CAS Projects!!!!

Projects are a good way to achieve CAS outcomes such as organisation and collaboration. So here are projects I am involved in:

"Kiss the Rain"

This is a beautiful piano piece that I always wanted to learn how to play and now it's a good time to start.

I think it will take  me around 1 and half to two months to learn the piece so by the start of the summer term this should be finished.

I will practise as much as I can every week but my regime is 2 hours per weekend.

Sports Day

My classmates and I have decided to plan summer sports day for our school. Sports day always was a tradition of our school. I have been in everyone of them since year 7 and as year 12 we should continue this good tradition.

We have decided on sport events, number of house and who is in which house.

A lot of organisation will go in to this project and I am ready to take this challenge.

Our next target is to produce a better concise plan for the sports day and discuss on possible issues and solutions to them.

CAS Plan v2.0 (Service Part)

There were some struggles on this part of CAS since we didn't know how many opportunities we had in front of us, or just that we couldn't see them as opportunities. After a long brain storm or thought shower (if you're epileptic)
here is my service part of CAS.

Service

Teaching a language(s)

• I am sort of multilingual which gives me a good opportunity to teach any second language speakers when they are struggling with the language.
• I know Russian, English and Chinese though not in perfecting but at least I can read books and newspapers and have a conversation with first language speaker.
• I will do this as much as possible, at least 3~4 lessons per month since find a student is a really hard task but if I find a good one who is passionate in the language I am teaching this activity can become more stable.

Recycling

• I recently decided I should start recycling since it is a good activity for CAS and it helps to create a better future or should I say cleaner and more environmentally friendly.
• I found a local Greenpeace station where I could bring the recycled products and I hope I could do at least once a month since I need to store a reasonable amount before going there.
• This meets final CAS outcomes which my other activities don't cover, also to mention that this will make be more responsible about my surrounding which is a great quality to have for an IB student or just anyone.

Projects~~~

• Projects such as the International Day in my school is a good platform to do CAS related activity and also covers all three areas of CAS.
• In projects students collaborate and organise together and is part of team work. One's commitment and others' help can create fantastic events or things that you have thought that you would achieve it.This is way projects are awesome.
• I planning to do make or participate in 3 to 4 projects this year as a start and hope this number can grow in future.

CAS Plan v 2.0 (Action Part)

Action!

Basketball

• I have always loved to play basketball and now I have chance to play it every week, isn't that wonderful? Since basketball became my passion I would like to continue following it. Anyway playing basketball is so much fun.Collaboration, team work, new skills and commitment, is there anything better CAS then this? (I bet you can come up with a better one but I will go with this one :P )
• I have already join the after-school basketball club in my school and I attend regularly (On Wednesdays)
• My goal is to improve my basketball skills and become an strong amateur player.

Physical challenges 

• Those challenges are set up by us- students to prove that we are the best.However, not many people participate in those challenges but this doesn't stop me from doing them. I already have some personal best and I will try my hardest to beat those in future.
• Some challenges require more that one person which give an opportunity for collaboration and team work maybe even some organisation.
• This is a challenge and I accept it! 

CAS Plan v 2.0 (Creativity Part)

After a whole term in the IB course I had the chance to experiment with the CAS activities so here is my refined CAS plan with more or less detailed explanations

Creativity

Origami

• I have already done some origami in past 4 months and I feel that this is a good activity for CAS because it gives opportunities for learning a new skill and maybe teaching it to others. Doing it on regular basis can shows my commitment in CAS and to this activity.
• I decided to do one new (if possible) origami every week, probably done on weekends at home. If possible I want to make them with my classmates at school which can link to the service part of CAS (teaching) or maybe they know some cool origami which I could learn from them.
• My goal here is to have at least have 10+ origami up my sleeves at any give time. 

Piano Sessions

• In the past I have some experience on playing piano and I think now is a good opportunity for me to continue this activity because practicing piano required massive patient which is a good way to show my determination and commitment to the subject. 
• I will try to play at least 3 times per week, alternate according to amount of work on that day.
• My goal is to at least learn 1 piece per season, this will be challenging.

Ambidextrous Training

• Last month I came up with this activity because I read on news that people who use their left hand frequently have a faster reaction and better imagination which is lacking in nowadays. This activity is something that I have never done before so it will be a challenge for me which is a reason why CAS exist.
• I will do this on daily basis since it normally will only take me 5~10 minutes. I will record my progress weekly since writing same thing everyday will be kind of boring ;)
• My goal on this challenge is to be able to write with my left at an adequate level, in case I somehow injure my right hand.

to be continued...

Ambidextrous level 1

Creativity+Action

After a week of practicing my left hand is now more or less able to write the english alphabet and some easy words.
As you can see on the left of the page there are some of the practices that I have been doing so far. Fun fact- in the sentence"The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" every letter in the alphabet has been used. This makes it a good sentence to practice because all of the letters must be written out.
It is clear that some of the letters are still a bit wiggly and not up to standard, but at least now it is recognisable which means a successful progress!
I will try to post more about my progress and my next goal is to write a small paragraph of text about myself.


In ambidextrous training I have achieved:
-undertaking new challenge
-be aware of my strengths and weaknesses
-develop new skills (one day my left will substitute my right)
-showing perseverance and commitment to the activity  

Did I tell that my group won an award?

Creativity+Service

It's a bit late but nevertheless my group won an AWARD!!(alongside other group)
As I mentioned before there was a challenge for us to make a mission statement for our school linking with IB learner profile. Two of my friends and I have composed a mission statement which has been recognised by the school's committee of teachers and has been chosen as one of the best.
 From this activity I found out that collaborating with others is really fun and surprisingly progressive. I would never come up with such a good piece of work by myself and I truly thank them for this matter.
 I would like to participant in more of those challenges to show my potentials as an IB student. I also delivered a little acceptance speech when my group was receiving the awards. It has been a good practice for me on public speeches and it is clear, that I have many things to improve on. Nevertheless it was a good day of my semester.

Here is my certificate!

Basketball Week 13!

Action

This week we are back to normal full court games which is awesome. However less people came this week which cause us to split into three teams which was fine for everyone. The games were pretty dynamic after few weeks of half court drilling sessions.
 I felt that I played much better than few weeks ago. The movement and passing awareness has improved but still a bit lacking on shooting accuracy and re-bounce timings. Those are the things I will be working on and hope next session I will be a better teammate and a player :D
Like always here is the video:

 Thanks to the film recording person <3

Possible outcomes achieved:
-awareness of strength and weaknesses
-worked collaboratively with my teammates
-showed perseverance and commitment to basketball
-developing new skills