Team Photographing Opportunity I was given the opportunity to take photos for the school team, just by chance. It was quite random, I was talking to a friend about photography and one of the activity coordinators within the activity office asked if I had a portfolio in which I directed her to my flickr. After […]
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Visit to Tampines MINDS // Yoga with Tampines MINDS
As part of the local service, Tampines Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS), we during service hours went to visit the actually center itself. Our main objective was to learn more about “what they do” and “how they do it” and ask questions regarding both the center and how we can best assist […]
Hougang Visit // Tech Tinkers
For the CAS leaders we were given the option of a side trip involving a off campus investigation to the Hougang Care Center for the college service, Tech Tinkers. Tech Tinkers is an activity based on 3 basic steps of action: acquiring tech , renewing tech, and finding new homes of need for tech. The […]
Shopping Bag Aid // Mini Project
During this project we were tasked with creating a product to aid in the task of carrying plastic bags. It’s an introduction to problem analysis, prototyping, formatting pages, working in the design tech labs, learning the grading criteria, among other things. These skills will come in use later when we finally start our major project. […]
Club Championships // Swimming
Club Championships is the annual event held by the UWCSEA swim team, it’s an small early season meet meant to increase team moral and to give an indication of the upcoming meets. The meet is held over 3 days, Wednesday morning (19/09), Friday afternoon (21/09), and Saturday (22/09), this makes it unique as it’s built […]
Emotional Intelligence and Visualisation Task
In this task we are asked to give the different characteristic that I admire and dislike, I thought of people I enjoyed and those I didn’t. From there I narrowed it down to what exactly was it that I liked/disliked about that person. This is valuable learning as it can help me identify what type […]
Further Oral Assessment: The Boston Accent // SL LangLit
This further oral assessment is the first of many. I chose to do mine on the accent of Boston and surrounding area to the greater New England. The presentation talked about the unusual pronunciation and lexicon of the accent, along with how it was utilized within today’s society. Reflection What did you DO as your […]
Mentor Video
I was tasked with creating the 11GPs mentor video, the point of the activity was both to team bond in our mentor class and also introduce our mentor class to the grade. At first glance the task seems simple, we (as a mentor class) quickly found that it was not. Our first challenge came with […]
All Essays and Assessments
A collection of all the essays of my global perspective assessments during IGCSE. Real world issues such as human rights, over fishing, immigration laws, minimum wages, and more are all researched and discussed in depth. Assessments range in not only a variety of topic but also forms in which they are expressed, this could be […]
Essential Questions on Environmental Unit
What is the environment? The environment is the world we live in, from the soil we build on, the oceans we sail, the sky we fly in and the forest and mountains we explore. It is the natural world around us, as a whole, especially areas in which humans have interfered. Why are some environmental […]