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VOL. 61 December 18, 2020
VOL. 61 December 18, 2020
Cat4 Letter
Cat4 Letter
Dear Parents:
At the beginning of the school year, we shared information regarding the iReady diagnostic evaluation that your child would be completing. Further to this, within the last few weeks, years 5, 7 and 10 have been completing the Cat4 diagnostic, a Cognitive Ability Test that looks at four areas of how a student learns and builds a prediction of their future achievements.
As with iReady, this diagnostic is used globally and enables schools, GJS included, to benchmark the progress of their students against other international students from around the world. This is all a part of our ongoing plan to improve how we use data to support our student’s needs and drive teaching and learning. With two more iReady diagnostics needing to be completed this academic year, each student will have two clear international indicators of individual ability which complements our own internal assessments collected during the course of the year.
As with any new initiatives, there are always a few teething problems and the emergence of the COVID pandemic and our subsequent transition to Home Based Learning could be considered just that. However, we would just like to take this opportunity to thank you and your children for approaching the challenge of taking these diagnostics at home and coping with the conditions that this presented. While we supported students by giving them an abundance of time to complete the diagnostics, we appreciate the strain it may have caused. Building comprehensive and reliable data that benchmark our students with their international age appropriate peers is an important part of our commitment to school wide continuous improvement and improving ongoing student academic success.
If you have further questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to email me at jamesm@globaljaya.com
Kontak Article.docxSMA Global Jaya in “Kompetisi Debat Sastra Salihara”
SMA Global Jaya in “Kompetisi Debat Sastra Salihara”
2020 marks the third consecutive year GJS students participated in the national literary competition “Kompetisi Debat Sastra Salihara Tingkat SMA” run by Komunitas Salihara, an established and well-known literary community in Indonesia. 2020 also marks the third consecutive year our teams, which are made up of students from Year 11-12 Indonesian Literature and LL, have reached the final round. It is a tough competition, with around 70-90 participants joining every year, and our school has always performed well. In 2018, when we first joined the competition, we won first place. In 2019, second place. And this year, 2020, from three essays we sent, one came second place, and another placed in the top five..
This year’s teams are “Gloritani” whose members are Mika Datyana, Tamara Nilakandi Long, and Diandra Malya Putri from Year 12 Indonesian Literature; and “Powerpuff Girls” with Alya Maharani Bintoro, Ellisa Kalystari, and Ludmilla Nadeera Kang from Year 11 Indonesian Lit and LL as members.
Congratulations to Gloritani and Powerpuff Girls. We are very proud of your victory, but more importantly, we are proud of your love of reading and literature.
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