secondary matters

ACS
Volume 31; Issue 5
23 Sept 2016
PRIMARY MATTERS
Deepest Condolences
We would like to inform you that
Ms. Naning’s mother passed away
on Tuesday, 13 September, and
Ms. Maja’s mother-in-law passed
away on Sunday, 18 September.
On behalf of the Primary School,
we would like to express our
deepest condolences for them and
their family.
May God gives
comfort and strength upon the
family in this time of loss.
Parent-Teacher Conference
The
Primary
Parent-Teacher
Conference (PTC) will be held on
Friday, 21 October 2016 and it will
be a student-free day.
The
bookings will be done online via
Engage. The first chance will be
given to the invited parents and
after that the bookings will be open
to the rest of parents. A notification
to those particular parents will be
sent soon. Parents who are invited
will have to register online via
Engage and choose their own
preferred time online. Similar
procedures will be applied for the
rest of parents from 30
September to 7 October. As
teachers’ schedules are usually
tight during the PTC, you may not
get to meet them if you do not
have any appointment. Please
note that only parents who
make appointments online will
have PTC. Parents who are
unable to come to the PTC are
welcome to send emails to make
an alternative arrangement to
see your child’s teacher(s) on an
alternative date. The request via
emails should be for a single
appointment, not for multiple
ones.
Please note for the following
percentages
distribution
of
assessment between exams (SA)
and daily work (CA).
 For Lower Primary, the CAs
makes up 100% of the marks,
as they do not do exams.
 20% each in Q1 and Q2
 30% each in Q3 and Q4
 For Upper Primary the CAs
make up 40% of the marks
while the SAs make up the
other 60%.
 CA1 – 8%, CA2 – 8%,
CA3 – 12%, CA4 – 12%
 SA1 – 24%, SA2 – 36%
original copy of the report home
in a special report folder.
Parents should sign and return
the report to school. You may
make a copy of the original
report if you wish.
The Quarter 1 break will
commence on Saturday, 1
October 2016.
Classes will
commence on Monday, 17
October 2016.
Grade 6 Camp
Our Grade 6s will be off for
camp from 25 September to 28
September. Update will be
posted on our school Facebook
page.
Have a nice weekend.
End of Quarter 1, Report
Distribution and Quarter 1
Break
We are nearing the end of
Quarter 1. Quarter 1 reports will
be issued on Thursday 29
September 2016.
Continual
Assessment
(CA)
include classwork, homework,
tests and projects.
When you receive your child’s
report, please read through the
report together and reflect on their
performance. We will send one
Ratih Damajanti
Kepala Sekolah EC– Grade 3
Dian Rumanti
Kepala Sekolah Grade 4-6
SECONDARY MATTERS
Secondary Inter-House Athletics
Our Secondary Inter-House Athletics meet was held on the morning
of Friday, 9 September. It was an
enjoyable morning for both students and teachers as they competed in the various track and field
events. Thank you to parents who
came and supported this event. A
special thank you goes to the junior, intermediate and senior house
captains who led their houses in
cheers to encourage the participants during their events. We
would also like to thank the secondary teachers, especially those
in the PE department, who organized this event.
Science and Technology
(HKUST)
Students of grade 11 and 12
are highly encouraged to come.
Parents are also welcome.
University Visits, 27-30 September
Representatives from universities
will be visiting ACS Jakarta next
week
 27 September 2016, 9.35 –
10.10 in Lecture Hall 2: visit
from representatives of 13 US
universities.
 28 September 2016, 2.30 - 4
pm in Lecture Hall 2: visit from
University of California Irvine
(UCI)
 29 September 2016, 3.30 - 4
pm in Lecture Hall 2: visit from
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU)
 30 September 2016, 11.30 12.30 in Tutorial room 5: visit
from Hong Kong University of
ACS Jakarta
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Phone: 62-21-84597175/76 Fax: 62-21-84597180
Email: [email protected] URL: www.acsjakarta.sch.id
Quarter One Reports, 29 September
Teachers are busy preparing
Quarter 1 reports for our secondary students. Reports will
be issued on Thursday 29 September, via your child.
Starting this academic year we
are issuing a report folder
which
contains an original
report. After you have looked
and signed the Q1 report, the
folder and the signed report
must be returned to the school
via homeroom on the first week
of Quarter 2, at the latest by 21
October. Students need to sign
the official receipt when they
receive the report folder and
when they return it.
Professional Development
We are committed to continuing
the professional development
of our secondary teachers. Mr.
Andhika Wicaksana will be
attending an IGCSE Art and
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Design workshop in Kuala Lumpur
from 6-7 October. Mr. Edy Nugraha, Mr.Chen Liang Cai, Ms. Kathleen Sigua, Ms. Agustina Benata,
Mr. Giovanni D’Cunha, Mr. Anthony Powel, Mr. Shalini Mahtani, Dr.
Chua, Mr. Nathaniel Schmidt, Mr.
Dillon Sweales, and Ms. Rashidah
Zulki will be attending a 3-day IB
workshop in Jakarta from 7-9
October. Also in October, Ms.
Annabella Ong, Mr. Tri Maryanto,
Mr. Carolus Sadsoeitoeboen, Mr.
Khin Thern Lee, Mr. Timothy Lim,
and Dr. Wayne Wong will be attending a 3-day IB workshop in
Singapore on the pedagogical
framework of Approaches to
Teaching and Learning.
Grade 11 CAS Night Marathon,
30 September-1 October
Grade 11 students are busy preparing for the annual CAS Night
Marathon. The marathon will start
on Friday evening, 30 September,
and will finish by Saturday morning, 1 October. Mr. Gabriel, Mr.
Edy, Mr. Resa, Ms. Terry and Ms.
Evelyn will be staying overnight at
school with the students. In addition, a school nurse, will be on
standby on that night.
Secondary parents are welcome
to sponsor this event. Please
email Mr. Gabriel for more detailed
information:
[email protected]
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Quarter One Holiday, 3-14 October
The mid-semester holiday is from
Monday 3 October to Friday 14
October. School resumes on Monday, 17 October.
Grade 10 and 12 Music and Art
Camp, 10-14 October
This program has been an annual
feature for Art students since 2013
and this year our Music students
will be participating for the first
time. The primary aim of the camp
is to help students prepare for
their IGCSE and IBDP Music and
Art exams and coursework. This
year the program will be held in
the cultural hotbed of Yogyakarta.
Art students will focus on ceramics
and painting with watercolors,
while Music students will focus on
in-depth analysis of music theory
and on composition.
The accompanying teachers are
Ms. Junisa, Mr. Andhika Wicaksana, and Mr. Daniel Dasalak.
Grade 10 IGCSE PE Learning
Trip, 13-17 October
Grade 10 IGCSE PE students will
be heading to Singapore for their
annual Learning Trip. The purpose
of the trip is to gain first-hand
experience of various world-class
sports facilities in Singapore. The
students will also learn how these
facilities cater to the disabled,
which is in line with the IGCSE PE
curriculum final Unit: Reasons and
Opportunities for Participation in
Physical Activity. Other activities
on the itinerary include Ultra
Aquathlon,
Experiential
Rock
Climbing and Basketball coaching
employing the latest technology.
The students will be hosted by two
tertiary institutions, Nanyang Polytechnic & Republic Polytechnic,
and will also have the opportunity
to experience exercise and fitness
testing facilities.
Ms. Melissa Tan will be leading
the students on this trip.
ing system will be sent together
with the Q1 report.
Please remember – if you would
like to see the content of each
subject that your child is studying, you should look at the curriculum information on the school
website.
Education Fair, 25 October
We cordially invite secondary
parents and students to attend
the 7th Annual ACS Jakarta Higher Education Fair on Tuesday,
25th October 2016. We hope you
will take this opportunity to meet
Parent-Teacher Conference
universities’ representatives face
The
first
Parent
Teacher -to-face, get immediate personalConference for the 2016/2017 ized responses to questions, find
academic year will be held on out more about the programs
and funding opportunities on
Tuesday, 25 October.
Starting this academic year, we offer and get an idea of the appliare going to use Engage Parent cation process – all reasons to
Portal for you to make parent ap- attend in person rather than
pointment with your child’s teach- merely browsing online. See you
ers. If you haven’t signed in the all there!
Engage Portal, we encourage you
to sign in. If you forgot the password or any questions regarding Have a nice Quarter 1 break!
Parent
Portal
please
email
Mr. Umar Setiadi, our General
Affairs
Manager,
at Dr. Capri Anjaya
[email protected]
Kepala SMP and SMA
Appointments will not be scheduled for those who don’t make a
booking via Engage System parent portal. Letters regarding
PTC and the user guide for book-
DANCE CCA
This year has been really busy
from the get-go for the ACS Jakarta Dance Crew. What a great
way to start the year!
The "IndepenDANCE" was our
debut, where we performed a
fusion of modern dance and Indonesian traditional dance celebrating the 71st Indonesian Independence Day in front of a huge crowd
of the school community.
On Saturday, 17th of September,
some of dancers from Upper Primary and Secondary school were
so privileged to be invited to perform in Emporium Pluit Mall, joining other dancers from the IDance Studio Jakarta to entertain
the mall goers. It was a successful performance.
On 23rd September, we competed
in the “Escalade” Dance Competition organized by SMAK 5 Penabur in Kelapa Gading. We are
hoping that we can do our best
and gain the most from our experi-
ACS Jakarta
Jl. Bantar Jati, Kelurahan Setu, Jakarta Timur
Phone: 62-21-84597175/76 Fax: 62-21-84597180
Email: [email protected] URL: www.acsjakarta.sch.id
ence there.
Next, is our very own Dance
Workshop on the 3rd to the 5th
of October (Yes. It is during
Term 1 break!) It is our first
preparation for our “Dance For
Charity” concert in January. We
are inviting our very own
emerging Dance students to
teach in the workshop and also
other professional choreographers and freestylers from Masa Depan Freestyle and Airwheel Indonesia.
If you have not registered,
please make your way to the
School
Shop
immediately
because the slots are filling up
very soon.
For more info about our events,
follow our FB page: ACS Jakarta Dance Crew and our Instagram : acsjktdancecrew.
Arum Handayani
Dance CCA TIC
ACS
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2016 PONY SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES
The 2016 PONY Softball World
Series was held in Hemet, California, USA from July 19 to July 24
2016. It was Indonesia’s second
time in the U18 League, and one
of our students, Selma Raquel
Fairach was part of the participating team.
Having played softball for a little
over two years, Selma (11H) had
gone to various games, both local
and international. Most of the
time, she would play with her club,
Garuda, but the PONY tournament was the first time she had
competed while bearing the
Indonesian flag on her sleeve. It
was nerve wrecking, she admitted, but also very exciting and
inspiring. She got to play with
seniors who have been playing
since they were kids, and managed to learn a lot from them over
the three months that they trained
together.
“One of the most valuable things
about being able to participate in
teachers at school are really
nice, and they don’t really mind
me staying back on days when
I can stay a bit longer at school,
just to discuss some problems
that I couldn’t understand or a
concept that I haven’t fully
grasped yet.”
the tournament (outside the
games) is being given the chance
to sing the national anthem in
front of people who might not
have heard of Indonesia before”,
said Selma when asked about the
most memorable part of her trip.
Of course, getting into the team
was no easy walk in the park. The
15-year old had to go through a
two-week long audition, as well
as additional monitoring during
the practices to make sure that
she could keep up with the training regimen. Despite having to
fast over the Ramadan month, all
the players had to train from 4pm
to 6pm. Exhausting as it was, the
whole team was committed to
excellence and thus, they didn’t
opt out of any of the programs.
When asked about how it felt like
juggling her responsibilities as a
student and an athlete, she just
grinned and stifled a laugh. “Well,
it’s not always easy I guess.
Sometimes I have to practice until
7pm and that means I’ll get home
at around 8.30pm to 9pm. ACS
Jakarta in particular, hands out
quite a lot of homework, and I was
actually also preparing for IGCSE
during the time I was training for
the World Series. Thankfully, the
She also said that she was
initially very surprised at how
supportive ACS Jakarta is
when it comes to pursuing activities outside of school that
builds character and skills. “The
school didn’t scold me for coming back late to school because
of the tournament, in fact they
were very supportive of the
idea of representing the country
in an international tournament.”
Wearing the country’s flag on
one’s sleeve is an honor, but so
is being a student who is
flexible and can adjust to the
surroundings in any situation.
Juggling different responsibilities can be hard, but if you put
your mind to it, you’ll be able to
pull anything off. “Don’t let your
studies become a reason for
you to be cooped up at home
doing nothing”, Selma noted
with a smile, asking other
ACSians to pursue their
passion.
GLOBAL ISSUES NETWORK CONFERENCE 2016
From 16-19 September 2016,
10 Grade 11 and 12 students
went to participate in the
Global Issues Network (GIN)
Conference 2016 in Palangka
Raya,
Kalimantan,
a
conference which aims to
increase awareness of global
issues,
especially
environmental issues, to
youths. In this conference,
they
joined
workshops
to
enhance their skills, such as a
filming
workshop
and
a
sustainable agriculture workshop.
They
also
participated
in
excursions to see orangutans
and the Dayak people. Most
importantly, they met many
inspirational youths from many
schools around Asia, who have
started their own campaigns, and
felt motivated to do the same.
Overall, GIN Kalimantan was a
meaningful experience for all the
students who participated. We
hope that the students can
implement the lessons they have
learned at the event in the school
and the local community.
IDUL ADHA CELEBRATION
Dear Muslim parents,
We would like to say thank you to
Muslim parents, Alhamdulillah,
praise be to Allah. The processing of Qurban ran smoothly
in our campus on Monday, 12
September 2016.
Our gratitude goes to:
1. Axton Massimiliano 3T
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Vaneea Andrea Phallasa 3R
Muhammad Iqbal Maliki5R
Andre Prasetya 4R
Raihanah Najlla Nurdin 2R
Ahmad Ravi Alwan Rinarco
10H
7. Khalil Ahmad Maximus Odelio
1R
8. Jaden Maliq Ahmad Deo Nur
9. Audrey Amelia Hermanto 4I
10. Sarisha Vidyana Chaeta Putri
KB B
11. Anissa Dahayu Chaeta Pu
tri3H
12. Ryan M. Janvier 5T
13. Chloe Q. Evangeline 2R
14. Aurelia Nariswari Laksono
10T
15. Adhiresi Nayottama Laksono
8T
16. Avarro moretti Fachry 2T
17. Abdul Rahman Jericho Siregar 2I
ACS Jakarta
Jl. Bantar Jati, Kelurahan Setu, Jakarta Timur
Phone: 62-21-84597175/76 Fax: 62-21-84597180
Email: [email protected] URL: www.acsjakarta.sch.id
18. Muhammad Levant Ghulam
Indra Nurs
19. Najwa Mayra Aridya 4H
20. Rama Oksha Aridya 3H
21. Azza Putrayuka Bin Yusmaini 2I
Tri Maryanto
Gr 7 Muslim Religion Teacher
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OPERATION MATTERS: LOST AND FOUND
Dear parents,
If your child have lost an item, they
could go to the lost and found
desk located in two locations:
Security at the canteen lobby
poolside. We store almost all the
lost items at this location such as
uniforms, lunch boxes, drinking
bottles, books, shoes and others.
Security at the main lobby. We
store valuable items in the main
lobby such as calculators, wallets,
watches, glasses, vouchers and
others.
At the end of the every quarter, we
display all the lost and found
items in front of the canteen,
except for valuable items. Items
that were not taken, will be given
to charity during the holidays.
This quarter, the display period is
from 27-30 September. Please
do ask your child to look for the
lost and found items.
Thank you.
Jusak
Director of Operations
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Lost and found: Valuable Items
No
Date
Area
Remark
1
28-Jul-16
2
29-Jul-16
Musholla
Black Blink Time Watch
3
PAT
Black Wallet – Rp.220.000
4
4-Aug-16
Swimming
Pool
White Wallet
Black Baby-G Watch
Calculator – Texas Instrument
5
7-Sep-16
6
9-Sep-16
7
9-Sep-16
8
9-Sep-16
Sport Hall
Hilfiger Glasses
9
9-Sep-16
2nd Floor
Teacher Toilet
Ray Ban Glasses
10
14-Sep-16
Near Swimming Pool
Red Flash Disk
11
15-Sep-16
Sport Hall
Black Skmei Watch
12
16-Sep-16
In front of
Gr.10 Classroom
Huawei Black Bolt Modem
Main Field
Nike Apple Fitness Tracker
Voucher Rp.43.000
SPONSORSHIP APPRECIATION
We appreciate Sinar Sosro for its generous sponsorship to ACS Jakarta Tennis Open Series 2016-2017 1 which will be held from September 23
to
September 25, 2016.
ACS Jakarta
Jl. Bantar Jati, Kelurahan Setu, Jakarta Timur
Phone: 62-21-84597175/76 Fax: 62-21-84597180
Email: [email protected] URL: www.acsjakarta.sch.id
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IMPORTANT DATES
3-5 October 2016
Dance Workshop
24 September 2016
Open Day
17 October 2016
Start of Quarter 2
23-25 September 2016
ACS Tennis Open Series 2016-2017 1
25-28 September 2016
Gr 6 Camp
21 October 2016
EC and Primary PTC
29 September 2016
Q1 Report Issues (EC-Grade 11)
25 October 2016
Secondary PTC
EC and Primary Excursions
30 September 2016
Children’s Day (Primary)
21-30 November 2016
Semester 1 Exam (Secondary)
30 September– 1 October 2016
Night Marathon CAS
25-30 November 2016
Semester 1 Exam (Gr 4-6)
1-16 October 2016
Quarter 1 Break
1-2 December 2016
Marking Days
School Open Day
Dear Parents,
We would like to inform you that we will have our
First Open Day on Saturday, 24 September 2016.
The event starts from 9 am – 11 am.
For further details, please contact the Admissions
Department.
Thank you.
Clinic Emergency Number
08111463751
(021) 84597175
Editor-in-Chief
Mr. Ivan Tan
Design & Layout Editor
Bima
Printing & Distribution
Ahmad Ru’yat & Agus
ACS Jakarta
Jl. Bantar Jati, Kelurahan Setu, Jakarta Timur
Phone: 62-21-84597175/76 Fax: 62-21-84597180
Email: [email protected] URL: www.acsjakarta.sch.id
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ACS Jakarta
Jl. Bantar Jati, Kelurahan Setu, Jakarta Timur
Phone: 62-21-84597175/76 Fax: 62-21-84597180
Email: [email protected] URL: www.acsjakarta.sch.id
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