Friday's AfterSchool Football Practice and The Football Season [Grade 11]

Friday's After School Football Practice

During the first season of sport at OSC, after school activities were created. This is the same as doing a sport at school. After School football practice is for student who want to improve there skills in football or if their are students who new to the sport and would like to join the school team, it was highly recommended that they join. Two groups were made from all the students who join the after school activity, so that no time was wasted during the activity. The students only played games and did not train.

The Football Season

Football is during the 3rd season of the school year, 16 students from all the students who joined during the start of the season will be chosen to be the OSC representatives for SISSA. I only joined football for 1 week because during last season girls football one week was taken out from the boys football season. So the first week was the week where the coaches choose who is going to be in the team. It was to early for me so I dropped out. 

Goal's For Creativity Action Service

This year I want to polish up my football skills! I Joined Miss.EWolfe's afterschool football activity which is on Fridays. I also joined Mister Lockwood's recycling and sustainability club, every Thursdays we meet up afterschool behind the canteen. The reason I joined recycling is to know and how to reduce my carbon footprint (A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.) also I would like to become a leader for recycling. One other goal which is an important goal and that is to be a great example towards the younger generation! :] to do this i am going to nominate myself for key club president. Keyclub is a club like the interact, lions club in Sri Lanka. 

IB Orientation

The IB Orientation is a one of the events that is mandatory for a IBDP grade 11 student. The reason is that during the orientation students learn about "what is IB?", University application, etc (everything that a grade 11 student would encounter in his/her DP years. It was also about trusting your friends "I GOT YOUR BACK!!!" Students were set in pairs to perform " I got your back" Its basically when  your parter is standing in front of you and you need to catch him or her falling back. Another trust game was were one student get up on a ledge and a group of students gets ready for the student to fall of the ledge (the genders were slit)

 All the students had to take part in all the events planned for us, events like rock climbing, trust games and ab sailing. The day before the orientation finished, the student was requested to preform an act or a song. Along with 4 other student and I preformed Fly me to the moon by frank Sinatra The goal of this event was to prepare grade 11 DP students for the upcoming years of IB.

Week Without Walls (WWW)

Week Without Walls is a mandatory CAS project where students from grade 6 to grade 11 must attend every year. This is my last week without walls because during week without walls the seniors do their mock IB exams. In total we spent 2 days for traveling, 2 days for service and 1 day for the yala safari trip. For service the students had to refurbish a school constructed after 2004's tsunami struck hambantota (Sri Lanka) the whole grade 11 was divided into two groups. The mural group, the students had to paint pictures on the outer school walls. The painting group, had to repaint the small building. Most of the work was done on the first and on the second day the student performed an old shinhales song called In this tree (translated into English). I was in the painting group, the group and I decided to paint the inter walls of the school and we finished it on the first day its-self. Many students didn't know how to paint and how to mix the paint. Before we left OSC one of the maintainers thoughts us how to mix the paints and on how to paint.

Recycling and Sustainability

Recycling and Sustainability is an OSC service project where students along with a teacher (Mr.Lockwood) meet on every Thursdays to collect recyclable materials and Non recyclable material found in the school premises. After all the materials are collected, students then separates the materials from paper, plastic bottles, metal, etc. Mr.Lockwood who is in charge of recycling and sustainability organized a 4x4 truck so that we can sell our recyclable materials to a recycling place close to OSC. To spread awareness recycling posters are put on trash cans or on recycling boxes and on occasions presentations on recycling and sustainability are presented on Wednesday's assembly. This year (2011) conzi and I were appointed leaders in training so that we become the next leaders for Recycling and Sustainability. Recycling and Sustainability is the only service project that has not being affected by any thing that could cancel the service project for the week.

Click Here to access--->The Recycling and Sustainability Blog

End of the Year CAS Reflection

Beginning of Semester one I was chosen to be the Recycling and Sustainability leader. This is the first time I actually took leadership over something without being lazy. Then Yariq and I started afterschool football practice, again I took responsibility of being the captain/leader of my team. During week without walls I mastered my painting skills and I also improved my interacting skills. For three days during the week I had to interact with small children (I normally don’t do this), this made me move out of my comfort zone. Another event which made me move out of my comfort zone was during the IB Orientation. Borderlands had planned activities for all the Grade 11 students and one of the activities is abseiling down from a very tall water tower. If all things go alright next year I am going to do more activities related to CAS. This is going to be my main goal for CAS next year.