CONTENTS

COVID Update

Welcome Message - Heads of School

The Green School Way

The Learning Program

Early Years

Primary School

Middle School

High School

Specialisation

Milestone Experiences

After School Activities

Student Support

Sustainability

Parents and Community

Tuition Policy and Fees

Everyday Life on Campus

Visiting Green School Bali

Open Days

Is Green School Bali Right for You?

COVID-19 STATEMENT
Due to current COVID-19 restrictions and School protocols, some functions, activities and events may not be
available or have been adjusted for the time being. Some information in this document may therefore not be
relevant at this point in time. These items will begin to resume as COVID-protocols are iteratively adjusted.
Most elements of the learning program remain in place and unchanged. On-site learning is permitted for
Green School Bali via Governmental eco-tourism permissions. Newly enrolled families are able to access a
visa by special permission

We keep our community and enrolling families up-to-date on the situation via regular newsletters. Please
refer to these updates for information on the temporary adjustments the School has in place or contact our
Admissions Team for more information. For the time being, these functions and activities are temporarily
suspended:

• The BioBus school transportation service.

• Whole school assemblies, Farmers Markets and community-wide events.
• After School Activities program.
• Monthly, in-person Parent Association meetings (currently held as virtual events).
• Large, on-campus Balinese blessing ceremonies.
• The Bridge, our parent co-working and co-learning space.

PLEASE NOTE: We have adopted certain COVID protocols on campus and also require new families
to adhere to the Government mandated self-isolation period of 14 days on arrival into Bali.

It is an unusual time, but also a special time. Supporting each other and keeping our community values front-
of-mind is serving us well as we get through this time, together.

Green School Executive Committee

1 August 2020
WELCOME MESSAGE
What do you want in a school? When you step onto philosophical and curricular foundation and a
a school campus, what do you want to see, hear, teaching team with deep professional expertise,
experience and feel? there is a lot to share about our School. Our website
and social media channels are full of information,
Imagine a school where classrooms have no stories and insights. This Prospectus pulls together
walls, a campus which ignites the senses and key information to help you consider whether we
the natural curiosity of children, a place where are the right fit for your child and family. Bringing
innovation, creativity and learning flourish. Imagine this information together is a summary checklist at
a community that has come together from all the very end of the document. This will help you as
corners of the globe, to share new experiences in a family to get to grips with our beliefs, our ‘non-
living and learning. This is Green School. negotiables’ and the incredible opportunities for
whole growth that children can experience.
Our vibrant community and living curriculum
positions Green School Bali as a unique place of From wherever you are in the world, please explore
learning. We embrace the wild, nourish the spirit, all that Green School Bali can offer your family.
challenge the thinking. We are dynamic, evolving,
sometimes messy, often imperfect but always Warmest wishes from beautiful Bali.
committed to children and their learning.
Sal Gordon and Kate Druhan
With over twelve years of practice, a robust Head of Teaching and Learning
Head of Community and Environment
THE
GREEN SCHOOL
WAY
“A Community of Learners making our world sustainable.”

We educate for sustainability, through community-integrated, entrepreneurial

learning, in a wall-less, natural environment. Our holistic, student-guided
approach inspires and empowers us to be green leaders. This is the Green
School Way.
 We are building Green School to
create a new paradigm for learning.
We want children to cultivate physical
sensibilities that will enable them to
adapt and be capable in the world.
We want children to develop spiritual
awareness and emotional intuition,
and to encourage them to be in awe
of life’s possibilities.

John & Cynthia Hardy

- Green School Founders

History
of Green School
Message From Our
Founders
Creativity often springs from the confluence of disparate ideas and events, and such was the case with Green
School.

Green School was conceived by its founders, John and Cynthia Hardy in 2006. After years of homeschooling,
the Hardys wanted their daughters to attend a ‘real’ school. John wanted the girls to attend a school that he
believed in, a school that he would want to attend, a school that was connected and respectful of the people
and culture of Bali and that gave children the skills and abilities they needed for the world of today and the
future. When he read Alan Wagstaff’s “Three Springs”, he was so inspired by the dream that he wanted to
build a school, based on these concepts, in Bali.

John and Cynthia became compelled to move forward with the school after seeing Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient
Truth’. This changed their lives and with a clear vision and purpose in mind, in August 2006, they embarked
on building the school.

In November 2006, the School’s bamboo bridge, spanning 22 meters across the Ayung River, was completed,
creating a beautiful, strong symbol of the transition from the realm of idea to reality.

Green School opened in September 2008 with 90 students and a tailor-made campus that emerged from
the jungle and rice fields. Today, Green School has grown to 500 students and is an inspiring example of
education for sustainability.
The Mission
in Action
The world our children will inherit is changing faster than any
time in history. For our children to prosper and humankind
to flourish, we need a new kind of education, one that fosters
21st Century Skills.

The school’s architectural splendor kindles the imagination

and stimulates innovation and creative design. Our strong
community fosters collaboration and shared values. Our
social enterprises encourage an entrepreneurial spirit.

Our location cultivates friendship and partnership with

Balinese people and world cultures. Our values-based
approach inspires youth to pursue their passions and make
a difference now.

By design and intent, Green School is a dynamic place –

always changing, growing, and learning. While our learning
program has solid foundations that foster development of
the Green School Skills, we continue to evolve and embrace
research-based, progressive Learning Principles designed to
nurture the qualities and competencies to advance us toward
a sustainable future.
Green School Skills
We firmly believe in developing core skills for the 21st Century in our students. Skills for
the real world. Our Green School Skills are defined behaviours that provide a structured
guide for how we develop each student. We use them as a backbone for all that we
teach.

Why? We learn “Green” because it represents our commitment to growing and healthy
living things like ourselves, our students, our community, and our world. These skills
refer directly to the Learning and Living Ambitions and are informed by our school’s
purpose: A community of learners making our world sustainable.
IRESPECT Values
As a school community we subscribe to a set of values - I RESPECT. These are the values of Integrity,
Responsibility, Equity, Sustainability, Peace, Empathy, Community, and Trust. At all times we teach and model
these values and support our students in doing the same. We encourage all teachers to honor and recognize
theses values in our students at all times with on-going dialogue, discussions, and reinforcement.

Integrity – being honest and ethical with thoughts and actions.

Responsibility – being accountable for thoughts, actions and deeds.

Empathy – understanding and caring for the feelings of others.

Sustainability – ensuring that your own body and surroundings are cared for so they are clean and healthy
for as long as possible.

Peace – contributing to a state of harmony.

Equality - respecting everyone as an equal and as an individual.

Community – being part of a group seeking common goals and taking care
of each other.

Trust - building and maintaining strong relationships with each other, the school and the environment.
A LEARNING
COMMUNITY
Green School students are immersed in a rich culture and community, comprising of over 40 different nationalities.
Indonesian Scholar Students and children from the surrounding villages bring a unique contribution to the
community and the children’s learning experience. Green School is connected deeply and respectfully to our
local neighbourhood and communities. Together we form a community committed to mutual respect, shared
learning, friendship and service.

Learning
Principles
The Green School learning principles are core
shared beliefs about how to nurture powerful
and impactful learning experiences. They
guide our educational practice across the
learning programme.

At Green School we strive to help our students understand the value of what
they learn. Our goal is to foster a lifelong love of learning that doesn’t stop at the
classroom, but matures into a future full of passion and opportunities.”

- Sal Gordon, Head of Teaching and Learning

Learning Program
Green School’s vision is of a natural, holistic, student-centered learning environment that empowers and
inspires our students to be creative, innovative, green leaders.

Our Mission is to educate young leaders in global citizenship. Our purpose is to champion a new model of
learning that connects the timeless lessons from nature to a relevant and effective preparation for a fast
changing future.

The Holistic learning at Green School focuses on the four intelligences ‘The Big Four’ — the physical, emotional,
intellectual and expressive development of the child.

The pedagogy used in Green School is the Three Frames of Learning:

1. Thematic Classes (cross disciplinary learning around a theme)
2. Proficiency Classes (Mathematics, English, Science, Humanities and Foreign Languages)
3. Experiential Classes (Enterprise, Environmental Studies, Arts, Health & Well Being, and our
Enrichment ‘Jalan Jalan’ Program (see below),

This defines how we deliver the content of our courses in the classroom. This scaffold is designed to provide a
consistent, relevant, well-rounded and comprehensive learning experience, and forms the basis of the Green
School curriculum and approach to learning.
Learning for
Sustainability
From our youngest community members getting their hands in the earth, through to our High School students
who are able to take first year university courses in environmental science, our love for the natural world is
evident at every stage and every age of our student’s learning journey.

Education for sustainability at Green School focuses on principles that align us with education for sustainability
/ permaculture and progressive education:

- Real - Interconnected
- Holistic - Balance / Evolving

How Green School approaches learning for sustainability is to see everything in balance. In our learning
program, that means we seek a balance at every level between values, skills and competencies.

Entrepreneurial Thinking

Creative problem solving, systems thinking and collaborative project work is central to the development of
the entrepreneurial spirit that resides in all children. Taking on real problems and finding real solutions is
a key feature of the learning program. The Green School learning program gives students the space, tools,
guidance and inspiration they need to make a difference in the world today.
Teachers
Our staff and teachers come from all corners of the globe, with a passion for education and for the natural
world. Teachers are empowered to bring their passion, individual talents and commitment to sustainability
to life, within the overarching curriculum. All Green School teachers are highly qualified with almost half
our teaching staff holding PHDs, Masters or Post Graduate qualifications. 100% of Green School teachers
have been involved in social, humanitarian or environmental volunteering and among them are film-makers,
entrepreneurs, scientists, authors, designers, poets and more.
 EARLY YEARS
Learning Through Play
Geckos (3 yrs), Starlings (4yrs) and Kindergarten (5yrs)

Green School’s Early Years programme offers a child-centric education built around a developmentally
appropriate version of the Three Frame Day (thematic, proficiency, experiential). The play-based program
sparks children’s natural curiosity and instills the joy of learning through singing, dancing, art, storying-telling,
cultural celebrations, yoga and mindfulness, green studies, and excursions around our awe-inspiring campus.
This is interspersed with a gentle integration of proficiencies such as numbers and letters in a very holistic,
play-based way. There is a large emphasis in our Early Years program to focus on instilling values of kindness,
love and mutual respect for each other and our planet.

We offer a rich cultural and nurturing environment, with our team of Indonesian educators who take the
lead on many elements of the program - in particular holding the space for the secure and loving homeroom
‘nest’. English literacy, green studies and other specialist elements of the program allow the students to be
guided by our team of specialists from around the world. The program for all classes, Geckos, Starlings and
Kindy, is built around six areas of learning :

1. Physical Development (Gross Motor and Fine Motor)

2. Social Emotional
3. Language Development
4. Cognitive
5. Creative Expression
6. Bahasa Indonesia

Please explore more detail on the Early Years

Curriculum overview by going to:
https://www.greenschool.org/bali/programme/
early-years/
PRIMARY
education, practical skills, and the arts, while
fostering students to become effective collaborators
and communicators, empowered decision makers,

SCHOOL
and willing risk takers.Our Primary teaching team
come from all corners of the globe and bring with
them deep educational expertise. Our specialist

NURTURING
teachers bring deep expertise in Green Studies - as
a flagship program for all Primary children. We look
to our Balinese educators to lead in the arts, drawing

& INSPIRING
on the incredibly rich and diverse centre for the arts
that is Bali itself.

You can download the Primary School Curriculum

Grade 1 - Grade 5 (6 -10 yrs) overview by going to:
https://www.greenschool.org/bali/
In the Primary Years, open air classrooms inspire programme/primary-school/
students to connect with their environment, chase
adventure, and pursue their passions. It’s a time for
fun, laughter, exploration, and inquiry, while building
relationships, expressing creativity, and getting dirty!

Primary students work to master core competencies

in maths and literacy in a highly supportive learning
environment. Student-guided, hands-on projects
promote entrepreneurial thinking, environmental
MIDDLE SCHOOL
CROSSING THE BRIDGE
Grade 6 - Grade 8 (11-14 yrs)

The Middle School program gives students the Middle School honours the Three Frames of
freedom and responsibility to build their own Learning (thematic, proficiency, and experiential),
learning program. We empower our learners to while at the same time introducing highly integrated
make choices, while maintaining a firm grounding in units in our proficiency frame in order to prepare
foundational subjects. Students are able to choose students for the elective process of high school’s
their own arts, PE and English literacy courses blended frames.
as well as choosing their ‘Jalan Jalan’ experience,
empowering, supporting and challenging students You can download the Middle School Curriculum
to take control of their own learning program. Overview by going to:
Throughout the Middle School years, we focus https://www.greenschool.org/bali/
on developing student’s critical thinking skills - to programme/middle-school/
question, challenge and seek to discover answers
and solutions for themselves.

The program is structured and delivered, in order

to leverage the natural desire of this age group to
seek to become independent thinkers, to work with
friends and peers, and to discover rather than to
be told. This truly unique and progressive program
retains an absolute focus on the social and
emotional development of children at this exciting
and important age and stage.
 HIGH SCHOOL
LIGHTING THE FIRE
Grade 9 - Grade 12 (14-17 yrs)

Your learning is put into your own hands. Your success is up to you.
It depends on how much you want to take on and how active you want
to be in the community. It suits each individual, yet it is supportive.
There are so many opportunities and choices. The teachers are here to
help. It is a learning community. Rather than learning by yourself.

Green School Grade 11 Student

Our perspective on education, reflected in our curriculum, is that we are not filling a bucket, but rather
lighting a fire. Wewe endeavor to teach students to “learn how to learn” by giving them the skills to do so.
Most importantly, we aim to instill in our students a love of learning as a passionate pursuit in and of itself.
Our High School program emphasises empowering students to make their own choices, in partnership with
their teachers. We believe in honouring each student to be their best self.

We aim to get students out into the world, to embrace their own personal learning journey and to see
that learning can happen anywhere in the world, not just in a classroom – lifelong learning realised. The
relationship between the students and teachers is absolutely central to the success of the program. The entire
High School team is committed to helping students to know themselves deeply, demonstrate independence,
emotional maturity, passion and creativity. Our program supports them to become leaders within the school
community.

Green School’s internationally accredited High School Program (www.acswasc.org) holds a unique
place in the world of education. Our graduates are attending universities around the world, working in
inspiring organisations, starting or growing their own enterprises and pursuing their passions. These are our
changemakers in action. The following snapshot is our proud snapshot of our Alumni family. You can dive into
discovering some Alumni stories by visiting our Alumni page HERE

You can download the High School Curriculum Overview by going to:
https://www.greenschool.org/bali/programme/high-school/
SPECIALISATION
While the Green School curriculum encompasses
all the foundational subjects, our flagship programs
remain core to the program for students of all ages
and grade levels.
Green Studies &
Environmental
Science
Our totally unique, comprehensive Green Studies curriculum evolves from ecology to sustainability. We
connect our students to our local geographic and cultural context and apply a hands-on approach that allows
students to get their hands dirty and get mud between their toes, while integrating the essential proficiencies
of reading, writing, maths and science at the relevant age and stage levels. The aims of our Green Studies
curriculum are to:

• Nurture respect for the natural world;

• Heighten students’ environmental awareness and promote stewardship;
• Develop deep ecological values;
• Understand and practice permaculture as the harmonious integration of land and people to provide food,
shelter and energy in a sustainable way;
• Build awareness of and engagement with the many readily-accessible resources on our campus, including,
but not limited to food gardens, aquatic systems, animal husbandry, and sustainable and renewable
building materials, such as bamboo;
• Understand sustainability and systems as a web of relationships interacting with communities – human and
non-human – in ways that enable them to live and develop according to their nature;
• Foster a love for learning about themselves, each other, and the wider world in ways that are respectful,
have depth of understanding, and compassionate coexistence; and
• Instill pride, responsibility and cooperation among students as lifelong learners and future leaders in
the world.
ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING
At Green School, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship are not subjects—they are ways of being and doing, part
of educating for a sustainable world by developing the skills, habits, and attitudes needed for lifelong learning
and to have impact on the world. This is all about creative and collaborative problem solving, tackling real
problems and developing real solutions, within the context of social, economic, political and environmental
complexities.

Students practice entrepreneurial skills on a regular basis – as questioners, thinkers, tryers, failure learners,
and solution makers.

It starts with the youngest learners, forming personal characteristics, and builds throughout Middle and High
School where our advanced and confident learners take on more complex challenges and opportunities.
In the Primary School, students immerse themselves in Green Enterprise Projects which take many and
varied forms. From establishing a business such as jewellery making to taking on a real problem such as
new composting systems, systems-thinking, design, collaboration and creative problem solving skills are
developed and brought to life.

In the Middle and High School, opportunities to work on one of the School’s four Social Enterprises, gives
children real-life experience as entrepreneurs. The Green School LEAP Academy, intensive design challenge,
gives High School students the space, time, tools and support they need to work towards a solution to a
real-life problem with agency and adaptability. LEAP Junior in Middle School takes the same philosophical
approach with some additional scaffolding to support the younger entrepreneur.

Our capstone projects at Grade 5, Grade 8 and Grade 12 provide learners with the opportunity to
independently take on a challenge or opportunity. They work with a project management discipline to analyse
issues, research, design, test and present their findings to the world, as their individual passion project.
Green School attracts some of the education secto’rs most
talented arts professionals. Our Arts Curriculum is richly
influenced by our geographical location — the cultural and
artistic features that abound in everyday life, celebrations
and festivals in Bali. Students regularly explore several forms
of creative arts, with the level of sophistication growing as
students mature.

At weekly assemblies, on campus art galleries, and other

community venues, students have regular opportunities
to display their art and perform in a supported, safe
environment. Through exhibition and performance, we
foster student confidence, self-awareness, perseverance,
and collaboration.

Whenever possible, we pursue opportunities to link strands

of the Creative Arts – particularly when it comes celebrating
through exhibitions and performance.
OUTDOOR
EDUCATION
Green School offers one of the most beautiful and natural school campuses in the world. The campus is
designed by intent to be rugged and physically stimulating. Our outdoor education program makes use of
the natural campus through games, sports and physical challenges which utilise the terrain, the jungle, the
river and hiking trails in and around Green School. Students have access to a full competitive sport program
with the other international schools on island. In addition to this we have a mud-pit, a natural swimming pool
and a yoga studio which are part of the program for all students from Early Years through to High School. For
older students, diving, surfing, mountain biking and more is on offer.

More broadly, Green School takes a holistic approach to children’s fitness and health encompassing
movement, fitness, sport skills development, emotional health, personal safety, nutrition and sex education.

Wellbeing
If our aim is to become community members making our world sustainable, it is imperative that we first start
with ourselves. How students feel about themselves and their relationships with others directly affects their
ability to learn and grow. Our physical, mental and social/emotional wellbeing influences everything we do.
At Green School, our wellbeing curriculum acknowledges that students learn best when they are joyous,
mindful, active and aware. All aspects of Green School’s Wellbeing program (Physical Wellbeing, Social and
Emotional Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Sex Education and Pathways) are structured into three strands that allow
students to develop the skills and knowledge to be the stewards of their own health and growth: Connection
to Me, Connection to Others, and Connection to Society. Teman Teman Green School’s timetable offers time
each week.

MILESTONE EXPERIENCES
The Green School experience is peppered with impactful milestone experiences, rites of passage and
learning ‘artifacts’. At certain stages of a student’s learning journey, specific initiatives have been developed to
challenge and celebrate key stages of a child’s development. Here are just a few examples:
 JALAN
JALAN
TO WALK
ABOUT

This program is designed to help students link learning to life outside of school. The courses give students
valuable life experience by connecting them to local and global communities, and engaging them with people
and important environmental and human causes both far and near.
Students from upper Primary through to Grade 12 can choose from term-long service learning, enterprise
education, and outdoor education courses. All of the courses aim to foster personal growth and strong
connections to other individuals, while developing the critical life skills of collaboration, communication,
organisation, management, problem solving, and critical/creative thinking.

MY
FOOTPRINTS
My Footprints is a special Grade 5 experience for
students finishing their Primary School learning
journey. This passion project program is designed as
a capstone experience that culminates in a showcase
and presentation of their project to the community.
Grade 5 students are provided mentorship in their
project and are inspired by the Grade 8 Quest and
Grade 12 GreenStone projects.
 QUEST
The grade 8 Quest project challenges students
to identify one of their passions and turn it into a
project that has an aspect of environmental or
societal sustainability to it. This year-long program
has become a rite of passage at Green School and
can be a life-changing experience for children as
they come to the end of their Middle School journey.
The project culminates in a TED style presentation,
which is filmed and published, and helps prepare
our students for success in their High School Green
Stone presentations and beyond.

GREEN STONES
The Green Stone Project is the high school capstone experience in grade 12. It gives students the opportunity
to demonstrate mastery of deep research and presentation skills and offers an extended period of focus on
individual interests in an academic framework. It is designed and implemented entirely by the students and
is based on their passions and interests. The final part of the project is a 13-minute presentation, in the spirit
of a TED talk, which is filmed and published by the school.

The most remarkable thing at Green School is the love

that’s been invested by the families, the faculty &
especially the kids. There’s so much energy & talent.

- Michael Franti
RISKY BUSINESS
Learning life skills is a journey for all children at all stages. In Grade 10, Green School students participate in
an intensive off-campus experience to focus their social and emotional development at this critical age and
stage. Through this impactful and personally challenging camp, students explore risk taking behaviours,
decision making, personal values, relationships and reflection.

A RICH ANNUAL TAPESTRY OF MILESTONE

EXPERIENCES
From year to year, events and projects are iterated on to give children across the learning Grade levels the
opportunity to make their mark and experience a once-in-a-lifetime experience. This can be anything from
writing and publishing a book with an important environmental message, to rebuilding the chicken coop or
pig pen, to taking on a water challenge or building a treehouse as a team.

SERVICE LEARNING
Being part of our community means contributing. All community members have a part to play - students,
teachers, staff and parents will be called on for acts of service over the course of every school year. Helping
organise events, mentoring students, getting hands-on with a campus project are some of the ways parents
can get involved. Students will have service learning woven into their program.

In Primary and Early Years, service may take the form of helping our operations staff with tidying and cleaning.
It may be taking responsibility for looking after some gardens or feeding some animals. It can also be more
complex and challenging. For example, understanding a real life social or environmental problem, researching,
discovering ways to help and coordinating an awareness raising or fundraising initiative as an act of service.

In Middle and High School, service trips take the concept of global citizenship, kindness and service learning
to a whole other level. In our neighbourhood, in Bali and across all the provinces of Indonesia, we have
partner organisations that help us provide life-changing experiences for our students. From reef restoration,
to teaching English, supporting fledgling eco-tourism initiatives to orangutan conservation, these remarkable
experiences help shape the life-long values and mind-sets of our young changemakers.

I think all the students here at Green School

are incredibly lucky, because there is this great
atmosphere of learning about the things you care
about..

- Dr Jane Goodall
AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Green School offers a range of sporting, musical, cultural, artistic and recreational activities after school. The
program changes from term-to-term and offers something for all age-groups.

STUDENT SUPPORT
Green School prides itself on personalizing learning for our students. We welcome students with a vast range
of unique talents, skills and challenges. Our goal is to embrace each child, honor their unique contributions to
our special learning community, and nurture their development in order to optimize potential. Although we
cannot necessarily cater for every need, our student support team offers a depth and breadth of expertise
and experience. The School offers support services for English as a Learner’s Language, Academic Support
and Social-Emotional support services. During the enrolment process, we will seek to understand each child’s
particular needs and make an assessment as to the School’s ability to support their needs and goals and the
resources and expertise available within the School.
SUSTAINABILITY
Green School understands and embraces the environmental challenges facing our world today. Named the
Greenest School on Earth, we are committed to being at the vanguard of creating a campus and community,
committed to sustainability. And with students leading the way, we are making an impact. We do not aim
for perfection, but rather we aim to be a ‘skunk works’ or laboratory for student-led solutions - from the
ambitious to the tiny, from high tech energy solutions, to collecting lunch scraps for the pigs.

The school bus service runs on used cooking oil, reducing CO2 emissions by 6 tonnes per month. 900+kg of
waste is collected each month, rather than ending up in water-ways and burn piles. Green School is powered
by 95% solar and micro-hydro renewable energy. Classrooms and furnishings are made from bamboo, we
harvest food from school gardens and use composting toilet systems. Our youth movements such as Bye Bye
Plastic Bags and Sustainable Solutions Expo are becoming global phenomenons.

We are committed not only to learning for sustainability, but living for sustainability.
PARENTS & COMMUNITY
Green School is truly a whole family experience. The collective energy, passion, creativity, skills, knowledge
and cultural diversity of our faculty, staff, parents and our local neighbours is remarkable. The diversity within
our community is a pouring fountain of multicultural benefits - from the variety of languages, beliefs and
traditions to the wide range of values, principles and identities.

We are gifted with constant exposure to new ways of learning and going about life which nourishes us,
broadens our perspectives and feeds our global intelligence.

Our School is a place for exploration, learning, contribution and joy. The community is connected locally and
globally. From a small community in the jungle of Bali, Green School deeply engages locally and powerfully
connects globally, to play a part in Making Our World Sustainable.

THE BRIDGE, PARENT CO-

LEARNING AND CONNECTING
The Bridge is the portal to parent involvement. A physical space for parents to connect, share, learn, socialise
and work, The Bridge is a vibrant and special place just for Green School parents. A regular program of
workshops, talks and discussion groups as well as business incubators is balanced with opportunities for
simple human connection and community building. The Bridge has its own cafe and the fastest wifi to be
found. This popular space and program is open to all enrolled parents.All parents coming to Green School
are expected to make a service contribution. Large or small voluntary contributions by parents have been a
part of the School’s culture since its inception and remains a strong element of the culture today.
GREEN SCHOOL PARENT
ASSOCIATION (GSPA)
Green School has an active and vibrant Parent Association. The mission of the Association is: ‘To inform,
inspire and energize parent participation in a manner that sustains the health and vitality of Green School
and its community’

The Green School Parent Association (GSPA), strives to ‘hold the heart’ of the school, understanding that a
healthy, inspired and engaged parent community represents a vital asset to Green School. Green School
parents are authentic partners in the education of their children and play an active role in the development
of the educational environment, philosophy and policies of Green School.

In partnership with the School, the Association offers parents and community members a full program
of activities each week. From yoga to football, from tours around Bali to workshops on topics of interest
to parents, there is something for everyone, every week. A monthly meeting provides parents with an
opportunity to input ideas and suggestions and to enter into a dialogue with the School on the learning
program and life on campus.

All parents coming to Green School are expected to make a service contribution. Large or small voluntary
contributions by parents have been a part of the School’s culture since its inception and remains a strong
element of the culture today.
TUITION POLICY AND FEES
For the most up-to-date fee schedule, please go to www.greenschool.org/admissions/school-fees/

EVERYDAY LIFE ON CAMPUS

Most Green School families have moved to Bali for Green School. We know that making the move to pack-up
your life and come to Bali to join the Green School community is a big decision. So we would like to give you
some additional insights into everyday life at Green School and into living in Bali.

GETTING TO GREEN SCHOOL

ENROLMENT PROCESS
The first step is to make an inquiry or initial application through our website at https://www.greenschool.
org/bali/admissions/ Or to go directly to our online application system Open Apply https://
greenschoolbali.openapply.com

By starting the process, you are not committed to continue with your enrolment application. A child’s
enrolment is a mutual decision-making process, between families and the School. As places within classes
fill quickly each semester, we recommend you submit an initial application so that we can support you with
everything you need to make a final decision, well in advance of the beginning of a semester.

VISAS
All Green School students are provided with a student visa. This is a simple process, facilitated by the School.
Parents can access our visa service provider for help with sorting the best visa option for each individual
circumstance and have visas processed. Once an offer of Conditional Acceptance has been made, we connect
families with the Visa Team for assistance.

GRADE PLACEMENT
The starting point for determining grade placement is to look at the child’s date of birth, and the age they
will be on September 1st, in the year they are applying to enrol. This gives us a good initial indication of the
right grade level and is the main guiding element in determining grade placement. We take other factors into
account including the school system the child may be coming from, social and emotional factors and learning
needs. Green School reserves the right to make the final decision on a student’s Grade placement.

MINIMUM ENROLMENT PERIOD

The minimum enrolment period is generally one year (two semesters). The exception to this is Early Years,
where a single semester enrolment can be accepted. To maintain our culture as a community and to allow
children to experience all Green School has to offer, the School preference is for multi-year enrolments.
Enrolment intakes are available in most classes at both the beginning of the school year (August) or at the
beginning of semester two (January). Details on the Academic Year are below.
MOVING TO BALI
Once we have received an application for enrolment, Green School is able to provide some support in moving
to Bali. We do not provide a relocation service but we have a community committed, experienced and ready
to support new families.

With an application in process, we provide families with the Living in Bali Guide. This has been prepared for
new families, by Green School parents who are here in Bali and are a font of wisdom on transitioning to and
living in beautiful Bali. Indonesia is a developing country and, as such, brings with it all the freedoms and new
experiences of a foreign and deeply cultural environment. It is not without its challenges and our new family,
month-long, orientation program not only focuses on settling into School life but also into living in Bali. From
cultural awareness, phones, transport, banking, health-care and much more, our comprehensive orientation
program is held at the beginning of each semester.

ACADEMIC YEAR
The school year runs from August to mid-June and is divided into two Semesters. Semester one is August
to December and Semester two is January to June. You can see the academic year and school breaks here
www.greenschool.org/admissions/academic-year/ The annual academic calendar for the school
year ahead is updated by December each year.

SCHOOL UNIFORM
Green School does not have a school uniform; we love each child to express their individuality. We do have
a Dress Guideline, which guides us in choosing clothing that is comfortable and cool in Bali’s tropical climate,
while retaining a degree of modesty and demonstrating respect for local traditions and custom.

TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES

All Middle School and High School students are required to be equipped with a laptop computer. Laptops can
be purchased through the School but it is essential that every student has a laptop from the first day of their
start at Green School. Primary School students have access to computers as part of the learning program.
The School has a policy restricting access to individual electronic devices within Primary School and Middle
and High School students must turn their phones into the ‘Phone Bank’ each morning with phones being
collected again at the end of the day

FOOD AT GREEN SCHOOL

We love to eat what we grow in our School gardens and base our menus around nutritious, local, seasonal
and organic produce and delicious meat-free recipes. School lunch is optional, but at around US$2.00-$3.50
for a lunch meal, most look forward to the daily menu options. Every Green School student will learn where
food comes from and may take part in seed to table programs, permaculture and will generally be surrounded
by productive gardens which are peppered right across our campus.
In addition to school lunch, we also have other food vendors on campus including an organic green grocer,
a vegan food cafe and an organic coffee shop. We also have a plastic package free Farmers Market every two
weeks.
The food options are ‘clean and green’ and can take some time for children to get used to. Bringing lunch and
snack from home is encouraged but over time, most children will expand their taste for food that is great for
them and great for the planet.

As a community, we strive to be package free for lunch and snack - encouraging food from home to be
sourced and served in a way that is free of excessive packaging and in particular, single-use plastic packaging.

TRANSPORT SERVICES
Green School not only provides a bus service, but has the only buses on the island that run on used cooking
oil. This service is a social enterprise within the School and is powered by the collective efforts of our High
School BioBus student team. Buses run from Ubud (central Bali) and Canggu (beachside, South Bali). There is
an additional charge for accessing the School bus service and details are provided on enrolment.

SECURITY AND SAFETY

We have robust security and safety policies and systems that strike a balance between being prudent and
maintaining our natural learning environment. Car checks, perimeter security and campus access systems,
fire drills, lockdown procedures and other security and safety measures are in place and reviewed regularly.
We have school nurses available for consultation and a First Aid Station to deal with any on-campus injuries
requiring a first aid approach.

SCHOOL START AND FINISH TIMES

For Primary School upwards, school commences at 8.15am and finishes at 3.15pm. Optional after school
activities and competitive sport training sessions commence at 3.30. Early Years start time is from 8.15am,
with Circle Time commencing at 8.45am. The Early Year’s day finishes a little earlier at 3.00pm, with shorter
school days and more flexible schedules available for pre-kindy classes.

APPROACH TO HOMEWORK
We acknowledge the potential value of students working at home on tasks which have not been completed
during the day or on assignments, for older students. We also know that time to rest, play and spend time
together as a family is important too. We aim to strike a balance and have homework guidelines for different
age groups and learning stages.

VISITING GREEN SCHOOL

Admissions Tours and interviews are available on School days to families with an application in process for
the upcoming school year. Please book an Admissions Tour and interview via the Green School website.
https://www.greenschool.org/bali/admissions/
Prospective students, with an application in process, may be able to join a class for a part or full trial day,
subject to scheduling. Trial days attract an additional cost.

General Tours are also available for those interested in Green School but not wishing to submit an application
for enrolment. Please book a general tour via the Green School website here: https://www.greenschool.
org/bali/green-school-experience/.
OPEN DAYS
Green School holds bi-annual Open Days for prospective families usually in January and in November. Our
Open Days are designed to give prospective Green School families a rich, first-hand experience of the school.
There is no better way to understand our unique school than to come see it in person. Expect to be
immersed in the unique Green School learning experience - from Marimba performances, wading in our mud
pit, meeting some of our international faculty and hearing parents share their experience first-hand about
joining the school and transitioning to beautiful Bali. Upcoming Open Day dates can be found on our website
here: https://www.greenschool.org/admissions/open-days/

CONTACT US:
https://www.greenschool.org/bali/admissions/
…I have visited many different places and many
schools but Green School is the most unique &
impressive school I have ever visited.

- Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General

For more information, please visit us at:

www.greenschool.org/bali/

Admission enquiries:
[email protected]
Green School Bali