Category: Activity

Special Olympics Badminton #2, 1st November 2018

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At this point of the Service activity, all of us are quite familiar to the athletes and know quite well on how to interact with them, I have now had a partner athlete called Alex, something which I enjoy doing is playing badminton with him. At first, I had heard from many other members of the service that Alex Isn’t quite good at the sport and that he wasn’t very able to play it well, but I really doubted it. Touching upon LO7 I really think that all should have the same amount of opportunity, and those with a harder difficulty can still be able to achieve great heights regardless as long as they put effort and are given the opportunities to improving to such lengths. When I first played with Alex he was struggling with hitting the shuttle but as we played more in the session, I tried giving him tips on what actions to do and tried to be very supportive, to most peoples surprise he was then able to play quite well as we reached a rally of 9. I was not very surprised as I knew that Alex was able to achieve such a great feat with a short period of time.

Something else which had helped him improve was giving him some drills at the beginning of the session which we ran through, this shows LO3 which was when I created some moderated exercises in order to facilitate the progression on Alex’s hitting skills. Overall I am looking forward to having many more sessions with Alex and see the progress which I know he will achieve as I have already set up a goal of reaching over 30 hits of a rally between me and Alex.

Culturama Reflection #2, 10th October 2018

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A few days ago I have finished my culturama performance which was the final product of the dance which we have practiced and is now polished. My goal by the end of this performance is to have a sense of accomplishment in finishing the dance which I think I have achieved. Also, I am proud to have finished my performance and danced with the rest of my dance group. The LOs which I believe I have reached an almost have achieved is Awareness as when working on this LO I have become aware of how I have improved quite a lot with dancing but how there are many things I could improve especially looking back on my performance.

I think that overall I have achieved my goals on learning on how to dance, I think that after performing, I have gained a lot more confidence towards performing in public as it was something far from my comfort zone but as the event has ended, I have become much more confident and am looking forward towards doing another performance.

Special Olympics Badminton #1, 6th September 2018

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Today I just finished my first session with the Special Olympics, this was a very useful session as although we didn’t play badminton with the people with disabilities, we did investigate what they do and what we can offer in order to help out the athletes. First of all, we had a lot more understanding of how to act towards them and smaller things in order to help create a bond faster such as their interests and what they like to do. We had a brainstorm with the structure of CAS and what part of CAS we are going to do when doing the special Olympics badminton.

My own personal goals are to get better at badminton and to improve my bonds with the special people. I also want to become more aware and raise awareness in some way, however, my goals still have some risks, this includes having to go out of my comfort zone and try to talk to these special people which I don’t know too well. I think that this CAS has a high need for a lot of commitment as the time of the CAS is at 7 to 9 at night on Thursday, although the time is hard to manage I think that it is still worth doing because it is such a great experience.

The learning outcomes this activity focuses on is was mostly LO 1, LO 4, LO 5 and LO 6. This activity has helped me have better awareness because it has helped me learn more about them and learn more about how I should learn in order to know more about the people that have different abilities. I had also learned that I need to learn more about how to interact with the people that have specialized abilities, as it is hard to know what to say and what not to say. The Special Olympics Badminton had also challenged my commitment because the time which the activity is held is at a late time and the way which I stay motivated in order to keep going is by using my time which I have before the CAS to study and do everything I need to do so by the time I go home I can go rest. In this session of Special Olympics Badminton, all the students had collaborated together and tried to get to learn more about each other, one activity that we had done is that we brainstormed ideas with each other as a group of our own skills and what activities we can do with the sports players, initially it was hard to do because we didn’t feel very comfortable on sharing our own skills and we didn’t really know about each other either. We had overcome our difficulties with each other by doing some icebreakers activities with each other. Finally, this activity has a relationship with the global issues, this is because by playing and learning how to play badminton with these athletes shows equality to those who have special abilities and need some support in order to be able to play, and now that I have learned much more about the athletes I learned more about how they deserve the same or even more amount of care and support to play the sports that they would like.

Culturama Reflection #1, 25th August 2018

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When auditioning for Culturama my goal was to get in and be able to dance by the end of the activity on the performance. This was a very big challenge for me because I had never danced before and I am a very inflexible person. But nevertheless, I signed up and decided to practice through the initial routine in order to try to get in. I practiced both in school and at home, I asked a friend if they could tell me what I could improve and what I am doing right and as the audition came I had learned the dance pretty well and performed what I knew, that was a great experience because I got to learn dancing which is something I never knew how to do before. Although I was very scared with the performance I had some friends perform with me which helped me boost my confidence, also because I was a new student, I didn’t feel as much pressure as I thought that the students here didn’t really know much about me so they wouldn’t pay as much attention. Although it had all worked out, in the end, there are things which I would consider unsuccessful, some parts which I practiced that I was unable to time it well when I was performing.

Now that I have finished learning the audition part of the song I would like to learn more independently, this is because I think that there were times where I was relying on others which made it hard to practice at times. When the audition results were shown, I was pleased to know that I got in on the audition as when auditioning there were quite a lot of people trying out and that caused me to be very scared as there were many people watching others dance.

Project Week reflection 2# 7th June 2019

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At the end of project week, we have been thinking about the trip and other than being a very fun experience, it is also very helpful as it teaches us valuable lessons which we wouldn’t be able to achieve otherwise. I feel that after completing project week, I am able to freely plan a solo trip if needed as I am more familiar and comfortable with the process.

I believe that project week consisted of a lot of taking initiative, commitment, and most importantly, collaboration. Because my group and I were the ones doing the whole learning process, we had to plan out everything and have a goal as to what we wanted to do over project week this made it hard as there were many options and when we went on the trip we had to keep to the planning or adapt it based on the needs. There was also a large need for commitment because although it was really tempting to ignore the plan and relax, we had to keep pushing ourselves to make the most out of the whole trip. Finally, collaboration was the hardest part as there were some occasions when members of the group had disagreements on what to do and because of that we needed to discuss until we all came to a mutual agreement which sometimes took a while.