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High School

Thrive with Purpose

Our High School program provides a four year curriculum designed to holistically prepare learners to make a positive difference in their world.

The High School program at Green School Bali is designed for young people to take ownership of their learning and shape it into a meaningful path toward purpose and impact. Students choose from a wide range of courses and experiences, balancing academic depth with real-world application. Whether diving into rigorous math and science, exploring literature and philosophy, or designing regenerative projects emerging from local needs, learners forge their own pathways, guided by advisors who recognize that true growth comes from autonomy, challenge, and relevance.

The High School program is one where learners are challenged to reach personal excellence through contribution to communities, the planet, and regenerative futures. We ensure that each young person is able to co-create learning experiences throughout the day and over the course of their high school career that blends deep learning with positive impact.

We believe education should honor the individuality of each learner while preparing them to navigate complexity with confidence and care. That’s why our High School combines strong academic foundations with the freedom to pursue passions through capstones and interdisciplinary projects. Whether a student is interested in climate resilience, entrepreneurship, creative expression, or responding to biodiversity loss, we make space for those interests to take form.

In the High School, young people are co-creators of our learning community. The Green School Student Association (GSSA) is a full class, within which students create and implement policies from curriculum to school life: GSSA is a part of our governance as we live into intergenerational collaboration. Learners regularly suggest ideas classes and are part of the co-design process. They also have the possibility of going off timetable if they want to pursue a meaningful project that contributes to community and has clear learning outcomes.

“We believe young people should co-create both their present and their futures. When learning is deepened through action meaningful to the learner and to the community, we begin to meet our responsibilities to current and future generations. This is how we transform education: not through curriculum add-ons or bells and whistles, but through a commitment to regenerative practices that create the conditions conducive to life.”
Dr. Benjamin Freud – Head of Upper School

The Green Literacies in High School

Biomimicry for Regenerative Design (BiRD)

Green School Bali’s mission is to grow a community of learners with the confidence and ability to build sustainable organisations and communities, connected by shared core beliefs built on the power of regenerative, impactful learning experiences.

In Spring 2026, Green School Bali will inaugurate the world’s first ever K-12 Biomimicry for Regenerative Design (BiRD) Lab. This will be a space for learners to engage in living systems thinking, find inspiration in Nature to design local solutions to global challenges, and inspire the world with artefacts and stories of learning. But BiRD is more than a lab, it is an approach to learning and doing that will nurture regenerative futures through the cultivation of bio-empathy, reciprocity, and long-term thinking.

BiRD is designed to help learners and educators of all ages uncover new ways of thinking, designing and bringing to life the products, processes, and places that are needed for a collective shift to regenerative futures.

The core of BiRD’s contribution to transformational design is a learning journey based on four lenses: Sensing, Seeking, Shaping, and Storytelling.

Sensing and Seeking help learners develop transcontextual ecosystems-based thinking. Shaping is where they use biomimicry to turn their ideas into regenerative designs, inspired by nature as model, mentor, and measure. The vital phase of Storytelling helps learners shape effective ways to communicate their ideas and designs to catalyse change.

Our Learning in Action

Thinking in Systems

Life cannot be compartmentalised into separate boxes, so why should learning be? Our curriculum addresses this by taking an interdisciplinary approach to the way we learn. For students, this could mean learning mathematics and physics by building a bamboo bridge over a river that passes through our campus. Or learning biology by exploring marine biodiversity, understanding our impact on it and developing solutions towards conserving and regenerating it.

We understand that each student learns differently, and our learning blocks are designed to foster a deep love for learning in them. We have seen students thrive when programmes are designed to value their individual passions and they are empowered to lead their own learning journeys. This video is one example of our approach to learning.

Jalan Jalan

These experiential programmes are curated with service, environmental and social impact at the centre. Students explore their passions and build strong connections with causes they feel deeply about. Courses are designed to help foster the Green School Skills, with a particular emphasis on adaptability, leadership, awareness, collaboration and creative thinking.

In one Jalan Jalan, our students visited restaurants and hotels across Bali to collect used cooking oil, which was then turned into Biofuel for our Bio Buses. The Bio Bus project is Green School’s very own green transportation system, kick-started by students and is a beautiful illustration of experiential learning, which goes beyond the normal academic routines. This is REAL learning where students work towards finding solutions to real-world problems facing our societies.

Environmental Connection

Understanding the environment is fundamental to the Green School experience and is explored throughout our Green School Skills. Our thematic learning enables students to ‘Think in Systems’ and identifies the connection between social and environmental justice, supporting students to gain an understanding of their voice, power and role in creating change. Environmental learning is threaded through courses and projects and is experienced day to day in where we learn, how we learn and what we consume. This awareness shapes sustainability mindsets as a springboard for activism, real projects that make a real difference and for instilling leadership in young adults. Underpinning this is a strong foundation of scientific learning and the Green School Values, nurtured in all our learners. From climate change to marine ecology, from the circular economy to botany, our environmental science courses are flagship offerings delivered by educators with deep expertise, with a deep commitment to nature and a values-based approach to life as our guide.

Social Emotional Wellbeing

We believe that a child’s wellbeing is as important as their academic success. At Green School, we seek to nurture within our students confidence, kindness, empathy and a joy for learning. We embrace the idea that sustainability starts from within and understanding ourselves as individuals – what we believe in, how we manage set-backs and how we find joy in all that we do – is a critical building block. Building on this are our relationships with others and our relationship with our incredible planet.

Students learn best when they are engaged, mindful and active. Our wellbeing programme (physical, social and emotional, mindfulness, and relationship education) skills students up as stewards of their own health and wellbeing and reflects our holistic approach to education. This is imperative if we are to nurture changemakers who will become the guardians of our planet.

Greenstone

Greenstone is a Grade 12 capstone project where students present their world-shaping ideas in a TED-style talk. By exploring a project or purpose that leads to illuminating discoveries, students find self-worth, validation as critical thinkers, confidence as communicators and develop lasting connections to passions, causes, partners, and potential career pathways.

Ultimately the Greenstone embodies, “the journey is the destination”. The reflective storytelling is mentored, supported, and shared with our local and global community. These presentations are a rite of passage for all Green School graduates, bridging the Green School experience and each student’s next steps in life.

Click here to watch some inspiring student Greenstones.

Green School Pathways

At Green School Bali, we celebrate the diversity of student journeys after graduation. Our students are known for forging unique, meaningful, and purpose-driven pathways—whether continuing on to higher education, starting their own ventures, taking a gap year, or diving into social or environmental impact work.

Approximately 65% of our graduates continue on to university, and our alumni network now includes over 250 students who have enrolled at more than 85 universities across 40+ countries. In 2025, our graduating class of 26 students received over 200 university offers—our highest number ever—a testament to the strength and success of our Pathways program.

We support these transitions with a dedicated Pathways Counsellor, who works closely with each student and their family to design a personalized post-Green School plan. Whether it’s choosing the right university, exploring gap year options, or mapping out a career in sustainability or innovation, we guide learners to take confident steps toward their future.

Our Alumni

By the time they venture out of our wall-less campus, our Alumni have acquired skills, knowledge and an understanding of themselves and the world to step forward with confidence. Through REAL and relevant learning, our Alumni experienced the power of making a difference, before graduation, setting them up for rewarding post-graduation pathways.

Whether it is straight to university, a year of life learning through volunteering or internships, or starting their own enterprise or foundation, our young but growing Alumni are shaping the world in remarkable ways. They are making change, leading change, finding purpose in what they do, following their hearts and minds, and accessing some of the world’s most rapidly growing and needed career paths.

Cial

Class of 2023

Cial, Class of 2023, is currently continuing his academic journey in Madrid, Spain. His experience at Green School Bali was instrumental in shaping his open-minded worldview and preparing him with the values, skills, and confidence to thrive as a well-rounded global citizen.

Freddie

Class of 2023

Freddie, Class of 2023, is the founder of an eco-startup that empowers companies to measure and reduce their carbon footprint. This venture grew out of his Greenstone project in his final year at Green School Bali, reflecting his strong commitment to environmental stewardship and entrepreneurial innovation.

Tirta

Class of 2023

Tirta, Class of 2023, is a passionate and driven Green School Bali alumna whose journey reflects the power of personal growth through purposeful education. Known for her dedication, resilience, and commitment to learning, Tirta has earned a scholarship to Centre College in Kentucky, USA. Her story is a testament to the global opportunities that open up for Green School graduates and the meaningful impact they continue to make around the world.

Other Alumni

Clover Hogan

Class of 2016

Clover H. alumni Green School Bali is a green changemaker, climate activist, researcher on turning anxiety into agency, and founder of Force of Nature; she is mobilizing the emerging generation of leaders, in the face of the climate crisis. She has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability, within the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, and inside classrooms across the UK.

Maxwell Hidajat

Class of 2017

Upon graduating from Green School Bali, Maxwell was accepted to the prestigious Cornell University, ranked among the best universities in the world. Following the completion of his degree Maxwell joined the Social Enterprise Group at Cornell, where he is a Project Manager. In the future, he hopes to return to Indonesia to tackle his country’s pressing socioeconomic and environmental issues.

Melati Wijsen and Isabel Wijsen

Class of 2019 and 2020

Sisters Melati (17) and Isabel (15) Wijsen VALEDICTORIAN were just 10 and 12 years old in 2013 when they started Bye Bye Plastic Bags. They remember being inspired by a lesson in school about people who changed the course of history and asking themselves ‘What can we do as children living in Bali, NOW, to make a difference?’. The answer was-Bye Bye Plastic Bags a campaign to end the use of single-use plastic bags in Bali, which has grown into an internationally recognized movement for sustainability and youth empowerment.

Click here to read more stories on how our changemakers are shaping the world with their ideas, actions and successes.