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CAS Final Interview

Chinese Calligraphy Reflection

I have learnt Chinese Calligraphy for 8 years before joining Chinese Calligraphy club last term. I want to practice my writing every week so that I would not forget the writing skills I have obtained earlier. At the start of the term, a supervisor handed us few brush copybooks. I was a little disappointed that there is no professional teacher teaching us. So I practiced Regular script and Clerical script on my own over the term. For me, practicing Chinese calligraphy is a way to stay focus and maintain a sense of inner peace. I also taught other students how to write as they are all beginners. For example, I taught a group of people the correct way of holding a brush while writing. More importantly, I learnt to appreciate the power of Chinese character and acknowledged the fact that each Chinese character has a special origin and history. In Chinese calligraphy club, I was surprised to see that there are not only Chinese students but also students from other countries and other cultural backgrounds. I was very proud and glad to see that more students became interested in and amazed by the sophistication of Chinese culture with practicing and understanding Chinese calligraphy. I would also assist them in writing and learning Chinese character when they need my help. Overall, I really enjoy practicing Chinese Calligraphy every Thursday.

LO 1 AWARENESS (Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth)

 

Project Week Final Group Reflection

Final Reflection Video

 

LO 1 AWARENESS (Increased awareness of strengths and areas for growth)

LO 2 CHALLENGE (Undertaken new challenges)/NEW SKILLS (Developing new skills)

LO 4 COMMITMENT (Showing perseverance, resilience and commitment in activities)

LO 5 COLLABORATION (Working together to achieve an outcome)

 

 

 

PROJECT WEEK PHOTOS | TAIWAN 2018

CAS Intermediate Interview

LO1 – service – helped many kids, communicated with them, collaborated with group mates
LO2 – badminton – learned new skills – gradually able to compete with other students – can now play much better
LO3 – joined IFP – planned many activities, peace building – divide into groups, discuss certain issues to see how to raise awareness – planned well with groupmates
LO4 – service – working with disabled kids – dif to communicate with the kids at the beginning – mental disabilities – hard to get their attn – broke down instructions into simple sentences so the kids could follow
LO5 – meaningful to work with children – service session is the highlight of their week – important to work well with them – show passion, so kids can also benefit from the session, teach them skills like recognising green/red light, what that means, etc. – teaching him right/left
LO6 – IFP – peace related issues – discuss issues related to peace/conflict, global issues – how to work with the kids from dif countries, ideas, etc.
LO7 – service – can’t take pics of the kids, can’t share their info with other people, need give him full protection, remind him to sit in centre of saddle, straighten his body (for safety reasons), etc.

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Proud?
Service – work with her boy very well, he trusts her, worked hard to get his attention, can see the improvement in him, mum is very thankful/grateful for their help.

Project Week Group Reflection 1)

Initially, we felt quite challenged by responsibility and task given to us, as we had never planned a trip independently, and had never realised how intricately trips need to be planned. For instance, we had to find a reliable partner in Taiwan for our adventure activities and service, that would be approved by the school in terms of safety. The tasks kept on building up, and we felt slightly overwhelmed.

However, as a group, we soon picked up our pace and began to assign tasks to each other and split up the workload. For example, Hanna helped liaison with Grasshopper Adventures, Yukta booked the hotel, Trisha bought the first aid kit and Judy collected information on Taiwan. This worked well since it meant that more people were contributing. It also helped us get closer as a group since initially, we all didn’t know each other very well.

In terms of contacting the organisation, everything went by pretty smoothly. While other groups around us did not know where to stay, or had trouble getting permission for their activity/service element, we did not have a problem with this. Since it is a tour, we did not have to plan as much as other groups on our own. They were able to come back to us within a day or two, and helped us amend our itineraries.

While the cost of our project does exceed $1000, we believed that this was for the better, since an experience like this does not come knocking on your door everyday. We were able to get permission for this at an early stage, therefore we did not face much difficulty.

 In terms of service, the organisation, Grasshopper Adventures, was able to connect us with an NGO (New Dawn Educare Centre). Here, they take care of and entertain people with disabilities. Since we wanted to create a larger impact than we would make just by being there, we decided on creating an infographic and a video that would raise awareness of the issue to the people of our school, as well as invite people to help New Dawn Educare Centre directly. To achieve this goal, we assigned roles to each of us (Hanna and Judy to make the infographic, Trisha and Yukta to make the video), and decided on getting as much information as we can from the people at New Dawn while we are there, as well as collect photos/videos from the organisation (with permission) to make the video.

Group Reflection Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uVE2gaIxzZfUFHbu_1TBtX9bci7R35m-/view

Link to our initial document before getting approved: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bwMDXR41BX6f5IsNpk-KI2e033hxJb0BL3w_MZr647U/edit

Link to our planning document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NM_boWIyvHccc3n4lvhrX3nY6-VAIRTUWujRs0BCN1c/edit

LO 2 CHALLENGE (Undertaken new challenges)

LO3 INITIATIVE (Planning and initiated activities)

LO 5 COLLABORATION (Working together to achieve an outcome)

 

Project Week Media Guidance Post

Group 25-Media coordinator planning

Organizing and keeping a clear folder structure.

  1. Recommendation: store all folders on one post
  2. Have folders for each day
  3. Have standards for what gets selected/number of photos/videos you want to target

    Avoid taking too many photos with no meaning. Folder by day, topic, activity, or by shot. Tell people to look through footage before putting it in the folder. Only the photos that are good, not all. Set a number. 

    Folder Here

    Have a clearly communicated vision for what you are hoping to create and who your primary audience is (is this for the stakeholder?)

    For future project week students going to Taiwan. To raise awareness.

  4. Your message and audience are shared and agreed on
  5. You have thought about what your audience needs to hear, see

What is the message? Audience? Helps avoid dumping many photos, more meaningful media.

Our project is aimed at the future project week students, as well as the community here to raise awareness on the issue. We should include videos of the culture of Taiwan (during our activities), as well as information about the service partner, New Dawn Educare Centre.

3). You have mentor texts to guide you and your team.

  1. Share 1-2 links as mentor texts
  2. Describe which ideas you want to steal

Find mentor texts with stylistic features appropriate for our project

               

The infographic is a good way to give insight into the problem. It is easy to read and is eye-catching. We could use this kind of idea of raise awareness for New Dawn Educare Centre in a fun and colourful way.

The video is a creative way to show the culture of Taiwan, for the future project week groups. It shows the tradition and environment of Taiwan, which lets the audience know more about Taiwan.

4.) Roles and responsibilities for the timeline of production

  1. Meetings during project week? After?
  2. Editing shared or the job of one?
  3. How will you ensure your final work is ready to be shared by the end of June?

    Make a timeline, roles and responsibilities. Make sure everyone has something to do.

    We can take pictures and gather information from the organisation and put it in the folders after each day. Then after project week, we can compile the information into a video or infographic. Since we want to make a video and an infographic, we can have 2 people working on each. We will break the process down into steps, and set deadlines for each week, to ensure that is it done by the end of June.

 

LO3 INITIATIVE (Planning and initiated activities)

Overall Reflection Of My Badminton Training 2017

LO 2 NEW SKILLS (Developing new skills)

LO 4 COMMITMENT (Showing perseverance, resilience and commitment in activities)

RDA Friday-Term 3

For this term, I continued to work with Tobi. He is a very positive and out-going boy. He is mostly quite easy to communicate with which made my “job” much easier. He could reply to my questions as long as I gave him two options to choose from, for example, “do you like chicken rice or beef noddles?” I tried to make my questions simple and straightforward.

Since today is an introduction session, I led him do some streching at the start and brought him to meet his new horse. His new horse’s name is Jota but he kept calling her “Ishitria”, which is the name of his precious horse. I tried to correct him during the session and kept asking him “what is the name of your horse?” to enhance his memory. I think it is helpful because by calling the right name, he can work with his horse better and build a relationship with her in the further sessions. Tobi is actually a very smart kid but sometimes he just couldn’t remember it. The instructor also suggested me to talk to him in short sentences.

I held his hands and brought him walk around. He seemed very excited to see so many horses. But sometimes, I could notice that whenever he felt nervous, he would grab my hands very tightly.

For our next session, my goal is to communicate with him more and maybe teach him some new words. I also want to make sure that he can sit in the centre of the saddle in a straight posture.

Looking forward to see him next time!

 

LO 4 COMMITMENT (Showing perseverance, resilience and commitment in activities)

RDA- Last session of term 2

This Friday was my last RDA session in term 2. I was allocated to a boy called Tobi along with the other side- walker, Tanya. I have seen him a few times but today was my first time to work with him. I introduced myself to him and I tried to built a trust relationship with him. He was quite outgoing but sometimes he seems to be lost in a world of his own.

We led him do some warm-up at the start to strech his arms and legs. He could do it quite well. After that, we went straight into the riding session. I held his ankle throughout the session to ensure he would not fall down from the horse when he got excited. He seemed very energetic and thrilled. The instructor asked me and Tanya to watch out his sitting position and keep reminding him to straighten his body. I remembered the most word I said to Tobi was “STRAIGHT”.

To conclude this term, I have improved my communication skills and leading skills a lot. I started to know how to approach different riders with different disabilities. I learnt to be patient when working with them. It was a meaningful term to me.

For next term, I am looking forward to meet new riders!

 

LO 4 COMMITMENT (Showing perseverance, resilience and commitment in activities)

LO 5 COLLABORATION (Working together to achieve an outcome)

 

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