LO3: Initiative – Planning & Initiating activities
LO5: Collaboration – Working together to achieve an outcome
Before we met our service partner, we started to some research online and investigate about the PPIS organization. We found that PPIS is a non-profit organization that aim “to provide a healthy foundation within nurturing environments that contributes to the total development of a child through Play, Project and Practices that is developmentally appropriate”; it provides education mainly for low income Malay families. The principles of this organization are quite similar to our school’s. They both emphasize on the importance of character development, not just academic achievements.
Apart from doing the research, we also collaborated in groups of three about the questions that we would like to interview the staffs at the organization, so we could better organize the activities for the young children (LO5). We came up with questions regarding various aspects, such as what are the skills that the children need to improve, what are the activities that the children like, what topics should we focus on, what are some of the things we need to be aware of… By collaborating, we are able to inspire each other’s ideas. At the start of the collaboration, we only came up questions regarding the organization itself and the children there. However, later, a student had an idea that we could ask about the skills and abilities that those children are aiming to develop and the goals, expectations the organization has for us. This idea further broadened the aspects that we are considering. Through the question and answer round, we aim to have a comprehensive understanding on the organization and the activities we should be carrying out, as well as to set goals and expectations for this year’s service.
After the section coming up with questions, we also discussed about the activities that we could carry out with the young children to boost their confidence and develop their character (LO3). Planning generally, during the sessions with those young kids, we could organise games with them, such as music chair. We could also read some stories to them, making origami, coloring, or performing for them. Specifically for the first session with the children, we discussed that we should begin with an ice breaker game to get to know about the children, as well as to let them know about us and feel free to talk and play with us. Then, we could split up into small groups, mayber two people taking care of four children, to further get to know about them and gain trust from them.
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