By Lucy Radford | Fundraising and Communications Officer
The new academic year in Indonesia starts in July. With 20 new students and three new teachers joining the school, the first three days of this academic year were devoted to orientation to help them all understand the school's approach, curriculum and extra-curricular activities. The school's 8th-grade students, who've already spent a year there, led the activities, which were attended by the new 7th-grade students, their parents and the head of the school foundation. Among the activities, new students learnt about recycling garbage to turn it into handicrafts; tree-planting and simple permaculture tasks.
In August, everyone took a break from the normal curriculum to celebrate Indonesian Independence Day. The school sent a small team of students to be part of the flag-hoisting ceremony in the local village, and everyone participated in traditional games and competitions, including a conservation-themed drawing contest.
The celebrations brought lots of local visitors to the school, both from the surrounding community and from villages further afield. Everyone who visited was impressed by the bamboo school building and the school's ethos, and many commented that they would like to send their children to study there in the future.
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