Cooperative Smart Competition

Senior High School or SMA N 1 Singaraja became the first winner in the cooperative smart competition that was held by the Cooperative Agency of the Buleleng regency in Wantilan Laksana Budaya RRI Singaraja on Monday, 21 May, 2007. This smart competition was held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the National Cooperative, which actually is on July 12, 2007. SMA N 1 Singaraja, as the first winner of this smart competition, has the right to attend the similar competition in provincial level on July 6, 2007, to represent the Buleleng regency.

The coordinator of cooperative anniversary in the Buleleng regency, Suparto, states that the national level celebration of the 60th anniversary of the National Cooperative will be conducted on the peak of the celebration, on 12 July 2007. The day will be centered in Garuda Wisnu Kencana or GWK Bali. Soon after this, there will be cooperative weekly sport program with several sport branches competition, social gathering to reformatory and also cooperative seminars.

Ketut Suparto continued that the purpose of this smart competition is to further introduce anything about cooperative to the young generation, especially to the senior high school students. From more than 20 schools in Buleleng regency that were invited by the agency, there were only four schools, which sent their students to participate in this smart competition. Those schools were SMA N 1 Singaraja, Banjar, Seririt and SMA Lab Undiksa Singaraja. Therefore, the smart competition, which was previously planned to be several sessions, was only conducted one time, the final session. This smart competition was broadcasted live on Pro 3 RRI Singaraja. After having a question and answer process judged by the jury team, finally, with a score of 3,300, SMA N 1 Singaraja became the first winner of this competition. The runner up was SMA N 1 Banjar with score 1400, while the third winner was SMA N 1 Seririt, and the last, the forth winner was SMA Lab Undiksa Singaraja.

As the national school, which was labeled as international Standard school, SMA N 1 Singaraja often receives guests or groups that would like to do a study visit. The guests may be from other areas in Bali or even out of Bali. Last Tuesday, on May 23, 2007, SMA N 1 Singaraja received a group of 100 senior high school teachers from the Depok area, West Java, who would like to do a study visit in this school. The guests were received warmly by the head master, Nyoman Darta. He explained them the teaching and learning activity in that school. As an international standard school, SMA N 1 Singaraja implements different teaching and learning system from other senior high schools. The quality of the teachers is increased; many of the teachers have been completed their master degree, while some other have not yet. The quality of their English has improved. All teachers and administrators of this school should attend regular English courses after office hours in the afternoon. They are trained by senior instructors from IALF Bali. On certain days of the week, all school members should practice conversation in English.

That teachers group from Depok, who previously had visited four other international standard schools in Denpasar, was very impressed by the situation in SMA N 1 Singaraja. The system, method, and the quality of the teachers, the students and the number of medals, cups, and other forms of achievements had by SMA N 1 Singaraja are far above the Senior high schools in Depok area. Moreover, SMA N 1 Singaraja is completed by a language laboratory, the use of Information and Communication Technology, and library with complete series of books.