For seasons 3 and 4 I signed up for Pottery Club to complete my creative requirement for CAS. I signed up for Pottery because when I was a kid my family used to go to this pottery class and make things. It is a memory I am very fond of, and I have always enjoyed pottery because it feels very therapeutic to me but doesn’t require the same skill level as other arts such as painting. I went to 4 or 5 sessions of pottery, and I started making a bird sculpture. I was really enjoying pottery, just as fitness, it was an activity that forced me to take my mind off of work and just do something creative and beneficial for my well being. However since our school shut for the rest of grade 11, I wasn’t able to continue pottery.

Although this upset me, I needed to plan a new CAS experience for grade 12 for my creativity requirement. After being unaccepted into Kahaani, an Indian dance performance, I realised that I wouldn’t be able to complete my creativity if I didn’t find something new to participate in. I spoke with my mentor, and many other students in my mentor were in the same boat as me. This prompted our class to initiate and plan a new CAS creativity experience we could all participate in. As my mentor is a music teacher, we decided that we would learn, play and eventually perform Marimbas this year and practice during mentor time so that we all could do it. I was very pleased with this solution, as I feel that sometimes our mentor time goes to waste and I am excited to learn marimbas and I think it will be very relaxing and fun to do at the start of the school day.