Canggu Community School, Bali, Indonesia Page 1 nurturing learning, knowledge and diversity 19 November 2014 Volume 10.2.5 Forthcoming Events Message from the Head of Primary Dear Parents, Last week was a whole school Spirit Week. Students were given an opportunity to dress up with various themes and to bring money to participate. Almost all the money raised went to the charity, Habitat for Humanity. On Thursday, money brought to school by the Primary students went to the Primary Student Council who now have the enjoyable job of deciding how to spend the IDR 1.3 million they raised. Thank you to Secondary students, Rachel, Ajino, Molly, Nadiya, Kiara and Flora for the hard work they put into the organisation of this morale-boosting fundraiser. Monday 10th – Thursday 27th November Primary classes have been practising for the up-coming productions which will be held at the end of this term. The Early Years and Year 1 and 2 classes are presenting Santa Lost His Hat and the Year 3 to 6 classes will perform Sulky Santa. All students are involved in many different ways and a number of different curriculum areas have been incorporated into the preparation of these extravaganzas. More information regarding the dates and times of the productions will be sent home shortly, but prepare to be impressed by your talented children! Friday 28th November On a smaller, lighter note, this morning it was great to see our younger students making use of the river that runs alongside the walkway between the campuses. The Early Years classes are inquiring into various aspects of rivers and spent time exploring and observing our local environment. It was exciting and informative for them.  KS3 Art Exhibition, Library. Friday 21st November    Primary assembly, Year 3C, MFH, 1.45pm. Bake sale: Year 4. No School, Teachers’ Professional Development day. Friday 5th December   No assembly, Production practice. Bake sale: Year 5. Birthdays This Week 20 Nov D’Arcy 22 Nov Izak 6MC Gemma 7RB Ernest PS Jessica 5W Azel 8BM 24 Nov 25 Nov 11MS From the Admissions We extend a warm welcome to our new students this week:  Hudson : 2J  Charli : 4M Canggu Community School telephone number Phone: 0361 - 8446391 Regards, Warren Bowers For emergencies: 0812 3917 6778 and 0361 - 5523639 Canggu Community School, Bali, Indonesia Page 2 ACER International Schools’ Assessment – Science Results In September and October, students in Years 5, 7 and 9 took part in the ACER International Schools’ Assessment. They completed written assessments in Reading, Writing and Mathematical Literacy. Year 9 also took part in an online Science assessment. Due to this method of assessment, the results and data for the Science assessment have quickly and efficiently been prepared. We are proud to share with you the success of our current Year 9 students in this area. For the second year running, students from CCS have a higher mean score than ‘all other schools’ (the collective mean score of the results of all other schools who took part in this assessment). Academic Year 2013-2014 2014-2015 Canggu Community School ‘All Other Schools’ Mean Score Mean Score 574 567 534 541 Congratulations to all of the Year 9 students and to the CCS teachers who continue to provide a world class, inspiring education for our students! Gemma Cass Assessment Leader * Please note, it is anticipated that the results for the Reading, Writing and Mathemat- ical Literacy assessments will be available in January. Thank you Last week was Spirit Week (see photographs on the last page of this newsletter) and the money raised from Character Day on Thursday was given to the Primary Student Council to fund some of our small projects we are working on. Just from one day of you dressing up, we raised IDR 1,335,000! So thank you so much! The first thing we will do with the money is purchase a rack and make some dressing up clothes for you to enjoy during your snack and lunchtimes. We will let you know when it is ready!  This is Rocco and George in 2C who counted all of the money.  George -It was really long and fun!  Rocco – It was quite exciting! By the Primary Student Council Canggu Community School, Bali, Indonesia Page 3 KS3 Exhibition Last term, Key Stage 3 produced some wonderful pieces of Art, most of which is currently on display in the library. In Year 7, the students learned about Line, Shape and Pattern and created fantastically decorated observational drawings. From these, they designed a motif which was developed as a lino print, repeated multiple times. Year 8 students learned how to draw realistic butterflies and bugs and morphed these with accurately drawn animals, to create a collection of weird and wonderful black and white ‘Anisects’. Year 9 explored Pop Art and, using famous iconic people of their choice, worked with paint and spray paint to create some very bold, colourful work. The children are rightly very proud with what they have achieved. The exhibition will be up in the library until November 27th. Please come along and have a look! Susannah Crook Canggu Community School, Bali, Indonesia Counsellor Corner Samantha Brossette “Do as I say not as I do!” That is what my mother used to tell me when I would question her antics- or I wanted to do something which she was doing- but I knew she would not be amenable to the idea of my participation in the given activity. Unquestionably and (at times unfortunately) parents are children’s greatest role models. Indeed, they come into this world with their own unique little (or sometimes big!) personalities however, the influence we have upon shaping them into the human beings they will inevitably become is indelible. I am sure we can all agree that being a parent is life’s greatest gift and simultaneously life’s greatest challenge. It is no simple task to produce a good, caring, hard working altruistic (fill in your own values) human being. After all, they don’t pop into this world with an instruction manual! Dear parents, please take into consideration little eyes are always watching everything you do! When you jump onto a motor bike with no helmet, even though you don’t allow it for your children, you are sending a message; when you don’t stand up for yourself or set boundaries to protect yourself, you are sending a message; when you treat people with kindness, dignity and respect you are sending a message. Be encouraged. Of course none of us are perfect however, when possible, mindfully choose the higher path as our children, our greatest treasure, ultimately receive the message “do as I do.” Page 4 Canggu Community School, Bali, Indonesia Page 5 FoCCS are currently reviewing proposed local charities to support for the year 2014/2015. Last year, FoCCS donations totalled IDR 94 million. That included IDR 12million to Safe Childhoods Foundation and IDR 6 million to both Ajar & Solemen. One of the organisations have given us feedback in the letter below and we look forward to sharing more in the next coming week's newsletters. Dear Andrew, I’ve been meaning to send this short report back to you. Basically, with the money given to us by FOCCS it has been used to support a weekly class for children from around the Canggu area. We are finding that throughout the year, the schools have a lot of programmes (including on Saturdays), so we have done a class to help them with Numeracy and Literacy every Sunday. It looks like the attendance is really good around the school holidays (and pieters out during the exam months.) We have paid for the teachers’ time and bought some materials, books and equipment for the classes. We still have spent about 7 million and still have about 6 million rupiahs. As I mentioned, it’s still a tiny effort but at least something fun and educational for some of these kids. Best, Galuh AJAR Canggu Community School, Bali, Indonesia Spirit Week Page 6