Green School Weekly Newsletter - November 19 2015

1. 19 NOVEMBER 2015 ISSUE View this email in your browser
KKC Sustainable Solution Class at Green School (photo credit: Ibu Audrey)
We have just enough time to catch our breath this week after what
has seemed a dizzying stretch since Halloween ­ Cabaret ­
Framer's Market ­ Model United Nations­ Dr. Zimbardo's events ­
'This Changes Everything' movie and the usual high energy that is
Green School. We'll add one more Farmer's Market on Friday, 20
November because it was so much fun the first time. Look for the
stalls to be set up in the Heart of School as rainy season seems to
finding its footing.
Pak Glenn
Head of Middle School
U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
TOMORROW
Green School Farm and Art
Market | 02:00pm | Green
Warung
Grade 5 Assembly | 2:30pm |
Sangkep
MON 23 NOV
Educator Course starts |
09:30am
Parent Yoga | 08:15am | Yoga
Studio
Parent field trip: Emporium
Adventures | 09:00am
Zumba | 02:00pm | Yoga
Studio
HS Theatre: Caution |
05:30pm | Sangkep
WED 25 NOV
Parent Yoga | 08:15 | Yoga
Studio
Zumba | 02:00pm | Yoga
Studio
THURS 26 NOV
Contemporary Dance | 02:00
pm | Sangkep
THU 3 DEC
GSPA Meeting | 08:45 | Yoga
Studio
SAT 5 DEC
Saraswati Ceremony | 09:30 |
Yoga Studio
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2. F R O M I B U L I B B Y
The Art of Being Mindful
‘Are you really going to shave your head at assembly Ibu Libby?’
‘Yes, I sure am.’
‘Why?’
A truly wonderful conversation followed between myself and several Grade 3 students during
lunchtime last Friday. We discussed palm oil plantations, the destruction of rain-forest habitats,
orangutans, monkeys, palm oil products and ‘was it ok to just buy a container of palm
oil’?.. A truly rich conversation with great questions and discussion followed.
I realised I had already started ‘Raising Awareness’ of the burning of Indonesian rain-forests and
supporting the initiative ‘Hair for Haze’. This wasn’t about raising money, by simply dropping $$
into an envelope, but spreading the message, talking about the destruction of rain-forests to plant
palm plantations for the production of palm oil.
Read More
A R O U N D T H E C A M P U S

3. Let's Join the Global Climate March this
November 29th!
Join the Bye Bye Plastic Bags team as they lead the global
climate change march in Bali on Sunday 29 November.
This is the perfect time for us to let the world know where we
stand in the whole climate change discussion.There will be
100 other organisations who will be joining the march, so it's
going to be huge! Read more.
"CAUTION!" High School Theatre is this
Monday 23rd Nov
Caution is a High School Theatre's selection of work of New
York City’s best short theatre. The play is student-directed
and student-devised. Our young artists have delved into the
question of what it means to live and what it means to
CREATE. Please, come and support artistic exploration with
your presence at this showing of work as it stands: real,
unfiltered, and from the heart. Read more.
Bambajam is Nominated As The Best
Music Education Product
Bambajam, one of Green School music programme invented
and taught by Pak Duncan, has been shortlisted for the Best
Music Education Product at the 2016 Music Teachers
Awards for Excellence. This is the UK’s most prestigious
music education award known as “The Oscars of the Music
Education World". Read more.
Saraswati is Just Around the Corner
On Saturday the 29th of November, we will be having a
whole-school Saraswati Ceremony to honour the goddess of
knowledge, Saraswati.
Everyone is invited; parents who would like to be part of this

4. festivity, can RSVP to Ibu Novi by emailing her before
Thursday, 26th Nov. Read more.
Learn How to Make Balinese Offerings at
Bamboopalooza
Curious on how Balinese people prepare their offerings
everyday? Why they do it and what for? Join the Balinese
Offering-Making workshop led by our local scholars parents
and learn to make your own Canang and Kwangen at the
Bamboopalooza. Read more.
Young Entrepreneurs
What’s the Big Idea? Or, more importantly, what’s your big
idea? That’s the question posed to our high school students
every block. In the Your Big Idea class, students bring with
their ideas they have a passion to pursue and work on the
ideas with support of coaches, mentors, and each other.
See highlight some of the business ventures that are
underway. Read more.
The Bin Brigade is Back with the
Sampah Sorting Challenge
Tori Baur from Grade 10 shares us the kick off of the Bin
Brigade sampah sorting challenge. They are planning to
build more trash bin around the school, but are now testing
the system in the Primary School area.
Look out for some of the bins in the Primary classrooms.

5. Read more.
High School Service Programme
Some of our High School students are now supporting BaliWISE
with their Jalan Jalan programme. Molly, Dakota, Ananda, Nicole
and Lisa, rose to the challenge of helping to teach basic English
language skills through both informal conversation and direct
instruction. Read more.
U P D A T E F R O M T H E G S G E N E R A T I O N
GS Green Generation leaves for Paris in less than one week!
It has been a long, arduous, and fulfilling process to get where we are now, but we are more
ready than ever to take on the task ahead of us. Our GoFundMe is closing! And we cannot
spread enough gratitude to so many incredible individuals who have helped us in this journey,
both through finance and heartfelt support.

6. While we have been preparing for this odyssey, the attacks last week in the city of our destination,
as well as across the world, are more shocking than ever.
We had many long discussions as a group since, and are even more driven to show our support
for Paris and for this mission.
Climate change is not just an issue that pertains to weather. It is socioeconomic and has global
implications. We are extremely passionate members of this collective call for action on these
ubiquitous problems, and are hoping that the world, rather than being discouraged or crippled by
fear, can find inspiration out of this tragedy to make the necessary change.
GS Green Generation will also be performing our enhanced version of Noble Material this Friday
at assembly, as well as giving a final kick-off fundraiser with t-shirts, Bio Soap, and a bake sale.
F R O M O U R C O M M U N I T Y

7. GSPA Update
GSPA continues to organise fun, meaningful
and engaging activities for parents! Closing the
week, we'll have another Farmers Market
tomorrow (Friday) at 2.00pm.
Next week, we will continue with our 2nd week
of the 21 Day SHIFT Challenge and organise
another fun field trip for parents. Also mark you
calendar for the final GSPA meeting on
Thursday 3 December. Read more.
Canggu Trash Walk
The Pererenan trash walk crew grew in number
on Sunday on its second week out!
Half a dozen Canggu-side Green School
families convened at 7.00am and 4 large sacs
of waste were henceforth removed from Pantai
Pererenan as the sun sparkled and the waves
crashed alongside us.
Read more.
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