Monday, 25 March 2013

Awesome Day - Crazy hair day

Today I have participated in the crazy hair day, which is organised by my friend Julien. The core idea was to come to school with a crazy hair which you wouldn't come to school with or as we call "sleeping hair".
 I have been honoured to be a participant of this crazy but yet interesting event  and I have done my parts as I have planned.
 The initial plan was to delegate to pair of year 12s to collect the money from student for charity which Julien has planned. Of course he has already got permission from the CAS coordinator and the head teacher to issue the papers required to inform the students about this event.
 My part of this event was to around with Julien and collect money from the far side of our school which involved 4 rooms. However, the day before this event the weather suddenly became very snowy which cause several initial participant to be late. It was a good planning from Julien and I to go to the rooms 5 minutes before the initial time to cover the jobs or the late ones. As far as collecting the money for charity my classmates and I have done a good job and everything went pretty good.
 In addition, I have took some pictures of students who have spent their own time making all kind of crazy hair styles which will later used to judge for the "craziest hair style" who will get a prize from my friend Julien,
 As far I am concerned everything went the way it was intended and it was an unusual experience. He introduced me to this at a later stages of the planning process which shows that I have undertook an new challenge because this was something new to me.
 I also helped his on finalising the plan by dividing the work to different people for an more efficient process which indicate my organisational thinking and probably can be applicable in future events.
 Finally,the went really good and I am looking forward to more crazy days such as this one maybe even from myself but we will see. Organising events is a enjoyable thing to do and I will be more proactive in participating in future events.

p.s. here is a link to the post by the main organiser himself
http://juliencaronib.blogspot.ru/2013/03/crazy-hair-day-plan.html    

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

A small update!

I have been playing the piece "Kiss the Rain" about 2 months now. I only practice on weekends and now I finally reached the third page of this four page piece. This most is just a quick update on my CAS activities that I have mentioned in my CAS plan.
 The ambidextrous training is still going, but not daily as I wanted because of various reasons, so I will probably change in to 4 times a week because it will be more convenient, as a way to show organisation skill developing as now I can change my plans according to the situation.
 The piano practices are going pretty well. but it would be good if I played more frequently so I can master the piece by the deadline, which is ides of April. I will try to reach that point, but not playing piano for 5 years really slows down the process of learning new piece. This indicates my weaknesses and strengths in this activity and this is also a new challenge for me because I haven't learn a new piece for a long time.
 This week I will go to the recycling station with my two full bags of plastic bottle and recycle them. I have accumulated a reasonable amount but that will be in detail in future posts.
  

Sunday, 3 March 2013

CAS Plan Time Table

CAS Planning

Weekly Plan

 Every week I will do the the above activities, which I have mentioned in my CAS plan before. I have added specific details to my plan such as time spent and on which day I will do it.
 This is plan should improve my organisation skills and maybe even make me more responsible towards CAS. 
 I will try to do all the activities as they are planned but some external  factors such as illness will sometimes stop me doing so. This is just the first CAS time table I have made so if anything goes wrong I could just improve it as I go along. 
 P.S. A.T. - Ambidextrous Training

Monthly Plan

In this part of the plan I didn't go to detail due to fluctuation of homework and other factors. I hope this will clarify the amount of work I need to put in on monthly basis and help me to achieve CAS outcomes. 
 By making the CAS time table I think I have achieved several CAS outcomes which include planning and learning a new skill because this my first time making a real time table :D