Batik is a cultural expression with symbolic meaning and high aesthetic value for Indonesians. The beautiful uniqueness forms the character of the nation that differentiates us from other nations.

This year, to celebrate National Batik Day on October 2, students, teachers, and parents held various activities at the YIS Campus. Starting with Batik Dance performance from the Secondary Students, followed by the whole school fashion show, and ended with Batik painting activities in the classroom for students.

Thank you to all students, parents, and teachers who participated in this fun and warm event! What an amazing day to start the first week of October!

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Our 8th graders explored simple machines for doing work and how they make work more efficient, the use of energy resources globally, and some of the problems with global dependency on fossil fuels. Through laboratory experimentation, students learned the concept of 'how energy changes determine chemical changes in a combustion.' In this activity, students measured energy changes in exothermic and endothermic reactions. This activity allows students to gather data based on the evidence, and reach a conclusion, including evaluating the validity of their methods.

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At the beginning of the 2022/2023 school year, grade 1-2 takes the theme 'My Body Helps Me Interact With the World'. Through this theme, students learn about social science and science at the same time.

In science lessons, students learn about the functions of the Five Senses, and try to train the sensitivity of the five senses through simple experiments. From the social side, students learn about how our body parts help us interact with other people.

In this theme, students learn with many media, such as 'blindfold walking', 'scavenger hunt', and 'wordless instruction'. In addition, students also learn through videos and also bring in speakers from the Sindhen Art Community.

By adapting the theme in class, students learn about sign language through the community. The purpose of this activity is for students to understand the existence of other friends who are physically different from us, but they can use their body parts to express themselves. Students are also expected to be more empathetic when they meet friends with special needs on the street.

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In everyday life, modern humans are assisted by electronic devices to fulfill their needs. Starting from refrigerators, microwaves, air conditioners, lamps, rice cookers, smartphones, to computer devices, all are electronic devices. But how do electronic devices turn on?

This time, grade 12 students learned about electrical circuits with the help of our Science teacher, Ibu Josephine. Electronic devices cannot be separated from the presence of an electrical circuit. An electrical circuit is a connection of various passive electrical elements such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, voltage sources, current sources, and switches.

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Children learn best about different people and languages through first-hand experience. They are sensory beings who learn through the experiences of touch, see, smell, hear and taste. It can be challenging to incorporate all five senses into a cultural lesson. Or is it?

For our first unit, Grade 3-4 students are learning about Diversity while Grade 5-6 students are learning about Multiculturalism. In Science, the students are introduced to cultures through international cuisines. One of them is from India.

Today, we invited Ibu Lata Duseja, a mom of our classmate, to teach us about healthy traditional culinary from India. She kindly presented various dishes, including the vegetarian ones from India. She also wonderfully cooked Poori Bhaji, a traditional breakfast dish in North India made of poori (deep-fried rounds of flour) and aloo (potato) bhaji (a spiced potato dish which may be dry or curried). We enjoyed learning Indian words for spices, watching the cooking demo, touching and rolling the fluffy dough, as well as smelling the delicious cooking. The best part of all is, of course, tasting the yummy hot and puffy Poori Bhaji! One is always not enough!

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Hello there!
We are from Grade 3 & 4.

In our first Unit of Inquiry, we explored the Central Idea of how knowing and appreciating diversity can enable us to become global citizens.

Learning about diversity around the globe helped us understand the world. We had our individual research and created a booklet about a country of our choice with information such as the flag and its meaning, geography, religions, festivals, traditional arts, music, dances, sports, costumes, culinary, stories, and some fun facts.

This research project made us feel like having a field trip around the world!

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