Category: CAS Reflection

For My Cas project, my service team and I planned and created a gift package for our service group Lion Befrienders. My team and I collaborated a lot during the planning stages. We discussed thoroughly appropriate things we can give to our service partners and methods of ways we can deliver the goods to them. This was very important as there were many things we need to consider such as price, ethical purposes and sustainability to the environment. I think that we were very successful in completing the project. We were able to successfully give gifts to our service partner while taking in consideration what the wanted, needed and what we could ethically provide to them.

During my recent inclusion in my service Lion Befrienders where we work with Elderly people to provide them with short exercises. In the few recent weeks we have faced a few challenges as a few of our group members have left the service group. We have been dimmed down to about half our group members, this means that we will have to work as a smaller group, this has its positive and negatives, on the plus side we have a smaller group meaning that it is easier to control and that we get more alone time to individually talk to each of the

This year i’m in the service lion befrienders where I work with the elderly by teaching them exercises they can do at home.

Currently we are working to create a plan to interact with the elderly through a zoom call and teach them exercises. What activities did I plan? In the lion befrienders service we had to do physical exercises through a zoom call because of Covid-19 restrictions. We created a plan by creating a list of exercises we can show off and teach the elderly, we took theses exercises and split them between multiple groups. Who did I collaborate with to accomplish this activity? I was able to collaborate to create this plan for the elderly with the service chair, the service group, Sol (Fitness Instructor) and our service advisor, through our collaboration we were able to create this plan to show off to the service group lion befrienders.

I have been doing pottery for a while now, every Thursday after school, doing pottery gives me a chance to relax.

In pottery I was able to show resilience, perseverance and commitment in my activity. I was able to clearly show this when using the turntable, Using a turntable to create pots was a hard skill to grasp, I needed to learn different techniques such as the different speeds and being able to control the size of the pot at certain times. Although I failed many times by applying to much pressure to my pots when using the turn table I was able the persevere through the frustration and follow through a creation e some pots. I was able to maintain my motivation for my activity through my fellow peers and the pure enjoyment I get when relaxing and creating pottery with my peers.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing pottery every Thursday after school, doing pottery gives me a chance to relax after a days work, I get sit with my friends and relax and make pots.

Doing pottery has given me a chance to improve my skills such as improving my creativity skills, my creativity skills have been improved through pottery as Im always pushed by 1 simple question “what should I make next?” Through pottery I have also had a chance to improve other technical skills. Pottery has been a very challenging activity all though its a relaxing time for us all to have, pottery is a very technical skill. Something that I found specially challenging about this activity is being patient, you cannot rush into things, towards the beginning of the season I would rush my creations and It would either break or turn out completely wrong. I was able to overcome this challenge by realising that I did not have to rush through things, therefore I remained calm and took my time towards completing my creation.

This year I joined lion befrienders as the service of my choice, on our first session our service discussed about the things our service would do to help the community, we also discussed about the norms and the steps it would take to make a successful service. What pervious experience have I had? Last year I attended a service called AMK Minds where we help the elderly with physical  education, Lion befrienders is very similar to  the service I did last year but this time I will  helping the elderly with more mental exercises. So far I am aware of some challenges that we may face because of covid -19, therefore because of covid-19 we will have to interact with the elderly online through video chat.