve the problems around us.

Grade 5 doing experiment to strengthen their science skills

Kak Eliora and Kak Marlie shared a lot of things
about their experiences from the beginning of the
exhibition process, up until the final exhibition day.
They explained how to do the step-by-step
experiments using scientific methods; making
observations, asking questions, making hypotheses,
conducting the experiment, making an analysis and
drawing conclusions. They also shared information
about their products; the materials used, how to
make them and the benefits of the products.

Grade 5 students were very excited to hear about the
exhibition process and they asked if there were any
challenges faced by the students during the mini exhibition.
Kak Eliora and Kak Marlie explained the challenges they had
and also how they solved these challenges.

Thank you Kak Eliora and Kak Marlie for sharing. Hopefully,
Grade 5 will be able to make this mini exhibition as
successful as yours. (AS)

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Let’s Write and Enjoy
the Writing Process!

What a great session we had with Kakak Nares. She taught us to always reflect on our purpose
She is one of SBR’s talented young authors who when writing and consider how to combine the
shared her experiences as a writer with Grade 6 use of language with the purpose of explaining,
students. Kakak Nares enlightened us about informing and arguing. Knowing our purpose is
creative writing at a young age. She told us that crucial when writing, whether it is to express
it is always hard to start writing, especially if ourselves, inform the reader, to persuade the
you are afraid of being wrong. First of all we reader or to create a literary work.
have to accept that perfection comes from
consistency. Kak Nares showed us the benefits
of perseverance and patience in producing
meaningful writing.

Writing is not just about having a big picture of Start writing, no matter what and enjoy the

process!

ideas, but it is also about channeling our

feelings into words and into the characters we
create. Write creatively and with heart.
Enjoying our writing is a good way to further
stimulate our creativity. Creativity knows no
boundaries, so it is important for us to think
freely and broadly, allowing ourselves to think
outside the box, or even without a box. It was a
wonderful session that will help us in preparing
for our next writing project before closing this
learning theme. Thank you Kakak Nares! (WA)

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CLASS AT A GLANCE

Grade 1 Celebrating The End of Term 3 and Creating An Amazing Term 4

Pajamas party We are so glad that the students could finish strong
in term 3. They were excited to have a 3 Way
Conference with their parents and teachers. Before
the 3 Way Conference, we celebrated the end of
term 3 by setting up a “Pajama Party”. A simple
celebration yet very meaningful for the students
and teachers. The teachers invited the students to
have snack time together during recess. They wore
pajamas and brought their favorite dolls and
snacks. Even though we still did the activity online,
we can feel the spirit and happiness from the
students.

The day of the 3 Way Conference is coming! I Making a minibeast model
can feel that both the teachers, parents and also
students feel nervous, but thank God the 3 Way
Conference can run smoothly. We are so proud
of the students' achievement in term 3. Thank
you parents and students for the amazing
collaboration and also for being cooperative so
that term 3 can run smoothly. Let’s work
together in term 4, students!

Now we are in the middle of theme 5 under the unit “Sharing The Planet”. In this theme, students
learn about minibeasts such as spiders, butterflies, ants and many more. Of course the students
are quite excited when we talk about animals. They share a lot of their ideas and experiences!
They participate in many fun activities, such as making a model of their favorite minibeast using
the plasticine, drawing the minibeast in the jamboard application, and watching the minibeasts’
video. Hopefully through these activities, students are able to deepen their understanding about
the minibeast, and also be able to strengthen their creativity.

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CLASS AT A GLANCE

Grade 2

How We Express Ourselves Students home conference

There are so many ways to express ourselves and one of those ways
is by expressing our feelings, ideas, and emotions through a story. In
this theme 5, our grade 2 students had so much fun expressing their
feelings, emotions, and ideas through conferences and being book
illustrators and authors.

3-way conference At the beginning of theme 5, Grade 2 students expressed
themselves through a conference. They presented their theme 4
projects and experiences in front of their parents at home.This
home conference was a way to share their learning process,
overcome their struggles, as well appreciate the students’
efforts. After demonstrating their learning experiences at home,
our second graders also expressed more about their learning
experiences through the 3 way conference; Here they discussed
their learning with parents and teachers together.

Then, the grade 2 students began their journey to express their feelings, emotions, and ideas as book
creators in the Unit of Inquiry lesson. In this session, students learned about how to become a book
creator and find the relation between stories and pictures. The session is also supported by Visual Art
and Language Art class as well. In Visual Art class, the students learn more about the elements of art
and some drawing techniques to support them in creating their picture storybook. In Language Art,
they learned how to construct a story, onomatopoeia, and write a Haiku poem which was very
interesting. They learned to express their feelings through pictures and words.

Grade 2 students being a book cover
Students practice drawing
Storytime with Ms Shanon! Identifying part of the story.
designer with Tim Burton style

It will not only be an English book. Our grade 2 students are also expressing their ideas, feelings, and
emotions by becoming online book creators in Bahasa Indonesia and ICT class. These classes are
integrated and develop our second graders' skills in using technology. They learn about picture
sequencing and create an online storyboard in Bahasa Indonesia. Overall grade 2 students are excited
to have this experience, and there will be more fun activities ahead. Good job and jiayou Grade 2! (RN)

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CLASS AT A GLANCE

Grade 3

Professor John Hattie from Melbourne University once identified that
student self-reporting is the most significant indicator linked to raised
student achievement. In other words, we might say that the process of
students reflecting on their own learning could promote their way of
thinking and enhance their learning progress for better achievement.

3-way conference is a meaningful session to
We are so glad to know that Sekolah Bogor Raya
celebrate the students’ progress is in line with Professor John Hattie since we
have the 3 Way Conference which was held on
One of grade 3 student explained the energy transformation which
Friday, 11 March 2022. The 3-way conference is
happen in a hair dryer an opportunity to celebrate the student’s
achievements. It provides a forum for students,
parents, and teachers to acknowledge student
progress and achievement.

From this 3-way conference, we can strengthen the
home-school partnership and allow the children to see
their parents and teacher working together with them.
During the 3 way conference, we can see that grade 3
students can provide information to clarify things they
have learnt, the goals in their learning, and what kind of
progress they have made so far.

Grade 3 students made their own success

criteria for Bahasa Indonesia assessment.

The Grade 3 students are currently in the middle of Theme 5, underlying the transdisciplinary theme of “How The
World Works”. The students are so excited to explore forms of energy, identify kinds of energy transformation,
and also learn how to be more responsible with the energy forms which exist around us. We can see how the
students raise their agency in their learning process, especially when they have to decide the home appliance in
which they are going to analyze the energy transformation and present it to their friends and teachers.
Additionally, students’ agency can be clearly seen when they determine the success criteria of their assessment.
We were impressed to see the students’ enthusiasm to learn more about forms of energy by doing some
experiments during the zoom sessions. Grade 3 enjoys this theme a lot and is so ready for the challenges ahead.
(NPH)

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CLASS AT A GLANCE

Grade 4 Exploring Earth’s Features and Celebrating

3 Ways Conferences

The Grade 4 students were excited to do the 3 Way conference with the teachers and parents. It is a moment
to celebrate the learning process, a time to reflect on ways to be better and to create more progress in
learning. The students prepared all the work to be compiled in the portfolios and showed them to their
parents proudly.

We are very proud of the Grade 4 students’ achievements in learning, but most of all the conference is a way
to express the learning process, overcome their struggles, and appreciate the students' efforts.

The students are now in the middle of Theme 5: How The World
Works. We are exploring Earth's features, layers of soil, tectonic plates,
and natural disasters. The students explored how volcanoes were
formed and the movements of tectonic plates that triggered natural
disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, and floods.

We are exploring this theme in various ways. The students conducted experiments that showed tectonic
plates movements by using crackers. It was really fun and very useful because the students had hands-on
experience with how tectonic plates move. The students also had the opportunity to meet two experts who
are professional observers from Gunung Salak and Gunung Gede. Not only that, we had a special guest from
BPBD (Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah) to learn more about mitigation during natural disasters.
Let’s learn more about our Earth and be more vigilant about natural disaster prevention. (YK)

Grade 5 3 Ways Conference: Celebrating the Student’s

Learning Process

Everyone participating in the life of the school is
honored by the IB learning community, including
students and their families, all school staff
members, other key people in the kids' lives, and
the community at large. A 3-Way Conference
actively involves the three most important
participants in the learning process namely
teacher, student, and parent where the objective
is to reflect on the student's growth and their
action plan.
...

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CLASS AT A GLANCE

...
Sekolah Bogor Raya conducted its second 3-Way Conference in this academic year, on 11 March 2022. On
the D day, the student presented their reflection upon Term 3 to the parent as a teacher which includes their
obstacles and action plans. There were various interesting actions the students did after learning Theme 4,
How We Organize Ourselves. Jesselyn for example has applied her knowledge in building a website on the
Wix platform to make a jewelry platform for her sister’s online shop. Another example from Natcha, was how
she reflected that she will try to be more independent, be a better student and carry on doing her good
actions. Likewise, Avangelique will improve her social and time management skills as she realized that those
two skills are crucial in building a solid team.

3-Way Conference as a way to appreciate student’s learning progres

3-Way Conference allows the student to see their parents and teacher are working together with them. This
is also a chance to show the students that their teachers and parents care about their learning development
and appreciate their progress.(SN)

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CLASS AT A GLANCE

Grade 6
Different Ways of Self Expression

We are here now in theme 5, How We Express Theme 5, it is all about language!
Ourselves. After the PYP Exhibition, it is time to
challenge ourselves in another way of expressing
our thoughts, through language. During the 3 way
conference, we had our reflection time to discuss
challenges, lessons learned, and what we got out
of the Exhibition. So, it was a good start to buckle
up and go on our next adventure. We have nailed
the several weeks of studying and sharing ways
to convey ideas and feelings through songs,
storybooks, poems, quotes, and even movies. It
was an interesting sharing session where we
could learn a lot about different types of spoken
and written language. We also have learned
about the power of the mind, how it affects
emotions and behaviors.

Additionally, we learned about different ways to convey our ideas through creative writing. We
define writing as one's self-expression achieved through meaningful written words. It is not easy
for us to put on thinking hats and reflect on our own feelings, or even to pick up some ideas to
incorporate into our narrative story when we are practicing our writing with the Writing Clinic
Project activity. We took our time to learn about how writers use their writing tips. We had our
discussion and reflection based on the writers’ experiences and how they have put their uniqueness
into words through writing. We also invited Kakak Nares to deepen our understanding. We have
learned that it takes creativity, writing skills, self-awareness, and strategy in applying the tips of
writing techniques to an interesting story. Besides that, we also have learned lots of writing
techniques when we were paraphrasing poems and writing fiction texts.

We are also preparing for our final activity, namely journaling which will challenge creative thinking
skills at another level. We have the freedom to choose our interests in any topic, or even to
continue our previous journey in the PYP Exhibition that we like. It is time to become a journaling
content creator. It needs honesty and perseverance to deeply think of personal preferences that we
think are good for our personal growth and life goals. So, we are getting ready to give our readers
something unforgettable to read. Until then, see you soon! (WA)

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SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWS Vol.8 / MARCH 2022

SLC Mobil Pintar

Mobil Pintar SLC is one place where students are able to conduct positive activities, particularly those related
to literacy interests. All the activities are initiated and organized by the students of Sekolah Bogor Raya. During
the last one year of the pandemic era, all activities have been structured using online methods. The Zoom
platform has been used to create interesting products, encouraging literacy interest in the society.

During Term 3 of this academic year, Mobil Pintar SLC’s membership increased significantly, where 10 new
recruits joined the force. It is surely a great sign showing that Mobil Pintar will be able to gain a better chance
to have more bright ideas. The first meeting has always been about introduction, where members share about
their various hobbies and interests with their peers. Mobil Pintar considers these rich differences in wealth and
the competitive advantage of the organization.

The regular meetings are conducted weekly, on Friday, to ensure the
sustainability of the organizational coordination in the middle of
students’ hectic days at school. The latest innovation applied in the
Mobil Pintar coordination meeting is the work-group division
method. Throughout the Zoom meeting, members will be divided into
three work-groups. They are free to discuss the product design and
any other related plan and strategies to realize and to introduce the
product to the society.

The heterogeneous composition of the meeting has been able to bring dynamic discussion avoiding the
monotonic result. Ultimately, all members have come to a decision to create a poster about the literacy world
and the related attractive games. The project’s timeline will be adjusted based on the members’ personal
availability and school’s academic timeline. (NK)

SLC Teaching English

Student Leadership Club (SLC) – Teaching English is a pretty fun SLC to
join in because it's good to know that we're helping out students who are
struggling with English. The teaching English SLC program, is basically
about a small community of students who's willing to help others with
their English, as most children may have English as their second
language.

Our main activity in this club is making small projects filled with simple
information on a basic English topic such as learning the past tense,
proper grammar, and others. My experience in this club was pretty fun:
getting to share knowledge with students who were struggling with
English. We just wanted to try and help a bit by making posters filled
with explanations and taking small actions that could impact a lot of
people.

Through SCL – Teaching English, I have demonstrated challenges that have been undertaken, and I've also
developed new skills in the process. (Zhavira.Gr.7)

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Student Leadership Club (SLC)
THE JAPANESE CLUB

Figure 1. Zoom Screenshoot about Jikoshokai HabitaThe Japanese Club is one of the student
leadership clubs in Sekolah Bogor Raya, which provides
a fun opportunity for students to broaden their
knowledge of Japanese in an informal environment and
socio-cultural trends. Furthermore, it allows students to
interact with other students who have a shared interest
in Japanese. Class starts with some basic phrases, like
how to introduce ourselves in japanese.

Every member shares with other members what Figure 2. Japan's crowded streets. Source:

knowledge they learn about Japanese. It creates a Wonderly.agency
good environment for everybody to learn from
each other. Japanese has three writing systems,
such as Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. In daily life
in Japan, all three writing systems are seen
together in this crowded street in Japan.

When we visit Japan, sometimes we get confused
with this writing. Therefore, understanding the
basic hiragana will help us. Club members study
the hiragana step by step, by writing it manually.
Here is the documentation:

Figure 3. Learning hiragana by following the stroke order. Figure 4. Playing hiragana games together

We also incorporate games, such as matching
hiragana games. It makes learning interesting
and fun. (AB)

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FUTURE CAREER SEMINAR “THIS IS ME & MY FUTURE”

On Thursday, 10 March 2022, Secondary School held a
Future Career Seminar with the theme “This is Me & My
Future”. This seminar was open for SBR Secondary Parents
and Students from Grades 7 - 12, with expert guest speaker
Ibu Ina Liem. She is the CEO of Jurusanku.com, an author of
three books, a certified career consultant, and an expert
guest speaker related to educational issues in general and
pathways.

Students and their parents used to know a very limited
number of majors and, sometimes, are not in line with
students’ interest, unique potentials and personality traits.
One of the most famous misperceptions is that many
students avoid certain majors because they think those
majors lead to careers with ‘no future’. Meanwhile, according
to ibu Ina Liem, 65% of professions or careers in the future
have no name, just like some new professions famous among
us nowadays, but we never thought about it like youtubers,
influencers, hecker actuaries and many more. That is why
looking for certain expertise is one of the important
components that must be considered whatever major we
want to take in University, and with the growth mindset we
can actually see problems as opportunities to be solved, this
can lead us to a new profession with certain expertise
needed. By organizing this seminar, we hope SBR secondary
school students and parents get more references and eye
opening information to explore the possibility before making
a future plan together with the school. (DS)

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COFFEE WITH LEADERS

SBR was invited to join the Coffee with According to Peggy Liu, tornado leadership is a
Leaders event by nominating two students, way in which we can bring everyone to a
and we were gratefully nominated. We signed better future by using emotion as a tool and
up, and were selected to join the meeting by crafting momentum in ourselves and others to
the committees. Coffee with Leaders is a pro- facilitate change. Oftentimes, we find that we
bono activity: leading faculty from around the are powered by adrenaline or fear to
world, where they interact with students in accomplish things, however, the true measure
small groups in informal settings via video of making a change starts from the magnitude
conference. The 26th of February session’s of the heart, not our brain intellect. By
leading faculty member was Peggy Liu -- focusing on our emotional energy, we exert
leading environmentalist and senior advisor to positivity to connect with people’s hearts and
the Nation of Hawaii, who was awarded the generate the frequency capable of making a
"Nobel" of climate change, the "Hillary Step", change in our environment. Never define your
for being one of the world's most effective dream by what you are opposing, but instead,
climate solutionists, is a World Economic listen to the “winks of the universe” to focus
Forum Young Global Leader, etc. your energy on a particular change. Gaining
full understanding of the mission that you’re
The meeting started off with Peggy Liu talking on, and providing people with safety,
about how we need to find our own “Tornado” belonging and trust attracts them to join your
to make a change in the world. She said, “Your cause. However you choose to speak your
job is to be at the center of the tornado with a outcome, how you get there is always subject
vision delivered with love; but you cannot to change. (Banyu and Valentine)
control the tornado’s path. You have to be
open to the possibilities the tornado brings.”
She stated that change is constant and
inevitable and something we should all come
to embrace. So she advised us to go with the
flow of the tornado and take whatever
opportunities there are that interest you
because we, (the grades 8-12 students) right
now, are in the stage where we should be
observing and trying things out to know what
we truly want.

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ENGLISH CLASS FOR
PROGRAM PENGIMBASAN

In order to implement the ‘Pengimbasan Program’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and
Technology, SMP Bogor Raya, in collaboration with SMPN 3 Bogor, held an English Speaking Course. The
expat teachers from SBR became guest teachers and taught the grade 8 students of SMPN 3 Bogor on
Thursday, February 17th, 2022.

The English Speaking Class was aimed to practice students’ speaking skills, as well as to provide the
experience to interact with native speakers. Ibu Elis, a public relation of SMPN 3 Bogor, was excited to
welcome this program. “It will be a good chance for our students to develop their English speaking skills”.
Our teacher, Pak Novi, a representative from SBR, said that language plays an important role to enrich the
students’ insight, and he really hoped that the program would be beneficial for the students of SMPN 3, in
getting useful knowledge and to be able to practice speaking English with expat teachers from Sekolah Bogor
Raya.

This collaboration program was fully supported by the
expat teachers of Sekolah Bogor Raya. One of our
expat teachers, Pak Matthew from Canada, stated that
he had an interesting experience during teaching grades
8B and 8G. “I really enjoyed teaching the students from
SMPN 3, we had a great time during the session. Their
skills were quite good. So happy that I finally had an
experience teaching in such a big class”, he said, when
he was asked about how he felt about being a guest
teacher.

The grade 8 students of SMPN 3 Bogor who
participated in this program, also conveyed their
impressions after joining the English Speaking
Class. Quoted from the responses of the form
that had been distributed, most of the students
became more motivated to sharpen their
English skills. “I would learn more about English
materials because my ability to speak English is
limited and I would learn again to not shy away
from speaking English in public.”

The objective of the English Speaking Class was not only to provide benefits for students and teachers, but
also the relationship between Sekolah Bogor Raya and SMPN 3 Bogor recently became closer. These two
schools plan to hold other collaborative programs and invite other national schools to join.

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A VISIT TO BASKETBALL GAME PRACTICE OF JAKARTA

SWIFT AT BUCKETLIST, BOGOR

On Sunday, 27th March 2022, Sekolah Bogor Raya was invited by the
Jakarta Swift Basketball Wheelchair organization, to watch their
athletes’ practice basketball game at Bucket List, a Basketball Museum in
Bogor. The event was actually part of Fundamental Training Camp 2022,
that was held by Jakarta Swift on 26th-27th March 2022 to celebrate its
third birthday, and Sekolah Bogor Raya was one of the sponsors for that
training camp. Jakarta Swift is the first Wheelchair Basketball
Organization in Jakarta, which has a community program to develop new
talents, spread awareness, and continue to expand the game in
Indonesia.

As the representatives of Sekolah Bogor Raya, six members
of Benevolence, one of the Student Leadership Clubs in
Secondary, got the precious opportunity to meet the
athletes and watch how the athletes practiced basketball in
high-spirit. The students experienced how the athletes
implemented some values like resilience, integrity, respect,
and teamwork in their play. At the end of the practice, the
athletes got a token of appreciation from the coach, such
as the best teamwork, the best middle player, etc.

After the practice, during lunch time, Benevolence got a chance to introduce the mission of the club and
performed Sign Language (BISINDO - Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia) as one of the skills that is needed to master
when we communicate with tuna rungu and tuna wicara. It was just a sharing experience and it seemed that
the athletes were happy to learn sign language, they followed the gestures that were performed by
Benevolence. The students ended the performance by gesturing these words: “JAKARTA SWIFT, THANK
YOU.” Before leaving, Pak Fitra gave coach Salim, the coach of Jakarta Swift, an SBR souvenir as a gift for
the athletes. It was an unforgettable experience. (VY)

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DIPLOMA PROGRAMME INSIGHT

This month has been an active and engaging The DP 1 students have been busy as
month for our students. After a restful break, DP well with broadening their academic
2 students hit the ground running as the term visions. Students of the Physics
started with preparations for their second mock course, under the guidance of Bu
test assessments. The assessments will be a way Arning, hosted Mr. Vino Juwono, a
for students to showcase their learning and former SBR student, who spoke to
academic prowess. them about studying Physics at
University. The session was lively and
Despite disruptions in school working due to the interactive and our students gained
Omicron wave, our students have shown valuable insight from the Mr. Juwono’s
incredible resilience and have kept their spirits experience.
up. This experience has been daunting for them
but they have responded to it in a remarkably Going ahead we look forward to
mature and balanced manner. We are very proud welcoming students back on campus;
of our students for having truly imbibed their this time, hopefully for good!
learning and incorporating the student learner
profiles into their own personalities.

The Diploma Programme (DP) curriculum is made up of six
subject groups and the DP core, comprising theory of
knowledge (TOK), creativity, activity, service (CAS) and the
extended essay.

Through the Diploma Programme (DP) core, students
reflect on the nature of knowledge, complete independent
research and undertake a project that often involves
community service.

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STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT

Playgroup-Kindergarten Renata Zivanna Prasetya
- Bronze medal for 25 free style at Swimming Competition - Bekasi Open
Secondary School - Silver medal for 25 breast style at Swimming Competition - Bekasi Open
- 2nd winner for 25 free style at swimming competition

Ranya Lyca
3rd place in the singing competition category A at Penabur Sentul Festival

Candice Olivia Jap
5th in the storytelling competition at Penabur Sentul Festival

Nirwasita Ayu Prabowo
1st Place and Overall Champion in Lomba Tari Kreasi Daerah Nusantara (TMII & PN

Production) in the Individual and Group categories.
Myscha Afla Diesta
3rd Place in Lomba Matematika Nasional Practo Tingkat SMP at Practo Math Academy

2022
Justin Kennedy Djapa
Bronze Medal at the Mathematics and English National Olympiad (Math+Lish) in Level D

Mathematics.
Rachelle Candice Edmerdson
Bronze Medal at the Mathematics and English National Olympiad (Math+Lish) in Level D

Mathematics
Mcayla Shawna Emmanuelle Adisusanto
Accepted into the Take the World Forward Fellowship Program
Banyu Bening
Accepted into the Take the World Forward Fellowship Program

Felicia Audrey Nugroho
Accepted into the Take the World Forward Fellowship Program

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LEARNING TOGETHER WITH AN SBR STUDENT

Karina Catleya Putri Andrian (Karina) was born on 21st
October 2005. She has been studying at Sekolah Bogor Raya
since Playgroup (K1) and currently is in Grade 11. Besides
learning and being actively involved in multiple
organizations, she likes dancing and singing, alongside
listening to music and watching series.

The organizations that she is currently involved
Embrace :
with are: What are your most memorable experiences
in joining organizations and preparing events?
- Best Buddies SBR: as the president
- BBPB(Bye Bye Plastic Bags) SBR: as the vice
Karina :
president Working together with peers that I wouldn't
- BBPB Bogor: as the public relations member even dare to steal glances from was something
- SMA Student Council: as the secretary that was worth the elevated heart rate that I had
- GirlBoss.IDN: as the founder, president,
to go through whenever I needed to meet them,
content writer whether it's online or offline. From there, I
- Behind The Kill: as the head of press
actually gained lots of connections which really
secretary helped me get through the ups and downs of life
- Hand to Hand JKT: as the head of public
(and the curriculum). Aside from the soft skills
relations that I gathered from the wide variety of
- The Chatter Gals: as the director of
experiences I did, I believe that the friendships I
ambassador made throughout my time serving in the said
- Memori Nusantara: as a public relations
organization and event committee is the most
member memorable, and the most treasured experience
- Voices Heard: as a public relations member that I'll never trade over anything.

She was a part of : I started joining organizations since I stepped
into secondary school. At first, I saw that my
- Teaching English Club SBR: as the president upperclassman was very cool when she was
- Debate Club SBR: as the president using the Student Council's badge on her
- Habitat for Humanity SBR: as the president uniform. From there, I mustered up my courage
- German Club SBR: as the secretary to be as cool, or even cooler than her. Driven by
- Dance Club SBR: as the treasurer the ego that I once had, It made me believe that
- Drama Club SBR: as a member nothing comes for free. I had to work hard to be
- Ruang Bicara: as the head of public relation where I am now. It may be nothing grand, but it
- Youth 4 Positivity: as the executive director
was a milestone for me to have reached this far.
of website
- DNA for Youth: as the content writer
- Hear our Voice: as the podcast host
- Createen.ID: as the content researcher

member

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LEARNING TOGETHER WITH AN SBR TEACHER

Pak Indra Wahyu Herdana (Indra) was born on According to Pak Indra, his first year teaching
February 14th, 1990. He got his Master's Degree IGCSE Global Perspectives in SBR would be one
of Science in International Relations, University of his most unforgettable moments. It is because
of Indonesia. He has been working at Sekolah all 12 students who registered for the test got
Bogor Raya since 2017 and his current position is amazing results (6 got A*, 6 got A). It was
as the Cambridge IGCSE Global Perspectives (GP) something he never expected before since that
Teacher, MYCAS & CAS Coordinator. was the first year he was trained and starting to
teach the Global Perspectives subject. He adds
Sharing about the implementation of Cambridge Global
that he is enthused whenever he engages in
Perspectives in SBR with some teachers discussions with his students about their
from Stella Maris Schools, Malaysia. research, projects and so on. All in all, everyday
life in SBR and as a teacher gives him invaluable
Pak Indra is also involved in the Government’s experiences.
program under the Ministry of Education and
Culture, namely Guru Penggerak. He is one of the Pak Indra’s personal motto is “A teacher's purpose
assessors selected in that program. Through this is not to create students in his own image, but to
program, he can meet other teachers from many develop students who can create their own
parts of Indonesia. He receives a tremendous image.” -Author Unknown
amount of information about the conditions and
situations of schools and generally of the
education around Indonesia. In addition, he learns
best practices from the teacher candidates so
that he can apply it to teaching processes in
Sekolah Bogor Raya. More importantly, his
involvement in the program is a part of his
contributions to the development of education in
Indonesia no matter how small it is.

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LEARNING TOGETHER WITH AN SBR PARENT

Ibu Merry Desiyantini (Merry) is a mother of three, and two of them are students at Sekolah Bogor Raya
who study in Secondary School. She is a housewife with a lot of activities, besides accompanying her
children at home, she supports her children to achieve their numerous academic and non-academic goals.

Ibu Merry’s hobbies are baking and traveling. She experiments
with different ingredients to create cakes and loves to let the
children comment on her baking results. She said it is very nice
to have different kinds of activities both at home and outside
that can stimulate you with different skills and experiences.
She also likes to travel with her family, especially to reach
nature, especially nowadays during the pandemic. Exploring
nature makes her and family feel rested and gain new energy
to do more things.

Beside baking and traveling, she
finds that reading is also good
food for her mind. It helps her to
gain knowledge and also to
understand others perspectives
or new information in the writing
form. Her favorite books are
from the Chicken Soup series.

Thinking about what kind of activities that will help her children not to get bored easily is also fun for her.
She experiences fewer difficulties to help her 1st and 2nd children as both of them can decide the best
learning methods to help them achieve their best results. However, for her third child, who is 5 years old,
she finds learning through playing is the best. As a parent who spends much of her time supporting her
childrens' learning from home, she said she must be creative and actively look for different resources.

She has a personal motto which is “If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit”.

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K1 K2

K1. My Paper Bunny by Kiara K1. Growing plants by Rayes

K3 K2 Drawing a Girrafe
PREP

K2. Nindy's Pop Up paper
Prep. Students are able to do an experiment by planting Mung

plants Beans in three different conditions related to the factors that


Grade 1 living things need to grow.

gr.1 - Design Minibeast Poster

Gr.1 - Drawing and labeling minibeast body parts

Gr.1 -Drawing Minibeast in Environment

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Grade 2

Gr.2 - Writing a story based on a series of pictures Gr.2 - Volume poster; Read and comparing the

volume of some objects

Gr.2 - Creating Haiku Gr.2 - Managing an online storyboard

Grade 3

Gr.3 - Describing Energy Transformation that

happens in a Home Appliance.

Gr.3 - Drawing wind chime design.

Gr.3 -Using Kalimat Petunjuk to show the procedure

of making food/drink.

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Grade 4

Gr.4 - Finding Angles in Triangles Gr.4- Making Krakatoa Planner
Gr.4 - Showing directions by using

using Five Senses a Map

Grade 5

Gr.4 - Membuat Cerita dengan Menggunakan Kata Depan

Grade 5 students conducting a science

experiment using a scientific method;


dissolving, rusting, oxidation

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Grade 5

Grade 5 students conducting a science experiment using a scientific method; dissolving,

rusting, oxidation

Grade 6

Gr.6 - “Ways to Speak” - Canva

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Grade 6

Gr.6 - When We Were Writers

Gr.6 - Sharing Writer’s Perspective

Gr.6 - Poster Konsep Diriku

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