Sekolah Bogor Raya

February and March are typically the most frenzied months of inter-school competitions. Therefore, this seems to be an appropriate time to reflect on the year’s competitions to date and honor our winners. And their mentors and coaches.
Coloring
Cynthia Jonathan (Prep A) took first prize in a Kindergarten Coloring by Number Competition, organized by BPK Penabur at [...]

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Miss Melinda Hariyanti joined Sekolah Bogor Raya 1 March 2008 on a part-time basis as a school psychologist and counselor. Her educational background is impressive, with a Bachelor of Psychology cum laude from from Padjadjaran University, followed by a Master of Educational Psychology from University of Indonesia with GPA of 3.60. She is licensed to [...]

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Some 450 students of grade one through nine from about 30 schools participated in our spelling bee on 15 March. And a number of late registrants were rejected. The immense popularity of our spelling bee, which can be considered a vote of confidence in our ability to run a truly great event, has prompted me [...]

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Thanks to Mofuse, you can now read this blog on your mobile device. You can find us at http://sekolahbogorraya.mofuse.mobi.

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On Friday 29 February, I had the priviledge of witnessing the ANPS-BI sponsored band competition at Sekolah Tiara Bangsa ACS. In previous years, the ANPS has held arts show or exhibitions. Today’s battles are the first competitions, and hopefully not the last. The new format worked marvelously. Billed as the Battle of the Bands, it [...]

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Marc Prensky, the guy who reportedly coined the phrases digital immigrant and digital native, has a thought-provoking article in the February 2008 issue of Edutopia Magazine, titled Programming: the new literacy. In his article Prensky argues that programming literacy will rise in importance to become the essential characteristic of a highly-literature person of 2028.
Much [...]

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