Newsletter January 2018(1)

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VICTORY PLUS

IB World School School Newsletter JANUARY 2018 Edition

Diphtheria Vaccination

ECE Family Gathering

ECE Students Performance
in Summarecon Mall Bekasi

Personal Project by Grade 10 Students

FOREWORD

Liam Hammer Dear Victorians, FEBRUARY 2018
Academic Advisor IMPORTANT DATES
One month into Semester 2 and we are already busy,
Grade 12 are completing exam Try Outs, this week 1 Secondary School PaLs : Art & Design
we have a Open Day on Saturday, field trips a plenty, 2 Religious Activity
our JSFA teams are winning with grace, and some 7 ECE CaLs
are losing graciously, our PSG have held parents 9 ECE Morning Tea
seminars and attended PaLs sessions, we tested our 16 Lunar New Year
earthquake drill and are beginning to wonder about 19 Whole School Lunar New Year Celebration
testing our flooding plan. 19-20 Gr. 9 & 12 UN Try Out 3
24 Secondary School Production : Aladdin
However, in all of the day to day ‘busyness’ of school 26-Mar 1 Science Week
I do hope that you take the time to speak with your 28 PS Morning Tea on Exhibition
family and friends, what routines do you have to
enable you and your loved ones time to connect ?
Do you put your phone away to speak to each other
or is your phone in your hand ready to check as soon
as there is a pause in the conversation.

Our children and students will follow our examples,
so make sure we teach our students to control their
gadgets and not have their gadgets control them.

We know from researchers that direct engagement,
that is speaking to each other face to face, is crucial
for the development of empathy, the ability to put
ourselves in the place of others. If we want our
children to grow up as caring and responsible
community members, then they need to build their
empathy for each other.

Finally, Aladdin tickets, please purchase your tickets
as soon as possible to avoid disappointment on
your preferred seats!

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On Saturday, January 20, modern
2018, if you happened to dance).
be in Sekolah Victory Plus,
you would have probably After
bumped into some Disney watching
characters (both villains and these
princesses) or superheroes who courageous little performers, parents, students
were walking down school hallway, back and and teachers played some team games where
forth on one of the busiest days at school. We all ECE community members interacted and
could find Maleficent, Mike, Joy, Merida, Olaf, had fun in the same time. On this special
the Egyptian royal family, or even some elite day, they also had a potluck party where
members of Jedi troops. Don't you worry my they could happily share snacks and
dear friends, SVP was not under attack. beverages together.
Teachers, parents and students were all dressed
up for the ECE last family gathering. This event To end this festive event, Bu Maria
started with free activities, students could announced the costume competition winners.
choose anything from face painting to arts and After a lot of thought and consideration
crafts. Then around 9, parents were entertained involving creativity, originality, and authenticity,
by the Toddler students' fashion show and the judges (Bu Aini, Bu Early and Bu Desi) decided
performances by Nursery and EY students: Itsy that the family winners were Ameesha's as Jedis
Bitsy Spider (by Nursery Sun and Moon), Ondel- (Toddler), Peter's as football players (Nursery),
ondel (ECA traditional dance), Chicken Dance Jeshua's as superheroes (EY1) and Anissa Goh's
(Nursery Rainbow & Sky), Bunda (ECA angklung), as Greek gods (EY2). We also had favorite family
ballet dance and The Lion Sleeps Tonight (ECA winners which were Aline's as witches (EY2)
Syaheen's as Egyptian royals (EY2), and Quincy's

as primary students (EY2).

On behalf of the ECE team, we would like
to thank everyone who participated and
made this event a success. Bravo team!

prepared by
Ibu Gita Tondok, Nursery Year Leader

Ibu Harvia Rini, Toddler Year Leader

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EY 1 STUDENTS

EXCURSION TO PIZZA HUT

In line with our current UOI, How we organize ourselves, with our Central idea:
“many products go through a process of transformation before being used
by society”, EY 1 students visited Pizza Hut. There, they learnt the process of
making pizza. When they arrived at the place, they listened to the
presentation about sizes and varieties of pizza, they also learnt about the
distribution of pizza for the delivery order service. After the presentation, the
students went to the kitchen to experience the process of making their own
pizza. They were given the dough, which was ready to use. First step they did
was to flatten it using the tool. Right after that, they spread tomato sauce on
the dough and sprinkled toppings (grated cheese, sausages and meat balls)
on it. For the next step, after they had finished with the toppings, they put the
pizza in the oven. At the end of the visit they took home the pizza which
they've made.

EY 1 STUDENTS
EXCURSION TO FARMERS MARKET

written by Ibu Yoeny Lelyana, EY 1 Homeroom Teacher

EY 1 students are entering the new theme, which is “How We discussed and to be shared. The students were really excited
Organize Ourselves”. They learn about how products go and enjoyed this activity so much.
through a process of transformation before being used by
society. As one of the learning experiences and also to support
the line of inquiry, ways products are changed to meet the need
of society, they visited Farmers Market, Grand Galaxy Mall,
Bekasi. In that supermarket, the students could see and learn
about variety of products (flavour, size and packaging).

The aim of this activity was to have them being inquirers about
the reason why people create many various products with
different packaging, sizes and flavours. To make this learning
more interesting, they also bought some products to be

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NURSERY

LEARNING CELEBRATION

written by Ibu Gita Tondok, Nursery Year Leader

Time flies indeed, and it has been six Pokey' and 'Kepala Pundak Lutut Kaki'. After a ball under their opened legs as quickly as
months that Nursery students have short presentation of what has been done in they could. Pairs of student and parents
spent their learning journey in Sekolah classroom, the play began. There were five made a line together, opened their legs,
Victory Plus. To celebrate the end of second games in total: tug of war, sarong game, rolled a ball under to their teammate behind
unit under trans-theme 'How We Express musical chairs, tunnel ball and flipped them. The last person in line caught the rolled
Ourselves', these young learners had a cushions. ball, grabbed it, and ran to the front of the
learning celebration on Saturday, December line, and repeated the same procedures. The
9, 2017. In this event, students showed their It was such a delight to see students last game, flipped cushions was the battle
understanding that through playing we collaboratively pulling the rope with all the between two teams, where in an amount of
communicate and develop new strength they could possibly muster to time allocated, a team should work together
understandings. As Bob Keeshan, an compete with the other teams when playing to flip its opponent's cushions to match its
American actor, once said 'Play is the work of the popular tug of war. The most important team's colour. The team with the most
children. It's very serious stuff'. While playing, thing is they know how to play fairly and feel cushion colors that represented its team
children interact with their peers, build self- fine even if they didn't win since they had colour wins.
efficacy, develop socioemotional, done their best and had fun along the way. In
communication, psychomotor, cognitive the sarong game, students worked together Everyone loves playing, adults, children, male
skills and have fun in the same time. with his/her parent, bound by a sarong, and and female in any shape and size. Parents
move some plastic balls from one spot to said that they enjoyed spending time with
All of these benefits were experienced by another. In musical chairs, both parents and their child and other families and were
parents and teachers at this event. It was students had great time dancing around to craving for another game. Thank you for
opened by students' performances which cheerful music and when the music stopped, coming, mommies and daddies. Until we
were: '5 Little Ducks' and 'The Wheels on the grabbed a seat as soon as they could. In meet again in our next learning celebration.
Bus' by Nursery Rainbow and Sky and 'Hokey tunnel ball, two groups competed to roll a

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Students' Performances
at Yamaha Education Fair

On Saturday, 27 January charmingly caught the event goers with their written by Ibu Sheila Widya, EY2 Year Leader
2018, some ECE students audience's attention Jungle dance. In
were invited to perform with their Ondel-Ondel addition to our
at the Yamaha dance. The ballet performances, other
Education Fair, held by students were the next students from other
Yamaha in to perform. They schools also showed
Summarecon Mall danced gracefully to their various talents
Bekasi. There were also the song 'Fly to Your such as playing musical
some students from Heart'. There was Wushu instruments, singing,
other schools who were performance where the dancing and coloring.
invited to perform in students could show At the end of the event,
this event. From SVP, we some stances they have the favorite
sent some students who learnt from their Shifu. performance of the fair
participated in our Then, there was a was announced. The
extracurricular fabulous angklung angklung performance
activities such as ballet, performance where the was chosen to be the
traditional dance, students played favorite performance
modern dance, wushu angklung beautifully to at the fair. Thank you
and angklung. The the song 'Bunda'. The Yamaha! Thank you
traditional dance last performance from students for showing
students were the first our ECA, was modern your best!
to perform. They dance. They thrilled the

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Grade 4
Excursion
to Kemang
Pratama
Water
Treatment
Plant

During library time and related to written by Ibu Any Fauzianie, Head of Library
“Sharing the planet” unit of inquiry,
Grade 4 students focused on learning
about Clean Water. As we know 70% of our
world is covered with water but it is not all
clean water.

Grade 4 students had a short and
meaningful field trip to "Penyaringan Air
Bersih Kemang Pratama" on January 24th
2018. They went to the destination per class,
to have a clear and precise explanation
from the resource person. The place is just
near our school in Kemang Pratama area.

Pak Udi (the resource person) accompanied
them and explained how the Kemang
Pratama area processes and produces
clean water for the community.

The students observed, interviewed, and
took notes when they were there. They had
formulated questions at our first meeting
right after we came back to school earlier in
January. Hopefully students have
experienced and learned how to preserve
clean water and will share this information
with others.

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Our U/8 SVP soccer team successfully beat British School Jakarta team on Saturday, 20 January 2018 for
the qualification round of 8C group Coca Cola Cup 2018 (JSFL). They played at Astro T. Field, British
School Jakarta.Victorians were great form from the kickoff of the game and we achieved some golden
moments. Athan started our road to victory by scoring from penalty and ended the first quarter with the
score 1-0. In the second quarter, Shidiq added to the score for SVP with a long kick out of the penalty
area. Feeling unsatisfied with only 1 goal, Athan's second goal was a spectacular effort. The final score
was 3-0 for SVP. In the first match, 14 January 2018, SVP didn't win the game for the qualification round
against Jakarta Japan Club with the score 2-1.

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In other matchs, the second qualification and sunny matches. Appreciation also
round of group 10E, U/10 SVP team goes to the coaches; Coach Alwi, Coach
played a match against Highscope Ihwan and Pak Nhirman who teach the
Bintaro on 20 January 2018. Kickoff was at teams to be principled in terms of
12.30 p.m. SVP Players performed very time and attitude, open minded in
well under the bright sunlight. In the terms sportive and team work as
beginning of the first quarter, Iel they need those attributes to be
immediately scored the first goal and great soccer teams. We thank to
then a few minutes later, followed by all parents, who always be
Azzam. That score was 2-0. That goal was there for the teams during
the last score for the first quarter. In the high and low tide. They
second quarter, Highscope successfully always support their
equalized to 2-2. Highscope managed to children and the team for
score again for 3-2 in the third quarter,but practice and match.We
in the middle of the last quarter, Iel also appreciate their
managed to equalize the score and end effort to take their
the game with the final score 3-3. In the children even in
first match of qualification round on 14 the very early
January 2018, SVP U10 successfully beat morning to
Jakarta Indonesian Korean School with school at 5
the score 9-2. SVP U/10 temporarily lead a.m.
the group E standings with 4 points.

ECA Dream Teams (U/8 & U/10) have a
practice 3 times in a week and a match
every Saturday for Coca Cola League
2018 (JSFL). They will join The Greenfield
Cup as well this February.Therefore,they
need to spend 4 days a week for practice.
We appreciate the ECA Dream Teams
members for their hard work, strength,
and spirit during the practice and match.
They showed their enthusiasm and
consistency to give their best during all
the weather and season, both rainy

written by
Bapak Nhirman Bagja,
PYP Physical Education Teacher

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PRIMARY SCHOOL

ECA updates

Greetings !!.. written by Ibu Airine Yuliani Putri, PS ECA Coordinator

ECA is ON again is Primary division. This semester,
our ECA is going to be different. It's not about the
activity, or the teachers/coaches, but it's all about
the…”End of Year Performance”!

Have you heard about that? Yup, Once, every two
years, Primary School Division has an event called
the “End of Year Performance”. In this event, we will
exhibit all the ECA's that we have. Everyone is invited
to come. Why? Because, students from different
ECA's will show what they have learned during their
ECA time at school. There will be performances,
quizzes, games and of course, goodie bags and
prizes.

So, mark your calendar for 5th of May 2018.

It's going to be fun and exciting. Can't wait to see all
of you there!

Grade 9 Information Session

On Thursday January 18th, 2018 SVP invited misunderstood, it will have an impact to the
parents of Grade 9 students to attend the students.
information session. In the event, the parents
were informed about three things. First, they Moreover, the parents were also informed
were informed about the implementation of about MYP Year 5 because there will be little
the Aptitude Test that has been implemented difference in MYP Year 5 that is the choice of art
and the procedures in understanding and class. Also, in MYP Year 5, there will be the
reading the result. It is important to give a personal project and how to help students
clear information about how to understand prepare for it. The last, the parents were
and read the result, because if it is informed about the important dates for school
exams, practice exams and national exams .

Written by Bapak Delvi Pardian, Secondary School Counselor

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Diploma Programme

Field Study

written by On Thursday, 25th January 2018, DP
Ibu Hesti Marlina teachers had a chance to visit Global
Secondary School Vice Principal Jaya School. We met some teachers
from different subjects in Global
Jaya: Language A-Bahasa Indonesia,
Language B-Bahasa Indonesia,
Language B-English, (TOK ) Theory of
Knowledge, Economics, and Business
and Management. It was really a
great time. Useful session for us as we
can share our experience and
discussing the best practices.

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Personal Project by

Schalke Anindya Putri
10 Milky way

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When we watch television, their dentists. This certainly shows implementing the regular dental
we usually witness models that most people do not consider check up program for students in
who smile brightly and dental hygiene a serious matter. grades 7 - 12. The program will be
confidently for the toothpaste conducted twice a year, and the
commercials. What normally draws We frequently self-diagnose and results from the check up can be
our attention is their clean and assume that we have perfectly obtained during our 3WC’s.
shiny teeth. However, this is not a healthy teeth because we do not
sales gimmick - it does have a usually feel pain as a reaction to In conclusion, this seminar was held
strong implicit message. Having those cavities. However, that does to educate the students in grade 7-
beautiful teeth helps boost a not essentially mean that we are 10 and secondary teachers, about
person’s confidence and self safe. It will often require a trip to the keys to dental health.
esteem, because beautiful teeth the dentist to detect dental Everybody must aspire to have a
accompany a beautiful smile as cavities. This was confirmed at confident smile, and it is only
well. So, the primary ingredient to a Sekolah Victory Plus where a series possible if we give our teeth
dazzling and vibrant smile is to of investigations discovered that exceptional care. And one of the
always maintain our bright and more than half of Secondary ways is by visiting the dentist twice
healthy teeth. students and teachers in our school a year.
claimed that they have perfectly
The seminar “Best Smile 101: The healthy teeth, and hence they did
Importance of Dental Check ups” not feel a need to visit a dentist. The
was held on January 23rd 2018, in seminar was followed up by free
Amartha Hall, Sekolah Victory Plus, dental check ups for 50 people,
by a dentist, Drg. Linda Puspita. The consisting of students from grades
seminar focused mainly on why a 7 to 11, parents, teachers, and staff.
person must maintain the wellbeing After the dental check ups with
of their teeth, by ensuring twice-a- dentists from Grand 8 Dental care
yearly dental check ups. Drg. Linda Clinic, it turned out that they
also pointed out that the primary actually have cavities that they
reason for dental problems is poor were not aware of before. With
dental hygiene. According to the sponsorship from Unilever, the 50
World Health Organization (WHO), people received goodie bags
90% of school children and nearly consisting of toothpastes,
100% of adults worldwide have toothbrushes and mouthwash to
cavities. Furthermore, 7 out of 10 keep their teeth healthy.
Indonesians have tooth decay.
Compare that to the fact that only Additionally, within the month of
2 out of 10 people regularly visit February 2018, SVP will start

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MUSYAFAR KUDRI ZAIN MAGDA N.T. SIMANJUNTAK

Secondary School Physics Teacher Finance & Accounting Staff

Hello, my name is Musyafar Kudri Zain, I used to be Hi, My name is Magda Novitria T Simanjuntak, but
called Afar. I am 28 years old, happily married with you can call me Magda. I am 30 years old and
twins (boys & girls). I was born in Buton Island, South married with two children. I graduated from
East Sulawesi, and started living in Jakarta in 2007, University of Brawijaya with accounting major. My
where I earned my Bachelor and Master degree on previous job was as an accounting & finance supervisor at PT
Physics at University of Indonesia. FMC Santana Petroleum Indonesia. I like watching serial
movies and travelling. I am happy to be a part of Sekolah
I was previously working at Sampoerna Academy Victory Plus as I can learn new things. Thank you.
Boarding School Bogor as a Physics Teacher and Halu
oleo University as a Geophysics Lecturer, so you can JULIA BILLIART ANITA
discuss about geology or geophysics with me. Now at
SVP I will be teaching Physics. I like to read novels, ECE Teacher
watch movies, play futsal and sometimes badminton.
My name is Julia Billiart Anita Widyastuti. I was born
“Every child is gifted, they just unwrap their packages in Semarang, Central Java. Since my earliest school
at different times.” days I have been interested in the pursuit of
knowledge and truth, a search which was inspired
NOVYANTI PRIHANDAYANI by my parents and enhanced by my teachers. This has stayed with
me into adult life, and I now find myself realizing the importance
ECE Teacher and beauty of such ideas and principles. My aim therefore is to
develop this approach to life and to share it with others through
Hi Everyone! My name is Novyanti Prihandayani, but everything I do. In terms of work, this means motivating and
you can call me Ovy for short. I was born and live in encouraging others by my own positive example, doing my best in
Jakarta. I graduated with a bachelor degree from everything.
Atmajaya Catholic University – Jakarta, emphasis on
Human Resource Management but my passion has A strong sense of responsibility and a wish to perform 100% at all
always been teaching. I have found that teaching is times resulted in my being elected as 'Millennium Scholar' in the
very rewarding and challenging at the same time, but University of PGRI (former IKIP PGRI) Semarang, a position where I
that doesn't stop me from pursuing teaching and was fortunately granted full scholarship for my Diploma Degree. I
making this the career of my life. At this time, I am valued this position for the opportunities and learning
filling a position as a temporary ECE teacher at SVP. I experiences in terms of being a responsible scholar while also
enjoy watching movies, and travelling during my free helping and motivating classmates. English Teaching Major there
time. I always remember a simple quote that works for was an enjoyable experience for me, especially English Literature
me “Don't count the days, make the days count” – classes, in which I was fortunate to have caring and inspirational
Muhammad Ali. teachers. This love of studying English led to my becoming a
teacher in several National and International Schools for the past
17 years, where I last spent my last 7 years teaching both
Kindergarten and Primary Level at Kairos Gracia Christian School
in West Jakarta. Working for Sekolah Victory Plus will be a great
chance for me to both learn and help grow the educational value
among the young learners.

NEWCOMERS

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Grade 10

Visual Arts Excursion

to MACAN Museum and
Galeri Nasional

written by Ibu Kania Yuliandini, Secondary School Visual Art Teacher

The Grade 10, Laoshi Orvina, and Ibu Kania in front of Entang Wiharso's and Keith Harring's painting in MACAN Museum

Friday, January 26th, 2018, the Grade 10 students went to MACAN museum in Kebon Jeruk, and Galeri Nasional Gambir for Visual Arts excursion to
get a lot of insights about different kinds of artworks from Indonesia and around the world.

In MACAN Museum, the students were carefully explained by Kak Widy; one of
the education team; about Indonesian art history in dialogue with global art
history through 90 artworks of the museum's collection. Not only learning
about art history, they also got to explore their artistic side as well. In one
corner of the museum, there was an art installation where everyone can get
papers and colour pencils to draw while inspired by the beautiful floating
garden.

Caroline and Johanes of Grade 10 with the drawings they made during The Visual
Arts trip to MACAN Museum.

Soon after Friday prayer, they went straight to the other area of Jakarta
where most of the Indonesian government office are; Central Jakarta. Across
Gambir Station there's a Public Art Institution owned by the Cultural Ministry
of Indonesia, called Galeri Nasional where the students were able to enjoy
more than 200 well curated artworks.

Hopefully, after this excursion, not only the students will appreciate the Pak Putra from Galeri Nasional who enthusiastically answered all of the curious SVP
aesthetic aspects of artworks, but they will also put the arts in historical students questions,
context.

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Grade 10 Personal Project

BATIKED

by Jason Briant Irawan

On Wednesdays, SVP staffs wear red. Red a smooth sailing along the way, as I have
batik, to be exact, but although the fabric gone through several obstacles
and design seem nice and fitted to wear, I throughout the process. The obstacles are
myself think that there is always a chance mostly about experience. It was my first
to make it better. It is important for staffs' time proposing an idea to an institution, it
attire to be the best as possible, as it is a was my first time designing a batik
part of the school's identity. The thought uniform, and it was basically my first time
has been around for quite a while, doing this huge of a project.
however up to now no changes has been
made. I am currently in Grade 10 and I This project has been a dream come true
decided to make that change in hopes of for me. Basically, I am truly
bringing it to reality through my Personal honored to be told that there
Project, I call it Batiked by Jason Briant is a possibility for one of
Irawan with a goal to successfully design, my designs to replace
create, and produce a better batik school the current batik in 1
uniform based on the school staffs' or 2 years. Last but
desires and school philosophies. not least, I would
like to say that this
People say that this project is nearly dream would have
impossible to be done, not to mention not been brought to
that I am only a tenth grader, and I agree. reality without all the
It is indeed a really big project, however I supports that I have
do believe that with a strong will and received from SVP SMT, my
persistence, everything would be possible parents, Ibu Budi as my advisor, my
to be done. A proof would be my two expert, God Almighty, and other more
designs I have proposed to the school, parties that I could not mention one by
that received positive responses from the one. Once again from the deepest of my
school's Senior Management Team heart, thank you!
and staffs. It was not

Presenting to SMT 16

DIPLOMA On Thursday, 18th January 2018, Sekolah
PROGRAMME Victory Plus ran an information session
INFORMATION regarding IB Diploma Programme. The
SESSION information session discussed the Diploma
Programme itself and the subject groups in
FOR GRADE 10 IB Diploma that Sekolah Victory Plus will
PARENTS AND STUDENTS offer in Academic Year 2018 - 2019. There were
13 Grade 10 parents who came to the session
written by Bapak Felix Foe Hakim, Diploma Programme Coordinator and they were enthusiastic in learning more on
the subjects in IB DP and the requirements to
gain IB Diploma Award.

In the afternoon, Grade 10 students also had the

same information session about IB Diploma Programme.

The session mainly discussed regarding the subjects offered by the school for

the Academic Year 2018 - 2019 and IBDP expectations to earn Diploma Award.

Near the end of the session, they were given IB DP Subject Choice form which

they could bring home and discuss it with their parents as well as with their

subject teachers regarding their choice of Higher Level or Standard Level.

*Please note this form is not yet binding. Student can still change subjects later

on.

Most IB DP Teachers mentioned there were many Grade 10 students who
approached them to get to know more about the DP subjects and to know
whether they can pursue HL or SL class. All of the DP teachers can see the
enthusiasm of the Grade 10 students on IB Diploma Programme.

Secondary School : Parents as Learner

MYP & DP SCIENCE

written by Ibu Andhyni Eriel Tombe, MYP Coordinator On the 25th of January, the Secondary Science our students succeed in their DP later on. We applaud
Department was given an opportunity to lead a PaLs our parents for their positivity and enthusiasm, and
activity. This PaLs was led by our DP teachers: Bapak thank all parents who have continuously supported
Benny Ali Arimon (Physics), Ibu Nurul Fajria (Chemistry) our program. We look forward to seeing more
and Bapak Wahyu Ihdia (Biology). The purpose was to parents participate in our next PaLs on the 2nd of
share the implementation of Science in DP (Diploma February, 2018.
Programme) and how the MYP (Middle Years
Programme) science curriculum prepares our 17
students for DP. From subjects offered to assessment,
a wide range of topics were discussed through
several hands on activities. Parents were actively
involved and began their learning with the design of a
research question, and worked all the way through to
data collection. From paper to the lab activity. By the
end of the activity, parents were able to understand
how the MYP became the best curriculum to prepare

Grade 9 Students visit

MYP EXHIBITION

at Global Jaya School

A highly successful MYP Personal Project exhibition was held at Global Jaya on Thursday, January 25, 2018. Several Grade 9 students from
SVP were selected to witness first hand the results of other students' Personal Projects. The visit was very useful for the Grade 9 SVP
students to encourage them to observe the Personal Project displays. It will help them generate ideas for their Personal Project in the
coming year while also sharing the outcomes with their classmates at SVP.

Grade 10 students must successfully complete their Personal Project to be eligible for their IB MYP certificate. The Personal Project
encourages students to practice their ATL skills, to connect their classroom learning engagements with personal experiences, and to
develop their own interests for lifelong learning.

The students, Benaya, Timothy, Waisya, Andrea, Aurelius, Jason, Anthony, Kesia and Ryan plus several teachers from SVP were thoroughly
impressed at the high quality of work. They were honored and inspired to witness such a remarkable exhibition.

written by
Bapak Rais, Bahasa Language and Literature Teacher

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UNIVERSITY University of the Arts
SESSIONS
London
prepared by
Bapak Delvi Pardian On January 17th, 2018 SVP brought in some representatives from
Secondary School Counselor the University of the Arts, London. In that session, there were
some students who felt interested in the field of arts following
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available and also they showed some world famous figures
who were graduated from the university.

University of the Arts London is the world's sixth best University
for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings® 2017. It
offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion,
communication and performing arts. The graduates go on to
work in and shape creative industries worldwide.

The University draws together 6 renowned colleges, each with
its own world-class reputation. The art facilities include
workshops with letterpress machinery, studio theatres, gallery
space as well as libraries and archives for research into
hundreds of years of the greatest artists and designers.

Indonesia International
Institute for Life-Sciences
(i3L)

On January 24th, 2018 SVP once again held a university info
session. This time, the school introduced the campus that is
engaged in science, that is i3L campus (Indonesia
International Institute for Life-Sciences). The majors offered
are all related to science. Some students who are interested
in science attended this session.

In this session, the students were informed that i3L Campus
is the result of the collaboration between Indonesia and
Karolinska Institute and Swedish University of Agriculture
Sciences (SLU), Sweden. So, all the activities at i3L are
delivered in English, starting from the entrance test, the
daily learning to the exams. The university is equipped with
world class facilities and what more important is the
lecturers are those who have the largest number of
scientific journal publications in Indonesia, i3L pioneers the
development of research capabilities and capacities that
have never been tried before in Indonesia with an emphasis
on global competence, entrepreneurship, and the
integration of educational and research activities to
produce scientific leadership that is ready to face the
challenges of the 21st century.

The Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences (i3L) is
a premium life science higher education and research
institute located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Currently, i3L offers
seven bachelor programs in BioMedicine, Pharmacy,
BioInformatics, BioTechnology, FoodScience,
FoodTechnology, and BioEntrepreneurship.

SAWC HARODLIN2AG0RC1 E8SRHEMI PONY

“Satisfaction
lies in the effort,

not in the
attainment, full

effort is full
victory.”

Mahatma Gandhi

On a wonderful Thursday morning, on 11thJanuary time/effort to activities. written by Ibu Esterlita Sitanggang, Primary School Principal
2018, 10 students were gathered happily with their The applicant is committed
proud parents in Pandawa Hall. They were and his or her special
welcomed by the School Director, School Principals talents stand out.
and Vice Principals). The students and parents
were there to celebrate their achievements at SVP Those criteria are explained through their
in a SVP Scholarship Ceremony. application forms and essay which were checked by
the Principal, Vice Principal, Grade 6 homeroom
Scholarship means: teachers/Secondary team.
1. Academic study or achievement; learning
at a high level. By checking the students' applications and essay
2. A grant or payment made to support a every year, I've noticed that this scholarship is
student's education, awarded on the basis really prestigious for our students. It is not only
of academic or other achievements. about the grant, but more to the effort that our
students have put throughout their study at
The students earned their scholarship because they Sekolah Victory Plus. They have given their very
have passed the selection process, which are: best and their hard work is being acknowledged by
the school.
● Application Presentation
▪ Application is carefully By looking at those criteria, SVP scholarship is not
completed and well presented. only emphasizing on the academic performance,
▪ Instructions were followed. but also put consideration on the students'
▪ Application was written, commitment to learning beyond classroom. It
proofread and free of errors. means we are also searching for students who have
good leadership skills, applies actions into their
● Essay surrounds and living the Learner Profiles and
▪ Personal statement is well- CHAMPION values. These criteria made us
written with detailed examine the students in a holistic perspective.
answers that are Quoting Dr Kathleen M. Quinlan from Oxford
thoughtful and focused. Learning Institute, University of Oxford in her
▪ Application provides journal “Developing the whole student: leading
insight into the applicant's higher education initiatives that integrate mind
character, strengths and and heart” said that “The notion of holistic student
educational goals. development encompasses academic learning and
the development of skills such as problem-solving
● Academic Performance and analysis while simultaneously recognizing
▪ The last two and a half other aspects of students as people who are growing
years of grades show a GPA and maturing affectively (emotionally) and
of 6 (on MYP scale) or 85 on morally.” Our scholarship students are proficient in
DIKNAS scale. academic and other aspects.

● Attendance and Punctuality Therefore, I proudly announce our 5 scholarship
▪ Student consistently recipients from Primary School. They are Jerico,
attends classes (95% or Wina, Angel, Emma, Finola. While our 5
above) scholarship recipients from Secondary School are:
▪ Student is consistently on Adit, Andrea, Rosa, Timothy, Ryan.
time for classes. (95% or
above) Again, on behalf of Primary and Secondary teams,
we would like to congratulate our best 10 students
● Commitment to learning beyond for their achievements in becoming our scholarship
the classroom (eg: ECA), recipients. And last but not least, we would like to
Leadership skills, Service as Action express our gratitude to all parents for their
& Learner Profile/CHAMPION continuous support and collaboration with us in
Values creating a meaningful learning environment for our
▪ An exceptional applicant is students. Keep up your outstanding effort in the
actively involved in many next level of your study!
quality organizations,
sports, etc. and devotes
extraordinary amounts of

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How to Care
for a Library Book

Libraries provide a great service by written by Ibu Any Fauzianie, Head of Library

letting you check out and read their
books for free. To make sure everyone in
your community or school has the
opportunity to read the books in a
library's collection, it's important to keep
the books you borrow in good condition.
You can do your part by handling library
books properly, protecting them when
you're not reading them, and dealing
with any damage you find.

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A. Handling Library Book Return your book on time. In many cases,

Wash your hands before touching your library book. libraries have only one copy of each book. If you
keep your book too long, it's not fair to the next
The slightest bit of dirt or oil on your hands can discolor or person who needs it. Honor the due date. If you
damage the pages of book. Work up a good lather with the receive a recall notice, bring your book back as soon
soap and rub your hands together. as possible to the library.

Support the spine when removing Renew your library book if you're not finished with it
a library book from a shelf. Place your index by the due date. You may email the librarians or renew

finger and thumb on either side of the top of the over the phone (ext. 112)
spine. Then, pull it toward you. Avoid pulling on the
top edge of the spine with your index finger only. You Protect your book while you're
coul d end up tearing the spine. transporting it. Put the library book in

Don't write in your library book. Avoid marking the the library bag (book bag) before taking it
out of the library. If you don't have one, ask the librarian.
pages or binding with ink, marker, or highlighter. Don't even Avoid stuffing paperback books in your pockets, where
make light pencil marks. You can unintentionally damage they could bend or get torn. Keep pens, pencils,
the pages when you erase. highlighters and markers in a separate compartment from
your book if you put it in your library bag.
Avoid reading library books in or near
water. It could fall into the water and be Keep your library book out of reach of pets and small children.

completely ruined. If you need something to Animals can chew your book. Small children can draw on it or tear the pages. If
read near the pool or in a boat, read a magazine you share your home with animals and/or children, place your book inside the
or newspaper that you plan to recycle. library bag on a tall shelf, dresser, and bookcase when you're not reading it.

Don't eat or drink while reading. Stains and spills are Store your book in a safe place. As soon you bring it home, put your library

difficult to remove. They can obscure the text and make book neatly on a sturdy shelf or table. Don't leave it on a sofa,
the pages difficult to read. chair or bed. Someone may accidentally sit on it and
damage the cover or pages.
Avoid bending the spine too
much. Forcing an open book to lie flat Make sure your storage place for your book isn't
near or on heating vents or radiators. Heat can
can damage the spine and cause pages to fall out.
If a book is old or tightly bound, avoid cracking the cause books to dry out and become brittle.
spine at all. When you're scanning or photocopying
pages, don't press on the spine. If the book is a paperback, Use a bookmark. Any flat piece of paper or
don't bend the front or back covers. Read your book on a flat surface whenever
possible. paperboard can serve as a bookmark. Avoid using a
pencil or other bulky object. It could bend the cover or
B. Caring for Books Not in Use pages out of shape.

Bring your book back inside if you read it in the Keep your library book in your library
outdoors. Rain and direct sunlight can damage your bag when you're reading on the go. You don't want to

book. leave your book at school, on the bus, or at a friend's
house. Put it back in your library bag when you're finished
Avoid leaning on your library reading.
book to write. Pens and pencils can
Avoid lending your library book to others. If they lose it or
leave indentations on book covers. If you press too hard,
they can tear through the paper and mark up the book. destroy it, you'll have to pay for it. Many libraries will notify
Lean on a table or desk. If that's not an option, use a patrons when books are returned. If someone wants to
folder, binder, or clipboard. borrow your book, tell them to ask the librarians
about this service.
Keep track of the due date. Set an alert in your calendar with an alarm the
Source:
day before the due date. http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/books.html
https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/organizing/book-storage-tips
https://www.powerfulmothering.com/how-to-teach-kids-to-care-for-books/
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MEET SVP ALUMNI

Interview with

5th Batch of SVP Alumni

Sabira (Aira) joined She enjoys learning at the backgrounds and be
SVP in Grade 1 campus and she finds that courteous with other
Primary School a lot of skills taught in SVP people.
(2004/2005). She was help her in her study.
involved in many activities Through messanger, SVP Her working position as
at school, managed her got a chance to chat with the front desk/back office
time carefully between her to know more about student staff in GWU
studying and swimming her activities at the requires her to be
exercise. She was a campus. responsible in scanning,
champion in swimming shipping and sorting files
competitions that were Aira mentioned that she of student's immigration
organized in and outside has developed her documents, answering
West Java. Her talent in communication skills since general questions
swimming also became studying in SVP. It helps regarding immigration and
one of many criteria for her, especially now, as she also helping students with
her to pass the Admission works at the immigration their requests for the
procedures in George section of her current office. She is also going to
Washington University, university, International be in charge of the social
USA. Services office of GWU. media team of the office.

After graduating from She uses her We are glad to hear Aira's
SVP- Grade 12, Sabira communication skills experience in her campus
(Aira) continued her study especially in dealing with and wish her the best for
at George Washington students who happen to her study.
University (GWU), USA; at be rude or demanding. She
the faculty of Economics also learned how to
and Political Science. properly communicate
with people with different

prepared by SVP Marcomm

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DIPHTHERIA

VACCINATION

prepared by
Suster Tri and Suster Intan

School Nurse

Do you know what diphtheria is? of
Diphtheria is an infectious disease ORI is to
caused by Corynebacterium cut the
diphtheriae bacteria and is transmission,
characterized by inflammation of the upper reduce the
respiratory tract, nose and skin. number of
diphtheria cases and
As we know, Indonesia is currently facing the Extraordinary prevent the disease from
Occurrence (Kejadian Luar Biasa - KLB) Diphtheria in some being widespread.
areas, including in Bekasi. To overcome this matter, the
Ministry of Health responded rapidly with Outbreak Response The first round of diphtheria
Immunization (ORI) in 12 districts / cities in 3 provinces that vaccine was performed in Sekolah
experienced outbreaks such as Banten, West Java, and DKI Victory Plus on 10th January 2018 involving
Jakarta. According to the Minister of Health, the Disease 76 ECE students, 134 PS students, and 271
Outbreak occurs because of the immunity gap among Secondary students. The first stage of diphtheria
residents of a region.(Kemenkes, 11 Desember 2017. Source: vaccine at SVP has been successfully implemented,
http://www.depkes.go.id/article/view/17121200002/menkes- while the second phase will be held on February 13th
difteri-menular-berbahaya-dan-mematikan-namun-bisa- and the third stage will be done in July or August. The
dicegah-dengan-imunisasi.html). implementation of this vaccination can not be separated
from the cooperation of Sekolah Victory Plus with Rawalumbu
To support the ORI program implemented by Bekasi City Health Public Health Center, Elisabeth Hospital and Rawa Lumbu
Office, Sekolah Victory Plus in cooperation with Puskesmas Hospital.
Rawalumbu held the Diphtheria Vaccination for ECE, Primary
and Secondary students. The ORI itself consists of 3 rounds with
1 month interval between the first and second dose and 6
months interval between the second and third dose. The goal

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SVP 20th Anniversary
Preparation

Dear all,

As part of our SVP 20th Anniversary Celebrations we are looking for

a) Photo collection from 1998 - 2005

if you have any photos that you would like to share with us, kindly send the
soft copy of the photo/s to [email protected].
Subject : Photos for SVP 20th Anniversary

Please name the files according to person/event and year. Example PSG blood

drive 1999 or Ibu Desi 2000.

b) "Stories of SVP" - ideally a short story of between 300 - 600 words plus

one or two photos, if available.

The stories may be about anything significant in SVP's 20 year journey. Ideas

can include

The building process Serving the community

Sporting achievements World Scholar's Cup

Model United Nations From toko to campus

Swimming pool PYP Journey

MYP Journey Cambridge Journey

Diploma Journey Grade 12 Live in trips

Graduations Building progress

Japan Immersion Programme European Immersion Programme

Universities spanning the globe Scholarships

"Where are they now" (for the first batch of teachers and students)

Parent Support Groupss Parents as Learners

Religious identity CHAMPION

And any other ideas you have...

Ideally one person (student, teacher, alumni, parent) will volunteer to write
each story, find an appropriate photo, picture or diagram and make sure the
story is carefully proof read (and translated into either BI or English... as we
wish these stories to be bilingual)

Once complete, please send them to Ibu Christina ([email protected])

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parent support group

Hello 2018..! cooperation, the patience, the laughters, and
the important thing is for doing it together.
Hi Victorians, welcome back to school. A Thank you for being positive and making it
new year, a new beginning, with a new spirit fun. We also thank the SVP team especially
and new atmosphere, we wish you all the best to Ibu Yustina and Pak Liam, the Class
in 2018. As an annual occasion, PSG held a Parents and the SVP Parents, who always
Committee Luncheon to start the year, and it support us. You all are awesome..! Last year
was held on January 15th 2018. After the long was great, so let's make this year a wonderful
holiday, we gathered in this occasion to share and greater than before. Looking forward to
the moment and build the bonding among your continuous support and keep the spirit
team members. The luncheon was attended high, always...
by the PSG Steering Committee,
Commission members, Ibu Yustina, Pak "The strength of the team is each individual
Liam, Ibu Esti and Ibu Christina. After the member. The strength of each member is the
lunch, it was followed by words from Ibu team." (Phil Jackson)
Dona, Ibu Yustina and Pak Liam, then taking
the group pictures. It was such a happy The Steering Committee
moment for all of us to know that we had for PSG SVP
come this far being teammates for each other. “Be Positive & Make it Fun..!”
Thank you team, we appreciate your
hardworking, the great teamwork and

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PSG BLOOD DONATION

“Every Blood Donor is a hero...”

A Blood Donation will cost you nothing but it will save a life. If you are a
blood donor, you are hero to someone, somewhere who received your
gracious gift of life. Blood donation is part of our PSG Care
Commission bi-yearly routine program. It's not only our routine but through
this even we learn to be more
caring for each other and make
us more healthier. The activity
was held On Wednesday, 6
December 2017. Of the 160
people who registered, 121
attended to the event. After
the participants filled out the

” forms that contain their health

history, the PMI staff did
physical check and about 350
cc of blood was collected from
each eligible donor. By the end
of the afternoon, we were able
to collect 89 blood bags. Thank
God, the number increased
15% from our last blood
donation on May 2017.

Thank you to PMI Bekasi, SVP Team, PSG Commissions, Parents
and all donors who made this event possible. We hope to gather
more donors on our next event in May 2018. You don't have to
be somebody's family member to donate blood. Donate your
blood for a reason, let the reason to be life. Small thing, big
impact. Thank you.
by Vera Sisca
for Care Commission

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Optimizing Gadgets for Your Children's Education

The PSG - Parents' Sharing Session

Nowadays, as we all know, filter YouTube content, best practice for
gadgets are a need for buying apps, what and how to use the
everybody, including our parental controls, discovering an
children. Gadget are one of the tools for educational content in our gadgets,
us to do our jobs and daily activity, to get knowing apps for education and tablets
information, and also to help the in education. Pak Mahendra showed us
education. As a cooperation with iBox how to find some apps which are
Indonesia, our last Parents' Sharing categorized as educational, and also how
Session in 2017 was held on Wednesday, to protect our children from the
November 29th 2017. The session was led inappropriate content. There were 60
by Bapak Mahendra Hatmoko the Head enthusiastic parents who joined this
of Education Center and Apple Certified session. Thank you Moms and Dads.
Trainer. He told us that the usage of the
gadget actually could be more useful for After the session, all participants
our children's education, and Apple received a goodie bag from iBox. Thank
made it also in order to support the you Parents, iBox and Pak Mahendra, also
education. thank you to our PSG Education
commission team and SVP for all the
As there was a workshop, all participants supports. See you in our next session.
were suggested to bring their own
gadgets such as iPhone or iPad, otherwise by Astri Dona Barus
they could use the iPad that provided by For Education Commission
iBox. Pak Mahendra talked about how to

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PSG REGULAR ACTIVITIES

Hi Parents,
Thank you for your continuous support for our regular activities, and below is our schedule for February 2018's Regular Activities:

Morning YOGA

Day : Every Tuesday
Time : 08.00 - 09.15 am
Venue : Multipurpose Gymnasium Room, SVP South Wing, 2nd Fl
PIC : Ibu Meilan (0813-19338499)

Pengajian Tausyiah
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Day/Date : Tuesday, 20 February2018
Time : 08.30 - 10.00 am
Venue : VEC Lobby
PIC : Ibu Rini (0811-897991)

Unity Prayer (Persekutuan Doa)

Day/Date : Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Time : 08.30 - 10.00 am
Venue : VEC 3rd Floor
PIC : Ibu Vera (0812-90273427)

Rosary Prayer (Doa Rosario)

Day/Date : Friday, 23 February 2018
Time : 08.00 - 09.15 am
Venue : VEC Lobby
PIC : Lucia (0851-01295478)

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prepared by
Ibu Agnes Budi Astuti, MYP Coordinator

Raymond Victorio Handoko

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