Community Enrichment

Today is the deadline for entries in the website and essay category. Please submit to Mr Campbell and make sure an annotated bibliography is included

From Thursday 02/02 until 09/02 we will be selling Valentine Chocolate at Break and Lunch time in the Secondary Foyer to raise money to educate girls. This is the start of our Girl Effect campaign.

Buy some chocolate and we will deliever it for you on Valentines Day - Rp20,000 for two chocolate hearts in a beautiful box.

Don't delay - limited supply!.

On Friday March 18, BIS was a sea of red as students came dressed in red, bought red noses, cakes and cookies, in order to raise money for life changing surgery for conditions such as harelip and cleft palates.

The successful day was organised by the Jakarta Guides.

Mufti this Friday funds the development of a micro-school, clinic and library for unschooled primary age children at a shanty in Bintaro. The initiative has been integrated in Primary Year 1 (design and build of micro-gardens); in the International Award program for Yr 10s (coaching a team from the shanty in the upcoming JSFA League); in the IB technology curriculum and IB CAS projects. The school-clinic-library is scheduled for opening in Term 2.

Friday 22nd of October, Secondary Students enthusiastically took part in the Lap-a-thon. The Lap-a-thon is a charity event in which students are given the opportunity to MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Every IB CAS student at BIS is given an opportunity to establish solidarity with the marginalised and excluded in the local community; to contest social inequality and to assert a common humanity (SERVICE). Students also act creatively in order to discover the extent to which they can reimagine and reshape the world and in so doing take a stand against the forces of conformity and dependency (CREATIVITY). Students also engage in ACTION so as to invigorate a productive and purposeful body-mind synergy. CAS is not for the fainthearted: it works, if the student does.

What began as an idea in the mind (and heart) of an IB student, and evolved through a long design-and-build process, is now assuming its final form: that of a school for over 100 Indonesian children who would otherwise be without an education.

The project, to establish the CAS Free School, has demonstrated an extraordinary fortitude in our IB students, as well as an ability, at once visionary and practical, to propose a type of society radically different from our own: one more characterised, in fact, by an equality of provision for all children.

Introducing 'Make a Difference' at BIS

The publication below is intended to help all BIS students, from Primary to Secondary, as well as parents and community partners who share our service ethos, to plan, fund and activate ‘Make a Difference’ community projects in the BIS neighbourhood.