HISTORY OF CENDANA :
Cendana Education Foundation (Cendana for short) was established in 1958 by some of Indonesian employees of PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia in Rumbai District They wanted their children go to a local school, where they teach in Indonesian. Before 1958, all Caltex-employees' (local native or expatriate) children went to the American School, although thee were no gap between expatriate kids and natives. Some parents got their children to school at SMA 1 Pekanbaru, the only High School in town, which is many kilometers apart from the Caltex operational district. Then, the parents decided to lobby the company to establish a new Indonesian Curriculum-based school. At first it was named Caltex Public School (Sekolah Rakyat Caltex), referring to the company name. It was 100 percent controlled by the company.
At first, SRC was given the Rumbai Plaza which had three classrooms, side-by-side with the American School. For the teachers, Caltex recruited three certified schools teachers from Pekanbaruand Padang with a status of Caltex employees: K.C. Laibahas, A. Zamzami, and Djohan Widjaja. The public school acts in the same level of Elementary School, which has six grades. With only three classrooms, they had to divide each room into two sections, First-Second Grade, Third-Fourth Grade, and Fifth-Sixth Grade.
In the early 1960s, the school was run by a subsidiary foundation called The Caltex Employee's Children Education Foundation (Yayasan Pendidikan Anak Pegawai Caltex or YPAPC) which was led by H. Boerhanoeddin St. Batoetah. It ran the Elementary School and also the newly established Indrapura Junior High. In 1969, for restructurisation, the YPAPC and Caltex Parents Foundation (Yayasan Persatuan Orang Tua Murid Caltex or YPOMC) established a new foundation, led by Djohan Widjaja, where it will run all of Caltex's Schools. The name Cendana was given. It was derived from an aromatic-well-known strong wood. The name Cendana alson given because they won't have to change the already-popular abbreviations, such as YPOMC, SDC, SMPC, etc.
VISI DAN MISI SMP CENDANA DURISMP Cendana Duri adalah sekolah yang bertaraf Internasional yang mempunyai visi untuk:
• Penyelenggara pendidikan sekolah yamg menegah pertama berstandar Nasional dan bertaraf Internasional.
Smp Cendana Duri juga mempunyai misi untuk :
• Menyelenggarakan pembelajaran dan pengembangan diri berstandar Nasional dan bertaraf Internasional
• Memberikan kontribusi dan inovasi pendidikan bagi sekolah daerah sekitar
Jangan Lupa SMP Cendana juga mempunyai 7 Pilar pembelajaran yaitu:
• Pembelajaran holistic
• Kesadaran multibudaya dan lingkungan
• Komunikasi
• Proses pembelajaran
• Proyek Individu
• ICT
• Kecerdasan majemuk
SMP CENDANA EXTRA CURICULUMS & SMP CENDANA’S STUDENT’S
In SMP Cendana we have many programs which our student participate, in order for our student to “socialize” with their friends, teachers, etc. We have many programs such as Biology Club, Physics’ Club, Math Club, English Club. But don’t forget we have other curriculums outside of those which is BCK, Student Coucil (OSIS), paskibra, gerak jalan, and still many more. Due to these ex-school activities students has become more active in school and achieving more education outside of school. Many students have made many achievements due to these extra curriculums. Our students has also been motivated by the teachers to achieve their goals with high believes. Our students has made many achievements, such as winning 1’st place in our Bahasa Indonesia competition in Unri, 1st place in Physics (astronomy) Olympiad nationally and now moving toward International, 1st place of the English Olympiad in Unri, and still many others.
The student council of Cendana Jr. High School is a very active school organization, where each month they will have an event for the school and others publicly. These events are made in order for the students to have a stronger relation to others. Also this December our BCK will be participating in the marching band competition in Jakarta, also our Biology students will be competing in the Province Olympiad of Biology. We also have a special class which is the bilingual class, a class of students who uses to language in their everyday learning. Although there is only one class for those students, other student also is the same as the students in bilingual class. Each and every one of the students has their own special characteristic. This is the reason why out school SMP Cendana is a school not just for ordinary people but also for the extra ordinary people
