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Building Community
Building Community
It has been so wonderful to have the vast majority of our students back on campus for the past few weeks. For the first time in over two years, the hallways resonate with the sound of footsteps and laughter, the basketball bounce can be heard echoing around plaza B and the shrill sound of the whistle pierces the air during swim team practices and After School Activities. The pandemic has taught us that education is so much more than textbooks, essays and projects. School is about the meanderings between classes, the opportunities to find new hobbies and make new friends, the chatter during break time and the feeling of belonging to a community that cares.
Slowly, slowly, we see that students are emerging from their cocoons of isolation and taking tentative steps back into school life as they used to know it. They are relearning how it is to collaborate with their peers, how to make responsible choices in a classroom and how to begin to establish new friendships.
Being able to establish connections with others is a skill. If we hope to rebuild our school community in a post-pandemic world, we need to provide purposeful platforms to support students in rebuilding this skill. In this way, the Global Jaya community will build back bigger, better and stronger than ever before.
The Global Jaya pastoral team have been reflecting on how we can help our students to make connections with each other as well as feel a sense of belonging to our community. These upcoming events are some of the ways in which we intend to reinvigorate our Global Jaya Hawks.
Arts Expo 2022 - Transformation, May 27th
Arts Expo 2022 - Transformation, May 27th
This semester, MYP and some DP Arts students have explored how art transforms. Art transforms over time, place, culture, and it even has the power to inspire the transformation of people. Through learning about the transformation that the arts embody and initiate, students have gone through a transformation of their own. They have developed resilience, collaboration, creativity, and grit through the creation of fantastic works of art. On May 27th, we will be opening an Arts Expo website to share these amazing works of art with the wider community. We are so proud of the efforts of our talented students, and are excited to be able to share their work with you.
Secondary Hawks’ Festival, Thursday June 9th
Secondary Hawks’ Festival, Thursday June 9th
As we look to the end of the academic year, once the grades are in and students are beginning to switch to relaxation mode, we plan to take all Secondary students off timetable for an afternoon of fun and bonding. The event has been designed to facilitate students meeting others outside of their year group in fun activities based on shared interests. We are confident that the Hawk’s Festival will result in a reinvigorated GJS student and teacher community and think it is the perfect way to bring the academic year to a close.
Week without walls (September 10th - 17th 2022)
Week without walls (September 10th - 17th 2022)
We are tentatively planning to hold our first Week Without Walls event since the covid pandemic began. The week-long event, scheduled for 10th - 17th September 2022 (pandemic conditions dependent), aims to provide students with an opportunity to build community amongst their year group as well as an opportunity to pursue the service component of their curriculum.
Heads of Year are currently finalizing the itineraries for their respective year level trip:
Yr. 7: Jogjakarta
Yr. 8 & 9: Bali & Belitung
Yr. 10: Malang
Yr. 11: Lampung
Further information will be published to all families very soon.
Awards
Awards
Strong communities celebrate and recognize the strengths and successes of its community members. The end of the academic year provides us with the perfect opportunity to do just that, with our bi-annual Global Awards ceremony.
On the afternoon of Monday 6th June, we will hold a face to face Global Awards ceremony. We will be presenting students the following awards:
Global Award - The Global Award is earned by consistently demonstrating the qualities of one of the IB learner profile attributes.
Global Award - The Global Award is earned by consistently demonstrating the qualities of one of the IB learner profile attributes.
Global Award - The Global Award is earned by consistently demonstrating the qualities of one of the IB learner profile attributes.
Artist of the Year
Artist of the Year
This award is earned by individual students, or a group of students, who consistently demonstrate exceptional artistic talent and skill in performing, presenting and/or creating art. Artists of the Year contribute their talents to events both within and beyond the GJS community.
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