An academic year in a multicultural international school is full of challenges and achievements of a different kind. I make this statement taking into consideration our heterogeneous student body from over 40 countries who study, play, and pray together under a common umbrella.
GMIS is a non-denominational institution and we strive continuously to maintain this order. A spirit of camaraderie, cooperation, and friendliness prevail in classrooms, libraries, laboratories, gym, school buses, playfields, and the school campus.
Throughout the school year, students are actively involved in a dynamic curriculum, which encompasses creative thinking, inquiry, originality in writing, and proactive discussions with teachers who through their teamwork and dedication motivate and encourage even the weak students to do well in the study, sports, and multidimensional activities. A sense of satisfaction, happiness, and achievement is felt by all of us when we see our students developing, learning, and attaining high goals. We also emphasize cultivating emotional intelligence, a spirit of charity, and empathy in all our students.
Our pupils are constantly made aware of all that is taking place in the world so that they can develop into responsible citizens and become the guardians of the environment of our planet earth.
Parents have been cooperative and followed the guidelines of the school and we too readily heard their views and incorporated them into the day-to-day running of the school. After all, GMIS is a big family which works on mutual support where the students are cheerful and hardworking. Our students are full of enthusiasm and joy. They like to come to school and meet the multifarious challenges posed to them by the teachers.
The teachers also instill the values of creative thinking, reading good books, confidence-building and respecting others' values and beliefs, and developing a spirit of tolerance. Two thousand years ago, Socrates had said that education is the eliciting of knowledge and creative thinking from the mind. We at GMIS truly believe in this philosophy linked with International Baccalaureate PYP, MYP, and Diploma programs which also focus on original thinking, human values, concern for fellow beings and our planet earth.
We do not believe in complacency, knowing fully well that education is a dynamic lifelong learning process. After all, we have the enormous responsibility of molding the lives of all the children entrusted in our charge and care.
In the school year 2001-02 ie the last academic year, students did well in cricket, winning the Jakarta Cricket Association Inter-school tournament once again. Many children participated in acts of charity, visiting old age homes, donating money, clothes, bags, a variety of stationeries, etc…
Dramatics, performing arts, and painting flourished in the school. Students had fun and joy in programs like ‘Look Alike’, ‘Bee in my bonnet’, ‘Cheerleading’, ‘Fun Fair’, ‘Halloween’, ‘Aerobics’, ‘Choral singing, painting and drawing, ice skating, bowling, playing basketball, etc. The GMIS Jakarta, a dynamic learning community, propagates lifelong learning and responsible citizenship through a challenging, multidisciplinary, internationally transferable curriculum fulfilling the diverse needs of students.
The school provides an atmosphere where diversity is considered a strength and where differences are seen as assets. We believe that students must value and respect the culture and traditions of the host country, Indonesia.
The school aims to develop self-confidence in each student to teach adaptability and problem-solving skills to face changes which are vital elements of emerging globalism and to develop good personal traits which include a strong work ethic, self-discipline, sportsmanship, and self-esteem.
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