Jumat, 04 Mei 2012

Learning during holidays, why not?

During the last holiday, CLC SMK ROTA Bayat promoted fun learning on holidays to ensure that the visitors kept coming to the library. In cooperation with Student Enhancements and Community Development programs, the team promoted CLC to wider community outside the school.
For internal development, Bayat CLC launched reading journal starting with all volunteers. They were obliged to read at least three books from the library and wrote reports about them in their BIG BOOK. The idea was to promote reading and writing to students starting from the volunteers. The big book is their portfolio in which they stored tracks of all the books they have read. The books are to be submitted to their coordinator. The plan was to choose one of the writings to be discussed in their book meeting.

For wider community, the volunteers presented movie festival taking Indonesian women as the issue for this year. In cooperation with Kaynala Foundation, the volunteers featured Indonesian women documentary movies by screening conspiracy of silence, working girls and few other movies that featured Indonesian social issues.
Each movie screening was followed by discussion led by Titianers in order to better understand the message behind the movie. The viewers were students of SMK, scholarship students and also youth/villagers around the school. One of the viewers, Ika from SMK ROTA admitted that the movie was such an eye opener for her; she became more grateful to what she is now that despite of her financial background, she can still enjoy education and does not have to go to work. She is one of a scholarship student. Most visitors agreed that they learned something meaningful this holiday that they do not really understand when it was mentioned in the class.

The 2nd Dies Natalis SMKN 1 Rota Bayat

On December 17th 2011 SMKN 1 ROTA Bayat celebrated its 2nd Anniversary. The students held various competitions between themselves from design to product competitions. Amongst the competitions were batik design and product competition, ceramic making competition, comic competition, and movie competition. The result was then announced at the anniversary celebration right on the 18th of December after parents meeting.
During the celebration and meeting many parents agreed that the school had progressed a lot since the time when it was started. From the report that the headmaster mentioned earlier that day, the achievements that the school reached was unexpectedly satisfying concerning that the school was still very new.
 Furthermore, planning the future after graduation, students of SMK also visited University and Art Institute that they hoped they could go to pursue further study. Universitas Negeri Surakarta and Institute Seni Rupa Indonesia Solo were their destinations this time. The two institutions were the ones that most students of SMK ROTA hope to study after graduation. They spoke to the faculties and current students on their visit to gther information. This activity is aimed at encouraging students to understand what it takes to study there so that they can prepare better when the time comes.