Entrepreneurship Fest

Saturday October 30th 2021

A Medium to Instill Entrepreneurial Skills and Philanthropism

Alhamdulillah, this year grade 3 students of Al Azhar 55 Islamic Primary School completed the 2021 Entrepreneur Fest very successfully. Entrepreneur Fest was the end-of-term 3 activity which integrated the learning of Science (making a business plan), Math (calculating money), Civic Education (Pancasila real-life implementation), Islamic Studies (shodaqoh) and IT (making stickers and promotional media).

In Science, students learned to create a business plan that includes production, costs-calculating and marketing. The products they sold were jam sandwiches, juice, chocoballs, and hand sanitizers. They practiced making each product in class guided by Science teacher. Water spinach (kangkung) was actually on the product list. However, as it did not grow well, it was struck off from the list. They then determined the products’ prices based on the start-up costs and profit they wanted to gain. They were very enthusiastic with this kind of hands-on learning.

In IT (Information Technology), students used Google slide application to make product labels, menu galleries and brochures. They stuck the label on the product packaging during the Entrepreneur Fest. As for the brochures and menu galleries, they created for their respective stores. They really enjoyed creating their works.

A few days before the Entrepreneur Fest taking place, student representatives, whom we called the marketing team, promoted the event to students of other classes by joining their zoom meetings. After promoting, they received orders that were listed by each class’ homeroom teacher(s). Right after that, they made the products at home with the help of their family members, according to the number of orders recorded. Then, on the D-day, they dropped off the products at school while taking their term 4 learning supplies with a drive-thru. Buyers-all parents and students who ordered, came and took their orders in the same way so as not to create a crowd. We used online payment applications to make them easy to pay, but we accepted cash as well.

We were glad that all products were sold out. We were even more glad that the money and profit we gained would be donated for charity (shodaqoh and infaq Masjid). This is one of our Pancasila and Islamic Studies implementations in real life. Thanks to all students, parents and teachers for the great team work. Entrepreneurship and philanthropism are instilled regardless of the covid-19 pandemic. We did it!

Testimony

Prof. Dra. Hj. Suwarsih Madya, M.A., Ph.D.

Amidst the globalized situation which poses challenges of which one is a possible threat to identity, yet provides ample opportunities to excel for those who possess the prerequisites, we need to equip our children as the continuing generation with necessary competencies—affective, cognitive, psychomotor and interactive. In other words, we need to help them grow and develop into total persons and this can be achieved through the whole-child development approach which ensures the development of all potentials. In addition to this is the need for developing some competence which enables the children to communicate globally. All of this will ensure that the children will develop their citizenships both at the national and global levels. How can this ideal development be realized?

If you want to find out about how efforts are made to develop children’s whole potentials, you can come to SD Islam Al Azhar 55 Yogyakarta. Here you can see how the four-year old school has grown fast due to the stakeholders’ trust to send their children to study here. With only 54 children in the first year, this school now has 185 students. These students are educated to respect and preserve the social-cultural environment by learning the local language (Javanese, including the script) and arts (dance). Simultaneously, they certainly learn the national language (Bahasa Indonesia) and national content, which is unquestionable since it is compulsory, and English, which has now become a global lingua franca; thus, a prerequisite for successful global communication. More importantly, children in this school also learn to practise their religion consistently. So, in this school children’s identity is rooted in the local culture, with nationalism and global awareness being inherently developed together with reliogiosity.

Does the whole-child development approach at SD Islam Al Azhar still give room for children to excel? In my belief, when all their potentials are developed, children will have a greater chance to excel and I can see the truth in my belief in this primary school. In the last two years, the students have made great achievements in various competitions held at the local and national levels–gold medals in English, math and science competitions (national), silver and bronze medals in IT competitions (national), silver and bronze medals at colouring and swimming competitions (local) to mention some.

In conclusion, SD Islam Al Azhar has given evidence of the right efforts of true education to develop both intelligence and character.

Prof. DR. Budi S. Daryono, M.Agr. Sc.

Testimoni Sebagai Orang tua menyekolahkan anak Di Al-Azhar 55

Sudah menjadi kewajiban bagi orang tua untuk memberikan pendidikan yang terbaik bagi putra putrinya. Tantangan untuk mendidik anak di Era Global dan Digital pun semakin besar, kita tidak bisa lagi membendung segala perubahan yang begitu cepat terjadi, dan harus mempersiapkan anak-anak supaya bisa survive dan sholeh/sholehah tentunya. Saat ini dunia bagaikan kampung, dimana tidak ada batas-batas untuk melakukan transaksi kehidupan, untuk itu anak harus bisa berkomunikasi dengan bahasa universal sebagai modal utama. Disamping itu, pendidikah Ahlak dan Aqidah harus diberikan secara dini sebagai dasar anak dalam menghadapi gejolak gelombang kehidupan. Atas pertimbangan tersebutlah, kami selaku orang tua memilih untuk menyekolahkan putra kami tercinta Hikari di Sekolah Islam, yang menggunakan dua bahasa pengantar, yaitu Al-Azhar 55.

Prof. DR. Budi S.Daryono, M.Agr. Sc.