The Characteristics of the Full Day School Based Elementary School

This study was based on the idea of the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia that elementary and Secondary school should implement a full-day school system gradually. This study aimed at describing the characteristics of the full-day school based elementary school in MIUT Thawalib, Padang Panjang. This study was an inductive-qualitative research; case studies. The intruments in this study were interviews, observation, and documentation about research news, research results and theories related to the characteristics of the school-based full-day school at the elementary level. The materials were studied in this study were notes, transcripts, books, newspapers, magazines, and website. The results obtained indicate that full-day school at the primary level has applied "Integrated Curriculum". The objective of full-day school program is that students can make more progress in terms of learning which will certainly have a positive impact for them. The learning process should be active, creative, transformative and intensive. On the other hand, the learning process does not require students to analyze and study full time, but it is a system that does not burden nor boring. School hours and learning materials also conform to the national standard curriculum. Outside of school hours, learning activities will be related to general knowledge and development of the individual, such as music and religious activity or worship practices. In this system, it is also applied some exciting game formats in order to make the learning process full of joy for students to learn.