Talented students

Cibening Village (located adjecent to the GoldTeak Plantation) is producing some very talented students!

In April, several students from Cibeureum Elementery School, entered a competition in Kecamatan Bantar Gebang (kecamatan means sub-district). 

Five local students competed in mathematic, science, reading, writing, poetry reading, and art.  

   Andri won first place followed by Dede in second place for the painting      category  His paint to the right  is about The Green Village, he drew trees, fish pond with ducks and a mountain as a background.

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Abdul Hikmat won first place for the poetry reading category and he also won third place in the science category. 

Patonah won first place for creative writing and a second place for reading, writing and mathematic category. 

And finally Yusuf won a first place for reading, wtiting and mathematic.

It was the first time that the school sent so many students to the competition,  previously we had sent only one student for the poetry reading competition. 

Cibeureum Elementary school has 71 students (from grade 1 to grade 6).  The school very isolated being that Cibening Village is located two kilometers from the main road.  

The students spend their free time playing football (soccer), flying kites, and going to the school to read story books or magazine they enjoy spending their time together reading.   

Once a month, GoldTeak manager Dewi Herawati, visits the school to discuss with the teachers and principle the progress of the students.  Dewi spends time sharing stories (which is a favorite activity) about various topics ranging from fables about good living to science.   Sometimes Dewi brings a map to show them where the stories originated.  Incidently, they have recently learned the difference between butter and margarine!