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Bali Island School promotes international mindedness in Jakarta
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quipping children with international mindedness is of paramount importance to help promote respect and encourage collaboration in today’s globalized world.
This explained why Bali Island School (BIS) hosted a Talk Show and Afternoon Tea with Exquisite Media, highlighting the importance of international mindedness, at Grand Indonesia Kempinski during its visit to Jakarta recently.
The event saw the school’s head Mike Miller and the school’s marketing manager Vika Katharina as the main speakers of the talk show.
Moderated by Tressabel Hutasoit, the talk show prided a closer insight on providing children with an outstanding educational experience that focuses on international mindedness.
“The concept of international mindedness is engrained at BIS, where we provide opportunities for leadership, extracurricular exploration and athletics through an extensive after-school activity program,” the school said in a statement.
BIS invited SukkhaCitta to do a little workshop of creating a handmade bracelet from locally sourced thread, beautified with a dragon pendant, the school’s mascot.
The event also unveiled the beneficial elements of living and getting an education in Bali.
Bali Island School, opened in 1986, is renowned as the pioneer school in Bali to offer the Primary Years Program (PYP), Middle Years Program (MYP) and Diploma Program (DP) curriculums of International Baccalaureate (IB) programs.
Today, it has developed into the most-established IB school in Bali, delivering a world-class education, with 75 percent of the teachers holding a master's degree and teaching experience coming from all over the world, while also employing certified and competent Indonesian teaching partners and staff.
BIS offers the most comprehended IB curriculum experience not only inside the class but outside of the classroom, with a 100-percent pass rate, 45 highest DP score and 34.18 average scores for IBDP compared to the global average.
The school is fully licensed and authorized by the IB curriculum as well as Council of International School (CIS), the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) and also the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry, embedding values from the IB learner profile, which creates a positive and tolerant learning community.
