CATALYST | April 2022
Monthly insight of student and teacher activities at SPK Sekolah Pelita Bangsa Cirebon
Monthly insight of student and teacher activities at SPK Sekolah Pelita Bangsa Cirebon
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CONTENTS<br />
Principal's Message<br />
Literacy Week<br />
Vocabulary Hat Parade <strong>2022</strong><br />
Building Virtual Field Trip<br />
Getting Place Party<br />
Global Perspective Project<br />
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In <strong>April</strong>, our character trait focus is on<br />
responsibility. Responsibility involves<br />
making decisions, being trusted, and<br />
learning to take credit for own’s actions<br />
- whether good or bad. We encourage<br />
our students to start marking their own<br />
choices and be accountable with their<br />
actions.<br />
At the beginning of this month, the Primary<br />
students had their amazing Literacy Week<br />
celebration, culminating with Literacy<br />
Competitions. Congratulations to all<br />
winners of Literacy Competitions and<br />
kudos to all students who participated in<br />
each competition.<br />
P6 and S2 students will take their<br />
Cambridge Checkpoint in the mid of <strong>April</strong>;<br />
while S4 and JC2 students will take their<br />
Cambridge IGCSE and AS/A Level exams<br />
starting at the end of <strong>April</strong>. In addition<br />
to all those activities, our students are<br />
also encouraged to join different activities<br />
such as Math Olympiads, Scholastics Kid<br />
Press, and many other outside the school<br />
activities.<br />
Lastly, I would like to wish all SPB families<br />
who observe Ramadhan a peaceful and<br />
blessed month.<br />
Social Impact Activity<br />
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Warm Regards,<br />
Regina Elisabeth T. B.Sc, M.Ed<br />
You have choices<br />
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(Executive Principal)<br />
Why self-sufficiency is paramount<br />
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How to be Accepted in 5 fully-funded<br />
scholarship abroad<br />
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Cirebon: A Haven of Handicrafts<br />
Professional at SPB<br />
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HIGHLIGHT<br />
HIGHLIGHT<br />
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NURSERY-KINDERGARTEN CORNER<br />
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NURSERY CORNER<br />
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SOCIAL PROGRAM<br />
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SPB PARENTING TIPS 1<br />
You have choices<br />
by Michael Grose<br />
What drives kids’ behaviour? Is it impulse,<br />
mood, emotion, age or genes that cause<br />
kids to be sociable and safe or unsociable<br />
and risky?<br />
Development psychologist Jean Piaget<br />
suggested that children’s behaviour<br />
was largely governed by their stage of<br />
development. “It’s just a stage she’s going<br />
through.”<br />
All theories have validity but they neglect<br />
to highlight something that we’ve always<br />
known but not recognised enough – that<br />
kids choose how they behave. Their choices<br />
may be negatively impacted by tiredness,<br />
hunger, or irritability but ultimately, they<br />
make a decision to act in certain ways, or<br />
step back to let their impulses take over.<br />
“You have choices”<br />
A child who misbehaves at home or in<br />
social situations can be reminded “You<br />
have choices.” It helps if kids experience the<br />
consequences of their poor choices rather<br />
than be sheltered from them. A child who<br />
refuses, which is a choice, to clean up a<br />
mess left in the living room may lose those<br />
items for a period of time. If they value<br />
those items then they may make different<br />
choices next time around.<br />
Choices teach responsibility, when they are<br />
coupled with behavioural consequences.<br />
“Can you make a smarter choice?”<br />
A parent may need to outline some of the<br />
choices – walk away from conflict, come to<br />
a them for help, do nothing – but ultimately<br />
the decision is a child’s to make. Similarly,<br />
going over poor choices with a child or young<br />
person in a quiet moment after an event can<br />
help them reflect and reset their brain for<br />
better choices in the future. “What behaviour<br />
can you choose next time?” is a helpful<br />
question to ask a child or young person who<br />
got themselves into a behavioural pickle.<br />
“Choose between these two”<br />
Anecdotal evidence suggests that<br />
approximately one in three children don’t<br />
like to be told what to do. These kids value<br />
control and use resistance strategies such<br />
as arguing, negotiation or procrastination to<br />
assert their authority. These children can be<br />
wearing for parents, but the flipside is, that<br />
they generally make assertive adults as long<br />
as their spirits aren’t dampened when they<br />
are young. The use of choices works well<br />
with children who value control over their<br />
own actions.<br />
It’s best to give them a choice between two<br />
options, which is an illusion of power. “If you<br />
stay inside you need to be quiet. If you want<br />
to play noisy games you need play outside.”<br />
Kids will usually take one of the options<br />
offered, provided they’re reasonable, as they<br />
feel they are calling the shots.<br />
The focus on choices can start when<br />
children are toddlers continuing into<br />
adolescence and beyond. It’s an empowering<br />
concept that prepares kids to live fully in the<br />
civilised society that they will be entering.<br />
It balances personal empowerment with<br />
personal responsibility, two character traits<br />
highly valued by schools, community groups<br />
and employers.<br />
Source:<br />
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SPB PARENTING TIPS 2<br />
SPB PARENTING TIPS 2<br />
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Why self-sufficiency is paramount<br />
by Michael Grose<br />
Recently, a mother of two primary school<br />
children thanked me for the impact one<br />
of my presentations had on her parenting<br />
style.<br />
When I asked what was it that made the<br />
difference, she said that one particular<br />
question I posed in the presentation had<br />
the most impact. The question was “What<br />
are you regularly doing for your children<br />
now that they can do themselves?”<br />
This mother attended my Parenting for<br />
Independence seminar after reading my<br />
book Spoonfed Generation. My message of<br />
developing self-sufficiency in children from<br />
the earliest possible age stayed with her.<br />
She said that the independence message<br />
really came home to roost when her<br />
children went to an international school in<br />
Germany two years later. Self-sufficiency<br />
was expected at the school so the training<br />
she provided them as a result of the<br />
seminar such as in teaching them to pack<br />
school bags, preparing snacks and assisting<br />
with meals, doing daily chores, and getting<br />
themselves up each morning helped to<br />
prepare them for the expectations of an<br />
international school.<br />
Why is self-sufficiency important?<br />
Self-sufficiency, of the ‘I can do it myself’<br />
kind, is the basis of self-esteem and<br />
resilience. One of the main developmental<br />
tasks is for children and teenagers to gain<br />
a sense of control and mastery over their<br />
environment. This mastery begins by gaining<br />
basic competencies such as being able to<br />
feed and dress yourself as a toddler and<br />
then gradually adding new competencies as<br />
physical and mental capacities allow. The<br />
development of children’s independence<br />
can be frustrating and time-consuming,<br />
particularly if you are time-poor or have a<br />
strong perfectionist streak. But that is the<br />
price of independence-building.<br />
Step back to allow kids to step up<br />
Respected US parenting and child<br />
development expert Dr. Debora Gilboa<br />
(aka Dr. G) believes parents need to step<br />
back to allow children to step up. It’s a<br />
smart phrase that infers that parents need<br />
to take on the role of their child’s teacher<br />
rather than be the person who is always<br />
solving their problems and doing routine<br />
tasks for them.<br />
Self-sufficiency tips<br />
Gilboa gives the following three tips to<br />
develop self-sufficiency in children at any<br />
age:<br />
1. Problem-solving. When your child or<br />
adolescent comes to you with a problem,<br />
resist the urge to fix it. Invite them to<br />
resolve the problem themselves.<br />
2. Welcome failure. This is hard in our<br />
perfectionistic world but expect them to<br />
struggle and talk about what they can do<br />
to get back on their feet.<br />
3. Expect them to help. Give them tasks<br />
that help the whole family, not just<br />
themselves and make sure they do them<br />
well. Be patient, but firm.<br />
Self-sufficiency has many forms and many<br />
faces, including the ability to problemsolve,<br />
emotional self-regulation and taking<br />
responsibility for your actions. It’s easiest<br />
to develop in children when they are<br />
young. This is also because not every child<br />
in a family will take to independence as<br />
willingly as others.<br />
If developing independence is something<br />
that you haven’t focused on before,<br />
don’t despair. It’s not too late to start.<br />
Begin where you feel comfortable, rather<br />
than make huge changes straightaway.<br />
Persist rather than give in when you have<br />
resisters; the notion of independence<br />
is too important for children’s future<br />
success.<br />
Source:<br />
"Building Future Leaders Together"<br />
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