COVID-19
Awareness :
Awareness I think has been key throughout this unknown and scary time. As a student, I’ve been lucky enough to get a lot of information on the Coronavirus from teachers like my biology teacher that has helped me understand the science behind this and how I can keep safe now. The teachers are in the know about these difficult times and how they affect us as students and have been understanding when there are late submissions and have also taken initiative to contact us individually when we have doubts or issues. As a person who’s aware of what’s going on around me, I have taken my own safety measures like sanitizing regularly and social distancing.
Challenge:
Since the outbreak of coronavirus, people are required to stay at home to avoid contact with others. Therefore, most of the service and activities at school are cancelled for these reasons. As for me, my service, Gymnastic Fun, is a service that aims to teach young children more about Gymnastic skills, but the status quo is that we are not allowed to have the chance to teach them face to face, which is really challenging. My service group, therefore, decided to record coaching videos and send these videos to the organisation so that the children could practice these skills at home.
Initiative:
These pandemic infested times have made it hard to be positive and keep our motivation on track to do anything from classwork to just getting out of bed. The teachers are in the know about these difficult times and how they affect us as students and have been understanding when there are late submissions and have also taken initiative to contact us individually when we have doubts or issues. As I’ve been confined to my home for the past month, I’ve learnt to be more independent and reach out to friends and teachers for support when necessary and have been using this own time on things I haven’t had the time to do before like read a book or try yoga. I’ve been trying to look for positivity to motivate me to do something, anything.
Commitment:
Commitment is proven to be hard to maintain and keep up with during this period where the coronavirus has affected and restricted our daily lives. As our interaction with the outside world and others are being restricted, the CAS activities we take part in our daily lives have also been disrupted with some activities such as outdoor, or group activities such as sports or services being cancelled. Trying to commit to our CAS activities is challenging without further instructions and the activities itself being cancelled, however, to try and still be engaged we would need to think of alternatives on our own, such as trying to stay active and do exercises for our particular sport or practising playing an instrument at home, to know that there is always something that we can do even in isolation.
Collaboration:
Due to the Coronavirus, collaboration has become a challenge that the whole world has been trying to overcome. Schools across the world are switching to home-based learning and use applications like skype, zoom and google meets to stay in contact with their teachers and classmates. This has been proven to work as everyone is able to attend the class as normal and can contribute to class discussions. However, due to the separation, it is still quite hard to fully collaborate with peers as there is no physical interaction and there might be times when people have a bad wifi connection, not allowing them to contribute as they would like.
Rhea, Judy, Mio, Nadia